Daniel Handler Reading Order

13 books (1999–2006)

Start with The Bad Beginning, the first of 13 books in the A Series Of Unfortunate Events series.

#	Title
1	The Bad Beginning 1999Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Reptile Room 1999Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Austere Academy 2000Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Miserable Mill 2000Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Wide Window 2000Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Ersatz Elevator 2001Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Hostile Hospital 2001Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Vile Village 2001Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Carnivorous Carnival 2002Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Slippery Slope 2003Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Grim Grotto 2004Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Penultimate Peril 2005Buy 🇺🇸
13	The End 2006Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2002–2007)

Start with Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography, the first of 6 books in the A Series Of Unfortunate Events Companion series.

#	Title
1	Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography 2002Buy 🇺🇸
2	Behind the Scenes with Count Olaf 2004Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Blank Book 2004Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Beatrice Letters 2006Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Notorious Notations 2006Buy 🇺🇸
6	Horseradish 2007Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2014–2014)

#	Title
1	File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents 2014Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2012–2015)

Start with Who Could That Be at This Hour?, the first of 4 books in the All the Wrong Questions series.

#	Title
1	Who Could That Be at This Hour? 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	When Did You See Her Last? 2013Buy 🇺🇸
3	Shouldn't You Be in School? 2014Buy 🇺🇸
4	Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights? 2015Buy 🇺🇸

10 books (2003–2021)

Start with It Was a Dark and Silly Night..., the first of 10 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	It Was a Dark and Silly Night... 2003Buy 🇺🇸
2	Big Fat Little Lit 2006Buy 🇺🇸
3	Cabinet 24: Shadows 2007Buy 🇺🇸
4	Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition 2007Buy 🇺🇸
5	Half-Minute Horrors 2009Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Chronicles of Harris Burdick 2011Buy 🇺🇸
7	Radio Silence 2012Buy 🇺🇸
8	Who Done It? 2013Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Creativity Project 2018Buy 🇺🇸
10	The End of the Golden Gate 2021Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2019–2019)

8 books (2007–2017)

Start with Baby in the Manger, the first of 8 books in the Lemony Snicket Picture series.

#	Title
1	Baby in the Manger 2007Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming 2007Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Lump of Coal 2008Buy 🇺🇸
4	13 Words 2010Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Dark 2013Buy 🇺🇸
6	29 Myths on the Swinster Pharmacy 2014Buy 🇺🇸
7	Goldfish Ghost 2017Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Bad Mood and the Stick 2017Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (2007–2017)

Start with Baby in the Manger, the first of 7 books in the Picture series.

#	Title
1	Baby in the Manger 2007Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming 2007Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Lump of Coal 2008Buy 🇺🇸
4	13 Words 2010Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Dark 2013Buy 🇺🇸
6	29 Myths on the Swinster Pharmacy 2014Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Bad Mood and the Stick 2017Buy 🇺🇸

9 books (1999–2024)

Start with The Basic Eight, the first of 9 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	The Basic Eight 1999Buy 🇺🇸
2	Watch Your Mouth 2000Buy 🇺🇸
3	Adverbs 2006Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Composer Is Dead(As: Lemony Snicket) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
5	Why We Broke Up 2011Buy 🇺🇸
6	We Are Pirates 2015Buy 🇺🇸
7	All the Dirty Parts 2017Buy 🇺🇸
8	Bottle Grove 2019Buy 🇺🇸
9	And Then? And Then? What Else? 2024Buy 🇺🇸