A Series Of Unfortunate Events Books in Order
A Series Of Unfortunate Events contains 19 books, published between 1999 and 2007: 13 in the A Series Of Unfortunate Events series and 6 related titles. The first book is The Bad Beginning (1999) and the newest main-line book is The End (2006). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 19
- Published
- 1999–2007
- Confirmed
- 19 of 19 titles
- Pages on record
- 3,843 in 16 of 19 books
- Reading time
- 64–96 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,843 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 16 of 19 titles with a page count on record.
A Series Of Unfortunate Events is a run of 19 children's books published between 1999 and 2007. Orphans, brothers and sisters, and humorous stories head the subject list, and Sunny Baudelaire is recorded among its fictitious characters. Lemony Snicket is credited on 10 of the books and Daniel Handler on 9. The Bad Beginning (1999) starts the sequence and Horseradish (2007) ends it, with A Series Of Unfortunate Events Companion listed alongside. Median length is 238 pages across the 16 books measured.
How many A Series Of Unfortunate Events books are there?
A Series Of Unfortunate Events has 19 books, released between 1999 and 2007. 13 of them belong to the A Series Of Unfortunate Events series, and 6 related titles sit outside it: companion books.
A Series Of Unfortunate Events Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 19 A Series Of Unfortunate Events 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.
- 11999–3/4
- 21999–4/4
- 320002143/4
- 420001943/4
- 520002213/4
- 620012593/4
- 720012563/4
- 820012723/4
- 9Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized AutobiographyA Series Of Unfortunate Events Companion #12002 · 212 pages · confirmed 3/420022123/4
- 1020022863/4
- 1120033373/4
- 1220041763/4
- 132004–3/4
- 1420043233/4
- 1520053533/4
- 1620061763/4
- 172006723/4
- 1820063243/4
- 1920071683/4
Do you have to read A Series Of Unfortunate Events books in order?
You should read the A Series Of Unfortunate Events series in publication order, the order of the numbered table above; the 6 related titles (companion books) sit outside that sequence. The catalogue does not record whether each A Series Of Unfortunate Events book also stands alone.
Where to start with A Series Of Unfortunate Events
Start with The Bad Beginning (1999), the earliest published book in the A Series Of Unfortunate Events series.
What is the newest A Series Of Unfortunate Events book?
The End (2006) is the newest book in the A Series Of Unfortunate Events series. The newest related title is Horseradish (2007).
Is there a new A Series Of Unfortunate Events book coming?
No next A Series Of Unfortunate Events book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Award nominations for A Series Of Unfortunate Events
Wikidata records 1 nomination for A Series Of Unfortunate Events. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Carnegie Medal2002Shortlistedfor The Austere Academy
A Series Of Unfortunate Events at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest main-line A Series Of Unfortunate Events title on record is The End (2006), 20 years ago. Related titles have appeared since.
- Release pace
- A Series Of Unfortunate Events books have appeared more than one a year on average.
- Length
- 3,843 pages across the 16 of 19 books with a recorded length, a median of 238 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most A Series Of Unfortunate Events books, 17 of 19, were published in the 2000s.
- Corroboration
- 1 of the 19 titles appear in all four independent book listings, and every one of them in at least three.
- Attribution
- Of the 19 titles, 10 are credited to Lemony Snicket and 9 to Daniel Handler.
What the A Series Of Unfortunate Events books are about
18 of the 19 A Series Of Unfortunate Events books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: humor is tagged on 15 of 18. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Humor 15 of 18 books
- Brothers and sisters 13 of 18 books
- Orphans 12 of 18 books
- Children's fiction 10 of 18 books
- Anecdotes 2 of 18 books
- Brothers and sisters -- Juvenile fiction 2 of 18 books
- Brothers and sisters in fiction 2 of 18 books
- Cuentos humorísticos 2 of 18 books
- Hermanos 2 of 18 books
- Juvenile literature 2 of 18 books