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Beverly Cleary Complete Bibliography

Browse books by Beverly Cleary in publication order, including standalone books, complete series lists, reading order, and publication years.

Updated 2026-07-11 / 142 books / 12 series

American author Beverly Cleary is best known for the beloved Ramona Quimby and Henry Huggins series. Her books have sold over 85 million copies worldwide and earned a Newbery Medal. This page provides the Beverly Cleary books in order, including both chronological order and series reading order.

Books by Beverly Cleary in Publication Order

1950 Henry Huggins POoHHB / 1 Buy
1951 Ellen Tebbits POoE&OB / 1 Buy
1952 Lottie & Lisa(By: Erich Kastner) POoACB / 1 Buy
1952 Henry and Beezus POoHHB / 2 Buy
1953 Otis Spofford POoE&OB / 2 Buy
1953 Henry and Ribsy POoHHB / 3 Buy
1955 Beezus and Ramona POoRQB / 1 Buy
1956 Fifteen POoFLB / 1 Buy
1957 Henry and the Paper Route POoHHB / 4 Buy
1958 The Luckiest Girl POoFLB / 2 Buy
1959 Jean and Johnny POoFLB / 3 Buy
1960 The Hullabaloo ABC POoPB / 1 Buy
1960 The Real Hole POoPB / 2 Buy
1961 Beaver and Wally POoSN / 1 Buy
1961 Emily's Runaway Imagination POoSN / 2 Buy
1961 Here's Beaver! POoSN / 3 Buy
1962 Henry and the Clubhouse POoHHB / 5 Buy
1963 Ribsy and the P.T.A. POoSN / 4 Buy
1963 Sister of the Bride POoFLB / 4 Buy
1964 Ribsy POoHHB / 6 Buy
1965 The Mouse and the Motorcycle POoRSMB / 1 Buy
1967 Mitch and Amy POoSN / 5 Buy
1968 Ramona the Pest POoRQB / 2 Buy
1970 Runaway Ralph POoRSMB / 2 Buy
1973 Socks POoSN / 6 Buy
1975 Ramona the Brave POoRQB / 3 Buy
1977 Ramona and Her Father POoRQB / 4 Buy
1978 Leave It to Beaver POoSN / 7 Buy
1979 Ramona and Her Mother POoRQB / 5 Buy
1980 Summerdog Comes Home(By: George Albert Zabriskie) POoACB / 2 Buy
1981 A Hippopotamus Ate the Teacher(By: Mike Thaler) POoACB / 3 Buy
1981 Baseball Fever(By: Ray Cruz,Johanna Hurwitz) POoACB / 4 Buy
1981 The Trouble with Tuck(By: Theodore Taylor) POoACB / 5 Buy
1981 Ramona Quimby, Age 8 POoRQB / 6 Buy
1982 Ralph S. Mouse POoRSMB / 3 Buy
1982 Basic Fun(By: Susan Drake Lipscomb,Margaret Ann Zusnich) POoACB / 6 Buy
1982 Irma and Jerry(By: George Selden) POoACB / 7 Buy
1982 Young Love POoSN / 8 Buy
1983 Dear Mr. Henshaw POoLBB / 1 Buy
1983 Esp McGee(By: Edward Packard) POoACB / 8 Buy
1983 Tunnel to Yesterday(By: Jerome Beatty Jr.) POoACB / 9 Buy
1983 Bet You Can! Science Possibilities to Fool You(By: Vicki Cobb) POoACB / 10 Buy
1983 Rich Mitch(By: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat) POoACB / 11 Buy
1983 Summerdog(By: Thom Roberts) POoACB / 12 Buy
1983 Bet You Can't!(By: Kathy Darling,Vicki Cobb) POoACB / 13 Buy
1983 The Earth is Flat--And Other Great Mistakes(By: Laurence Pringle) POoACB / 14 Buy
1983 Behind the Attic Wall(By: Sylvia Cassedy) POoACB / 15 Buy
1984 Ramona Forever POoRQB / 7 Buy
1984 Lucky Chuck POoSN / 9 Buy
1984 Peggy Fleming: Portrait of an Iceskater(By: Bruce Curtis,Stephanie Young) POoACB / 16 Buy
1984 Gremlins(By: George Gipe) POoACB / 17 Buy
1984 Maura's Angel(By: Lynne Reid Banks) POoACB / 18 Buy
1985 The Jellyfish Season(By: Mary Downing Hahn) POoACB / 19 Buy
