Obert Skye Books in Order
Obert Skye has written 27 books, published between 2005 and 2020. The first book is Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo (2005) and the newest is Magic Required (2020). Publication order is the reading order below.
Obert Skye is the pen name of Robert Farrell Smith.
- Books
- 27
- Published
- 2005–2020
- Pages on record
- 5,194 in 18 of 27 books
- Reading time
- 87–130 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 5,194 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 18 of 27 titles with a page count on record.
Obert Skye is the pen name that American humor writer Robert Farrell Smith, born in 1970, has used for children's books since 2005. The Leven Thumps series opened that year with Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo. Skye also wrote the Pillage trilogy, The Creature from My Closet books, Witherwood Reform School and Beyond Foo. The catalogue holds 27 books through Magic Required (2020), covering magic, monsters, schools and humorous fantasy.
How many Obert Skye books are there?
Obert Skye has 27 books, released between 2005 and 2020. They include 8 separate series.
Obert Skye Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 27 Obert Skye 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.
- 12005–1/4
- 220064641/4
- 3Professor Winsnicker's Book of Proper Etiquette for Well-Mannered SycophantsLeven Thumps #32007 · 167 pages · confirmed 1/420071671/4
- 420074161/4
- 52008–1/4
- 62008–1/4
- 72009–1/4
- 82010–1/4
- 920112141/4
- 102011–1/4
- 112012–1/4
- 1220122721/4
- 132012–1/4
- 1420132721/4
- 1520142721/4
- 1620152311/4
- 1720152721/4
- 1820162881/4
- 1920162241/4
- 2020172001/4
- 2120182121/4
- 2220184101/4
- 2320182081/4
- 2420194161/4
- 2520192401/4
- 262019–1/4
- 2720204161/4
Obert Skye series in order
The series linked below has its own reading-order page.
- Leven Thumps books in order 6 books
Obert Skye 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.
Creature From My Closet in order
6 books- 1. Wonkenstein
- 2. Potterwookiee
- 3. Pinocula
- 4. Katfish
- 5. The Lord of the Hat
- 6. Batneezer
Pillage in order
3 booksMutant Bunny Island in order
3 booksWizard for Hire in order
3 booksBeyond Foo in order
2 booksWitherwood Reform School in order
2 booksGeeked Out in order
2 booksDo you have to read Obert Skye books in order?
You only need to read Obert Skye books in order within each series: the books listed here span 8 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Obert Skye
Start with Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo (2005), the first Leven Thumps book. It is also the earliest catalogued title.
What is the newest Obert Skye book?
Magic Required (2020) is the newest Obert Skye book released so far.
Is there a new Obert Skye book coming?
No next Obert Skye book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Obert Skye at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest Obert Skye title on record dates from 2020, 6 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
- Release pace
- Obert Skye books have appeared more than one a year on average.
- Length
- 5,194 pages across the 18 of 27 books with a recorded length, a median of 272 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Obert Skye books, 19 of 27, were published in the 2010s.
What the Obert Skye books are about
23 of the 27 Obert Skye books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: children's fiction is tagged on 13 of 23. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Children's fiction 13 of 23 books
- Humor 8 of 23 books
- Fantasy 7 of 23 books
- Magic 7 of 23 books
- Schools 7 of 23 books
- Dreams 4 of 23 books
- Monsters 4 of 23 books
- Adventure stories 3 of 23 books
- Brainwashing 3 of 23 books
- Family life 3 of 23 books