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Les Dawson Books in Order

22 books are credited to Les Dawson, published between 1974 and 2013; 7 of them appeared after Les Dawson's death in 1993. The first book is A Card For The Clubs (1974) and the newest is Laugh With Les (2013). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
22
Published
1974–2013
Pages on record
2,037 in 12 of 22 books
Reading time
34–51 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,037 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 12 of 22 titles with a page count on record.

See all 22 books in order Printable Les Dawson checklist

Les Dawson was an English comedian, actor, presenter and pianist who lived from 1931 to 1993. Dawson's comedy relied on a deadpan delivery, a grumpy persona, musical routines and jokes about a mother-in-law and wife. The catalogue lists 22 humour books from A Card For The Clubs (1974) to Laugh With Les (2013), including The Les Dawson Joke Book (1979), Les Dawson's Lancashire (1983) and Hitler Was My Mother In Law (1984).

How many Les Dawson books are there?

Les Dawson has 22 books, released between 1974 and 2013. 7 of them were published after Les Dawson's death in 1993.

Les Dawson Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 22 Les Dawson 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 The Malady Lingers on and Other Great Groaners by Les Dawson (1982)
  2. Cover of Les Dawson's Lancashire by Les Dawson (1983)
  3. Cover of A Clown Too Many by Les Dawson (1985)
  4. Cover of Les Dawson's Secret Notebooks by Les Dawson (2007)
  5. Cover of Laugh With Les by Les Dawson (2013)
  1. 1
    A Card For The Clubs1974 · confirmed 2/4
    1974–
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  2. 2
    The Spy Who Came...1976 · confirmed 2/4
    1976–
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  3. 3
    The Cosmo Smallpiece Guide To Male Liberation1979 · 110 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1979110
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  4. 4
    The Les Dawson Joke Book1979 · confirmed 2/4
    1979–
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  5. 5
    The Amy Pluckett Letters1982 · 196 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1982196
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  6. 6
    The Malady Lingers on and Other Great Groaners1982 · 106 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1982106
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  7. 7
    Les Dawson's Lancashire1983 · confirmed 2/4
    1983–
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  8. 8
    Hitler Was My Mother In Law1984 · 142 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1984142
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  9. 9
    A Clown Too Many1985 · 267 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1985267
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  10. 10
    A Time Before Genesis1987 · 179 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1987179
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  11. 11
    Les Dawson Gives Up1989 · confirmed 2/4
    1989–
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  12. 12
    Come Back with the Wind1990 · 160 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1990160
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  13. 13
    Well Fared, My Lovely1992 · 144 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1992144
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  14. 14
    No Tears for the Clown1992 · 201 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1992201
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  15. 15
    Listen to Les1993 · confirmed 2/4
    1993–
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  16. 16
    The Blade and the Passion1995 · 180 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1995180
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  17. 17
    Listen To Les 21995 · confirmed 2/4
    1995–
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  18. 18
    Les Dawson's Secret Notebooks2007 · 192 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2007192
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  19. 19
    Les Dawson: Masters of Comedy2008 · confirmed 2/4
    2008–
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  20. 20
    The Dawson Slant2009 · confirmed 2/4
    2009–
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  21. 21
    Les Dawson's Joke Book2012 · 160 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2012160
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  22. 22
    Laugh With Les2013 · confirmed 2/4
    2013–
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Les Dawson 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

22 books

22 Les Dawson titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Les Dawson books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 22 Les Dawson books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Les Dawson

Start with A Card For The Clubs (1974), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Les Dawson book?

Laugh With Les (2013) is the newest Les Dawson book released so far.

Is there a new Les Dawson book coming?

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

Les Dawson at a glance

Died
Les Dawson died in 1993, according to Wikidata.
After death
Books credited to Les Dawson are still being published after Les Dawson's death in 1993; the newest appeared in 2013.
Release pace
Les Dawson books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
2,037 pages across the 12 of 22 books with a recorded length, a median of 170 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Les Dawson books, 7 of 22, were published in the 1980s.

What the Les Dawson books are about

5 of the 22 Les Dawson books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: comedians is tagged on 3 of 5. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.