Michael Moore Books in Order
Michael Moore has written 10 books, published between 1996 and 2011. The first book is Downsize This! Random Threats from an Unarmed American (1996) and the newest is Here Comes Trouble (2011). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 10
- Published
- 1996–2011
- Pages on record
- 2,109 in 7 of 10 books
- Reading time
- 35–53 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,109 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 7 of 10 titles with a page count on record.
Michael Francis Moore, born 23 April 1954, is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and author on the political left, and takes up social, political and economic subjects. Roger & Me, the debut documentary, examined the collapse of the car industry in Flint and Detroit in the 1980s. Bowling for Columbine, on the Columbine High School killings and gun culture in the United States, took the 2002 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Moore also directed and produced Fahrenheit 9/11. The catalogue holds 10 books published between 1996 and 2011, from Downsize This! Random Threats from an Unarmed American (1996) to Here Comes Trouble (2011), taking in Adventures in a TV Nation (1998), Stupid White Men (2001), Dude, Where's My Country? (2003) and Mike's Election Guide (2008). Subjects record political satire, humour and the Iraq War.
How many Michael Moore books are there?
Michael Moore has 10 books, released between 1996 and 2011.
Michael Moore Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 10 Michael Moore 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.
- 1Downsize This! Random Threats from an Unarmed American1996 · 278 pages · confirmed 1/419962781/4
- 2Adventures in a TV Nation1998 · 241 pages · confirmed 1/419982411/4
- 3Stupid White Men & Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation2001 · 279 pages · confirmed 1/420012791/4
- 4Dude, Where's My Country?2003 · confirmed 1/42003–1/4
- 5TheOfficial Fahrenheit 9/11 Reader2004 · 363 pages · confirmed 1/420043631/4
- 6Will They Ever Trust Us Again? Letters from the War Zone2004 · 240 pages · confirmed 1/420042401/4
- 7Idiot Nation2005 · confirmed 1/42005–1/4
- 8Mike's Election Guide2008 · 260 pages · confirmed 1/420082601/4
- 9Yes, We Can2008 · confirmed 1/42008–1/4
- 10Here Comes Trouble2011 · 448 pages · confirmed 1/420114481/4
Michael Moore 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.
Standalone books
10 books10 Michael Moore titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Michael Moore books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 10 Michael Moore books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Michael Moore
Start with Downsize This! Random Threats from an Unarmed American (1996), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Michael Moore book?
Here Comes Trouble (2011) is the newest Michael Moore book released so far.
Is there a new Michael Moore book coming?
No next Michael Moore book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Michael Moore at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest Michael Moore title on record dates from 2011, 15 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
- Release pace
- Michael Moore books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 2,109 pages across the 7 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 278 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Michael Moore books, 7 of 10, were published in the 2000s.
What the Michael Moore books are about
9 of the 10 Michael Moore books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: politics and government is tagged on 4 of 9. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Politics and government 4 of 9 books
- Humor 3 of 9 books
- Social conditions 3 of 9 books
- American Political satire 2 of 9 books
- Iraq War, 2003-2011 2 of 9 books
- Motion picture producers and directors 2 of 9 books
- Nonfiction 2 of 9 books