1985 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Book 1(By: Andrew Glass,Catherine Edwards Sadler) POoACB / 20 Buy
1985 Get Rich Mitch!(By: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat) POoACB / 21 Buy
1986 The Beezus and Ramona Diary POoRQNB / 1 Buy
1986 Two Dog Biscuits POoPB / 3 Buy
1986 Mystery of the Melted Diamonds(By: Carol Farley) POoACB / 22 Buy
1986 Ukrainian Egg Mystery(By: George E. Stanley) POoACB / 23 Buy
1986 Moroccan Mystery(By: Thomas McKean) POoACB / 24 Buy
1986 Ralph Fozbek and the Amazing Black Hole Patrol(By: Steve Senn) POoACB / 25 Buy
1986 Flash Fry, Private Eye(By: Tim Schoch) POoACB / 26 Buy
1986 The Anti-Peggy Plot(By: Thomas McKean) POoACB / 27 Buy
1987 Janet's Thingamajigs POoPB / 4 Buy
1987 The Growing-Up Feet POoPB / 5 Buy
1987 Best Joke Book for Kids 2(By: Joan Eckstein) POoACB / 28 Buy
1987 The Codebreaker Kids(By: George E. Stanley) POoACB / 29 Buy
1987 Summer Camp Creeps(By: Tim Schoch) POoACB / 30 Buy
1988 A Girl from Yamhill POoNB / 1 Buy
1988 The Case of the Lost Look-Alike(By: Carol Farley) POoACB / 31 Buy
1988 Breezy(By: Leda Blumberg) POoACB / 32 Buy
1988 Racing the Sun(By: Paul Pitts) POoACB / 33 Buy
1989 Here Come The Twins POoSN / 10 Buy
1989 The Twins Again POoSN / 11 Buy
1989 Mouse House Trio POoSN / 12 Buy
1989 Anne Frank(By: Johanna Hurwitz) POoACB / 34 Buy
1990 Muggie Maggie POoSN / 13 Buy
1990 The Case of the Vanishing Villain(By: Carol Farley) POoACB / 35 Buy
1990 Something Upstairs(By: C.S. Adler) POoACB / 36 Buy
1990 Ghost Brother(By: C.S. Adler) POoACB / 37 Buy
1990 A Haunting in Williamsburg(By: Lou Kassem) POoACB / 38 Buy
1991 Strider POoLBB / 2 Buy
1991 The Best Ever Kids' Book of Lists(By: Eugenie Allen) POoACB / 39 Buy
1992 Ask Me Anything About the Presidents(By: Louis Phillips) POoACB / 40 Buy
1992 The Adventures of King Midas(By: Lynne Reid Banks) POoACB / 41 Buy
1992 Tons of Trash(By: Joan Rattner Heilman) POoACB / 42 Buy
1992 Maria, a Christmas Story(By: Theodore Taylor) POoACB / 43 Buy
1993 Petey's Bedtime Story POoPB / 6 Buy
1993 Lucie Babbidge's House(By: Sylvia Cassedy) POoACB / 44 Buy
1993 How to Travel Through Time(By: James M. Deem) POoACB / 45 Buy
1993 Beardance(By: Will Hobbs) POoACB / 46 Buy
1993 Christmas Countdown(By: Steve Englehart) POoACB / 47 Buy
1994 Miss Yonkers Goes Bonkers(By: Mike Thaler) POoACB / 48 Buy
1994 Super Snoop Sam Snout and the Case of the Missing Marble(By: Anne C. Lemieux) POoACB / 49 Buy
1994 The Mummy's Curse(By: Daniel Cohen) POoACB / 50 Buy
1994 Lemonade Days(By: Susan Kirby) POoACB / 51 Buy
1994 Main Street(By: Susan Kirby) POoACB / 52 Buy
1994 Comet Luck(By: Madge Harrah) POoACB / 53 Buy
1994 Home Front Hero(By: Susan Kirby) POoACB / 54 Buy
1995 My Own Two Feet POoNB / 2 Buy
1995 Ali Baba Bernstein, Lost and Found(By: Johanna Hurwitz) POoACB / 55 Buy
1995 Kwanzaa(By: Mildred Pitts Walter) POoACB / 56 Buy
1995 Goodbye, Desert Rose(By: Susan Kirby) POoACB / 57 Buy
1995 Vampire Mom(By: Don Whittington) POoACB / 58 Buy
1995 Spookhouse(By: Don Whittington) POoACB / 60 Buy
1996 Harry the Poisonous Centipede(By: Lynne Reid Banks) POoACB / 61 Buy
