Scott Turow Books in Order
Scott Turow has written 20 books, published between 1977 and 2025. The first book is One L (1977) and the newest is Presumed Guilty (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 20
- Published
- 1977–2025
- Confirmed
- 20 of 20 titles
- Pages on record
- 5,481 in 12 of 20 books
- Reading time
- 91–137 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 5,481 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 12 of 20 titles with a page count on record.
Scott Turow writes legal fiction set largely in the invented Kindle County. The Kindle County Legal Thrillers, featuring Rusty Sabich, anchor a catalogue of 20 books that starts with One L (1977), a title tagged to Harvard Law School, and reaches Presumed Guilty (2025). Non-fiction and standalone novels fill out the list. Lawyers, legal stories and missing persons are the recurring subjects.
How many Scott Turow books are there?
Scott Turow has 20 books, released between 1977 and 2025. They include 2 separate series.
Scott Turow Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 20 Scott Turow books in the order they were released, 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.
- 119772883/4
- 219864963/4
- 319906083/4
- 419934823/4
- 519967523/4
- 619994033/4
- 720025533/4
- 820031763/4
- 920055443/4
- 1020054973/4
- 1120061973/4
- 122010–3/4
- 132013–3/4
- 1420174853/4
- 152018–3/4
- 162020–3/4
- 172020–3/4
- 182022–3/4
- 192022–3/4
- 202025–3/4
Scott Turow characters in order
The character linked below has its own reading-order page.
- Kindle County books in order 13 books
Scott Turow 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.
Kindle County Legal Thriller in order
13 books- 1. Presumed Innocent
- 2. The Burden of Proof
- 3. Pleading Guilty
- 4. The Laws Of Our Fathers
- 5. Personal Injuries
- 6. Reversible Errors
- 7. Limitations
- 8. Innocent
- 9. Identical
- 10. Testimony
- 11. The Last Trial
- 12. Suspect
- and 1 more in the table above
Scott Turow Non-Fiction
3 books3 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Low Down Dirty Vote in order
3 booksScott Turow Standalone Novels
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Scott Turow Books in Chronological Order
By publication date, the Scott Turow books run from One L (1977) to Presumed Guilty (2025), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Scott Turow in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.
Do you have to read Scott Turow books in order?
You only need to read Scott Turow books in order within each series: the books listed here span 2 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Scott Turow
Start with Presumed Innocent (1986), the first Kindle County book. The earliest catalogued title overall is One L (1977).
What is the newest Scott Turow book?
Presumed Guilty (2025) is the newest Scott Turow book released so far.
Is there a new Scott Turow book coming?
No next Scott Turow 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 Scott Turow has won
Wikidata records 2 awards for Scott Turow. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Carl Sandburg Literary Award2016Won
- Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize2003Won
Scott Turow at a glance
- Still publishing
- Scott Turow published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Scott Turow books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
- Length
- 5,481 pages across the 12 of 20 books with a recorded length, a median of 490 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Scott Turow books, 5 of 20, were published in the 2020s.
What the Scott Turow books are about
16 of the 20 Scott Turow books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: kindle county (imaginary place) is tagged on 9 of 16. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Kindle County (Imaginary place) 9 of 16 books
- Legal stories 6 of 16 books
- Lawyers 5 of 16 books
- Mystery & detective 3 of 16 books
- Crime 2 of 16 books
- Investigation 2 of 16 books
- Missing persons 2 of 16 books
- Sabich, rusty (fictitious character) 2 of 16 books
- Thrillers 2 of 16 books