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Who HQ Books in Order

Who HQ has written 429 books, published between 2002 and 2026. The first book is Who Was Ben Franklin? (2002) and the newest is Who Is Vera Wang (2026). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
429
Published
2002–2026
Pages on record
24,100 in 228 of 429 books
Reading time
402–603 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 24,100 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 228 of 429 titles with a page count on record.

See all 429 books in order Printable Who HQ checklist

Who HQ is the credit on 429 children's nonfiction biographies in the catalogue, published from 2002 to 2026. The run opens with Who Was Albert Einstein?, Who Was Amelia Earhart? and Who Was Ben Franklin? (all 2002) and reaches Who Is Vera Wang (2026). Subjects include biography, history and juvenile nonfiction for readers aged 8 to 12. Other names credited on some of the books include Megan Stine (7), John Hinderliter (7) and Nico Medina (4).

How many Who HQ books are there?

Who HQ has 429 books, released between 2002 and 2026.

Who HQ Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 429 Who HQ 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.

There are 429 recorded titles, more than one list usefully holds. The 300 earliest are below; the series linked further down carry the rest, each in its own order.

  1. Cover of Who Was Ben Franklin? by Who HQ (2002)
  2. Cover of Who Was Albert Einstein? by Who HQ (2002)
  3. Cover of Who Was Annie Oakley? by Who HQ (2002)
  4. Cover of Who Was Maria Tallchief? by Who HQ (2002)
  5. Cover of Who Was Harry Houdini? by Who HQ (2002)
  6. Cover of Who Was Amelia Earhart? by Who HQ (2002)
  7. Cover of Who Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? by Who HQ (2003)
  8. Cover of Who Was Thomas Jefferson? by Who HQ (2003)
  9. Cover of Who Was Eleanor Roosevelt? by Who HQ (2004)
  10. Cover of Who Was Mark Twain? by Who HQ (2004)
  11. Cover of Who Was Ferdinand Magellan? by Who HQ (2004)
  12. Cover of Who Was Louis Armstrong? by Who HQ (2004)
  13. Cover of Who Was John F Kennedy? by Who HQ (2004)
  14. Cover of Who Was Ronald Reagan? by Who HQ (2004)
  15. Cover of Who Was Charles Darwin? by Who HQ (2005)
  16. Cover of Who Was Johnny Appleseed? by Who HQ (2005)
  17. Cover of Who Was Leonardo DaVinci? by Who HQ (2005)
  18. Cover of Who Was Thomas Alva Edison? by Who HQ (2005)
  19. Cover of Who Were the Beatles? by Who HQ (2006)
  20. Cover of Who Was King Tut? by Who HQ (2006)
  21. Cover of Who Was William Shakespeare? by Who HQ (2006)
  22. Cover of Who Was Anne Frank? by Who HQ (2007)
  23. Cover of Who Was Marco Polo? by Who HQ (2007)
  24. Cover of Who Was Elvis Presley? by Who HQ (2007)
  1. 1
    Who Was Ben Franklin?2002 · 105 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2002105
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  2. 2
    Who Was Albert Einstein?2002 · 105 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2002105
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  3. 3
    Who Was Annie Oakley?2002 · 109 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2002109
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  4. 4
    Who Was Maria Tallchief?2002 · 103 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2002103
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  5. 5
    Who Was Harry Houdini?2002 · 112 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2002112
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  6. 6
    Who Was Amelia Earhart?2002 · 112 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2002112
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  7. 7
    Who Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?2003 · 112 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2003112
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  8. 8
    Who Was Thomas Jefferson?2003 · 103 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2003103
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  9. 9
    Who Was Helen Keller?2003 · 112 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2003112
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  10. 10
    Who Was Eleanor Roosevelt?2004 · 106 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004106
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  11. 11
    Who Was Mark Twain?2004 · 105 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004105
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  12. 12
    Who Was Ferdinand Magellan?2004 · 112 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004112
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  13. 13
    Who Was Louis Armstrong?2004 · 106 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004106
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  14. 14
    Who Was John F Kennedy?2004 · 105 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004105
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  15. 15
    Who Was Ronald Reagan?2004 · 106 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004106
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  16. 16
    Who Was Charles Darwin?2005 · 112 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2005112
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  17. 17
    Who Was Johnny Appleseed?2005 · confirmed 1/4
    2005–
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  18. 18
    Who Was Leonardo DaVinci?2005 · confirmed 1/4
    2005–
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  19. 19
    Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?2005 · confirmed 1/4
    2005–
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  20. 20
    Who Were the Beatles?2006 · confirmed 1/4
    2006–
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  21. 21
    Who Was King Tut?2006 · confirmed 1/4
    2006–
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  22. 22
    Who Was William Shakespeare?2006 · 112 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2006112
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  23. 23
    Who Was Anne Frank?2007 · 103 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2007103
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  24. 24
    Who Was Marco Polo?2007 · 105 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2007105
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  25. 25
    Who Was Elvis Presley?2007 · 105 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2007105
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  26. 26
    Who Was Martin Luther King Jr. ?2007 · 112 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2007112
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  27. 27
    Who Was Queen Elizabeth?2008 · 112 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2008112
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  28. 28
    Who Was Neil Armstrong?2008 · confirmed 1/4
    2008–
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  29. 29
    Who Was Abraham Lincoln?2008 · confirmed 1/4
    2008–
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  30. 30
    Who Was George Washington?2009 · confirmed 1/4
    2009–
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Who HQ 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.

Where is...? in order

11 books
  1. 3. Where Is the White House?
  2. 4. Where Is Mount Rushmore?
  3. 6. Where Is Mount Everest?
  4. 12. Where Is Alcatraz?
  5. 13. Where Is Stonehenge?
  6. 14. Where Is the Great Barrier Reef?
  7. 18. Where Are the Galapagos Islands?
  8. 20. Where Is Easter Island?
  9. 21. Where Is Machu Picchu?
  10. 23. Where Is the Bermuda Triangle?
  11. 32. Where Is the Serengeti?

What Was...? in order

4 books
  1. 9. What Was Pompeii?
  2. 13. What Was the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
  3. 46. What Is LEGO?
  4. 54. What Was the Plague?

Standalone books

285 books

285 Who HQ titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Who HQ books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 300 Who HQ books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Who HQ

Start with Who Was Ben Franklin? (2002), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Who HQ book?

Who Is Vera Wang (2026) is the newest Who HQ book released so far.

Is there a new Who HQ book coming?

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

Who HQ at a glance

Still publishing
Who HQ published a book as recently as 2026.
Release pace
Who HQ books have appeared more than one a year on average.
Length
24,100 pages across the 228 of 429 books with a recorded length, a median of 112 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Who HQ books, 208 of 429, were published in the 2010s.

What the Who HQ books are about

368 of the 429 Who HQ books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: juvenile literature is tagged on 174 of 368. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • Juvenile literature 174 of 368 books
  • Children's Books / Nonfiction 167 of 368 books
  • Children's Books/Ages 8-12 Nonfiction 161 of 368 books
  • Children's & Teenage Non-Fiction 158 of 368 books
  • Children's non-fiction 146 of 368 books
  • Biography 109 of 368 books
  • Children’s Middle Grade Books 102 of 368 books
  • Series:Who Was…? 100 of 368 books
  • History 38 of 368 books
  • JUVENILE NONFICTION 33 of 368 books
  • Series:What Is the Story of…? 22 of 368 books
  • Series:What Was…? 20 of 368 books