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Who Was/Is...? Books in Order
219
Books
2002
First Book
2024
Latest Book
23
Years
Below you'll find the complete list of Who Was/Is...? 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 Who Was/Is...? series? Start with "Who Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? (By: Yona Zeldis McDonough)" (2002) and follow publication order through all 219 books.
The complete Who Was/Is...? reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
1
Who Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? (By: Yona Zeldis McDonough)
2002
2
Who Was Annie Oakley? (By: Stephanie Spinner)
2002
3
Who Was Ben Franklin? (By: Dennis Brindell Fradin)
2002
4
Who Was Albert Einstein? (By: Jess M. Brallier)
2002
5
Who Was Sacagawea? (By: Judith Bloom Fradin)
2002
6
Who Was Harry Houdini? (By: Tui T. Sutherland)
2002
7
Who Was Maria Tallchief? (By: Catherine Gourley)
2002
8
Who Was Amelia Earhart? (By: Kate Boehm Jerome)
2002
9
Who Was Thomas Jefferson? (By: Dennis Brindell Fradin)
2003
10
Who Was Helen Keller? (By: Gare Thompson)
2003
11
Who Was Eleanor Roosevelt? (By: Gare Thompson)
2004
12
Who Was Mark Twain? (By: April Jones Prince)
2004
13
Who Was Ferdinand Magellan? (By: Sydelle Kramer)
2004
14
Who Was Ronald Reagan? (By: Joyce Milton)
2004
15
Who Was Louis Armstrong? (By: Yona Zeldis McDonough)
2004
16
Who Was John F. Kennedy? (By: Yona Zeldis McDonough)
2004
17
Who Was Charles Darwin? (By: Deborah Hopkinson)
2005
18
Who Was Johnny Appleseed? (By: Joan Holub)
2005
19
Who Was Leonardo da Vinci? (By: Roberta Edwards)
2005
20
Who Was Thomas Alva Edison? (By: Margaret Frith)
2005
21
Who Were the Beatles? (By: Geoff Edgers)
2006
22
Who Was King Tut? (By: Roberta Edwards)
2006
23
Who Was Daniel Boone? (By: Sydelle Kramer)
2006
24
Who Was William Shakespeare? (By: Celeste Davidson Mannis)
2006
25
Who Was Anne Frank? (By: Ann Abramson)
2007
26
Who Was Marco Polo? (By: Joan Holub)
2007
27
Who Was Elvis Presley? (By: Geoff Edgers)
2007
28
Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.? (By: Bonnie Bader)
2007
29
Who Was Abraham Lincoln? (By: Janet B. Pascal)
2008
30
Who Was Neil Armstrong? (By: Roberta Edwards)
2008
31
Who Was Queen Elizabeth? (By: June Eding)
2008
32
Who Was George Washington? (By: Roberta Edwards)
2009
33
Who Was Pablo Picasso? (By: True Kelley)
2009
34
Who Was Walt Disney? (By: Whitney Stewart)
2009
35
Who Is Barack Obama? (By: Roberta Edwards)
2009
36
Who Was Claude Monet? (By: Ann Waldron)
2009
37
Who Was Franklin Roosevelt? (By: Margaret Frith)
2009
38
Who Was Jim Henson? (By: Joan Holub)
2010
39
Who Was Jackie Robinson? (By: Gail Herman)
2010
40
Who Was Rosa Parks? (By: Yona Zeldis McDonough)
2010
41
Who Was Dr. Seuss? (By: Janet B. Pascal)
2011
42
Who Was Paul Revere? (By: Roberta Edwards)
2011
43
Who Was Steve Jobs? (By: Meg Belviso,Pam Pollack)
2012
44
Who Was Babe Ruth? (By: Joan Holub)
2012
45
Who Is J.K. Rowling? (By: Meg Belviso,Pam Pollack)
2012
46
Who Was Roald Dahl? (By: True Kelley)
2012
47
Who Is Jane Goodall? (By: Roberta Edwards)
2012
48
Who Was Maurice Sendak? (By: Janet B. Pascal)
2012
49
Who Is Bill Gates? (By: Patricia Brennan Demuth)
2013
50
Who Was Sally Ride? (By: Megan Stine)
2013
51
Who Was Christopher Columbus? (By: Bonnie Bader)
2013
52
Who Is Bob Dylan? (By: Jim O'Connor)
2013
53
Who Is Michelle Obama? (By: Megan Stine)
2013
54
Who Was Alexander Graham Bell? (By: Bonnie Bader)
2013
55
Who Was Davy Crockett? (By: Gail Herman)
2013
56
Who Was Laura Ingalls Wilder? (By: Patricia Brennan Demuth)
2013
57
Who Was Frida Kahlo? (By: Sarah Fabiny)
2013
58
Who Is Steven Spielberg? (By: Stephanie Spinner)
2013
59
Who Was Milton Hershey? (By: James Buckley Jr.)