1996 Going for the Gold: Shannon Miller(By: Septima Green) POoACB / 62 Buy
1996 Four Perfect Pebbles(By: Lila Perl,Marion Blumenthal Lazan) POoACB / 63 Buy
1996 Zombie Queen(By: Don Whittington) POoACB / 64 Buy
1996 Freak Show(By: Don Whittington) POoACB / 65 Buy
1996 Going to Net(By: Various) POoACB / 66 Buy
1997 Tracks in the Snow(By: Lucy Jane Bledsoe) POoACB / 67 Buy
1997 Danger Along the Ohio(By: Patricia Willis) POoACB / 68 Buy
1997 Lasting Echoes(By: Joseph Bruchac) POoACB / 69 Buy
1998 Night of the Chupacabras(By: Marie G. Lee) POoACB / 70 Buy
1998 As Ever, Gordy(By: Mary Downing Hahn) POoACB / 71 Buy
1998 No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War(By: Anita Lobel) POoACB / 72 Buy
1998 Becoming Felix(By: Nancy Hope Wilson) POoACB / 73 Buy
1998 Breakaway(By: Kimberley Griffiths Little) POoACB / 74 Buy
1998 Mischief, Mad Mary, and Me(By: Dawn Knight) POoACB / 75 Buy
1998 It's In Your Hands, Daisy P. Duckwitz(By: Jacqueline Shannon) POoACB / 76 Buy
1998 Leaving Summer(By: Donal Harding) POoACB / 77 Buy
1998 Flea Circus Summer(By: Cheryl Ware) POoACB / 78 Buy
1998 Calling Me Home(By: Patricia Hermes) POoACB / 79 Buy
1999 Ramona's World POoRQB / 8 Buy
1999 The Pizza That Time Forgot(By: William DeAndrea,Matthew Deandrea) POoACB / 80 Buy
1999 Love Me, Love My Broccoli(By: Julie Anne Peters) POoACB / 81 Buy
1999 Get on the Net(By: Robert Pondiscio) POoACB / 82 Buy
1999 Don't Try This at Home!(By: Vicki Cobb) POoACB / 83 Buy
1999 Bruce Coville's Shapeshifters(By: Bruce Coville) POoACB / 84 Buy
1999 A Kids' Guide to America's Bill of Rights(By: Kathleen Krull) POoACB / 85 Buy
1999 Bruce Coville's Alien Visitors(By: Bruce Coville) POoACB / 86 Buy
1999 Green Mango Magic(By: Sylvie Hossack) POoACB / 87 Buy
2000 All the Answers(By: Anne C. Lemieux) POoACB / 88 Buy
2000 Can of Worms(By: Kathy MacKel) POoACB / 89 Buy
2000 Orphan Journey Home(By: Liza Ketchum) POoACB / 90 Buy
2000 Bearstone(By: Will Hobbs) POoACB / 91 Buy
2000 Alice-by-Accident(By: Lynne Reid Banks) POoACB / 92 Buy
2000 Death at Devil's Bridge(By: Cynthia C. DeFelice) POoACB / 93 Buy
2003 Alice By Accident(By: Lynne Reid Banks) POoACB / 94 Buy
2005 Two Times the Fun POoSSC / 1 Buy
2013 Just for Me POoRQNB / 2 Buy

Complete Beverly Cleary Series Reading Order / browse all ->

Avon Camelot Reading Order 93 books / 1952-2003
01 Lottie & Lisa(By: Erich Kastner) 1952 Buy
02 Summerdog Comes Home(By: George Albert Zabriskie) 1980 Buy
03 A Hippopotamus Ate the Teacher(By: Mike Thaler) 1981 Buy
04 Baseball Fever(By: Ray Cruz,Johanna Hurwitz) 1981 Buy
05 The Trouble with Tuck(By: Theodore Taylor) 1981 Buy
06 Basic Fun(By: Susan Drake Lipscomb,Margaret Ann Zusnich) 1982 Buy
07 Irma and Jerry(By: George Selden) 1982 Buy
08 Esp McGee(By: Edward Packard) 1983 Buy
09 Tunnel to Yesterday(By: Jerome Beatty Jr.) 1983 Buy
10 Bet You Can! Science Possibilities to Fool You(By: Vicki Cobb) 1983 Buy
11 Rich Mitch(By: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat) 1983 Buy
12 Summerdog(By: Thom Roberts) 1983 Buy
13 Bet You Can't!(By: Kathy Darling,Vicki Cobb) 1983 Buy
14 The Earth is Flat--And Other Great Mistakes(By: Laurence Pringle) 1983 Buy
