Marcus Buckingham Books in Order
Marcus Buckingham has written 11 books, published between 1998 and 2022. The first book is First, Break All the Rules (1998) and the newest is Love and Work (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 11
- Published
- 1998–2022
- Pages on record
- 2,025 in 8 of 11 books
- Reading time
- 34–51 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,025 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 8 of 11 titles with a page count on record.
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham is an English author, business consultant and motivational speaker, born on 11 January 1966 and based in California. The catalogue lists 11 books from First, Break All the Rules (1998) to Love and Work (2022). Now, Discover Your Strengths (2001), Go Put Your Strengths to Work (2008), StandOut (2011) and Nine Lies About Work (2019) are among them. Subject headings cover management, leadership, employee motivation, executive ability, performance and self-actualization. The listing is marked dormant.
How many Marcus Buckingham books are there?
Marcus Buckingham has 11 books, released between 1998 and 2022.
Marcus Buckingham Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 11 Marcus Buckingham 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.
- 1First, Break All the Rules1998 · 271 pages · confirmed 1/419982711/4
- 2Now, Discover Your Strengths2001 · 260 pages · confirmed 1/420012601/4
- 3The One Thing You Need to Know About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success2005 · 289 pages · confirmed 1/420052891/4
- 420072051/4
- 5The Truth about You2008 · confirmed 1/42008–1/4
- 6Go Put Your Strengths to Work2008 · 270 pages · confirmed 1/420082701/4
- 7Find Your Strongest Life2009 · 263 pages · confirmed 1/420092631/4
- 8StandOut2011 · confirmed 1/42011–1/4
- 9StandOut 2.02015 · 211 pages · confirmed 1/420152111/4
- 10Nine Lies About Work2019 · confirmed 1/42019–1/4
- 11Love and Work2022 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/420222561/4
Marcus Buckingham 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.
John Maxwell Non-Fiction
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Standalone books
10 books10 Marcus Buckingham titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Marcus Buckingham books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 11 Marcus Buckingham books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Marcus Buckingham
Start with First, Break All the Rules (1998), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Marcus Buckingham book?
Love and Work (2022) is the newest Marcus Buckingham book released so far.
Is there a new Marcus Buckingham book coming?
No next Marcus Buckingham book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Marcus Buckingham at a glance
- Paused
- No new Marcus Buckingham title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
- Release pace
- Marcus Buckingham books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 2,025 pages across the 8 of 11 books with a recorded length, a median of 262 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Marcus Buckingham books, 6 of 11, were published in the 2000s.
What the Marcus Buckingham books are about
9 of the 11 Marcus Buckingham books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: employee motivation is tagged on 5 of 9. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.