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Mark Haddon Books in Order

Mark Haddon has written 31 books, published between 1988 and 2026. The first book is Toni and the Tomato Soup (1988) and the newest is Leaving Home (2026). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
31
Published
1988–2026
Pages on record
3,289 in 25 of 31 books
Reading time
55–82 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,289 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 25 of 31 titles with a page count on record.

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Mark Haddon, born in Northampton in 1962, is an English novelist whose best known book is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, published in 2003. Haddon has won the Whitbread Award, the Guardian Prize, a Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award. His catalogue starts much earlier and much younger: picture books from 1988, the comic Agent Z series and the Baby Dinosaurs books all precede the adult fiction. Thirty-one titles span 1988 to 2026, reaching Leaving Home.

How many Mark Haddon books are there?

Mark Haddon has 31 books, released between 1988 and 2026. 4 of them belong to the Agent Z series.

Mark Haddon Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 31 Mark Haddon 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 Toni and the Tomato Soup by Mark Haddon (1988)
  2. Cover of Agent Z Meets the Masked Crusader by Mark Haddon, book 1 of the Agent Z series (1994)
  3. Cover of The Real Porky Philips by Mark Haddon (1994)
  4. Cover of Agent Z Goes Wild by Mark Haddon, book 2 of the Agent Z series (1994)
  5. Cover of Boom! by Mark Haddon (1994)
  6. Cover of Titch Johnson by Mark Haddon (1994)
  7. Cover of Agent Z and the Penguin From Mars by Mark Haddon, book 3 of the Agent Z series (1995)
  8. Cover of The Sea of Tranquility by Mark Haddon (1996)
  9. Cover of Agent Z and the Killer Bananas by Mark Haddon, book 4 of the Agent Z series (2001)
  10. Cover of Ocean Star Express by Mark Haddon (2001)
  11. Cover of The Ice Bear’s Cave by Mark Haddon (2002)
  12. Cover of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: The Play by Mark Haddon (2003)
  13. Cover of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2003)
  14. Cover of A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon (2006)
  15. Cover of Polar Bears by Mark Haddon (2010)
  16. Cover of The Red House by Mark Haddon (2012)
  17. Cover of The Pier Falls and Other Stories by Mark Haddon (2016)
  18. Cover of The Porpoise by Mark Haddon (2019)
  1. 1
    Toni and the Tomato Soup1988 · 25 pages · confirmed 2/4
    198825
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  2. 2
    Gilbert's Gobstopper1988 · 26 pages · confirmed 2/4
    198826
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  3. 3
    A Narrow Escape for Princess Sharon1989 · 48 pages · confirmed 2/4
    198948
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  4. 4
    Agent Z Meets the Masked CrusaderAgent Z #11994 · 150 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1994150
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  5. 5
    The Real Porky Philips1994 · 63 pages · confirmed 2/4
    199463
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  6. 6
    The Ultimate Hush-Hush Handbook / Secret Agent Handbook1994 · 446 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1994446
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  7. 7
    Agent Z Goes WildAgent Z #21994 · 128 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1994128
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  8. 8
    Boom!1994 · confirmed 2/4
    1994–
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  9. 9
    Gridzbi Spudvetch!1994 · 128 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1994128
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  10. 10
    Baby Dinosaurs at Home1994 · 1 pages · confirmed 2/4
    19941
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  11. 11
    Titch Johnson1994 · 64 pages · confirmed 2/4
    199464
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  12. 12
    Baby Dinosaurs in the Garden1994 · confirmed 2/4
    1994–
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  13. 13
    Baby Dinosaurs on Holiday1994 · 12 pages · confirmed 2/4
    199412
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  14. 14
    Baby Dinosaurs at Playgroup1994 · 12 pages · confirmed 2/4
    199412
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  15. 15
    Agent Z and the Penguin From MarsAgent Z #31995 · 176 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1995176
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  16. 16
    Footprints on the Moon1996 · confirmed 2/4
    1996–
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  17. 17
    The Sea of Tranquility1996 · 32 pages · confirmed 2/4
    199632
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  18. 18
    Agent Z and the Killer BananasAgent Z #42001 · 184 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2001184
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  19. 19
    Ocean Star Express2001 · 32 pages · confirmed 2/4
    200132
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  20. 20
    The Ice Bear’s Cave2002 · 32 pages · confirmed 2/4
    200232
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  21. 21
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: The Play2003 · 160 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2003160
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  22. 22
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time2003 · 226 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2003226
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  23. 23
    A Spot of Bother2006 · 354 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2006354
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  24. 24
    Polar Bears2010 · 79 pages · confirmed 2/4
    201079
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  25. 25
    The Red House2012 · confirmed 2/4
    2012–
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  26. 26
    The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea2013 · 80 pages · confirmed 2/4
    201380
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  27. 28
    Family2019 · 192 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2019192
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  28. 29
    The Porpoise2019 · 336 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2019336
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  29. 30
    Dogs and Monsters2024 · confirmed 2/4
    2024–
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  30. 31
    Leaving Home2026 · confirmed 2/4
    2026–
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Mark Haddon 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.

Agent Z in order

4 books
  1. 1. Agent Z Meets the Masked Crusader
  2. 2. Agent Z Goes Wild
  3. 3. Agent Z and the Penguin From Mars
  4. 4. Agent Z and the Killer Bananas

Standalone books

27 books

27 Mark Haddon titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Mark Haddon books in order?

You only need to read Mark Haddon books in order within the Agent Z series, which holds 4 of the 31 Mark Haddon books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Mark Haddon

Start with Toni and the Tomato Soup (1988), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Mark Haddon book?

Leaving Home (2026) is the newest Mark Haddon book released so far.

Is there a new Mark Haddon book coming?

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

Awards Mark Haddon has won

Wikidata records 3 awards and 1 nomination for Mark Haddon. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

Mark Haddon at a glance

Still publishing
Mark Haddon published a book as recently as 2026.
Release pace
Mark Haddon books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
3,289 pages across the 25 of 31 books with a recorded length, a median of 80 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Mark Haddon books, 14 of 31, were published in the 1990s.

What the Mark Haddon books are about

23 of the 31 Mark Haddon books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: children's fiction is tagged on 10 of 23. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.