Stephen L. Carter Books in Order
Stephen L. Carter has written 16 books, published between 1981 and 2017. The first book is The Confirmation Mess: Cleaning Up The Federal Appointments Process (1981) and the newest is Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster (2017). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 16
- Published
- 1981–2017
- Confirmed
- 1 of 16 titles
- Pages on record
- 4,833 in 13 of 16 books
- Reading time
- 81–121 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,833 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 13 of 16 titles with a page count on record.
Stephen L. Carter has 16 books in the catalogue, published from 1981 to 2017. Earlier titles include Reflections Of An Affirmative Action Baby (1991), The Culture of Disbelief (1993), Integrity (1996) and Civility (1999). Later titles include The Emperor of Ocean Park (2002) and New England White (2007), and Carter's series is Elm Harbor. Subjects cover politics and government, religion and politics, African American families, thrillers and murder investigations. Carter, born October 26, 1954, is an American legal scholar and the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
How many Stephen L. Carter books are there?
Stephen L. Carter has 16 books, released between 1981 and 2017. 3 of them belong to the Elm Harbor series.
Stephen L. Carter Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 16 Stephen L. Carter 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.
- 1The Confirmation Mess: Cleaning Up The Federal Appointments Process1981 · 272 pages · confirmed 2/419812722/4
- 2Leadership and Succession in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China1986 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/419862562/4
- 3Reflections Of An Affirmative Action Baby1991 · 300 pages · confirmed 2/419913002/4
- 4The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion1993 · 328 pages · confirmed 2/419933282/4
- 5Integrity1996 · 290 pages · confirmed 2/419962902/4
- 61998–3/4
- 7Civility1999 · 338 pages · confirmed 2/419993382/4
- 8God's Name In Vain: The Wrongs And Rights Of Relgion In Politics2000 · 248 pages · confirmed 2/420002482/4
- 920026572/4
- 1020075552/4
- 112008–2/4
- 12Jericho's Fall2009 · confirmed 2/42009–2/4
- 13The Violence of Peace: America's Wars in the Age of Obama2010 · 255 pages · confirmed 2/420102552/4
- 14The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln2012 · 515 pages · confirmed 2/420125152/4
- 15Back Channel2014 · 455 pages · confirmed 2/420144552/4
- 16Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster2017 · 364 pages · confirmed 2/420173642/4
Stephen L. Carter 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.
Elm Harbor in order
3 booksWilliam E. Massey Sr. Lectures in order
1 bookStandalone books
12 books12 Stephen L. Carter titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Stephen L. Carter books in order?
You only need to read Stephen L. Carter books in order within the Elm Harbor series, which holds 3 of the 16 Stephen L. Carter books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Stephen L. Carter
Start with The Confirmation Mess: Cleaning Up The Federal Appointments Process (1981), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Stephen L. Carter book?
Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster (2017) is the newest Stephen L. Carter book released so far.
Is there a new Stephen L. Carter book coming?
No next Stephen L. Carter 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 Stephen L. Carter has won
Wikidata records 1 award for Stephen L. Carter. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards2003Won
Stephen L. Carter at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest Stephen L. Carter title on record dates from 2017, 9 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
- Release pace
- Stephen L. Carter books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 4,833 pages across the 13 of 16 books with a recorded length, a median of 328 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Stephen L. Carter books, 5 of 16, were published in the 2000s.
What the Stephen L. Carter books are about
15 of the 16 Stephen L. Carter books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: african americans is tagged on 3 of 15. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- African Americans 3 of 15 books
- African American college teachers 2 of 15 books
- African American families 2 of 15 books
- Investigation 2 of 15 books
- Murder 2 of 15 books
- Politics and government 2 of 15 books
- Religion and politics 2 of 15 books
- Thrillers 2 of 15 books