Peter Turner Books in Order

Peter Turner has written 19 books, published between 1985 and 2020. The first book is American Images: Photography 1945-1980 (1985) and the newest is Found Footage Horror Films (2020). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
19
Published
1985–2020
Pages on record
6,767 in 15 of 19 books
Reading time
113–169 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 6,767 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 15 of 19 titles with a page count on record.

Peter Turner is the name on 19 catalogued books published between 1985 and 2020, and the listing gathers several distinct subject areas rather than one body of work. Photography accounts for American Images: Photography 1945-1980 (1985) and History of Photography (1987). Travel guidebooks form a second group, among them Singapore City Guide (1991) and Lonely Planet South East Asia (1994), with Lonely Planet and Paul Hellander appearing as co-credits. Film writing accounts for Found Footage Horror Films (2020). Recorded subjects across the listing include photography, travel, biography and history.

How many Peter Turner books are there?

Peter Turner has 19 books, released between 1985 and 2020.

Peter Turner Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 19 Peter Turner 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
    American Images: Photography 1945-19801985 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1985288
  2. 2
    Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool1986 · 144 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1986144
  3. 3
    History of Photography1987 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1987224
  4. 4
    Singapore City GuideLonely Planet #21991 · 608 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1991608
  5. 5
    Malaysia, Singapore and BruneiLonely Planet Travel Survival Kit #61994 · 552 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1994552
  6. 6
    Lonely Planet South East AsiaLonely Planet Travel Survival Kit #81994 · 909 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1994909
  7. 7
    JakartaLonely Planet #71995 · confirmed 1/4
    1995
  8. 8
    Issues and Skills for 'A' Level English1997 · 275 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1997275
  9. 9
    ndonesia's Eastern IslandsLonely Planet #81998 · 416 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1998416
  10. 10
    New Zealand 9Lonely Planet #101998 · 720 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1998720
  11. 11
    SingaporeLonely Planet #111998 · 201 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1998201
  12. 12
    JavaLonely Planet #131999 · 416 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1999416
  13. 13
    IndonesiaLonely Planet #142000 · 1104 pages · confirmed 1/4
    20001104
  14. 14
    New Zealand 10Lonely Planet #162000 · 704 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2000704
  15. 15
    National Geographic Traveler2009 · confirmed 1/4
    2009
  16. 162013
  17. 17
    Martin Parr: Bad WeatherBooks on Books #72014 · 96 pages · confirmed 1/4
    201496
  18. 18
    The Blair Witch ProjectDevils Advocates #82015 · 110 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015110
  19. 19
    Found Footage Horror Films2020 · confirmed 1/4
    2020

Peter Turner 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.

Lonely Planet in order

8 books
  1. 2. Singapore City Guide
  2. 7. Jakarta
  3. 8. ndonesia's Eastern Islands
  4. 10. New Zealand 9
  5. 11. Singapore
  6. 13. Java
  7. 14. Indonesia
  8. 16. New Zealand 10

Lonely Planet Travel Survival Kit in order

2 books
  1. 6. Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei
  2. 8. Lonely Planet South East Asia

Books on Books in order

1 book
  1. 7. Martin Parr: Bad Weather

Devils Advocates in order

1 book
  1. 8. The Blair Witch Project

Standalone books

7 books

7 Peter Turner titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Peter Turner books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 19 Peter Turner books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Peter Turner

Start with American Images: Photography 1945-1980 (1985), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Peter Turner book?

Found Footage Horror Films (2020) is the newest Peter Turner book released so far.

Is there a new Peter Turner book coming?

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

Peter Turner at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Peter Turner title on record dates from 2020, 6 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Peter Turner books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
6,767 pages across the 15 of 19 books with a recorded length, a median of 416 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Peter Turner books, 9 of 19, were published in the 1990s.

What the Peter Turner books are about

16 of the 19 Peter Turner books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: guidebooks is tagged on 6 of 16. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • Guidebooks 6 of 16 books
  • Biography 3 of 16 books
  • Travel 3 of 16 books
  • Travel & holiday guides 3 of 16 books
  • ASIA 2 of 16 books
  • Asia - Southeast 2 of 16 books
  • History 2 of 16 books
  • Photography 2 of 16 books
  • Travel - Foreign 2 of 16 books