Cat Who... Books in Order by Lilian Jackson Braun
Cat Who... by Lilian Jackson Braun contains 29 books, published between 1966 and 2007. The first book is The Cat Who Could Read Backwards (1966) and the newest is The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers (2007). Publication order is the reading order below.
Other series are also called Cat Who...: Cat Who... Books in Order: 2 Different Series.
- Books
- 29
- Published
- 1966–2007
- Confirmed
- 29 of 29 titles
- Pages on record
- 3,925 in 15 of 29 books
- Reading time
- 65–98 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,925 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 15 of 29 titles with a page count on record.
Lilian Jackson Braun's Cat Who... mysteries feature the journalist Jim Qwilleran and the Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum. Moose County, an imaginary place, appears among the subject tags. The series has 29 books, starting with The Cat Who Could Read Backwards (1966) and ending with The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers (2007). The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern (1967) and The Cat Who Saw Red (1986) are among the other titles. The series is listed as likely complete.
How many Cat Who... books are there?
Cat Who... has 29 books, released between 1966 and 2007.
Cat Who... Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 29 Cat 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.
- 1The Cat Who Could Read Backwards1966 · confirmed 4/41966–4/4
- 2The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern1967 · confirmed 4/41967–4/4
- 3The Cat Who Turned On And Off1968 · confirmed 4/41968–4/4
- 4The Cat Who Saw Red1986 · 256 pages · confirmed 4/419862564/4
- 5The Cat Who Played Brahms1987 · confirmed 4/41987–4/4
- 6The Cat Who Played Post Office1987 · 186 pages · confirmed 4/419871864/4
- 7The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare1988 · 201 pages · confirmed 4/419882014/4
- 8The Cat Who Sniffed Glue1988 · confirmed 4/41988–4/4
- 9The Cat Who Went Underground1989 · 201 pages · confirmed 4/419892014/4
- 10The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts1990 · confirmed 4/41990–4/4
- 11The Cat Who Lived High1990 · confirmed 4/41990–4/4
- 12The Cat Who Knew a Cardinal1991 · confirmed 4/41991–4/4
- 13The Cat Who Moved a Mountain1992 · 261 pages · confirmed 4/419922614/4
- 14The Cat Who Wasn't There1992 · 279 pages · confirmed 4/419922794/4
- 15The Cat Who Went into the Closet1993 · 276 pages · confirmed 4/419932764/4
- 16The Cat Who Came to Breakfast1994 · confirmed 4/41994–4/4
- 17The Cat Who Blew the Whistle1994 · 311 pages · confirmed 4/419943114/4
- 18The Cat Who Said Cheese1995 · confirmed 4/41995–4/4
- 19The Cat Who Tailed a Thief1997 · confirmed 4/41997–4/4
- 20The Cat Who Sang for the Birds1998 · confirmed 4/41998–4/4
- 21The Cat Who Saw Stars1999 · 294 pages · confirmed 4/419992944/4
- 22The Cat Who Robbed a Bank1999 · confirmed 4/41999–4/4
- 23The Cat Who Smelled a Rat2001 · 293 pages · confirmed 4/420012934/4
- 24The Cat Who Went Up the Creek2002 · 291 pages · confirmed 4/420022914/4
- 25The Cat Who Brought Down the House2003 · confirmed 4/42003–4/4
- 26The Cat Who Talked Turkey2004 · 240 pages · confirmed 4/420042404/4
- 27The Cat Who Went Bananas2004 · 292 pages · confirmed 4/420042924/4
- 28The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell2006 · 304 pages · confirmed 4/420063044/4
- 29The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers2007 · 240 pages · confirmed 4/420072404/4
Is there a chronological order for Cat Who...?
No separate chronological order is on record for Cat Who..., because none of the book listings this catalogue draws on publishes one; the publication order above is the only order given.
Do you have to read Cat Who... books in order?
You should read the Cat Who... books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Cat Who... book also stands alone.
Where to start with Cat Who...
Start with The Cat Who Could Read Backwards (1966), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Cat Who... book?
The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers (2007) is the newest Cat Who... book released so far.
Is there a new Cat Who... book coming?
No next Cat 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.
Cat Who... at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest Cat Who... title on record dates from 2007, 19 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
- Release pace
- Cat Who... books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 3,925 pages across the 15 of 29 books with a recorded length, a median of 276 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Cat Who... books, 13 of 29, were published in the 1990s.
- Corroboration
- 29 of the 29 titles appear in all four independent book listings.
What the Cat Who... books are about
All 29 Cat Who... books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: journalists is tagged on 26 of 29. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Journalists 26 of 29 books
- Jim Qwilleran (Fictitious character) 16 of 29 books
- Cat owners 15 of 29 books
- Koko (fictitious character) 12 of 29 books
- Mystery & detective 12 of 29 books
- Qwilleran, jim (fictitious character) 12 of 29 books
- Siamese cat 12 of 29 books
- Yum yum (fictitious character : braun) 11 of 29 books
- Cats 10 of 29 books
- Moose County (Imaginary place) 10 of 29 books
- Millionaires 8 of 29 books
- Cozy mystery 7 of 29 books
More books by Lilian Jackson Braun
The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.
- Lilian Jackson Braun books in order 32 books
Characters in the Cat Who... books
The character linked below has its own reading-order page.
- The Cat Who… books in order 32 books