Nicholson Baker Books in Order
Nicholson Baker has written 19 books, published between 1988 and 2024. The first book is The Mezzanine (1988) and the newest is Finding a Likeness (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 19
- Published
- 1988–2024
- Confirmed
- 19 of 19 titles
- Pages on record
- 4,722 in 16 of 19 books
- Reading time
- 79–118 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,722 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 16 of 19 titles with a page count on record.
Nicholson Baker, born January 7, 1957, is an American novelist and essayist. Baker's fiction favours close description and characterization over plot, and early novels such as The Mezzanine (1988) and Room Temperature (1990) examine a narrator's stream of consciousness in minute detail. Vox, The Fermata and House of Holes are the three erotic novels among ten. The non-fiction includes U and I, about Baker's relationship with John Updike. The catalogue records 19 books through Finding a Likeness (2024), including the Paul Chowder Chronicles.
How many Nicholson Baker books are there?
Nicholson Baker has 19 books, released between 1988 and 2024. 2 of them belong to the Paul Chowder Chronicles series.
Nicholson Baker Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 19 Nicholson Baker 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.
- 119881423/4
- 219901283/4
- 319921793/4
- 419921653/4
- 519943033/4
- 619963683/4
- 719982263/4
- 820013843/4
- 920031783/4
- 1020041993/4
- 1120041283/4
- 1220085763/4
- 132009–3/4
- 1420112723/4
- 152012–3/4
- 1620132913/4
- 1720167193/4
- 1820204643/4
- 192024–3/4
Nicholson Baker 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.
Nicholson Baker Standalone Novels
8 books8 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Nicholson Baker Non-Fiction
8 books8 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Paul Chowder Chronicles in order
2 booksNicholson Baker Short Story
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Do you have to read Nicholson Baker books in order?
You only need to read Nicholson Baker books in order within the Paul Chowder Chronicles series, which holds 2 of the 19 Nicholson Baker books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Nicholson Baker
Start with The Mezzanine (1988), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Nicholson Baker book?
Finding a Likeness (2024) is the newest Nicholson Baker book released so far.
Is there a new Nicholson Baker book coming?
No next Nicholson Baker book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Awards Nicholson Baker has won
Wikidata records 1 award for Nicholson Baker. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction2001Wonfor Double Fold
Nicholson Baker at a glance
- Still publishing
- Nicholson Baker published a book as recently as 2024.
- Release pace
- Nicholson Baker books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 4,722 pages across the 16 of 19 books with a recorded length, a median of 249 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Nicholson Baker books, 6 of 19, were published in the 2000s.
What the Nicholson Baker books are about
18 of the 19 Nicholson Baker books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: man-woman relationships is tagged on 4 of 18. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.