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Lynne Truss Books in Order

Lynne Truss has written 22 books, published between 1995 and 2023. The first book is Making the Cat Laugh (1995) and the newest is Natter from the Natural World (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
22
Published
1995–2023
Pages on record
2,527 in 11 of 22 books
Reading time
42–63 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,527 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 11 of 22 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Lynne Truss, author

Eats, Shoots & Leaves, published in 2003, is Lynne Truss's best known book, an argument for correctness in English punctuation that grew out of Cutting a Dash, the BBC Radio 4 programme Truss presented. Truss is an English author, journalist, novelist, radio broadcaster and dramatist whose 22 catalogued books start at Making the Cat Laugh in 1995 and reach Natter from the Natural World in 2023. The Inspector Steine and Constable Twitten novels are the crime fiction, and grammar guides for children sit beside them. The Detection Club inducted Truss in 2021.

How many Lynne Truss books are there?

Lynne Truss has 22 books, released between 1995 and 2023. They include 2 series and 15 titles listed outside any series.

Lynne Truss Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 22 Lynne Truss 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 Making the Cat Laugh by Lynne Truss (1995)
  2. Cover of Tennyson’s Gift by Lynne Truss (1997)
  3. Cover of Going Loco by Lynne Truss (1999)
  4. Cover of Tennyson and His Circle by Lynne Truss (1999)
  5. Cover of Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss (2003)
  6. Cover of With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed by Lynne Truss (2004)
  7. Cover of A Certain Age by Lynne Truss (2005)
  8. Cover of Talk to the Hand by Lynne Truss (2005)
  9. Cover of The Girl's Like Spaghetti by Lynne Truss (2007)
  10. Cover of Get Her Off the Pitch! by Lynne Truss (2009)
  11. Cover of The Lunar Cats by Lynne Truss (2016)
  12. Cover of See the Bunny Run / Psycho by the Sea by Lynne Truss, book 4 of the Constable Twitten series (2021)
  1. 1
    Making the Cat Laugh1995 · confirmed 2/4
    1995–
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  2. 2
    Tennyson’s Gift1997 · 272 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1997272
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  3. 3
    Going Loco1999 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1999256
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  4. 4
    Tennyson and His Circle1999 · 120 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1999120
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  5. 5
    Glued to the Gogglebox: 50 Years of British Television2003 · confirmed 2/4
    2003–
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  6. 6
    Eats, Shoots & Leaves2003 · 209 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2003209
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  7. 7
    With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed2004 · 210 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2004210
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  8. 8
    A Certain Age2005 · 187 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2005187
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  9. 9
    Talk to the Hand2005 · confirmed 2/4
    2005–
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  10. 10
    The Girl's Like Spaghetti2007 · 32 pages · confirmed 2/4
    200732
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  11. 11
    Inspector Steine - Series OneInspector Steine #12008 · confirmed 2/4
    2008–
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  12. 12
    Twenty-Odd Ducks2008 · confirmed 2/4
    2008–
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  13. 13
    Casebook Of Inspector SteineInspector Steine #22009 · confirmed 2/4
    2009–
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  14. 14
    Get Her Off the Pitch!2009 · confirmed 2/4
    2009–
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  15. 15
    The Adventures of Inspector SteineInspector Steine #32010 · confirmed 2/4
    2010–
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  16. 16
    Cat Out of Hell2014 · confirmed 2/4
    2014–
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  17. 17
    The Lunar Cats2016 · 297 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2016297
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  18. 18
    A Shot in the DarkConstable Twitten #12018 · confirmed 2/4
    2018–
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  19. 19
    The Man That Got AwayConstable Twitten #22019 · 304 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2019304
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  20. 20
    Murder by Milk BottleConstable Twitten #32020 · 320 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2020320
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  21. 21
    See the Bunny Run / Psycho by the SeaConstable Twitten #42021 · 320 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2021320
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  22. 22
    Natter from the Natural World2023 · confirmed 2/4
    2023–
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Lynne Truss 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.

Constable Twitten in order

4 books
  1. 1. A Shot in the Dark
  2. 2. The Man That Got Away
  3. 3. Murder by Milk Bottle
  4. 4. See the Bunny Run / Psycho by the Sea

Inspector Steine in order

3 books
  1. 1. Inspector Steine - Series One
  2. 2. Casebook Of Inspector Steine
  3. 3. The Adventures of Inspector Steine

Standalone books

15 books

15 Lynne Truss titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Lynne Truss books in order?

You only need to read Lynne Truss books in order within each series: the books listed here span 2 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Lynne Truss

Start with Making the Cat Laugh (1995), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Lynne Truss book?

Natter from the Natural World (2023) is the newest Lynne Truss book released so far.

Is there a new Lynne Truss book coming?

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

Lynne Truss at a glance

Paused
No new Lynne Truss title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
Release pace
Lynne Truss books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
2,527 pages across the 11 of 22 books with a recorded length, a median of 256 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Lynne Truss books, 10 of 22, were published in the 2000s.

What the Lynne Truss books are about

16 of the 22 Lynne Truss books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: england is tagged on 3 of 16. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • England 3 of 16 books
  • English language 3 of 16 books
  • Punctuation 3 of 16 books
  • Apostrophe 2 of 16 books
  • Cats 2 of 16 books
  • English language, juvenile literature 2 of 16 books
  • English literature 2 of 16 books
  • English wit and humor 2 of 16 books
  • Humor 2 of 16 books
  • Juvenile literature 2 of 16 books
  • Mystery & detective 2 of 16 books