Penn Jillette Books in Order
Penn Jillette has written 10 books, published between 1989 and 2025. The first book is Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends (1989) and the newest is Felony Juggler (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 10
- Published
- 1989–2025
- Pages on record
- 2,270 in 9 of 10 books
- Reading time
- 38–57 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,270 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 9 of 10 titles with a page count on record.
Penn Jillette, born in 1955, is an American magician, entertainer and author who performs with Teller as Penn & Teller. The duo's stage and television work includes Penn & Teller: Fool Us and Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, and by 2026 the act had headlined in Las Vegas at The Rio for 25 years, with Jillette taking the speaking role. Ten books carry the Jillette name, fiction and non-fiction alike, from Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends (1989) to Felony Juggler (2025). God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales (2011) reached the New York Times bestseller list, and Sock (2000), Every Day Is an Atheist Holiday! (2012), Presto! (2016) and Random (2022) also sit in the run.
How many Penn Jillette books are there?
Penn Jillette has 10 books, released between 1989 and 2025.
Penn Jillette Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 10 Penn Jillette 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.
- 1Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends1989 · 203 pages · confirmed 1/419892031/4
- 2Penn & Teller's How to Play with Your Food1992 · 216 pages · confirmed 1/419922161/4
- 3Penn & Teller's How to Play in Traffic1997 · 226 pages · confirmed 1/419972261/4
- 4Sock2000 · 228 pages · confirmed 1/420002281/4
- 5How to Cheat Your Friends at Poker: The Wisdom of Dickie Richard2005 · 254 pages · confirmed 1/420052541/4
- 6God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales2011 · 231 pages · confirmed 1/420112311/4
- 7Every Day Is an Atheist Holiday!2012 · 304 pages · confirmed 1/420123041/4
- 8Presto!: How I Made Over 100 Pounds Disappear and Other Magical Tales2016 · 344 pages · confirmed 1/420163441/4
- 9Random2022 · 264 pages · confirmed 1/420222641/4
- 10Felony Juggler2025 · confirmed 1/42025–1/4
Penn Jillette 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
10 books10 Penn Jillette titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Penn Jillette books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 10 Penn Jillette books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Penn Jillette
Start with Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends (1989), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Penn Jillette book?
Felony Juggler (2025) is the newest Penn Jillette book released so far.
Is there a new Penn Jillette book coming?
No next Penn Jillette book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Penn Jillette at a glance
- Still publishing
- Penn Jillette published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Penn Jillette books have appeared about one every 4 years on average.
- Length
- 2,270 pages across the 9 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 231 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Penn Jillette books, 3 of 10, were published in the 2010s.
What the Penn Jillette books are about
8 of the 10 Penn Jillette books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: practical jokes is tagged on 3 of 8. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Practical jokes 3 of 8 books
- Humor 2 of 8 books
- Humor, topic, religion 2 of 8 books
- Tricks 2 of 8 books