Tony Parsons Books in Order
Tony Parsons has written 30 books, published between 1978 and 2025. The first book is The Boy Looked at Johnny: The Obituary of Rock and Roll (1978) and the newest is Murder for Busy People (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 30
- Published
- 1978–2025
- Confirmed
- 30 of 30 titles
- Pages on record
- 3,256 in 9 of 30 books
Tony Parsons is an English journalist, broadcaster and author, born in 1953, who started out writing about punk for the New Musical Express. Parsons went on to the Daily Telegraph, then spent 18 years at the Daily Mirror, and has written a column for The Sun since September 2013. Man and Boy (1999) is the novel the name is attached to first. Thirty books are catalogued from 1978 to 2025, opening with The Boy Looked at Johnny: The Obituary of Rock and Roll (1978) and reaching Murder for Busy People (2025). Six groupings are catalogued, among them Max Wolfe, Harry Silver, standalone novels and non-fiction. Rock music, popular culture and London crime carry the list.
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How many Tony Parsons books are there?
Tony Parsons has 30 books, released between 1978 and 2025. They include 2 separate series.
Tony Parsons Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 30 Tony Parsons 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 November 2026.
- 1The Boy Looked at Johnny: The Obituary of Rock and RollTony Parsons Non-Fiction #11978 · 95 pages · confirmed 3/41978953/4
- 219795123/4
- 31987–3/4
- 419982563/4
- 51999–3/4
- 62002–3/4
- 720045283/4
- 820053453/4
- 92005–3/4
- 102008–3/4
- 112009–3/4
- 122010–3/4
- 132010–3/4
- 142011–3/4
- 152012–3/4
- 1620123203/4
- 172013–3/4
- 182014–3/4
- 192015–3/4
- 2020153743/4
- 212016–3/4
- 222016–3/4
- 232017–3/4
- 242018–3/4
- 2520184103/4
- 2620204163/4
- 272021–3/4
- 282022–3/4
- 292023–3/4
- 302025–3/4
Tony Parsons 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.
Tony Parsons Standalone Novels
10 books10 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Max Wolfe in order
10 booksTony Parsons Non-Fiction
5 books5 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Harry Silver in order
3 booksTony Parsons Short Story
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Tony Parsons Short Stories/Novellas
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Tony Parsons Books in Chronological Order
By publication date, the Tony Parsons books run from The Boy Looked at Johnny: The Obituary of Rock and Roll (1978) to Murder for Busy People (2025), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Tony Parsons in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.
Do you have to read Tony Parsons books in order?
You only need to read Tony Parsons 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 Tony Parsons
Start with The Boy Looked at Johnny: The Obituary of Rock and Roll (1978), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Tony Parsons book?
Murder for Busy People (2025) is the newest Tony Parsons book released so far.
Is there a new Tony Parsons book coming?
No next Tony Parsons book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Tony Parsons at a glance
- Still publishing
- Tony Parsons published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Tony Parsons books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 3,256 pages across the 9 of 30 books with a recorded length, a median of 374 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Tony Parsons books, 14 of 30, were published in the 2010s.
When Tony Parsons books were published
Publication distribution by decade, showing when Tony Parsons titles appeared. 2010s was the most productive decade with 14 titles.
30 books total across 6 decades. Decade reflects the year each title was first catalogued.
What the Tony Parsons books are about
15 of the 30 Tony Parsons books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: crime is tagged on 4 of 15. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Crime 4 of 15 books
- Mystery & detective 4 of 15 books
- English literature 3 of 15 books
- London (England) 3 of 15 books