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Leonardo Padura Books in Order

Leonardo Padura has written 10 books, published between 1991 and 2021. The first book is Havana Blue (1991) and the newest is The Transparency of Time (2021). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
10
Published
1991–2021
Total pages
3,406 across 10 books
Reading time
57–85 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,406 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute.

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Leonardo Padura is a Cuban writer, journalist and screenwriter, born in Havana in 1955. The Mario Conde detective novels are the best known work, opening with Havana Blue (1991) and running through Havana Gold (1994), Havana Red (1997), Havana Black (1998) and Havana Fever (2005). Ten titles are catalogued, among them The Man Who Loved Dogs (2009), published in Spanish as El hombre que amaba a los perros, and closing with The Transparency of Time (2021). Police investigation and Cuban social conditions carry the work.

How many Leonardo Padura books are there?

Leonardo Padura has 10 books, released between 1991 and 2021. 9 of them belong to the Mario Conde series.

Leonardo Padura Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 10 Leonardo Padura 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.

  1. Cover of Havana Blue by Leonardo Padura, book 1 of the Mario Conde series (1991)
  2. Cover of Havana Gold by Leonardo Padura, book 2 of the Mario Conde series (1994)
  3. Cover of Havana Red by Leonardo Padura, book 3 of the Mario Conde series (1997)
  4. Cover of Havana Black by Leonardo Padura, book 4 of the Mario Conde series (1998)
  5. Cover of Havana Fever by Leonardo Padura, book 5 of the Mario Conde series (2005)
  6. Cover of Adios Hemingway by Leonardo Padura, book 6 of the Mario Conde series (2006)
  7. Cover of The Man Who Loved Dogs by Leonardo Padura (2009)
  8. Cover of Heretics by Leonardo Padura, book 7 of the Mario Conde series (2013)
  1. 1
    Havana BlueMario Conde #11991 · 244 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1991244
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  2. 2
    Havana GoldMario Conde #21994 · 278 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1994278
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  3. 3
    Havana RedMario Conde #31997 · 233 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1997233
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  4. 4
    Havana BlackMario Conde #41998 · 261 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1998261
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  5. 5
    Havana FeverMario Conde #52005 · 286 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2005286
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  6. 6
    Adios HemingwayMario Conde #62006 · 240 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2006240
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  7. 7
    The Man Who Loved Dogs2009 · 592 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2009592
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  8. 8
    HereticsMario Conde #72013 · 556 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2013556
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  9. 9
    Grab a Snake by the TailMario Conde #82018 · 284 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2018284
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  10. 10
    The Transparency of TimeMario Conde #92021 · 432 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2021432
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Leonardo Padura characters in order

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Leonardo Padura 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.

Mario Conde in order

9 books
  1. 1. Havana Blue
  2. 2. Havana Gold
  3. 3. Havana Red
  4. 4. Havana Black
  5. 5. Havana Fever
  6. 6. Adios Hemingway
  7. 7. Heretics
  8. 8. Grab a Snake by the Tail
  9. 9. The Transparency of Time

Standalone books

1 book

1 Leonardo Padura title here is not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Leonardo Padura books in order?

You only need to read Leonardo Padura books in order within the Mario Conde series, which holds 9 of the 10 Leonardo Padura books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Leonardo Padura

Start with Havana Blue (1991), the first Mario Conde Mystery book. It is also the earliest catalogued title.

What is the newest Leonardo Padura book?

The Transparency of Time (2021) is the newest Leonardo Padura book released so far.

Is there a new Leonardo Padura book coming?

No next Leonardo Padura book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Leonardo Padura at a glance

Paused
No new Leonardo Padura title has appeared for 5 years. The last was published in 2021.
Release pace
Leonardo Padura books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
3,406 pages across all 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 281 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Leonardo Padura books, 4 of 10, were published in the 1990s.

What the Leonardo Padura books are about

All 10 Leonardo Padura books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: investigation is tagged on 4 of 10. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.