15 Behind the Attic Wall(By: Sylvia Cassedy) 1983 Buy
16 Peggy Fleming: Portrait of an Iceskater(By: Bruce Curtis,Stephanie Young) 1984 Buy
17 Gremlins(By: George Gipe) 1984 Buy
18 Maura's Angel(By: Lynne Reid Banks) 1984 Buy
19 The Jellyfish Season(By: Mary Downing Hahn) 1985 Buy
20 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Book 1(By: Andrew Glass,Catherine Edwards Sadler) 1985 Buy
21 Get Rich Mitch!(By: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat) 1985 Buy
22 Mystery of the Melted Diamonds(By: Carol Farley) 1986 Buy
23 Ukrainian Egg Mystery(By: George E. Stanley) 1986 Buy
24 Moroccan Mystery(By: Thomas McKean) 1986 Buy
25 Ralph Fozbek and the Amazing Black Hole Patrol(By: Steve Senn) 1986 Buy
26 Flash Fry, Private Eye(By: Tim Schoch) 1986 Buy
27 The Anti-Peggy Plot(By: Thomas McKean) 1986 Buy
28 Best Joke Book for Kids 2(By: Joan Eckstein) 1987 Buy
29 The Codebreaker Kids(By: George E. Stanley) 1987 Buy
30 Summer Camp Creeps(By: Tim Schoch) 1987 Buy
31 The Case of the Lost Look-Alike(By: Carol Farley) 1988 Buy
32 Breezy(By: Leda Blumberg) 1988 Buy
33 Racing the Sun(By: Paul Pitts) 1988 Buy
34 Anne Frank(By: Johanna Hurwitz) 1989 Buy
35 The Case of the Vanishing Villain(By: Carol Farley) 1990 Buy
36 Something Upstairs(By: C.S. Adler) 1990 Buy
37 Ghost Brother(By: C.S. Adler) 1990 Buy
38 A Haunting in Williamsburg(By: Lou Kassem) 1990 Buy
39 The Best Ever Kids' Book of Lists(By: Eugenie Allen) 1991 Buy
40 Ask Me Anything About the Presidents(By: Louis Phillips) 1992 Buy
41 The Adventures of King Midas(By: Lynne Reid Banks) 1992 Buy
42 Tons of Trash(By: Joan Rattner Heilman) 1992 Buy
43 Maria, a Christmas Story(By: Theodore Taylor) 1992 Buy
44 Lucie Babbidge's House(By: Sylvia Cassedy) 1993 Buy
45 How to Travel Through Time(By: James M. Deem) 1993 Buy
46 Beardance(By: Will Hobbs) 1993 Buy
47 Christmas Countdown(By: Steve Englehart) 1993 Buy
48 Miss Yonkers Goes Bonkers(By: Mike Thaler) 1994 Buy
49 Super Snoop Sam Snout and the Case of the Missing Marble(By: Anne C. Lemieux) 1994 Buy
50 The Mummy's Curse(By: Daniel Cohen) 1994 Buy
51 Lemonade Days(By: Susan Kirby) 1994 Buy
52 Main Street(By: Susan Kirby) 1994 Buy
53 Comet Luck(By: Madge Harrah) 1994 Buy
54 Home Front Hero(By: Susan Kirby) 1994 Buy
55 Ali Baba Bernstein, Lost and Found(By: Johanna Hurwitz) 1995 Buy
56 Kwanzaa(By: Mildred Pitts Walter) 1995 Buy
57 Goodbye, Desert Rose(By: Susan Kirby) 1995 Buy
58 Vampire Mom(By: Don Whittington) 1995 Buy
60 Spookhouse(By: Don Whittington) 1995 Buy
61 Harry the Poisonous Centipede(By: Lynne Reid Banks) 1996 Buy
62 Going for the Gold: Shannon Miller(By: Septima Green) 1996 Buy
63 Four Perfect Pebbles(By: Lila Perl,Marion Blumenthal Lazan) 1996 Buy
64 Zombie Queen(By: Don Whittington) 1996 Buy
65 Freak Show(By: Don Whittington) 1996 Buy
66 Going to Net(By: Various) 1996 Buy
67 Tracks in the Snow(By: Lucy Jane Bledsoe) 1997 Buy
68 Danger Along the Ohio(By: Patricia Willis) 1997 Buy
69 Lasting Echoes(By: Joseph Bruchac) 1997 Buy
70 Night of the Chupacabras(By: Marie G. Lee) 1998 Buy
71 As Ever, Gordy(By: Mary Downing Hahn) 1998 Buy
72 No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War(By: Anita Lobel) 1998 Buy
