33⅓ Books in Order

165

Books

2003

First Book

2025

Latest Book

23

Years

Below you'll find the complete list of 33⅓ books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.

Reading order verified: January 2026

Publication Order

1

The Smiths' Meat is Murder (By: Joe Pernice)

2003

2

The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society (By: Andy Miller)

2003

3

Dusty Springfield's Dusty in Memphis (By: Warren Zanes)

2003

4

Neil Young's Harvest (By: Sam Inglis)

2003

5

Love's Forever Changes (By: Andrew Hultkrans)

2003

6

Abba's Abba Gold (By: Elisabeth Vincentelli)

2004

7

Prince's Sign 'O' the Times (By: Michaelangelo Matos)

2004

8

The Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico (By: Joe Harvard)

2004

9

Unknown Pleasures (By: Chris Ott)

2004

10

Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland (By: John M. Perry)

2004

11

The Replacements' Let It Be (By: Colin Meloy)

2004

12

James Brown's Live at the Apollo (By: Douglas Wolk)

2004

13

Jethro Tull's Aqualung (By: Allan F. Moore)

2004

14

The Beatles' Let It Be (By: Steve Matteo)

2004

15

Radiohead's OK Computer (By: Dai Griffiths)

2004

16

Pet Sounds (By: Jim Fusilli)

2005

17

The Ramones' Ramones (By: Nicholas Rombes)

2005

18

Led Zeppelin IV (By: Erik Davis)

2005

19

The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street (By: Bill Janovitz)

2005

20

Grace (By: Daphne A. Brooks)

2005

21

Armed Forces (By: Franklin Bruno)

2005

22

Murmur (By: J. Niimi)

2005

23

Low (By: Hugo Wilcken)

2005

24

Endtroducing (By: Eliot Wilder)

2005

25

Kick Out the Jams (By: Don McLeese)

2005

26

Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA (By: Geoffrey Himes)

2005

27

The Band's Music From Big Pink (By: John Niven)

2005

28

Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (By: Kim Cooper)

2005

29

The Stone Roses' The Stone Roses (By: Alex Green)

2006

30

Sly and the Family Stone's There's a Riot Goin' On (By: Miles Marshall Lewis)

2006

31

The Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique (By: Dan LeRoy)

2006

32

Doolittle (By: Ben Sisario)

2006

33

Nirvana's In Utero (By: Gillian G. Gaar)

2006

34

Highway 61 Revisited (By: Mark Polizzotti)

2006

35

33 1/3 Greatest Hits, Volume 1 (By: DavidBarker)

2006

36

The Who's The Who Sell Out (By: John Dougan)

2006

37

Guided By Voices' Bee Thousand (By: Marc Woodworth)

2006

38

My Bloody Valentine's Loveless (By: Mike McGonigal)

2006

39

The Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs (By: L.D. Beghtol)

2006

40

Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion I and II (By: Eric Weisbard)

2006

41

Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life (By: Zeth Lundy)

2006

42

Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark (By: SeanNelson)

2006

43

Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation (By: Matthew Stearns)

2007

44

The Byrds' The Notorious Byrd Brothers (By: Ric Menck)

2007

45

Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica (By: Kevin Courrier)

2007

46

The Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime (By: Michael T. Fournier)

2007

47

A Tribe Called Quest's People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm (By: Shawn Taylor)

2007

48

Brian Eno's Another Green World (By: Geeta Dayal)

2007

49

Steely Dan's Aja (By: Don Breithaupt)

2007

50

Rid of Me (By: Kate Schatz)

2007

51

PJ Harvey's Rid of Me: A Story (By: Kate Schatz)

2007

52

U2's Achtung Baby: Meditations on Love in the Shadow of the Fall (By: Stephen Catanzarite)

2007

53

Belle & Sebastian's If You're Feeling Sinister (By: Scott Plagenhoef)

2007

54

Pink Moon (By: Amanda Petrusich)

2007

55

Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste (By: Carl Wilson)

2007

56

Swordfishtrombones (By: David Smay)

2007

57

Throbbing Gristle's Twenty Jazz Funk Greats (By: Drew Daniel)

2007

58

Master of Reality (By: John Darnielle)

2008

59

Patti Smith's Horses (By: Philip Shaw)

2008

60

Slayer's Reign in Blood (By: D.X. Ferris)

