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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: April 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Non-Fiction series? Start with "The Cost of Living" (1999) and follow publication order through all 25 books.
The complete Non-Fiction reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
The Cost of Living
1999
Power Politics
2000
War Is Peace
2001
The Algebra of Infinite Justice
2002
The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile
2003
War Talk
2003
Come September
2004
An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire
2004
Public Power in the Age of Empire
2004
War With No End (With: China Miéville)
2007
The Shape of the Beast
2008
Listening To Grasshoppers
2009
Broken Republic
2011
Kashmir (With: Tariq Ali)
2011
Walking with the Comrades
2011
The Hanging of Afzal Guru and the Strange Case of the Attack on the Indian Parliament
2013
Capitalism
2014
The End of Imagination
2016
Things that Can and Cannot Be Said
2016
The Doctor and the Saint
2017
Azadi
2020
Mother Mary Comes to Me
2025
Louder than Bombs: Interviews from The Progressive Magazine
2004
The Age of Inequality
2017
Writers: Their Lives and Works
2018
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