Noah Hawley Books in Order

Noah Hawley has written 7 books, published between 1998 and 2022. The first book is A Conspiracy of Tall Men (1998) and the newest is Anthem (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
7
Published
1998–2022
Pages on record
2,232 in 6 of 7 books
Reading time
37–56 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,232 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 6 of 7 titles with a page count on record.

Noah Hawley works mainly in television, creating, writing and often directing the FX series Fargo, Legion and Alien: Earth, and writes novels alongside that. Seven books are catalogued, from A Conspiracy of Tall Men (1998) to Anthem (2022), with The Good Father (2012) and Before the Fall (2016) among them. Conspiracies, government investigators, secrets and brothers run through the subject matter. Hawley also wrote the film The Alibi (2006), wrote and directed Lucy in the Sky (2019), and sings cover versions on those television soundtracks.

How many Noah Hawley books are there?

Noah Hawley has 7 books, released between 1998 and 2022.

Noah Hawley Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 7 Noah Hawley 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. 1
    A Conspiracy of Tall Men1998 · 370 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1998370
  2. 2
    Other People's Weddings2004 · 288 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2004288
  3. 3
    The Punch2008 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2008256
  4. 4
    The Good Father2012 · confirmed 2/4
    2012
  5. 5
    Before the Fall2016 · 390 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2016390
  6. 6
    Fargo2019 · 448 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2019448
  7. 7
    Anthem2022 · 480 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2022480

Noah Hawley 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.

Standalone books

7 books

7 Noah Hawley titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Noah Hawley books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 7 Noah Hawley books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Noah Hawley

Start with A Conspiracy of Tall Men (1998), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Noah Hawley book?

Anthem (2022) is the newest Noah Hawley book released so far.

Is there a new Noah Hawley book coming?

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

Noah Hawley at a glance

Paused
No new Noah Hawley title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
Release pace
Noah Hawley books have appeared about one every 4 years on average.
Length
2,232 pages across the 6 of 7 books with a recorded length, a median of 380 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Noah Hawley books, 3 of 7, were published in the 2010s.

What the Noah Hawley books are about

6 of the 7 Noah Hawley books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: secrets is tagged on 2 of 6. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.