2008

61

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's Facing Future (By: Dan Kois)

2008

62

Richard and Linda Thompson's Shoot Out the Lights (By: Hayden Childs)

2008

63

The Afghan Whigs' Gentlemen (By: Bob Gendron)

2008

64

The Pogues' Rum, Sodomy and the Lash (By: Jeffrey T. Roesgen)

2008

65

Flying Burrito Brothers' The Gilded Palace of Sin

2008

66

Wire's Pink Flag (By: Wilson Neate)

2008

67

Big Star's Radio City (By: Bruce Eaton)

2008

68

Elliott Smith's XO (By: Matthew LeMay)

2009

69

Illmatic (By: Matthew Gasteier)

2009

70

Madness' One Step Beyond... (By: Terry Edwards)

2009

71

Flaming Lips' Zaireeka (By: MarkRichardson)

2009

72

Fleetwood Mac's Tusk (By: Rob Trucks)

2009

73

AC DC's Highway To Hell (By: Joe Bonomo)

2010

74

Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (By: Christopher R. Weingarten)

2010

75

Pavement's Wowee Zowee (By: Bryan Charles)

2010

76

Van Dyke Parks' Song Cycle (By: Richard Henderson)

2010

77

Slint's Spiderland (By: Scott Tennent)

2010

78

Radiohead's Kid A (By: Marvin Lin)

2010

79

Johnny Cash's American Recordings (By: Tony Tost)

2011

80

Ween's Chocolate and Cheese (By: Hank Shteamer)

2011

81

The Rolling Stones' Some Girls (By: Cyrus R.K. Patell)

2011

82

Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine (By: Daphne Carr)

2011

83

Talking Heads' Fear of Music (By: Jonathan Lethem)

2011

84

Dinosaur Jr.'s You're Living All Over Me (By: Nick Attfield)

2011

85

Television's Marquee Moon (By: Bryan Waterman)

2011

86

Portishead's Dummy (By: R.J. Wheaton)

2011

87

Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace (By: Aaron Cohen)

2011

88

Dangerous (By: Susan Fast)

2012

89

Flood (By: Elizabeth Sandifer,S. Alexander Reed)

2013

90

Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson (By: Darran Anderson)

2013

91

Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (By: Kirk Walker Graves)

2014

92

Sigur Rós's (By: Ethan Hayden)

2014

93

Andrew W.K.'s I Get Wet (By: Phillip Crandall)

2014

94

Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II (By: Marc Weidenbaum)

2014

95

Entertainment! (By: Kevin J.H. Dettmar)

2014

96

Smile (By: Luis A. Sanchez)

2014

97

Blank Generation (By: Pete Astor)

2014

98

J Dilla's Donuts (By: Jordan Ferguson)

2014

99

Oasis' Definitely Maybe (By: Alex Niven)

2014

100

Exile in Guyville (By: Gina Arnold)

2014

101

The Grey Album (By: Charles Fairchild)

2014

102

Beat Happening (By: Bryan C. Parker)

2015

103

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (By: Michael Stewart Foley)

2015

104

Freedom of Choice (By: Fred Armisen,Evie Nagy)

2015

105

Workingman's Dead (By: Buzz Poole)

2015

106

A Live One (By: Walter Holland)

2015

107

Metallica (By: David Masciotra)

2015

108

Bitches Brew (By: George Grella Jr.)

2015

109

Parallel Lines (By: Kembrew McLeod)

2016

110

The Geto Boys (By: Rolf Potts)

2016

111

Psychocandy (By: Paula Mejia)

2016

112

Hangin' Tough (By: Rebecca Wallwork)

2016

113

Dig Me Out (By: Jovana Babovic)

2016

114

Donny Hathaway's Donny Hathaway Live (By: Emily J. Lordi)

2016

115

Angelo Badalamenti's Soundtrack from Twin Peaks (By: Clare Nina Norelli)

2017

116

Young Marble Giants' Colossal Youth (By: Michael Blair)

2017

117

Uptown Saturday Night (By: William Fulton,Patrick Rivers)

2017

118

The Suburbs (By: Eric Eidelstein)

2017

119

Bob Mould's Workbook (By: Walter Biggins,Daniel Couch)

2017

120

Homogenic (By: Emily MacKay)