2013
60
Who Was Ernest Shackleton? (By: James Buckley Jr.)
2013
61
Who Was Louis Braille? (By: Scott Anderson)
2014
62
Who Was Nelson Mandela? (By: Meg Belviso,Pam Pollack)
2014
63
Who Was Abigail Adams? (By: True Kelley)
2014
64
Who Is Dolly Parton? (By: True Kelley)
2014
65
Who Was Theodore Roosevelt? (By: Michael Burgan)
2014
66
Who Was Bruce Lee? (By: Jim Gigliotti)
2014
67
Who Is George Lucas? (By: Meg Belviso,Pam Pollack)
2014
68
Who Were the Wright Brothers? (By: James Buckley Jr.)
2014
69
Who Was Ulysses S. Grant? (By: Megan Stine)
2014
70
Who Was Robert E. Lee? (By: Bonnie Bader)
2014
71
Who Was Clara Barton? (By: Stephanie Spinner)
2014
72
Who Was Queen Victoria? (By: Jim Gigliotti)
2014
73
Who Was Muhammad Ali? (By: James Buckley Jr.)
2014
74
Who Was Marie Curie? (By: Megan Stine)
2014
75
Who Was Henry Ford? (By: Michael Burgan)
2014
76
Who Was Roberto Clemente? (By: James Buckley Jr.)
2014
77
Who Was Susan B. Anthony? (By: Meg Belviso,Pam Pollack)
2014
78
Who Was Rachel Carson? (By: Sarah Fabiny)
2014
79
Who Was Julius Caesar? (By: Nico Medina)
2014
80
Who Was Isaac Newton? (By: Janet B. Pascal)
2014
81
Who Was Gandhi? (By: Dana Meachen Rau)
2014
82
Who Was Stan Lee? (By: Geoff Edgers)
2014
83
Who Was Alfred Hitchcock? (By: Meg Belviso,Pam Pollack)
2014
84
Who Was Charles Dickens? (By: Meg Belviso,Pam Pollack)
2014
85
Who Was Genghis Khan? (By: Nico Medina)
2014
86
Who Was Sitting Bull? (By: Stephanie Spinner)
2014
87
Who Was Betsy Ross? (By: James Buckley Jr.)
2014
88
Who Was Andy Warhol? (By: Kirsten Anderson)
2014
89
Who Is Gloria Steinem? (By: Sarah Fabiny)
2014
90
Who Was Frederick Douglass? (By: April Jones Prince)
2014
91
Who Was Galileo? (By: Patricia Brennan Demuth)
2015
92
Who Is Wayne Gretzky? (By: Gail Herman)
2015
93
Who Was Robert Ripley? (By: Kirsten Anderson)
2015
94
Who Was Jesus? (By: Ellen Morgan)
2015
95
Who Was Jacques Cousteau? (By: Nico Medina)
2015
96
Who Was Harriet Beecher Stowe? (By: Dana Meachen Rau)
2015
97
Who Was Winston Churchill? (By: Ellen Labrecque)
2015
98
Who Was Mother Teresa? (By: Jim Gigliotti)
2015
99
Who Was Steve Irwin? (By: Dina Anastasio)
2015
100
Who Was Woodrow Wilson? (By: Margaret Frith)
2015
101
Who Was Beatrix Potter? (By: Sarah Fabiny)
2015
102
Who Was J. R. R. Tolkien? (By: Meg Belviso,Pam Pollack)
2015
103
Who Is Richard Branson? (By: Michael Burgan)
2015
104
Who Was Edgar Allan Poe? (By: Jim Gigliotti)
2015
105
Who Were the Brothers Grimm? (By: Avery Reed)
2015
106
Who Was Jesse Owens? (By: James Buckley Jr.)
