Max Brand Books in Order

How many Max Brand books are there?

Max Brand has 345 books, released between 1918 and 2022. 198 of them were published after Max Brand's death in 1944. They include 10 series and 229 titles listed outside any series.

Max Brand Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 345 Max Brand 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 November 2026.

There are 345 recorded titles, more than one list usefully holds. The 300 earliest are below; the series linked further down carry the rest, each in its own order.

Max Brand 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.

Do you have to read Max Brand books in order?

You only need to read Max Brand books in order within each series: the books listed here span 10 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Max Brand

Start with Harrigan (1918), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Max Brand book?

Luck and a Horse (2022) is the newest Max Brand book released so far.

Is there a new Max Brand book coming?

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

Max Brand at a glance

Died

Max Brand died in 1944, according to Wikidata.

After death

Books credited to Max Brand are still being published after Max Brand's death in 1944; the newest appeared in 2022.

Release pace

Max Brand books have appeared more than one a year on average.

Length

45,548 pages across the 178 of 345 books with a recorded length, a median of 248 pages each.

Busiest decade

Most Max Brand books, 68 of 345, were published in the 1920s.

When Max Brand books were published

Publication distribution by decade, showing when Max Brand titles appeared. 1920s was the most productive decade with 68 titles.

What the Max Brand books are about

254 of the 345 Max Brand books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: westerns is tagged on 156 of 254. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

• Westerns 156 of 254 books
• Fiction in English 29 of 254 books
• Robbers and outlaws 28 of 254 books
• Frontier and pioneer life 23 of 254 books
• Revenge 9 of 254 books
• West (U.S.) 8 of 254 books
• Action & adventure 7 of 254 books
• Doctor Kildare (Fictitious character) 7 of 254 books
• Physicians 7 of 254 books
• Cheyenne Indians 6 of 254 books
• Historical fiction 6 of 254 books