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Ranulph Fiennes Books in Order

Ranulph Fiennes has written 33 books, published between 1970 and 2023. The first book is A Talent For Trouble (1970) and the newest is Lawrence of Arabia (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
33
Published
1970–2023
Pages on record
8,538 in 26 of 33 books
Reading time
142–213 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 8,538 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 26 of 33 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Ranulph Fiennes, author

Ranulph Fiennes writes out of a life of expeditions. Born in 1944, Fiennes served eight years in the British Army, including counter-insurgency work attached to the Army of the Sultanate of Oman, then became the first person to reach both Poles by surface travel and the first to cross Antarctica on foot, and stood on the summit of Everest in 2009 at the age of 65. The catalogue lists 33 books dated 1970 to 2023, at a median of 329 pages, from A Talent For Trouble through To the Ends of the Earth (1983) and Atlantis of the Sands (1992) to Lawrence of Arabia (2023). Travel, exploration and biography are the standing subjects.

How many Ranulph Fiennes books are there?

Ranulph Fiennes has 33 books, released between 1970 and 2023.

Ranulph Fiennes Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 33 Ranulph Fiennes 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 A Talent For Trouble by Ranulph Fiennes (1970)
  2. Cover of Ice Fall in Norway by Ranulph Fiennes (1972)
  3. Cover of The Headless Valley by Ranulph Fiennes (1973)
  4. Cover of Where Soldiers Fear to Tread by Ranulph Fiennes (1975)
  5. Cover of Hell on Ice by Ranulph Fiennes (1979)
  6. Cover of To the Ends of the Earth by Ranulph Fiennes (1983)
  7. Cover of Living Dangerously by Ranulph Fiennes (1988)
  8. Cover of Killer Elite / The Feather Men by Ranulph Fiennes (1991)
  9. Cover of Atlantis of the Sands by Ranulph Fiennes (1992)
  10. Cover of Mind Over Matter by Ranulph Fiennes (1993)
  11. Cover of Fit for Life by Ranulph Fiennes (1999)
  12. Cover of Beyond the Limits by Ranulph Fiennes (2000)
  13. Cover of Captain Scott by Ranulph Fiennes (2004)
  14. Cover of Race to the Pole by Ranulph Fiennes (2004)
  15. Cover of Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know by Ranulph Fiennes (2007)
  16. Cover of Mad Dogs and Englishmen by Ranulph Fiennes (2009)
  17. Cover of My Heroes by Ranulph Fiennes (2011)
  18. Cover of Cold by Ranulph Fiennes (2013)
  19. Cover of Agincourt by Ranulph Fiennes (2014)
  20. Cover of House of Snow by Ranulph Fiennes (2016)
  21. Cover of Fear by Ranulph Fiennes (2016)
  22. Cover of The Noise of Ice by Ranulph Fiennes (2016)
  23. Cover of Climb Your Mountain by Ranulph Fiennes (2022)
  1. 1
    A Talent For Trouble1970 · 191 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1970191
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  2. 2
    Ice Fall in Norway1972 · 160 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1972160
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  3. 3
    The Headless Valley1973 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1973224
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  4. 4
    Where Soldiers Fear to Tread1975 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1975256
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  5. 5
    Hell on Ice1979 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1979256
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  6. 6
    To the Ends of the Earth1983 · confirmed 1/4
    1983–
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  7. 7
    Bothie The Polar Dog1984 · 143 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1984143
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  8. 8
    Living Dangerously1988 · 452 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1988452
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  9. 9
    Killer Elite / The Feather Men1991 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1991256
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  10. 10
    Atlantis of the Sands1992 · 336 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1992336
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  11. 11
    Mind Over Matter1993 · 322 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1993322
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  12. 12
    The Sett1996 · 502 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1996502
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  13. 13
    Fit for Life1999 · 208 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1999208
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  14. 14
    Beyond the Limits2000 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2000224
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  15. 15
    The Secret Hunters2001 · 368 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2001368
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  16. 16
    Captain Scott2004 · 528 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004528
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  17. 17
    Race to the Pole2004 · 462 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004462
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  18. 18
    An Evening with Ranulph Fiennes2005 · confirmed 1/4
    2005–
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  19. 19
    Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know2007 · 416 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2007416
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  20. 20
    Mad Dogs and Englishmen2009 · 400 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2009400
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  21. 21
    My Heroes2011 · 292 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2011292
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  22. 22
    Cold2013 · confirmed 1/4
    2013–
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  23. 23
    Agincourt2014 · 400 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2014400
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  24. 24
    Heat2015 · confirmed 1/4
    2015–
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  25. 25
    Forty Shades of White2016 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016224
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  26. 26
    House of Snow2016 · 570 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016570
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  27. 27
    Colder2016 · confirmed 1/4
    2016–
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  28. 28
    Fear2016 · 336 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016336
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  29. 29
    The Noise of Ice2016 · 144 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016144
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  30. 30
    The Elite2019 · 416 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019416
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  31. 31
    Shackleton2021 · 452 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2021452
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  32. 32
    Climb Your Mountain2022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022–
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  33. 33
    Lawrence of Arabia2023 · confirmed 1/4
    2023–
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Ranulph Fiennes 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

33 books

33 Ranulph Fiennes titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Ranulph Fiennes books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 33 Ranulph Fiennes books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Ranulph Fiennes

Start with A Talent For Trouble (1970), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Ranulph Fiennes book?

Lawrence of Arabia (2023) is the newest Ranulph Fiennes book released so far.

Is there a new Ranulph Fiennes book coming?

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

Ranulph Fiennes at a glance

Paused
No new Ranulph Fiennes title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
Release pace
Ranulph Fiennes books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
8,538 pages across the 26 of 33 books with a recorded length, a median of 329 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Ranulph Fiennes books, 10 of 33, were published in the 2010s.

What the Ranulph Fiennes books are about

29 of the 33 Ranulph Fiennes books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: biography is tagged on 8 of 29. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.