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Mitch Albom Books in Order

Mitch Albom has written 21 books, published between 1988 and 2025. The first book is Live Albom (1988) and the newest is Twice (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
21
Published
1988–2025
Confirmed
17 of 21 titles
Pages on record
3,090 in 13 of 21 books
Reading time
52–77 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,090 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 13 of 21 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Mitch Albom, author of the Heaven series

Sports journalism came first for Mitch Albom, born Mitchell David Albom on May 23, 1958; inspirational storytelling followed, with Tuesdays with Morrie (1997) an early landmark. Albom is also an American talk show host and philanthropist, and reported sales of Albom's books stood at 40 million copies in 2021. The catalogue lists 21 titles, opening with Live Albom (1988), which was followed by Live Albom II, III and IV. Later entries include The Fab Five (1993), The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003), For One More Day (2006) and Twice (2025). Heaven is the one series listed.

How many Mitch Albom books are there?

Mitch Albom has 21 books, released between 1988 and 2025. 2 of them belong to the Heaven series.

Mitch Albom Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 21 Mitch Albom books in the order they were released, 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 Live Albom by Mitch Albom (1988)
  2. Cover of Live Albom III by Mitch Albom (1992)
  3. Cover of The Fab Five by Mitch Albom (1993)
  4. Cover of Live Albom IV by Mitch Albom (1996)
  5. Cover of The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom, book 1 of the Heaven series (2003)
  6. Cover of For One More Day by Mitch Albom (2006)
  7. Cover of And the Winner Is by Mitch Albom (2007)
  8. Cover of Duck Hunter Shoots Angel by Mitch Albom (2007)
  9. Cover of Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom (2009)
  10. Cover of The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom (2012)
  11. Cover of The First Phone Call from Heaven by Mitch Albom (2013)
  12. Cover of The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom (2015)
  13. Cover of The Next Person You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom, book 2 of the Heaven series (2018)
  14. Cover of Finding Chika by Mitch Albom (2019)
  15. Cover of The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Albom (2021)
  16. Cover of The Little Liar by Mitch Albom (2023)
  1. 1
    Live Albom1988 · 294 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1988294
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  2. 2
    Bo1989 · 281 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1989281
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  3. 3
    Live Albom II1990 · confirmed 3/4
    1990–
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  4. 4
    Live Albom III1992 · confirmed 3/4
    1992–
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  5. 5
    The Fab Five1993 · 359 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1993359
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  6. 6
    Live Albom IV1996 · confirmed 3/4
    1996–
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  7. 7
    Tuesdays with Morrie1997 · 192 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1997192
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  8. 8
    The Five People You Meet in HeavenHeaven #12003 · 196 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2003196
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  9. 9
    For One More Day2006 · 208 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2006208
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  10. 10
    And the Winner Is2007 · 72 pages · confirmed 3/4
    200772
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  11. 11
    Duck Hunter Shoots Angel2007 · 59 pages · confirmed 3/4
    200759
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  12. 12
    Have a Little Faith2009 · 272 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2009272
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  13. 13
    The Time Keeper2012 · 224 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2012224
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  14. 14
    The First Phone Call from Heaven2013 · confirmed 2/4
    2013–
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  15. 15
    The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto2015 · 496 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2015496
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  16. 16
    The Next Person You Meet in HeavenHeaven #22018 · 213 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2018213
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  17. 17
    Finding Chika2019 · confirmed 3/4
    2019–
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  18. 18
    Human Touch: A Story in Real Time2020 · confirmed 3/4
    2020–
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  19. 19
    The Stranger in the Lifeboat2021 · 224 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2021224
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  20. 20
    The Little Liar2023 · confirmed 2/4
    2023–
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  21. 21
    Twice2025 · confirmed 3/4
    2025–
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Mitch Albom 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.

Heaven in order

2 books
  1. 1. The Five People You Meet in Heaven
  2. 2. The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

Standalone books

19 books

19 Mitch Albom titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Mitch Albom Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the Mitch Albom books run from Live Albom (1988) to Twice (2025), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Mitch Albom in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Do you have to read Mitch Albom books in order?

You only need to read Mitch Albom books in order within the Heaven series, which holds 2 of the 21 Mitch Albom books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

What order should you read Mitch Albom books in?

Read them in publication order, starting with Live Albom (1988), the earliest published title. After it come Bo (1989), Live Albom II (1990), Live Albom III (1992) and The Fab Five (1993); the numbered table above continues from there.

What is the newest Mitch Albom book?

Twice (2025) is the newest Mitch Albom book released so far.

Is there a new Mitch Albom book coming?

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

Mitch Albom at a glance

Still publishing
Mitch Albom published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Mitch Albom books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
3,090 pages across the 13 of 21 books with a recorded length, a median of 224 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Mitch Albom books, 5 of 21, were published in the 2010s.

What the Mitch Albom books are about

17 of the 21 Mitch Albom books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: death is tagged on 3 of 17. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • Death 3 of 17 books
  • Future life 3 of 17 books
  • Newspapers 3 of 17 books
  • Sections, columns 3 of 17 books
  • Sports 3 of 17 books
  • Drama 2 of 17 books
  • Heaven 2 of 17 books
  • History 2 of 17 books
  • Roman 2 of 17 books
  • University of Michigan 2 of 17 books
  • Visionary & metaphysical 2 of 17 books