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Neal Pollack Books in Order

Neal Pollack has written 13 books, published between 2000 and 2022. The first book is The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature (2000) and the newest is Edge of Safety (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
13
Published
2000–2022
Pages on record
2,647 in 11 of 13 books
Reading time
44–66 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,647 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 11 of 13 titles with a page count on record.

See all 13 books in order Printable Neal Pollack checklist

Neal Pollack, born 1 March 1970, is an American satirist, journalist, novelist and short story writer based in Austin, Texas. Pollack is also a three-time Jeopardy! champion. The catalogue lists 13 books, starting with The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature (2000) and including Alternadad, Jewball, Downward-Facing Death and Keep Mars Weird. The Matt Bolster Yoga Mystery is the named series, and Edge of Safety (2022) is the most recent title. Subject tags include yoga, private investigators, humor and satire.

How many Neal Pollack books are there?

Neal Pollack has 13 books, released between 2000 and 2022. 2 of them belong to the Matt Bolster Yoga Mystery series.

Neal Pollack Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 13 Neal Pollack 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 Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature by Neal Pollack (2000)
  2. Cover of Beneath the Axis of Evil by Neal Pollack (2003)
  3. Cover of Never Mind the Pollacks by Neal Pollack (2007)
  4. Cover of Alternadad by Neal Pollack (2007)
  5. Cover of Stretch by Neal Pollack (2010)
  6. Cover of Repeat by Neal Pollack (2015)
  7. Cover of Keep Mars Weird by Neal Pollack (2015)
  1. 1
    The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature2000 · 153 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2000153
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  2. 2
    Beneath the Axis of Evil2003 · 62 pages · confirmed 1/4
    200362
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  3. 3
    Never Mind the Pollacks2007 · 304 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2007304
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  4. 4
    Alternadad2007 · 368 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2007368
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  5. 5
    Stretch2010 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2010320
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  6. 6
    Jewball2011 · 193 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2011193
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  7. 7
    Downward-Facing DeathMatt Bolster Yoga Mystery #12012 · 220 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2012220
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  8. 8
    Open Your HeartMatt Bolster Yoga Mystery #22013 · 262 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2013262
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  9. 9
    Repeat2015 · 225 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015225
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  10. 10
    Keep Mars Weird2015 · 240 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015240
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  11. 11
    Not Coming Soon to a Theater Near You2016 · confirmed 1/4
    2016–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  12. 12
    Pothead2020 · 300 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2020300
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  13. 13
    Edge of Safety2022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022–
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Neal Pollack 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.

Matt Bolster Yoga Mystery in order

2 books
  1. 1. Downward-Facing Death
  2. 2. Open Your Heart

Standalone books

11 books

11 Neal Pollack titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Neal Pollack books in order?

You only need to read Neal Pollack books in order within the Matt Bolster Yoga Mystery series, which holds 2 of the 13 Neal Pollack books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Neal Pollack

Start with The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature (2000), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Neal Pollack book?

Edge of Safety (2022) is the newest Neal Pollack book released so far.

Is there a new Neal Pollack book coming?

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

Neal Pollack at a glance

Paused
No new Neal Pollack title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
Release pace
Neal Pollack books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
2,647 pages across the 11 of 13 books with a recorded length, a median of 240 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Neal Pollack books, 7 of 13, were published in the 2010s.

What the Neal Pollack books are about

9 of the 13 Neal Pollack books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: yoga is tagged on 3 of 9. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.