Lawrence Wright Books in Order
Lawrence Wright has written 19 books, published between 1979 and 2025. The first book is City Children, Country Summer (1979) and the newest is The Human Scale (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 19
- Published
- 1979–2025
- Pages on record
- 5,537 in 16 of 19 books
- Reading time
- 92–138 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 5,537 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 16 of 19 titles with a page count on record.
Lawrence Wright, born on August 2, 1947, is an American writer and journalist on staff at The New Yorker. Wright is also a fellow at the Center for Law and Security at New York University School of Law. The Looming Tower (2006), a nonfiction account of Al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11, is the book Wright is best known for, and Going Clear and the one-man show My Trip to Al-Qaeda both became films directed by Alex Gibney. Subject tags cover terrorism, politics and government, and history, and The Human Scale (2025) is the newest listed title.
How many Lawrence Wright books are there?
Lawrence Wright has 19 books, released between 1979 and 2025.
Lawrence Wright Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 19 Lawrence Wright books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1City Children, Country Summer1979 · 216 pages · confirmed 2/419792162/4
- 2Perspective In Perspective1983 · 386 pages · confirmed 2/419833862/4
- 3In the New World1987 · 322 pages · confirmed 2/419873222/4
- 4The Peace Report1993 · confirmed 2/41993–2/4
- 5Saints and Sinners1993 · 288 pages · confirmed 2/419932882/4
- 6Remembering Satan1994 · 224 pages · confirmed 2/419942242/4
- 7Twins1997 · 128 pages · confirmed 2/419971282/4
- 8God's Favorite2000 · 350 pages · confirmed 2/420003502/4
- 9The Looming Tower2006 · 541 pages · confirmed 2/420065412/4
- 10Character Design for Mobile Devices2006 · 192 pages · confirmed 2/420061922/4
- 11Going Clear2013 · 538 pages · confirmed 2/420135382/4
- 12Metal Sharpens Metal2014 · confirmed 2/42014–2/4
- 13Thirteen Days in September2014 · 448 pages · confirmed 2/420144482/4
- 14The Terror Years2016 · 464 pages · confirmed 2/420164642/4
- 15God Save Texas2018 · 368 pages · confirmed 2/420183682/4
- 16The End of October2020 · 400 pages · confirmed 2/420204002/4
- 17The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid2021 · 336 pages · confirmed 2/420213362/4
- 18Mr. Texas2023 · 336 pages · confirmed 2/420233362/4
- 19The Human Scale2025 · confirmed 2/42025–2/4
Lawrence Wright books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Standalone books
19 books19 Lawrence Wright titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Lawrence Wright books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 19 Lawrence Wright books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Lawrence Wright
Start with City Children, Country Summer (1979), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Lawrence Wright book?
The Human Scale (2025) is the newest Lawrence Wright book released so far.
Is there a new Lawrence Wright book coming?
No next Lawrence Wright book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Awards Lawrence Wright has won
Wikidata records 4 awards and 1 nomination for Lawrence Wright. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction2007Wonfor The Looming Tower
- Lionel Gelber Prize2007Wonfor The Looming Tower
- J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize2007Wonfor The Looming Tower
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize2006Wonfor The Looming Tower
- National Book Award for Nonfiction2013Shortlistedfor Going Clear
Lawrence Wright at a glance
- Still publishing
- Lawrence Wright published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Lawrence Wright books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
- Length
- 5,537 pages across the 16 of 19 books with a recorded length, a median of 343 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Lawrence Wright books, 5 of 19, were published in the 2010s.
What the Lawrence Wright books are about
16 of the 19 Lawrence Wright books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: american literature is tagged on 2 of 16. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- American literature 2 of 16 books
- History 2 of 16 books
- Politics and government 2 of 16 books
- Qaida (Organization) 2 of 16 books
- Social conditions 2 of 16 books
- Terrorism 2 of 16 books