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Richard Peck Books in Order

48 books are credited to Richard Peck, published between 1967 and 2021; 1 of them appeared after Richard Peck's death in 2018. The first book is Are You in the House Alone? (1967) and the newest is Master Class on Writing the Novel for Young Readers (2021). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
48
Published
1967–2021
Pages on record
6,088 in 35 of 48 books
Reading time
101–152 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 6,088 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 35 of 48 titles with a page count on record.

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Richard Peck wrote for young adults and children across five decades. Are You in the House Alone? (1967) opens a catalogue of 48 titles closing with Master Class on Writing the Novel for Young Readers (2021). The Newbery Medal went to A Year Down Yonder in 2001, a sequel to A Long Way From Chicago, and the American Library Association gave Peck its Margaret A. Edwards Award in 1990. Blossom Culp and Lost in Cyberspace are among the series; time travel, grandmothers, schools, friendship and humour run through the books. Peck lived from 1934 to 2018.

How many Richard Peck books are there?

Richard Peck has 48 books, released between 1967 and 2021. 1 of them were published after Richard Peck's death in 2018. They include 3 series and 39 titles listed outside any series.

Richard Peck Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 48 Richard Peck 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 Are You in the House Alone? by Richard Peck (1967)
  2. Cover of Don't Look and It Won't Hurt by Richard Peck (1972)
  3. Cover of Dreamland Lake by Richard Peck (1973)
  4. Cover of Through a Brief Darkness by Richard Peck (1973)
  5. Cover of Urban Studies: A Research Paper Casebook by Richard Peck (1974)
  6. Cover of The Ghost Belonged to Me by Richard Peck, book 1 of the Blossom Culp series (1975)
  7. Cover of Ghosts I Have Been by Richard Peck, book 2 of the Blossom Culp series (1977)
  8. Cover of Monster Night at Grandma's House by Richard Peck (1977)
  9. Cover of Father Figure by Richard Peck (1978)
  10. Cover of Close Enough to Touch by Richard Peck (1981)
  11. Cover of The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp by Richard Peck, book 3 of the Blossom Culp series (1983)
  12. Cover of This Family of Women by Richard Peck (1983)
  13. Cover of Remembering the Good Times by Richard Peck (1985)
  14. Cover of Blossom Culp and the Sleep of Death by Richard Peck, book 4 of the Blossom Culp series (1986)
  15. Cover of Write a Tale of Terror by Richard Peck (1987)
  16. Cover of Princess Ashley by Richard Peck (1987)
  17. Cover of Those Summer Girls I Never Met by Richard Peck (1988)
  18. Cover of Voices after Midnight by Richard Peck (1989)
  19. Cover of Anonymously Yours by Richard Peck (1991)
  20. Cover of Bel-Air Bambi and the Mall Rats by Richard Peck (1993)
  21. Cover of Love and Death at the Mall by Richard Peck (1994)
  22. Cover of Lost in Cyberspace by Richard Peck, book 1 of the Lost in Cyberspace series (1995)
  23. Cover of The Last Safe Place on Earth by Richard Peck (1995)
  24. Cover of The Great Interactive Dream Machine by Richard Peck, book 2 of the Lost in Cyberspace series (1996)
  1. 1
    Are You in the House Alone?1967 · 156 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1967156
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  2. 2
    Don't Look and It Won't Hurt1972 · 153 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1972153
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  3. 3
    The Creative Word 2,: Teacher's Manual1973 · 79 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197379
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  4. 4
    The Creative Word1973 · confirmed 1/4
    1973–
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  5. 5
    Dreamland Lake1973 · 147 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1973147
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  6. 6
    Through a Brief Darkness1973 · 144 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1973144
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  7. 7
    Urban Studies: A Research Paper Casebook1974 · 124 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1974124
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  8. 8
    Representing Super Doll1974 · 188 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1974188
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  9. 9
    The Ghost Belonged to MeBlossom Culp #11975 · 176 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1975176
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  10. 10
    Ghosts I Have BeenBlossom Culp #21977 · 214 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1977214
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  11. 11
    Monster Night at Grandma's House1977 · confirmed 1/4
    1977–
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  12. 12
    Secrets of the Shopping Mall1978 · confirmed 1/4
    1978–
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  13. 13
    Father Figure1978 · 208 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1978208
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  14. 14
    Amanda/Miranda1980 · 169 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1980169
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  15. 15
    Close Enough to Touch1981 · 133 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1981133
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  16. 16
    New York Time1981 · 212 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1981212
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  17. 17
    The Dreadful Future of Blossom CulpBlossom Culp #31983 · 183 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1983183
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  18. 18
    This Family of Women1983 · 414 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1983414
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  19. 19
    Remembering the Good Times1985 · 181 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1985181
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  20. 20
    Blossom Culp and the Sleep of DeathBlossom Culp #41986 · 185 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1986185
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  21. 21
    Write a Tale of Terror1987 · 32 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198732
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  22. 22
    Princess Ashley1987 · confirmed 1/4
    1987–
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  23. 23
    Those Summer Girls I Never Met1988 · 177 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1988177
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  24. 24
    Voices after Midnight1989 · 181 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1989181
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  25. 25
    Anonymously Yours1991 · 122 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1991122
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  26. 26
    Unfinished Portrait of Jessica1991 · confirmed 1/4
    1991–
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  27. 27
    Bel-Air Bambi and the Mall Rats1993 · confirmed 1/4
    1993–
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  28. 28
    Love and Death at the Mall1994 · 161 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1994161
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  29. 29
    Lost in CyberspaceLost in Cyberspace #11995 · 151 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1995151
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  30. 30
    The Last Safe Place on Earth1995 · 176 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1995176
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Richard Peck 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.

Blossom Culp in order

4 books
  1. 1. The Ghost Belonged to Me
  2. 2. Ghosts I Have Been
  3. 3. The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp
  4. 4. Blossom Culp and the Sleep of Death

A Long Way from Chicago in order

3 books
  1. 1. A Long Way from Chicago
  2. 2. A Year Down Yonder
  3. 3. A Season of Gifts

Lost in Cyberspace in order

2 books
  1. 1. Lost in Cyberspace
  2. 2. The Great Interactive Dream Machine

Standalone books

39 books

39 Richard Peck titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Richard Peck books in order?

You only need to read Richard Peck books in order within each series: the books listed here span 3 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Richard Peck

Start with Are You in the House Alone? (1967), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Richard Peck book?

Master Class on Writing the Novel for Young Readers (2021) is the newest Richard Peck book released so far.

Is there a new Richard Peck book coming?

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

Awards Richard Peck has won

Wikidata records 3 awards for Richard Peck. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • Newbery Medal2001Wonfor A Year Down Yonder
  • Margaret Edwards Award1990Won
  • Edgar Awards1974Won

Richard Peck at a glance

Died
Richard Peck died in 2018, according to Wikidata.
After death
Books credited to Richard Peck are still being published after Richard Peck's death in 2018; the newest appeared in 2021.
Release pace
Richard Peck books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
6,088 pages across the 35 of 48 books with a recorded length, a median of 169 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Richard Peck books, 12 of 48, were published in the 1970s.

What the Richard Peck books are about

42 of the 48 Richard Peck 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 19 of 42. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.