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Michael Shaara Books in Order

30 books are credited to Michael Shaara, published between 1952 and 2014; 6 of them appeared after Michael Shaara's death in 1988. The first book is All the Way Back (1952) and the newest is Little Joe...The Hard Way (2014). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
30
Published
1952–2014
Confirmed
1 of 30 titles
Pages on record
1,219 in 6 of 30 books
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Michael Shaara (1928-1988) wrote science fiction, sports fiction and historical fiction. Short stories dominate the early catalogue, published through the 1950s from All the Way Back (1952) onward, and baseball supplies the material for a further set of the work. Twenty-nine catalogued titles run as far as Little Joe...The Hard Way, issued in 2014, well after Shaara's death.

How many Michael Shaara books are there?

Michael Shaara has 30 books, released between 1952 and 2014. 6 of them were published after Michael Shaara's death in 1988.

Michael Shaara Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 30 Michael Shaara 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 The Broken Place by Michael Shaara (1968)
  2. Cover of The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara, book 1 of the Civil War: 1861-1865 series (1974)
  3. Cover of The Herald / The Noah Conspiracy by Michael Shaara (1981)
  4. Cover of Soldier Boy by Michael Shaara (1982)
  5. Cover of For Love of the Game by Michael Shaara (1991)
  1. 1
    All the Way Back1952 · confirmed 2/4
    1952–
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  2. 2
    Be Fruitful and Multiply1952 · confirmed 2/4
    1952–
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  3. 3
    The Book1953 · confirmed 2/4
    1953–
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  4. 4
    Time Payment1954 · confirmed 2/4
    1954–
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  5. 5
    The Holes1954 · confirmed 2/4
    1954–
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  6. 6
    Wainer1954 · 26 pages · confirmed 2/4
    195426
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  7. 7
    A Man of Distinction1956 · confirmed 2/4
    1956–
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  8. 8
    Death for a Hunter1957 · confirmed 2/4
    1957–
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  9. 9
    The Lightning1958 · confirmed 2/4
    1958–
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  10. 10
    The Sea is Cruel1958 · confirmed 2/4
    1958–
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  11. 11
    The Wide and Starry Sky1958 · confirmed 2/4
    1958–
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  12. 12
    You'll Have To Die Now1958 · confirmed 2/4
    1958–
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  13. 13
    The Peeping Tom Patrol1958 · confirmed 2/4
    1958–
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  14. 14
    Doctor in Doubt1959 · confirmed 2/4
    1959–
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  15. 15
    Partisan1962 · confirmed 2/4
    1962–
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  16. 16
    The Broken Place1968 · 272 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1968272
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  17. 17
    Groomsday1968 · confirmed 2/4
    1968–
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  18. 18
    The Killer AngelsCivil War: 1861-1865 #11974 · 355 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1974355
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  19. 19
    Two Roads to Petra1976 · confirmed 2/4
    1976–
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  20. 20
    Border Incident1976 · confirmed 2/4
    1976–
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  21. 21
    The Herald / The Noah Conspiracy1981 · 223 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1981223
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  22. 22
    Soldier Boy1982 · 191 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1982191
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  23. 23
    The Dark Angel1982 · confirmed 2/4
    1982–
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  24. 24
    Starface1982 · confirmed 2/4
    1982–
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  25. 25
    For Love of the Game1991 · 152 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1991152
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  26. 26
    The Rebel in Autumn2013 · confirmed 2/4
    2013–
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  27. 27
    The Billion Dollar Grease Job2014 · confirmed 2/4
    2014–
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  28. 28
    2066 Election Day2014 · confirmed 2/4
    2014–
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  29. 29
    The Second Odd Man2014 · confirmed 2/4
    2014–
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  30. 30
    Little Joe...The Hard Way2014 · confirmed 2/4
    2014–
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Michael Shaara 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.

Civil War: 1861-1865 in order

1 book
  1. 1. The Killer Angels

Standalone books

29 books

29 Michael Shaara titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Michael Shaara books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 30 Michael Shaara books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Michael Shaara

Start with All the Way Back (1952), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Michael Shaara book?

Little Joe...The Hard Way (2014) is the newest Michael Shaara book released so far.

Is there a new Michael Shaara book coming?

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

Award nominations for Michael Shaara

Wikidata records 1 nomination for Michael Shaara. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • Locus Award for Best Collection1983Shortlistedfor Soldier Boy

Michael Shaara at a glance

Died
Michael Shaara died in 1988, according to Wikidata.
After death
Books credited to Michael Shaara are still being published after Michael Shaara's death in 1988; the newest appeared in 2014.
Release pace
Michael Shaara books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
1,219 pages across the 6 of 30 books with a recorded length, a median of 207 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Michael Shaara books, 14 of 30, were published in the 1950s.

What the Michael Shaara books are about

4 of the 30 Michael Shaara books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: science fiction is tagged on 2 of 4. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.