Noah Gordon Books in Order
Noah Gordon has written 10 books, published between 1960 and 2006. The first book is Night Ward (1960) and the newest is The Winemaker (2006). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 10
- Published
- 1960–2006
- Pages on record
- 3,237 in 7 of 10 books
- Reading time
- 54–81 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,237 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 7 of 10 titles with a page count on record.
Ten catalogued books carry Noah Gordon's name, from Night Ward (1960) to The Winemaker (2006). Physicians and healers run through the work in The Death Committee (1969), The Physician (1986) and Shaman (1992), and the Cole Family Trilogy is his one catalogued series. Jewish history supplies the other strand, in The Rabbi (1965), The Jerusalem Diamond (1979) and The Last Jew (1999), with rabbis and the Inquisition among the recorded subjects. Gordon, an American novelist, was born in 1926 and died in 2021.
How many Noah Gordon books are there?
Noah Gordon has 10 books, released between 1960 and 2006. 3 of them belong to the Cole Family Trilogy series.
Noah Gordon Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 10 Noah Gordon 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.
- 1Night Ward1960 · confirmed 1/41960–1/4
- 2Bamboo Ward1962 · confirmed 1/41962–1/4
- 3The Rabbi1965 · 448 pages · confirmed 1/419654481/4
- 4The Death Committee1969 · 361 pages · confirmed 1/419693611/4
- 5The Jerusalem Diamond1979 · 304 pages · confirmed 1/419793041/4
- 619867201/4
- 719926521/4
- 819954001/4
- 9The Last Jew1999 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/419993521/4
- 10The Winemaker2006 · confirmed 1/42006–1/4
Noah Gordon 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.
Cole Family Trilogy in order
3 booksStandalone books
7 books7 Noah Gordon titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Noah Gordon books in order?
You only need to read Noah Gordon books in order within the Cole Family Trilogy series, which holds 3 of the 10 Noah Gordon books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Noah Gordon
Start with Night Ward (1960), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Noah Gordon book?
The Winemaker (2006) is the newest Noah Gordon book released so far.
Is there a new Noah Gordon book coming?
No next Noah Gordon 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 Noah Gordon has won
Wikidata records 1 award for Noah Gordon. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Society of American Historians Prize for Historical Fiction1993Wonfor Shaman
Noah Gordon at a glance
- Died
- Noah Gordon died in 2021, according to Wikidata.
- Last book
- The newest book credited to Noah Gordon on record dates from 2006.
- Release pace
- Noah Gordon books have appeared about one every 5 years on average.
- Length
- 3,237 pages across the 7 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 400 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Noah Gordon books, 4 of 10, were published in the 1960s.
What the Noah Gordon books are about
All 10 Noah Gordon books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: jews is tagged on 3 of 10. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Jews 3 of 10 books
- Novela 3 of 10 books
- Arzt 2 of 10 books
- Belletristische Darstellung 2 of 10 books
- Healers 2 of 10 books
- History 2 of 10 books
- Inquisition 2 of 10 books
- Physicians 2 of 10 books