2015
107
Who Is Malala Yousafzai? (By: Dinah Brown)
2015
108
Who Is Derek Jeter? (By: Gail Herman)
2015
109
Who Is Jeff Kinney? (By: Patrick Kinney)
2015
110
Who Is (Your Name Here)? (By: Paula K. Manzanero)
2015
111
Who Was Julia Child? (By: Geoff Edgers)
2015
112
Who Was Marie Antoinette? (By: Dana Meachen Rau)
2015
113
Who Was Seabiscuit? (By: James Buckley Jr.)
2015
114
Who Was Blackbeard? (By: James Buckley Jr.)
2015
115
Who Was George Washington Carver? (By: Jim Gigliotti)
2015
116
Who Was Sojourner Truth? (By: Yona Zeldis McDonough)
2015
117
Who Was Michael Jackson? (By: Megan Stine)
2015
118
Who Was Frank Lloyd Wright? (By: Ellen Labrecque)
2015
119
Who Was Maya Angelou? (By: Ellen Labrecque)
2016
120
Who Was Lucille Ball? (By: Meg Belviso,Pam Pollack)
2016
121
Who Was Joan of Arc? (By: Meg Belviso,Pam Pollack)
2016
122
Who Is Elton John? (By: Kirsten Anderson)
2016
123
Who Was Jules Verne? (By: James Buckley Jr.)
2016
124
Who Was Alexander the Great? (By: Robin Waterfield,Kathryn Waterfield)
2016
125
Who Was Milton Bradley? (By: Bonnie Bader)
2016
126
Who Is Hillary Clinton?
2016
127
Who Was? Mad Libs (By: Paula K. Manzanero)
2016
128
Who Is Bruce Springsteen? (By: Stephanie Sabol)
2016
129
Who Is Stevie Wonder? (By: Jim Gigliotti)
2016
130
Who Were The Three Stooges? (By: Meg Belviso,Pam Pollack)
2016
131
Who Was Jacqueline Kennedy? (By: Bonnie Bader)
2016
132
Who Was Charlie Chaplin? (By: Patricia Brennan Demuth)
2016
133
Who Is Sonia Sotomayor? (By: Megan Stine)
2017
134
Who Was Cesar Chavez? (By: Dana Meachen Rau)
2017
135
Who Was Princess Diana? (By: Ellen Labrecque)
2017
136
Who Are the Rolling Stones? (By: Dana Meachen Rau)
2017
137
Who Was Bob Marley? (By: Katie Ellison)
2017
138
Who Was Pete Seeger? (By: Noel Maccarry)
2017
139
Who Was Andrew Jackson? (By: Douglas Yacka)
2017
140
Who Is Pope Francis? (By: Stephanie Spinner)
2017
141
Who Are Venus and Serena Williams? (By: James Buckley Jr.)
2017
142
Who Was Alexander Hamilton? (By: Meg Belviso,Pam Pollack)
2017
143
Who Was Fidel Castro? (By: Sarah Fabiny)
2017
144
Who Was Lewis Carroll? (By: Meg Belviso,Pam Pollack)
2017
145
Who Is Ralph Lauren? (By: Jane O'Connor)
2017
146
Who Was Coretta Scott King? (By: Gail Herman)
2017
147
Who Was Chuck Jones? (By: Jim Gigliotti)
2017
148
Who Was Jane Austen? (By: Sarah Fabiny)
2017
149
Knock! Knock! Who Was There? (By: Brian Elling)
2018
150
Who Was Henry VIII? (By: Ellen Labrecque)
2018
151
Who Was Booker T. Washington? (By: James Buckley)
2018
152
Who Is the Dalai Lama? (By: Dana Meachen Rau)
2018
153
Who Was Aretha Franklin? (By: Nico Medina)
2018
154
Who Was Leif Erikson? (By: Nico Medina)
2018
155
Who Is Pele? (By: James Buckley Jr.)
