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Richard Belzer Books in Order

Richard Belzer has written 10 books, published between 1988 and 2017. The first book is How to Be a Stand-Up Comic (1988) and the newest is Corporate Conspiracies: How Wall Street Took Over Washington (2017). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
10
Published
1988–2017
Pages on record
1,851 in 7 of 10 books
Reading time
31–46 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,851 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 7 of 10 titles with a page count on record.

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Richard Jay Belzer, born August 4, 1944 and died February 19, 2023, was an American actor, comedian and author. For 23 years Belzer played the detective John Munch on NBC's Homicide: Life on the Street and on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, with guest appearances in the role on other series. The catalogue holds 10 books published between 1988 and 2017, opening with How to Be a Stand-Up Comic (1988). Conspiracy theories account for much of the rest: UFOs, JFK & Elvis (1999), Dead Wrong (2012), Hit List (2013), Someone Is Hiding Something (2015) and Corporate Conspiracies (2017). Stand-up comedy, comedians and assassination sit among the recorded subjects.

How many Richard Belzer books are there?

Richard Belzer has 10 books, released between 1988 and 2017.

Richard Belzer Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 10 Richard Belzer 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 UFOs, JFK & Elvis: Conspiracies You Don't Have to Be Crazy to Believe by Richard Belzer (1999)
  2. Cover of I Am Not a Cop! by Richard Belzer (2008)
  3. Cover of I Am Not a Psychic! by Richard Belzer (2009)
  4. Cover of Dead Wrong: Straight Facts on the Country's Most Controversial Cover-Ups by Richard Belzer (2012)
  5. Cover of Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination by Richard…
  6. Cover of Someone Is Hiding Something by Richard Belzer (2015)
  1. 1
    How to Be a Stand-Up Comic1988 · 208 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1988208
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  2. 2
    UFOs, JFK & Elvis: Conspiracies You Don't Have to Be Crazy to Believe1999 · 240 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1999240
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  3. 3
    I Am Not a Cop!2008 · 260 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2008260
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  4. 4
    I Am Not a Psychic!2009 · 260 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2009260
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  5. 5
    Dead Wrong: Straight Facts on the Country's Most Controversial Cover-Ups2012 · 306 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2012306
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  6. 6
    Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination2013 · 337 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2013337
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  7. 7
    Dead Wrong 2: Diana, Princess of Wales2013 · confirmed 1/4
    2013–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  8. 8
    Conversations with Jerry Lewis2014 · confirmed 1/4
    2014–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  9. 9
    Someone Is Hiding Something2015 · 240 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015240
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  10. 10
    Corporate Conspiracies: How Wall Street Took Over Washington2017 · confirmed 1/4
    2017–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK

Richard Belzer 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 books

10 Richard Belzer titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Richard Belzer books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 10 Richard Belzer books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Richard Belzer

Start with How to Be a Stand-Up Comic (1988), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Richard Belzer book?

Corporate Conspiracies: How Wall Street Took Over Washington (2017) is the newest Richard Belzer book released so far.

Is there a new Richard Belzer book coming?

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

Richard Belzer at a glance

Died
Richard Belzer died in 2023, according to Wikidata.
Last book
The newest book credited to Richard Belzer on record dates from 2017.
Release pace
Richard Belzer books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
1,851 pages across the 7 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 260 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Richard Belzer books, 6 of 10, were published in the 2010s.

What the Richard Belzer books are about

7 of the 10 Richard Belzer books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: assassination is tagged on 2 of 7. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.