Doctor Who Books in Order
There are 637 Doctor Who books, published between 1990 and 2025: 619 in the 18 main-line series and 18 related titles. The first book is Cybermen (1990) and the newest main-line book is Monstrous Beauty (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 637
- Published
- 1990–2025
- Confirmed
- 449 of 637 titles
- Pages on record
- 74,158 in 293 of 637 books
Doctor Who is the time-travelling character of the television programme of the same name, and the novels built around Doctor Who form one of the largest tie-in catalogues in print: 637 books published between 1990 and 2025 by many different writers. The line began with Cybermen in 1990 and the Virgin New Adventures in 1991, then branched into the Missing Adventures, the Eighth Doctor Adventures, the Decalog anthologies, Quick Reads, Time Trips, The Darksmith Legacy and the Decide Your Destiny plot-your-own books. Science fiction, time travel and adventure run through all of them, and new titles continue to appear.
How many Doctor Who books are there?
Doctor Who has 637 books, released between 1990 and 2025. 619 of them belong to the 18 main-line series (Doctor Who: Big Finish Monthly Adventures Audio, Doctor Who: Eighth Doctor Adventures, Doctor Who: Past Doctor Adventures and others), and 18 related titles sit outside it: short stories and novellas.
Doctor Who Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 637 Doctor Who 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 637 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.
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Doctor Who Books in Chronological Order
By publication date, the books of the 18 main-line series run from Cybermen (1990) to Monstrous Beauty (2025), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Doctor Who in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.
Where to start with Doctor Who
Start with Cybermen (1990), the earliest published book in the 18 main-line series.
What is the newest Doctor Who book?
Monstrous Beauty (2025) is the newest book in the 18 main-line series.
Is there a new Doctor Who book coming?
No next Doctor Who 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 Doctor Who
Wikidata records 1 nomination for Doctor Who. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- British Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction2004Shortlistedfor Wonderland
Doctor Who at a glance
- Still running
- Doctor Who is still running, with a main-line title published as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Doctor Who books have appeared more than one a year on average.
- Length
- 74,158 pages across the 293 of 637 books with a recorded length, a median of 278 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Doctor Who books, 276 of 637, were published in the 2000s.
- Corroboration
- 2 of the 637 titles appear in all four independent book listings, and 449 in at least three.
- Attribution
- Of the 637 titles, 50 are credited to Ben Aaronovitch, 25 to Jonathan Morris, 24 to Justin Richards and 19 to Steve Lyons. A further 180 writers are credited. 15 titles carry no credit.
What the Doctor Who books are about
216 of the 637 Doctor Who books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: science fiction is tagged on 120 of 216. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Science fiction 120 of 216 books
- Children's fiction 30 of 216 books
- Time travel 29 of 216 books
- Mystery & detective 23 of 216 books
- Series:Eighth_Doctor_Adventures 17 of 216 books
- Plot-your-own stories 12 of 216 books
- Adventure stories 10 of 216 books
- Comics & graphic novels 7 of 216 books
- Space and time 6 of 216 books
- Aliens 4 of 216 books
- History 4 of 216 books
Series that include Doctor Who books
Each series linked below has its own reading-order page.