2018
156
Who Were the Tuskegee Airmen? (By: Sherri L. Smith)
2018
157
Who Was Selena? (By: Max Bisantz)
2018
158
The Who Was? Activity Book (By: Jordan London)
2018
159
Who Is Judy Blume? (By: Kirsten Anderson)
2018
160
Who Is Bono? (By: Meg Belviso,Pam Pollack)
2018
161
Who Was Nikola Tesla? (By: Jim Gigliotti)
2018
162
Who Was Napoleon? (By: Jim Gigliotti)
2018
163
Who Is Michael Jordan? (By: Kirsten Anderson)
2019
164
Who Was H. J. Heinz? (By: Michael Burgan)
2019
165
Who Was Norman Rockwell? (By: Sarah Fabiny)
2019
166
Who Was Stephen Hawking? (By: Jim Gigliotti)
2019
167
Who Was Che Guevara? (By: Ellen Labrecque)
2019
168
Who Was P. T. Barnum? (By: Kirsten Anderson)
2019
169
Who Is Oprah Winfrey? (By: Barbara Kramer)
2019
170
Who Is R. L. Stine? (By: M.D. Payne)
2019
171
Who Was Harriet Tubman? (By: Yona Zeldis McDonough)
2019
172
Who Was Mister Rogers? (By: Diane Bailey)
2019
173
The Who Was? History of the World (By: Paula K. Manzanero)
2019
174
Who Was Sam Walton? (By: James Buckley Jr.)
2019
175
Who Is Ruth Bader Ginsburg? (By: Patricia Brennan Demuth)
2019
176
Who Is Jackie Chan? (By: Jody Jensen Shaffer)
2020
177
Who Was Richard Nixon? (By: Megan Stine)
2020
178
Who Is Temple Grandin? (By: Patricia Brennan Demuth)
2020
179
Who Was Harvey Milk? (By: Corinne A. Grinapol)
2020
180
Who Was Ida B. Wells? (By: Sarah Fabiny)
2020
181
Who Is David Beckham? (By: Ellen Labrecque)
2020
182
Who Was Celia Cruz? (By: Meg Belviso,Pam Pollack)
2020
183
Who Was Benedict Arnold? (By: James Buckley Jr.)
2020
184
Who Was Nellie Bly? (By: Margaret Gurevich)
2020
185
Who Was Confucius? (By: Michael Burgan)
2020
186
Who Was Duke Ellington? (By: M.D. Payne)
2020
187
Who Was Catherine the Great? (By: Meg Belviso,Pam Pollack)
2021
188
Who Was Walt Whitman? (By: Kirsten Anderson)
2021
189
Who Was Levi Strauss? (By: Ellen Labrecque)
2021
190
Who Is RuPaul? (By: Nico Medina)
2021
191
Who Is Neil deGrasse Tyson? (By: Meg Belviso,Pam Pollack)
2021
192
Who Was A. A. Milne? (By: Sarah Fabiny)
2021
193
Who Was Juliette Gordon Low? (By: Dana Meachen Rau)
2021
194
Who Were the Navajo Code Talkers? (By: James Buckley Jr.)
2021
195
Who Was David Bowie? (By: Margaret Gurevich)
2021
196
Who Were Stanley and Livingstone? (By: Jim Gigliotti)
2021
197
Who Was Queen Elizabeth II? (By: Megan Stine)
2021
198
Who Is Dale Earnhardt Jr.? (By: David Stabler)
2022
199
The Who Was? Trivia Book (By: Brian Elling)
2022
200
Who Was Charles Schulz? (By: Joan Holub)
2022
201
Who Was Ernest Hemingway? (By: Jim Gigliotti)
2022
202
Who Is Jimmy Carter? (By: David Stabler)
2022
203
Who Was Johnny Cash? (By: Jim Gigliotti)
2022
204
Who Was Ponce de León? (By: Meg Belviso,Pam Pollack)
2022
205
Who Was E. B. White? (By: Gail Herman)
2022
206
Who Was Georgia O'Keeffe? (By: Sarah Fabiny)
2022
207
Who Is Shaquille O'Neal? (By: Ellen Labrecque)
2022
208
Who Was Michelangelo? (By: Kirsten Anderson)
2022
209
Who Was Alex Trebek? (By: Meg Belviso,Pamela Pollack)
2022
210
Who Was Salvador Dalí? (By: Paula K Manzanero)
2023
211
Who Is Lebron James? (By: Crystal Hubbard)
2023
212
Who Was John McCain? (By: Michael Burgan)
2023
213
Who Is Simone Biles? (By: Stefanie Loh)
2023
214
Who Was Jim Thorpe? (By: James Buckley)
2023
215
Who Was Frank Sinatra? (By: Ellen Labrecque)
2023
216
Who Was John Lewis? (By: Crystal Hubbard)
2023
217
Who Is Taylor Swift? (By: Kirsten Anderson)
2024
218
Who Is Cynthia Erivo? (By: Crystal Hubbard)
2024
219
Who Was Shirley Chisholm? (By: Crystal Hubbard)
2024
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