Les Roberts Books in Order
Les Roberts has written 36 books, published between 1987 and 2025. The first book is An Infinite Number of Monkeys (1987) and the newest is Sierra Bravo (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 36
- Published
- 1987–2025
- Confirmed
- 36 of 36 titles
- Pages on record
- 294,701 in 27 of 36 books
- Reading time
- 4,912–7,368 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 294,701 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 27 of 36 titles with a page count on record.
Les Roberts, born July 18, 1937, is an American mystery novelist and screenwriter. Milan Jacovich and Saxon are the recurring characters, and private investigators, Cleveland, Slovenian Americans and Los Angeles appear in the subjects. The catalogue holds 36 books from An Infinite Number of Monkeys (1987) to Sierra Bravo (2025), with Pepper Pike (1988) and Full Cleveland (1989) among the early titles. The Dominick Candiotti series, standalone novels and non-fiction complete the list.
How many Les Roberts books are there?
Les Roberts has 36 books, released between 1987 and 2025. They include 3 separate series.
Les Roberts Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 36 Les Roberts 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.
- 119872143/4
- 219882153/4
- 319882303/4
- 419892223/4
- 51989–3/4
- 619902303/4
- 719912533/4
- 819922783/4
- 919932783/4
- 1019942823/4
- 1119942823/4
- 1219952573/4
- 1319962543/4
- 1419972703/4
- 1519982863/4
- 1619992882653/4
- 1720002713/4
- 182001–3/4
- 1920012883/4
- 20The Scent of Spiced Orange and Other StoriesLes Roberts Short Story #12002 · 200 pages · confirmed 3/420022003/4
- 2120022713/4
- 2220061803/4
- 232008–3/4
- 2420112753/4
- 252011323/4
- 2620112643/4
- 272012–3/4
- 282013–3/4
- 2920142423/4
- 302014–3/4
- 3120152433/4
- 3220182573/4
- 332022–3/4
- 3420233623/4
- 352024–3/4
- 362025–3/4
Les Roberts 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.
Milan Jacovich in order
19 books- 1. Pepper Pike
- 2. Full Cleveland
- 3. Deep Shaker
- 4. The Cleveland Connection
- 5. The Lake Effect
- 6. The Duke Of Cleveland
- 7. Collision Bend
- 8. The Cleveland Local
- 9. A Shoot in Cleveland
- 10. The Best-Kept Secret
- 11. The Indian Sign
- 12. The Dutch
- and 7 more in the table above
Saxon in order
6 booksLes Roberts Standalone Novels
6 books6 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Dominick Candiotti in order
2 booksLes Roberts Short Story
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Les Roberts Non-Fiction
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Routledge Studies in Popular Music in order
1 bookDo you have to read Les Roberts books in order?
You only need to read Les Roberts books in order within each series: the books listed here span 3 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Les Roberts
Start with An Infinite Number of Monkeys (1987), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Les Roberts book?
Sierra Bravo (2025) is the newest Les Roberts book released so far.
Is there a new Les Roberts book coming?
No next Les Roberts 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 Roberts at a glance
- Still publishing
- Les Roberts published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Les Roberts books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 294,701 pages across the 27 of 36 books with a recorded length, a median of 257 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Les Roberts books, 11 of 36, were published in the 1990s.
What the Les Roberts books are about
29 of the 36 Les Roberts books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: private investigators is tagged on 23 of 29. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Private investigators 23 of 29 books
- Milan Jacovich (Fictitious character) 19 of 29 books
- Jacovich, milan (fictitious character) 11 of 29 books
- Mystery & detective 11 of 29 books
- Cleveland (ohio) 10 of 29 books
- Slovenian Americans 7 of 29 books
- California 5 of 29 books
- Los Angeles (Calif.) 5 of 29 books
- Saxon (Fictitious character : Roberts) 5 of 29 books
- Saxon (Fictitious character) 5 of 29 books
- Missing persons 4 of 29 books
- Crimes against 3 of 29 books