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Niall Ferguson Books in Order

Niall Ferguson has written 26 books, published between 1995 and 2021. The first book is Paper and Iron (1995) and the newest is Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe (2021). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
26
Published
1995–2021
Pages on record
9,269 in 19 of 26 books
Reading time
154–232 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 9,269 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 19 of 26 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Niall Ferguson, author

Sir Niall Ferguson, born 18 April 1964, is a British and American historian. Ferguson is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and has held professorships at Harvard, the London School of Economics and New York University. Titles include Paper and Iron (1995), Virtual History (1997), The Pity of War (1998), The House of Rothschild (1998), The Cash Nexus (2001) and Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe (2021). Series include Rothschild, Government and Niall Ferguson Biographies. Subjects include banking, imperialism, foreign relations and economic conditions.

How many Niall Ferguson books are there?

Niall Ferguson has 26 books, released between 1995 and 2021. They include 3 series and 3 titles listed outside any series.

Niall Ferguson Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 26 Niall Ferguson 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 Paper and Iron by Niall Ferguson, book 2 of the History series (1995)
  2. Cover of Dundee and Newtyle Railway Including the Alyth and Blairgowrie Branches by Niall Ferguson (1995)
  3. Cover of Virtual History by Niall Ferguson, book 4 of the History series (1997)
  4. Cover of The World's Banker. The History of the House of Rothschild. by Niall Ferguson, book 1 of the Rothschild series
  5. Cover of The Pity of War by Niall Ferguson, book 5 of the History series (1998)
  6. Cover of The Cash Nexus by Niall Ferguson, book 1 of the Government series (2001)
  7. Cover of Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power by Niall Ferguson (2004)
  8. Cover of Colossus by Niall Ferguson, book 2 of the Government series (2004)
  9. Cover of 1914 by Niall Ferguson, book 6 of the History series (2005)
  10. Cover of The War of the World by Niall Ferguson, book 46 of the Allen Lane History series (2006)
  11. Cover of The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson, book 7 of the History series (2007)
  12. Cover of Civilization by Niall Ferguson, book 8 of the History series (2011)
  13. Cover of The Great Degeneration by Niall Ferguson, book 3 of the Government series (2012)
  14. Cover of Kissinger by Niall Ferguson, book 2 of the Niall Ferguson Biographies series (2015)
  15. Cover of The Square and the Tower by Niall Ferguson, book 4 of the Government series (2017)
  16. Cover of Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson, book 10 of the History series (2021)
  1. 1
    Paper and IronHistory #21995 · 553 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1995553
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  2. 2
    Dundee and Newtyle Railway Including the Alyth and Blairgowrie BranchesHistory #31995 · 248 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1995248
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  3. 3
    Virtual HistoryHistory #41997 · 560 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1997560
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  4. 4
    The World's Banker. The History of the House of Rothschild.Rothschild #11998 · 1309 pages · confirmed 1/4
    19981309
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  5. 5
    The House of RothschildRothschild #21998 · confirmed 1/4
    1998–
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  6. 6
    The House of Rothschild, Vol 1Rothschild #31998 · confirmed 1/4
    1998–
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  7. 7
    The Pity of WarHistory #51998 · 563 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1998563
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  8. 8
    The Cash NexusGovernment #12001 · 380 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2001380
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  9. 9
    The Price of America2001 · confirmed 1/4
    2001–
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  10. 10
    Too Big to Live2001 · confirmed 1/4
    2001–
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  11. 11
    Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global PowerEmpire #12004 · 424 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004424
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  12. 12
    ColossusGovernment #22004 · 386 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004386
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  13. 13
    1914History #62005 · 55 pages · confirmed 1/4
    200555
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  14. 14
    The War of the WorldAllen Lane History #462006 · 880 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2006880
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  15. 15
    The Ascent of MoneyHistory #72007 · 441 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2007441
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  16. 16
    High FinancierNiall Ferguson Biographies #12010 · 592 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2010592
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  17. 17
    CivilizationHistory #82011 · 432 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2011432
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  18. 18
    The Great DegenerationGovernment #32012 · 174 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2012174
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  19. 19
    Has the European Experiment Failed?Munk Debates #52012 · confirmed 2/4
    2012–
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  20. 20
    Always RightHistory #92013 · confirmed 1/4
    2013–
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  21. 21
    KissingerNiall Ferguson Biographies #22015 · 1008 pages · confirmed 1/4
    20151008
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  22. 22
    The End of the Liberal Order?2017 · 96 pages · confirmed 1/4
    201796
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  23. 23
    The Square and the TowerGovernment #42017 · 592 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017592
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  24. 24
    Is This the End of the Liberal International Order?Government #52017 · 128 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017128
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  25. 25
    Empire: How Britain Made the Modern WorldEmpire #22018 · 448 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2018448
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  26. 26
    Doom: The Politics of CatastropheHistory #102021 · confirmed 1/4
    2021–
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Niall Ferguson 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.

History in order

9 books
  1. 2. Paper and Iron
  2. 3. Dundee and Newtyle Railway Including the Alyth and Blairgowrie Branches
  3. 4. Virtual History
  4. 5. The Pity of War
  5. 6. 1914
  6. 7. The Ascent of Money
  7. 8. Civilization
  8. 9. Always Right
  9. 10. Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe

Government in order

5 books
  1. 1. The Cash Nexus
  2. 2. Colossus
  3. 3. The Great Degeneration
  4. 4. The Square and the Tower
  5. 5. Is This the End of the Liberal International Order?

Rothschild in order

3 books
  1. 1. The World's Banker. The History of the House of Rothschild.
  2. 2. The House of Rothschild
  3. 3. The House of Rothschild, Vol 1

Empire in order

2 books
  1. 1. Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power
  2. 2. Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World

Niall Ferguson Biographies in order

2 books
  1. 1. High Financier
  2. 2. Kissinger

Munk Debates in order

1 book
  1. 5. Has the European Experiment Failed?

Allen Lane History in order

1 book
  1. 46. The War of the World

Standalone books

3 books

3 Niall Ferguson titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Niall Ferguson books in order?

You only need to read Niall Ferguson books in order within each series: the books listed here span 3 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Niall Ferguson

Start with Paper and Iron (1995), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Niall Ferguson book?

Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe (2021) is the newest Niall Ferguson book released so far.

Is there a new Niall Ferguson book coming?

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

Niall Ferguson at a glance

Paused
No new Niall Ferguson title has appeared for 5 years. The last was published in 2021.
Release pace
Niall Ferguson books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
9,269 pages across the 19 of 26 books with a recorded length, a median of 441 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Niall Ferguson books, 10 of 26, were published in the 2010s.

What the Niall Ferguson books are about

21 of the 26 Niall Ferguson books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: history is tagged on 12 of 21. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • History 12 of 21 books
  • Biography 5 of 21 books
  • Bankers 4 of 21 books
  • Foreign relations 4 of 21 books
  • Banks and banking 3 of 21 books
  • Imperialism 3 of 21 books
  • British colonies 2 of 21 books
  • British influences 2 of 21 books
  • Causes 2 of 21 books
  • Colonies 2 of 21 books
  • Economic conditions 2 of 21 books
  • Eerste Wereldoorlog 2 of 21 books