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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: April 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the 33⅓ series? Start with "The Smiths' Meat is Murder (By: Joe Pernice)" (2003) and follow publication order through all 165 books.
The complete 33⅓ reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
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
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