Mark Lewisohn Books in Order
Mark Lewisohn has written 9 books, published between 1986 and 2016. The first book is The Beatles Live: The Ultimate Reference Book (1986) and the newest is The Beatles A Hard Day's Night: A Private Archive (2016). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 9
- Published
- 1986–2016
- Total pages
- 3,779 across 9 books
- Reading time
- 63–94 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,779 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute.
Mark Lewisohn, born 16 June 1958, is an English historian and biographer who has produced Beatles reference books since the 1980s and has worked for EMI, MPL Communications and Apple Corps. The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions (1988) documents the group's session dates, and The Beatles: All These Years, begun in 2013, is planned as a three-volume biography. Nine books are catalogued, from The Beatles Live (1986) to The Beatles A Hard Day's Night: A Private Archive (2016), and the run also holds Funny, Peculiar: The True Story of Benny Hill (2002) and the RadioTimes Guide to TV Comedy (2002).
How many Mark Lewisohn books are there?
Mark Lewisohn has 9 books, released between 1986 and 2016. 1 of them belong to the Beatles: All These Years series.
Mark Lewisohn Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 9 Mark Lewisohn 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.
- 1The Beatles Live: The Ultimate Reference Book1986 · 208 pages · confirmed 1/419862081/4
- 2The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions1988 · 204 pages · confirmed 1/419882041/4
- 3Beatles Day By Day, The1990 · 239 pages · confirmed 1/419902391/4
- 4The Complete Beatles Chronicle1992 · 365 pages · confirmed 1/419923651/4
- 5The Beatles' London1994 · 232 pages · confirmed 1/419942321/4
- 6Funny, Peculiar: The True Story of Benny Hill2002 · 515 pages · confirmed 1/420025151/4
- 7RadioTimes Guide to TV Comedy2002 · 800 pages · confirmed 1/420028001/4
- 820139321/4
- 9The Beatles A Hard Day's Night: A Private Archive2016 · 284 pages · confirmed 1/420162841/4
Mark Lewisohn 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.
Beatles: All These Years in order
1 book- 1. Tune In
Standalone books
8 books8 Mark Lewisohn titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Mark Lewisohn books in order?
You only need to read Mark Lewisohn books in order within the Beatles: All These Years series, which holds 1 of the 9 Mark Lewisohn books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Mark Lewisohn
Start with The Beatles Live: The Ultimate Reference Book (1986), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Mark Lewisohn book?
The Beatles A Hard Day's Night: A Private Archive (2016) is the newest Mark Lewisohn book released so far.
Is there a new Mark Lewisohn book coming?
No next Mark Lewisohn 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 Lewisohn at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest Mark Lewisohn title on record dates from 2016, 10 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
- Release pace
- Mark Lewisohn books have appeared about one every 4 years on average.
- Length
- 3,779 pages across all 9 books with a recorded length, a median of 284 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Mark Lewisohn books, 3 of 9, were published in the 1990s.
What the Mark Lewisohn books are about
All 9 Mark Lewisohn books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: beatles is tagged on 7 of 9. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Beatles 7 of 9 books
- Biography 4 of 9 books
- Chronology 4 of 9 books
- History 4 of 9 books
- History and criticism 3 of 9 books
- Rock musicians 3 of 9 books
- Comedians 2 of 9 books
- Rock music 2 of 9 books