2017

121

The Raincoats (By: Jenn Pelly)

2017

122

Jawbreaker's 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (By: Ronen Givony)

2018

123

Fugazi's In on the Kill Taker (By: Joe Gross)

2018

124

Drive-By Truckers’ Southern Rock Opera (By: Rien Fertel)

2018

125

Siouxsie and the Banshees' Peepshow (By: Samantha Bennett)

2018

126

Tori Amos's Boys for Pele (By: Amy Gentry)

2018

127

dc Talk’s Jesus Freak (By: Will Stockton,D. Gilson)

2018

128

Odetta’s One Grain of Sand (By: Matthew Frye Jacobson)

2019

129

Tom Petty’s Southern Accents (By: Michael Washburn)

2019

130

The Shangri-Las’ Golden Hits of the Shangri-Las (By: Ada Wolin)

2019

131

Manic Street Preachers’ The Holy Bible (By: David Evans)

2019

132

Massive Attack’s Blue Lines (By: Ian Bourland)

2019

133

The Wild Tchoupitoulas’ The Wild Tchoupitoulas (By: Bryan Wagner)

2019

134

Wendy Carlos's Switched-On Bach (By: Roshanak Kheshti)

2019

135

Murder Ballads (By: Santi Elijah Holley)

2020

136

D’Angelo’s Voodoo (By: Faith Pennick)

2020

137

David Bowie's Diamond Dogs (By: Glenn Hendler)

2020

138

Elton John's Blue Moves (By: Matthew Restall)

2020

139

Judy Garland's Judy at Carnegie Hall (By: Manuel Betancourt)

2020

140

Suicide's Suicide (By: Andi Coulter)

2020

141

Various Artists' I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen (By: Ray Padgett)

2020

142

Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope (By: Ayanna Dozier)

2020

143

Elvis Presley's From Elvis in Memphis (By: Eric Wolfson)

2020

144

24-Carat Black's Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth (By: Zach Schonfeld)

2020

145

Carole King's Tapestry (By: Loren Glass)

2021

146

Pearl Jam's Vs. (By: Clint Brownlee)

2021

147

Donna Summer's Once Upon a Time (By: Alex Jeffery)

2021

148

Duran Duran's Rio (By: Annie Zaleski)

2021

149

Roxy Music's Avalon (By: Simon A. Morrison)

2021

150

Sam Cooke’s Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 (By: Colin Fleming)

2021

151

Janelle Monáe’s The ArchAndroid (By: Alyssa Favreau)

2021

152

Lyric and Coloratura Arias (By: Ginger Dellenbaugh)

2021

153

Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly (By: Sequoia Maner)

2022

154

Britney Spears's Blackout (By: Natasha Lasky)

2022

155

Earth, Wind & Fire's That's the Way of the World (By: Dwight E. Brooks)

2022

156

Minnie Riperton’s Come to My Garden (By: Brittnay L. Proctor)

2022

157

Babes in Toyland’s Fontanelle (By: Selena Chambers)

2023

158

Madvillain's Madvillainy (By: Will Hagle)

2023

159

BBC Radiophonic Workshop (By: William L. Weir)

2023

160

Body Count (By: Ben Apatoff)

2023

161

Erotica (By: Michael Dango)

2023

162

Kate Bush's Hounds Of Love (By: Leah Kardos)

2024

163

John Cale's Paris 1919 (By: Mark Doyle)

2025

164

Cocteau Twins' Blue Bell Knoll (By: Chris Tapley)

2025

165

The B-52s' Cosmic Thing (By: Pete Crighton)

2025

Frequently Asked Questions

The recommended reading order for the 33⅓ series is publication order: 1. The Smiths' Meat is Murder (By: Joe Pernice) (2003), 2. The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society (By: Andy Miller) (2003), 3. Dusty Springfield's Dusty in Memphis (By: Warren Zanes) (2003), 4. Neil Young's Harvest (By: Sam Inglis) (2003), 5. Love's Forever Changes (By: Andrew Hultkrans) (2003), and 160 more. This is generally the best way to experience the story as the author intended.

The 33⅓ series by Bob Proehl contains 165 books. The series began in 2003 and continues to be a popular choice for readers.

The 33⅓ series is written by Bob Proehl. You can find more books and series by this author on our website.

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