'Secret' Guides Books in Order
'Secret' Guides contains 10 books, published between 2009 and 2021. The first book is Secret Bars and Restaurants in Paris (2009) and the newest is Secret London: An Unusual Guide (2021). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 10
- Published
- 2009–2021
- Pages on record
- 2,163 in 7 of 10 books
- Reading time
- 36–54 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,163 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 7 of 10 titles with a page count on record.
The 'Secret' Guides are travel guidebooks rather than a single-author series: 10 titles published between 2009 and 2021 carry credits for eight different writers, Jacques Garance on 2 and the others on one each. Subjects recorded include guidebooks, travel, description and travel, bars and restaurants. The cities covered by the listed titles are Paris, New York, Rome, Naples, Brooklyn, Florence, Bali, Berlin and London. Seven books have a recorded length, at a median of 288 pages.
How many 'Secret' Guides books are there?
'Secret' Guides has 10 books, released between 2009 and 2021.
'Secret' Guides Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 10 'Secret' Guides 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.
- 1Secret Bars and Restaurants in Paris2009 · confirmed 1/42009–1/4
- 3Secret Rome2016 · 400 pages · confirmed 1/420164001/4
- 4Secret Paris2018 · confirmed 1/42018–1/4
- 5Secret Naples2018 · 384 pages · confirmed 1/420183841/4
- 6Secret Brooklyn2019 · confirmed 1/42019–1/4
- 7Secret Florence2019 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/420192881/4
- 8Secret Bali: An Unusual Guide2019 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/420192561/4
- 9Secret Berlin2021 · 400 pages · confirmed 1/420214001/4
- 10Secret London: An Unusual Guide2021 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/420212561/4
Where to start with 'Secret' Guides
Start with Secret Bars and Restaurants in Paris (2009), the earliest published title.
What is the newest 'Secret' Guides book?
Secret London: An Unusual Guide (2021) is the newest 'Secret' Guides book released so far.
Is there a new 'Secret' Guides book coming?
No next 'Secret' Guides book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
'Secret' Guides at a glance
- Paused
- No new 'Secret' Guides title has appeared for 5 years. The last was published in 2021.
- Release pace
- 'Secret' Guides books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 2,163 pages across the 7 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 288 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most 'Secret' Guides books, 7 of 10, were published in the 2010s.
- Attribution
- Of the 10 titles, 2 are credited to Jacques Garance, 1 to Michelle Young, 1 to Ginevra Lovaelli and 1 to Valerio Ceva Grimaldi. A further 8 writers are credited. One title carries no credit.
What the 'Secret' Guides books are about
5 of the 10 'Secret' Guides books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: guidebooks is tagged on 3 of 5. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Guidebooks 3 of 5 books
- Bars (Drinking establishments) 1 of 5 books
- Travel 1 of 5 books
- Descriptions et voyages 1 of 5 books
- Germany, history 1 of 5 books
- Home economics 1 of 5 books
- London (england), guidebooks 1 of 5 books
- Naples (italy), description and travel 1 of 5 books
- Restaurants 1 of 5 books
- Restaurants, great britain 1 of 5 books