Nicholas Meyer Books in Order
Nicholas Meyer has written 13 books, published between 1974 and 2025. The first book is The Seven-percent Solution (1974) and the newest is Sherlock Holmes and the Real Thing (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 13
- Published
- 1974–2025
- Pages on record
- 2,579 in 10 of 13 books
- Reading time
- 43–64 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,579 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 10 of 13 titles with a page count on record.
The Seven-per-cent Solution (1974) opens Nicholas Meyer's catalogue and remains his best-known book, a Sherlock Holmes pastiche whose 1976 screen adaptation, written by Meyer himself, drew an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Three more Holmes novels follow: The West End Horror (1976), The Canary Trainer (1993) and The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols (2019). Meyer, born in 1945, is an American screenwriter and director as well as a novelist, with two Star Trek features, Time After Time, The Day After and Vendetta among the films, and a memoir, The View From the Bridge (2009). Thirteen books are catalogued through 2025.
How many Nicholas Meyer books are there?
Nicholas Meyer has 13 books, released between 1974 and 2025. They include 2 series and 5 titles listed outside any series.
Nicholas Meyer Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 13 Nicholas Meyer 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.
- 119742371/4
- 21976–1/4
- 3Target Practice1977 · 143 pages · confirmed 1/419771431/4
- 4Black Orchid1978 · 403 pages · confirmed 1/419784031/4
- 5Confessions of a Homing Pigeon1981 · 255 pages · confirmed 1/419812551/4
- 61992–1/4
- 719932241/4
- 819962881/4
- 9The View From the Bridge: Memories of Star Trek and a Life in Hollywood2009 · 263 pages · confirmed 1/420092631/4
- 10The Adventure of the Peculiar ProtocolsNicholas Meyer Holmes Pastiches #42019 · 238 pages · confirmed 1/420192381/4
- 1120212721/4
- 122024–1/4
- 13Sherlock Holmes and the Real Thing2025 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/420252561/4
Nicholas Meyer 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.
Nicholas Meyer Holmes Pastiches in order
6 booksNicholas Meyer Film Scripts in order
2 booksStandalone books
5 books5 Nicholas Meyer titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Nicholas Meyer books in order?
You only need to read Nicholas Meyer books in order within each series: the books listed here span 2 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Nicholas Meyer
Start with The Seven-percent Solution (1974), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Nicholas Meyer book?
Sherlock Holmes and the Real Thing (2025) is the newest Nicholas Meyer book released so far.
Is there a new Nicholas Meyer book coming?
No next Nicholas Meyer book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Nicholas Meyer at a glance
- Still publishing
- Nicholas Meyer published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Nicholas Meyer books have appeared about one every 4 years on average.
- Length
- 2,579 pages across the 10 of 13 books with a recorded length, a median of 256 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Nicholas Meyer books, 4 of 13, were published in the 1970s.
What the Nicholas Meyer books are about
9 of the 13 Nicholas Meyer books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: sherlock holmes (fictitious character) is tagged on 3 of 9. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Sherlock Holmes (Fictitious character) 3 of 9 books
- John H. Watson (Fictitious character) 2 of 9 books
- Mystery & detective 2 of 9 books
- Private investigators 2 of 9 books