John Birmingham Reading Order

2 books (2016–2018)

Start with A Girl in Time and read in order.

#	Title
1	A Girl in Time 2016Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Golden Minute 2018Buy 🇺🇸

8 books (1992–2024)

Start with The Henfield Prize Stories, the first of 8 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	The Henfield Prize Stories 1992Buy 🇺🇸
2	Adventures in Pop Culture 2002Buy 🇺🇸
3	Contemporary Australia: Optimism 2008Buy 🇺🇸
4	Legends of Australian Fantasy 2010Buy 🇺🇸
5	10 Short Stories You Must Read in 2011 2011Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Best Australian Essays: A Ten-Year Collection 2011Buy 🇺🇸
7	Defending Australia 2018Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Time Machine 2024Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2004–2006)

Start with Weapons of Choice and read in order.

#	Title
1	Weapons of Choice 2004Buy 🇺🇸
2	Designated Targets 2005Buy 🇺🇸
3	Final Impact 2006Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2012–2016)

Start with Rome and read in order.

#	Title
1	Rome 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	Cairo 2016Buy 🇺🇸
3	Paris 2016Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2023–2026)

Start with World War 3.1 and read in order.

6 books (2014–2017)

Start with Emergence, the first of 6 books in the Dave vs. The Monsters series.

#	Title
1	Emergence 2014Buy 🇺🇸
2	Ascendance 2015Buy 🇺🇸
3	Resistance 2015Buy 🇺🇸
4	A Protocol for Monsters 2016Buy 🇺🇸
5	Soul Full of Guns 2016Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Demons of Butte Crack County 2017Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2021–2022)

Start with Fail State and read in order.

9 books (1994–2019)

Start with He Died with a Felafel in His Hand, the first of 9 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	He Died with a Felafel in His Hand 1994Buy 🇺🇸
2	How to be a Man 1995Buy 🇺🇸
3	Leviathan: The Unauthorised Biography of Sydney 1999Buy 🇺🇸
4	Off One's Tits: Ill-Considered Rants And Raves from a Graceless Oaf Named John Birmingham 2002Buy 🇺🇸
5	Dopeland; Taking The High Road Through Australia's Marijuana Culture 2003Buy 🇺🇸
6	How to Be a Writer 2016Buy 🇺🇸
7	Stranger Thingies: From Felafel to Now 2018Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Seven Stages of Drinking Martinis. 2018Buy 🇺🇸
9	On Father 2019Buy 🇺🇸

99 books (2001–2026)

Start with Appeasing Jakarta, the first of 99 books in the Quarterly Essay series.

5 books (2001–2015)

Start with Regions of Thick-Ribbed Ice(By: Helen Garner), the first of 5 books in the Short Blacks series.

#	Title
1	Regions of Thick-Ribbed Ice(By: Helen Garner) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
2	Cypherpunk Revolutionary: On Julian Assange(By: Robert Manne) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
3	Prosper: A Voyage at Sea(By: Simon Leys) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Brave Ones 2015Buy 🇺🇸
5	The One Day(By: David Malouf) 2015Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2008–2018)

Start with Here Be Monsters and read in order.

2 books (2021–2024)

Start with Sleeper Agent and read in order.

1 book (1996–1996)

#	Title
1	The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco 1996Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2019–2024)

Start with The Cruel Stars, the first of 4 books in the The Cruel Stars series.

#	Title
1	The Cruel Stars 2019Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Shattered Skies 2022Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Forever Dead 2024Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Javan War(With: Jason Lambright) 2024Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2009–2012)

Start with Without Warning and read in order.

#	Title
1	Without Warning 2009Buy 🇺🇸
2	After America 2010Buy 🇺🇸
3	Angels Of Vengeance 2012Buy 🇺🇸