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Pete Hautman Books in Order

Pete Hautman has written 34 books, published between 1993 and 2024. The first book is Drawing Dead (1993) and the newest is Answers to Dog (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
34
Published
1993–2024
Pages on record
6,241 in 24 of 34 books
Reading time
104–156 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 6,241 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 24 of 34 titles with a page count on record.

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Peter Murray Hautman, born 29 September 1952, is an American writer best known for young adult novels. Godless took the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2004; the book has a teenage boy inventing a religion and a god to go with it. The catalogue holds 34 books from Drawing Dead (1993) to Answers to Dog (2024), including Short Money (1995), Mr. Was (1996), The Mortal Nuts (1996), Hole in the Sky (2001) and Rag Man (2001). Series headings are Joe Crow, the Klaatu Diskos, Denn Doyle and the Flinkwater Chronicles, and subject tags name Minnesota, schools, religion, family life and science fiction.

How many Pete Hautman books are there?

Pete Hautman has 34 books, released between 1993 and 2024. They include 4 series and 20 titles listed outside any series.

Pete Hautman Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 34 Pete Hautman 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. Cover of Short Money by Pete Hautman, book 2 of the Joe Crow series (1995)
  2. Cover of The Mortal Nuts by Pete Hautman, book 3 of the Joe Crow series (1996)
  3. Cover of The Ring Game by Pete Hautman, book 4 of the Joe Crow series (1997)
  4. Cover of Stone Cold / No Limit by Pete Hautman, book 1 of the Denn Doyle series (1998)
  5. Cover of Feeling Lucky by Pete Hautman (1999)
  6. Cover of Mrs. Million by Pete Hautman, book 5 of the Joe Crow series (1999)
  7. Cover of Hole in the Sky by Pete Hautman (2001)
  8. Cover of Rag Man by Pete Hautman (2001)
  9. Cover of Doohickey by Pete Hautman (2002)
  10. Cover of Sweetblood by Pete Hautman (2003)
  11. Cover of Godless by Pete Hautman (2004)
  12. Cover of Invisible by Pete Hautman (2005)
  13. Cover of Snatched by Pete Hautman, book 1 of the Bloodwater Mysteries series (2006)
  14. Cover of The Prop by Pete Hautman (2006)
  15. Cover of Rash by Pete Hautman (2006)
  16. Cover of All-in by Pete Hautman, book 2 of the Denn Doyle series (2007)
  17. Cover of How to Steal a Car by Pete Hautman (2009)
  18. Cover of Blank Confession by Pete Hautman (2010)
  19. Cover of Libraries of Minnesota, book 4 of the Minnesota Byways series (2011)
  20. Cover of The Big Crunch by Pete Hautman (2011)
  21. Cover of The Obsidian Blade by Pete Hautman, book 1 of the Klaatu Diskos series (2012)
  22. Cover of The Cydonian Pyramid by Pete Hautman, book 2 of the Klaatu Diskos series (2012)
  23. Cover of What Boys Really Want by Pete Hautman (2012)
  24. Cover of The Klaatu Terminus by Pete Hautman, book 3 of the Klaatu Diskos series (2014)
  1. 1
    Drawing DeadJoe Crow #11993 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1993288
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  2. 2
    Short MoneyJoe Crow #21995 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1995320
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  3. 3
    Mr. Was1996 · 216 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1996216
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  4. 4
    The Mortal NutsJoe Crow #31996 · 308 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1996308
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  5. 5
    The Ring GameJoe Crow #41997 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1997320
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  6. 6
    Stone Cold / No LimitDenn Doyle #11998 · confirmed 1/4
    1998–
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  7. 7
    Feeling Lucky1999 · 160 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1999160
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  8. 8
    Mrs. MillionJoe Crow #51999 · 280 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1999280
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  9. 9
    Hole in the Sky2001 · 179 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2001179
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  10. 10
    Rag Man2001 · 252 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2001252
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  11. 11
    Doohickey2002 · 277 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2002277
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  12. 12
    Sweetblood2003 · 180 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2003180
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  13. 13
    Godless2004 · 198 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004198
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  14. 14
    Invisible2005 · 149 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2005149
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  15. 15
    SnatchedBloodwater Mysteries #12006 · confirmed 1/4
    2006–
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  16. 16
    The Prop2006 · 303 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2006303
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  17. 17
    Rash2006 · confirmed 1/4
    2006–
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  18. 18
    All-inDenn Doyle #22007 · 208 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2007208
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  19. 19
    How to Steal a Car2009 · confirmed 1/4
    2009–
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  20. 20
    Blank Confession2010 · confirmed 1/4
    2010–
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  21. 21
    Libraries of MinnesotaMinnesota Byways #42011 · 128 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2011128
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  22. 22
    The Big Crunch2011 · confirmed 1/4
    2011–
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  23. 23
    The Obsidian BladeKlaatu Diskos #12012 · confirmed 1/4
    2012–
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  24. 24
    The Cydonian PyramidKlaatu Diskos #22012 · confirmed 1/4
    2012–
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  25. 25
    What Boys Really Want2012 · confirmed 1/4
    2012–
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  26. 26
    The Klaatu TerminusKlaatu Diskos #32014 · 358 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2014358
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  27. 27
    The Flinkwater FactorFlinkwater Chronicles #12015 · 249 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015249
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  28. 28
    Eden West2015 · 310 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015310
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  29. 29
    The Forgetting MachineFlinkwater Chronicles #22016 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016224
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  30. 30
    Slider2017 · 278 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017278
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  31. 31
    Otherwood2018 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2018320
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  32. 32
    Road Tripped2019 · 336 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019336
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  33. 33
    The Rat Queen2022 · 400 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2022400
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  34. 34
    Answers to Dog2024 · confirmed 1/4
    2024–
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Pete Hautman 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.

Joe Crow in order

5 books
  1. 1. Drawing Dead
  2. 2. Short Money
  3. 3. The Mortal Nuts
  4. 4. The Ring Game
  5. 5. Mrs. Million

Klaatu Diskos in order

3 books
  1. 1. The Obsidian Blade
  2. 2. The Cydonian Pyramid
  3. 3. The Klaatu Terminus

Denn Doyle in order

2 books
  1. 1. Stone Cold / No Limit
  2. 2. All-in

Flinkwater Chronicles in order

2 books
  1. 1. The Flinkwater Factor
  2. 2. The Forgetting Machine

Bloodwater Mysteries in order

1 book
  1. 1. Snatched

Minnesota Byways in order

1 book
  1. 4. Libraries of Minnesota

Standalone books

20 books

20 Pete Hautman titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Pete Hautman books in order?

You only need to read Pete Hautman books in order within each series: the books listed here span 4 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Pete Hautman

Start with Drawing Dead (1993), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Pete Hautman book?

Answers to Dog (2024) is the newest Pete Hautman book released so far.

Is there a new Pete Hautman book coming?

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

Pete Hautman at a glance

Still publishing
Pete Hautman published a book as recently as 2024.
Release pace
Pete Hautman books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
6,241 pages across the 24 of 34 books with a recorded length, a median of 278 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Pete Hautman books, 13 of 34, were published in the 2010s.

What the Pete Hautman books are about

32 of the 34 Pete Hautman 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 17 of 32. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.