Mark Bowden Books in Order
Mark Bowden has written 22 books, published between 1987 and 2023. The first book is Doctor Dealer (1987) and the newest is Life Sentence (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 22
- Published
- 1987–2023
- Pages on record
- 6,231 in 17 of 22 books
- Reading time
- 104–156 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 6,231 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 17 of 22 titles with a page count on record.
Mark Bowden is an American journalist who writes book-length narrative nonfiction. A former national correspondent and long-time contributor to The Atlantic, Bowden is best known for Black Hawk Down (1999), on the 1993 US military raid in Mogadishu, which was filmed and won two Academy Awards. Killing Pablo (2001) tracks the hunt for Pablo Escobar, and Guests of the Ayatollah (2006) and Hue 1968 follow. 22 titles are catalogued from Doctor Dealer (1987) to Life Sentence (2023).
How many Mark Bowden books are there?
Mark Bowden has 22 books, released between 1987 and 2023.
Mark Bowden Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 22 Mark Bowden 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.
- 119873522/4
- 219944972/4
- 319993862/4
- 420012962/4
- 52002322/4
- 620022242/4
- 720044802/4
- 820066802/4
- 920063302/4
- 102007–2/4
- 1120112522/4
- 12Marketing Your Business on The Internet (Short Story)Mark Bowden Non-Fiction #122012 · confirmed 2/42012–2/4
- 132012–2/4
- 1420122882/4
- 1520164962/4
- 162016–2/4
- 1720175942/4
- 182017–2/4
- 1920193042/4
- 2020204002/4
- 2120223002/4
- 2220233202/4
Mark Bowden 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.
Mark Bowden Non-Fiction
22 books22 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Do you have to read Mark Bowden books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 22 Mark Bowden books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Mark Bowden
Start with Doctor Dealer (1987), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Mark Bowden book?
Life Sentence (2023) is the newest Mark Bowden book released so far.
Is there a new Mark Bowden book coming?
No next Mark Bowden book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Mark Bowden at a glance
- Paused
- No new Mark Bowden title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
- Release pace
- Mark Bowden books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 6,231 pages across the 17 of 22 books with a recorded length, a median of 330 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Mark Bowden books, 9 of 22, were published in the 2010s.
What the Mark Bowden books are about
16 of the 22 Mark Bowden books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: united states is tagged on 3 of 16. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- United States 3 of 16 books
- Biography 2 of 16 books
- Drug dealers 2 of 16 books
- History 2 of 16 books
- Narcotics dealers 2 of 16 books
- United States. Army 2 of 16 books