Non-Fiction Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Non-Fiction books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: January 2026
Publication Order
Didymus the Blind & the Text of the Gospels
Buy on Amazon1986
The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament
Buy on Amazon1993
The Text of the New Testament In Contemporary Research
Buy on Amazon1995
The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings
Buy on Amazon1996
The New Testament And Other Early Christian Writings
Buy on Amazon1997
After the New Testament: A Reader in Early Christianity
Buy on Amazon1998
Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium
Buy on Amazon1999
The Historical Jesus
Buy on Amazon2000
Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew
Buy on Amazon2002
Lost Scriptures: Books That Did Not Make It Into the New Testament
Buy on Amazon2003
Christianity in Late Antiquity, 300-450 CE: A Reader
Buy on Amazon2003
From Jesus to Constantine
Buy on Amazon2004
Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene & Constantine
Buy on Amazon2004
A Brief Introduction to the New Testament
Buy on Amazon2004
The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration (With: Bruce M. Metzger)
Buy on Amazon2005
Whose Word Is It? The Story Behind Who Changed the New Testament and Why
Buy on Amazon2005
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
Buy on Amazon2005
The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot: A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayed
Buy on Amazon2006
Studies in the Textual Criticism of the New Testament
Buy on Amazon2006
Peter, Paul & Mary Magdalene: The Followers of Jesus in History & Legend
Buy on Amazon2006
God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer
Buy on Amazon2008
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them
Buy on Amazon2009
The Reliability of the New Testament
Buy on Amazon2011
Forged: Writing in the Name of God
Buy on Amazon2011
The Apocryphal Gospels: Texts and Translations
Buy on Amazon2011
Did Jesus Exist? The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth
Buy on Amazon2012
Forgery and Counter-forgery: The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics
Buy on Amazon2012
The Other Gospels: Accounts of Jesus from Outside the New Testament
Buy on Amazon2013
The History of the Bible: The Making of the New Testament Canon
Buy on Amazon2013
The Greatest Controversies of Early Christian History
Buy on Amazon2013
The Bible: A Historical and Literary Introduction
Buy on Amazon2013
How Jesus Became God : the Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
Buy on Amazon2014
Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior
Buy on Amazon2016
The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
Buy on Amazon2017
Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
Buy on Amazon2020
36 Big Ideas
Buy on Amazon2020
After the New Testament: The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers
Buy on Amazon2020
Can We Trust the Bible on the Historical Jesus?
Buy on Amazon2020
Journeys to Heaven and Hell
Buy on Amazon2022
Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End
Buy on Amazon2023
Love Thy Stranger
Buy on Amazon2026
Frequently Asked Questions
The recommended reading order for the Non-Fiction series is publication order: 1. Didymus the Blind & the Text of the Gospels (1986), 2. The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament (1993), 3. The Text of the New Testament In Contemporary Research (1995), 4. The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings (1996), 5. The New Testament And Other Early Christian Writings (1997), and 36 more. This is generally the best way to experience the story as the author intended.
The Non-Fiction series by Bart D. Ehrman contains 41 books. The series began in 1986 and continues to be a popular choice for readers.
The Non-Fiction series is written by Bart D. Ehrman. You can find more books and series by this author on our website.
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