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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: March 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Non-Fiction series? Start with "The Day the World Ended: The Mount Pelée Disaster: May 7, 1902 (With: Max Morgan-Witts)" (1969) and follow publication order through all 32 books.
The complete Non-Fiction reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
The Day the World Ended: The Mount Pelée Disaster: May 7, 1902 (With: Max Morgan-Witts)
1969
The San Francisco Earthquake: A Minute-by-Minute Account of the 1906 Disaster (With: Max Morgan-Witts)
1971
Shipwreck: The Strange Fate of the Morro Castle (With: Max Morgan-Witts)
1972
Voyage of the Damned (With: Max Morgan-Witts)
1974
Issels: The Biography of a Doctor
1975
The Day Guernica Died (With: Max Morgan-Witts)
1975
Enola Gay: Mission to Hiroshima (With: Max Morgan-Witts)
1977
The Day the Bubble Burst: A Social History of the Wall Street Crash of 1929 (With: Max Morgan-Witts)
1979
Bed of Nails: The Story of the Amazing Blondini
1981
Anatomy of an Epidemic (With: Max Morgan-Witts)
1981
Pontiff (With: Max Morgan-Witts)
1983
The Operation
1984
The Year of Armageddon: The Pope and the Bomb (With: Max Morgan-Witts)
1984
Desire and Denial: Celibacy and the Church
1986
The Jesus Conspiracy: An Investigative Reporter's Look at an Extraordinary Life & Death
1987
The Trial
1987
Journey into Madness: The True Story of Secret CIA Mind Control & Medical Abuse
1987
Enslaved
1989
Chaos Under Heaven: The Shocking Story of China's Search for Democracy
1991
Trespass into Temptation
1997
Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad
1999
Seeds of Fire: China and the Story Behind the Attack on America
2001
Robert Maxwell, Israel's Superspy: The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul (With: Martin Dillon)
2002
Human Beings: The Weird and the Wonderful
2005
Secret Wars: One Hundred Years of British Intelligence Inside MI5 and MI6
2009
Operation Exodus: From the Nazi Death Camps to the Promised Land: A Perilous Journey That Shaped Israel's Fate
2009
Secret Wars / Inside British Intelligence
2009
Prisoners in Rabaul: Civilians Surviving Japanese Captivity, 1942-1945
2012
The Pope's Jews: The Vatican's Secret Plan to Save Jews from the Nazis
2012
Magdalene: Jesus and the Woman Who Loved Him
2014
Shadow Warriors of World War II: The Daring Women of the OSS and SOE (With: Greg Lewis)
2017
Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule (With: Greg Lewis)
2019
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