73 Becoming Felix(By: Nancy Hope Wilson) 1998 Buy
74 Breakaway(By: Kimberley Griffiths Little) 1998 Buy
75 Mischief, Mad Mary, and Me(By: Dawn Knight) 1998 Buy
76 It's In Your Hands, Daisy P. Duckwitz(By: Jacqueline Shannon) 1998 Buy
77 Leaving Summer(By: Donal Harding) 1998 Buy
78 Flea Circus Summer(By: Cheryl Ware) 1998 Buy
79 Calling Me Home(By: Patricia Hermes) 1998 Buy
80 The Pizza That Time Forgot(By: William DeAndrea,Matthew Deandrea) 1999 Buy
81 Love Me, Love My Broccoli(By: Julie Anne Peters) 1999 Buy
82 Get on the Net(By: Robert Pondiscio) 1999 Buy
83 Don't Try This at Home!(By: Vicki Cobb) 1999 Buy
84 Bruce Coville's Shapeshifters(By: Bruce Coville) 1999 Buy
85 A Kids' Guide to America's Bill of Rights(By: Kathleen Krull) 1999 Buy
86 Bruce Coville's Alien Visitors(By: Bruce Coville) 1999 Buy
87 Green Mango Magic(By: Sylvie Hossack) 1999 Buy
88 All the Answers(By: Anne C. Lemieux) 2000 Buy
89 Can of Worms(By: Kathy MacKel) 2000 Buy
90 Orphan Journey Home(By: Liza Ketchum) 2000 Buy
91 Bearstone(By: Will Hobbs) 2000 Buy
92 Alice-by-Accident(By: Lynne Reid Banks) 2000 Buy
93 Death at Devil's Bridge(By: Cynthia C. DeFelice) 2000 Buy
94 Alice By Accident(By: Lynne Reid Banks) 2003 Buy
Picture Reading Order 6 books / 1960-1993
01 The Hullabaloo ABC 1960 Buy
02 The Real Hole 1960 Buy
03 Two Dog Biscuits 1986 Buy
04 Janet's Thingamajigs 1987 Buy
05 The Growing-Up Feet 1987 Buy
06 Petey's Bedtime Story 1993 Buy
Henry Huggins Reading Order 6 books / 1950-1964
01 Henry Huggins 1950 Buy
02 Henry and Beezus 1952 Buy
03 Henry and Ribsy 1953 Buy
04 Henry and the Paper Route 1957 Buy
05 Henry and the Clubhouse 1962 Buy
06 Ribsy 1964 Buy
Leigh Botts Reading Order 2 books / 1983-1991
01 Dear Mr. Henshaw 1983 Buy
02 Strider 1991 Buy
01 Two Times the Fun 2005 Buy
01 The Beezus and Ramona Diary 1986 Buy
02 Just for Me 2013 Buy
Non-Fiction Reading Order 2 books / 1988-1995
01 A Girl from Yamhill 1988 Buy
02 My Own Two Feet 1995 Buy
Standalone Reading Order 13 books / 1961-1990
01 Beaver and Wally 1961 Buy
02 Emily's Runaway Imagination 1961 Buy
03 Here's Beaver! 1961 Buy
04 Ribsy and the P.T.A. 1963 Buy
05 Mitch and Amy 1967 Buy
06 Socks 1973 Buy
07 Leave It to Beaver 1978 Buy
08 Young Love 1982 Buy
09 Lucky Chuck 1984 Buy
10 Here Come The Twins 1989 Buy
11 The Twins Again 1989 Buy
12 Mouse House Trio 1989 Buy
13 Muggie Maggie 1990 Buy
First Love Reading Order 4 books / 1956-1963
01 Fifteen 1956 Buy
02 The Luckiest Girl 1958 Buy
03 Jean and Johnny 1959 Buy
04 Sister of the Bride 1963 Buy
Ralph S. Mouse Reading Order 3 books / 1965-1982
01 The Mouse and the Motorcycle 1965 Buy
02 Runaway Ralph 1970 Buy
03 Ralph S. Mouse 1982 Buy
Ellen & Otis Reading Order 2 books / 1951-1953
01 Ellen Tebbits 1951 Buy
02 Otis Spofford 1953 Buy
Ramona Quimby Reading Order 8 books / 1955-1999
01 Beezus and Ramona 1955 Buy
02 Ramona the Pest 1968 Buy
03 Ramona the Brave 1975 Buy
04 Ramona and Her Father 1977 Buy
05 Ramona and Her Mother 1979 Buy
06 Ramona Quimby, Age 8 1981 Buy
07 Ramona Forever 1984 Buy
08 Ramona's World 1999 Buy

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