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Updated 2026-07-11 / 146 books / 14 series
Australian author John Birmingham is best known for his apocalyptic *Axis of Time* series and the *Dave Hooper* urban fantasy novels. His books have sold over a million copies worldwide. This page provides the John Birmingham books in order, including both chronological order and series reading order.
Books by John Birmingham in Publication Order
1994
He Died with a Felafel in His Hand
POoNB / 1
Buy
1995
How to be a Man
POoNB / 2
Buy
1996
The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco
POoSN / 1
Buy
1999
Leviathan: The Unauthorised Biography of Sydney
POoNB / 3
Buy
2001
In Denial(By: Robert Manne)
POoQEB / 1
Buy
2001
Regions of Thick-Ribbed Ice(By: Helen Garner)
POoSBB / 1
Buy
2001
Appeasing Jakarta
POoQEB / 2
Buy
2001
The Opportunist(By: Guy Rundle)
POoQEB / 3
Buy
2001
Rabbit Syndrome(By: Don Watson)
POoQEB / 4
Buy
2002
Off One's Tits: Ill-Considered Rants And Raves from a Graceless Oaf Named John Birmingham
POoNB / 4
Buy
2002
Beyond Belief(By: John Button)
POoQEB / 5
Buy
2002
Girt By Sea(By: Mungo MacCallum)
POoQEB / 6
Buy
2002
Paradise Betrayed(By: John Martinkus)
POoQEB / 7
Buy
2002
Groundswell(By: Amanda Lohrey)
POoQEB / 8
Buy
2003
Dopeland; Taking The High Road Through Australia's Marijuana Culture
POoNB / 5
Buy
2003
Beautiful Lies(By: Tim Flannery)
POoQEB / 9
Buy
2003
Bad Company(By: Gideon Haigh)
POoQEB / 10
Buy
2003
Whitefella Jump Up(By: Germaine Greer)
POoQEB / 11
Buy
2003
Made in England(By: David Malouf)
POoQEB / 12
Buy
2004
Weapons of Choice
POoAOTB / 1
Buy
2004
Sending Them Home(By: Robert Manne,David Corlett)
POoQEB / 13
Buy
2004
Mission Impossible(By: Paul McGeough)
POoQEB / 14
Buy
2004
Latham's World(By: Margaret Simons)
POoQEB / 15
Buy
2004
Breach of Trust(By: Raimond Gaita)
POoQEB / 16
Buy
2005
Designated Targets
POoAOTB / 2
Buy
2005
Kangaroo Court(By: John Hirst)
POoQEB / 17
Buy
2005
The Worried Well(By: Gail Bell)
POoQEB / 18
Buy
2005
Relaxed and Comfortable(By: Judith Brett)
POoQEB / 19
Buy
2005
A Time for War
POoQEB / 20
Buy
2006
Final Impact
POoAOTB / 3
Buy
2006
What's Left?(By: Clive Hamilton)
POoQEB / 21
Buy
2006
Voting for Jesus(By: Amanda Lohrey)
POoQEB / 22
Buy
2006
The History Question(By: Inga Clendinnen)
POoQEB / 23
Buy
2007
His Master's Voice(By: David Marr)
POoQEB / 24
Buy
2007
Bipolar Nation(By: Peter Hartcher)
POoQEB / 25
Buy
2007
Reaction Time(By: Ian Lowe)
POoQEB / 26
Buy
2007
Exit Right(By: Ian Lowe)
POoQEB / 27
Buy
2008
Here Be Monsters
POoSS / 1
Buy
2008
Love & Money(By: Anne Manne)
POoQEB / 28
Buy
2008
Last Drinks(By: Paul Toohey)
POoQEB / 29
Buy
2008
American Revolution(By: Kate Jennings)
POoQEB / 30
Buy
2008
Now or Never(By: Tim Flannery)
POoQEB / 31
Buy
2009
Without Warning
POoTDB / 1
Buy
2009
Quarry Vision(By: Guy Pearse)
POoQEB / 32
Buy
2009
Radical Hope(By: Noel Pearson)
POoQEB / 33
Buy
2009
Australian Story(By: Mungo MacCallum)
POoQEB / 34
Buy
2010
After America
POoTDB / 2
Buy
2010
What's Right?(By: Waleed Aly)
POoQEB / 35
Buy
2010
Power Trip(By: David Marr)
POoQEB / 36
Buy
2010
Power Shift(By: HughWhite)
POoQEB / 37
Buy
2010
Trivial Pursuit(By: George Megalogenis)
POoQEB / 38
Buy
2011
A Captain of the Gate
POoSS / 2
Buy
2011
The Happy Life(By: David Malouf)
POoQEB / 39
Buy
2011
Fair Share(By: Judith Brett)
POoQEB / 40
Buy
2011
Bad News(By: Robert Manne)
POoQEB / 41
Buy
2011
Man-Made World(By: Andrew Charlton)
POoQEB / 42
Buy
2012
Rome
POoAOTSHB / 1
Buy
2012
Angels Of Vengeance
POoTDB / 3
Buy
2012
Us and Them(By: Anna Krien)
POoQEB / 43
Buy
2012
After The Future(By: Tim Flannery)
POoQEB / 44
Buy
2013
Not Dead Yet(By: Mark Latham)
POoQEB / 45
Buy
2013
Unfinished Business(By: Anna Goldsworthy)
POoQEB / 46
Buy
2013
Great Expectations(By: Laura Tingle)
POoQEB / 47
Buy
2013
The Prince(By: David Marr)
POoQEB / 48
Buy
2013
Found in Translation(By: Linda Jaivin)
POoQEB / 49
Buy
2014
Emergence
POoDvTMB / 1
Buy
2014
That Sinking Feeling(By: Paul Toohey)
POoQEB / 50
Buy
2014
Dragon's Tail(By: Andrew Charlton)
POoQEB / 51
Buy
2014
A Rightful Place(By: Noel Pearson)
POoQEB / 52
Buy
2014
Clivosaurus(By: Guy Rundle)
POoQEB / 53
Buy
2015
Prosper: A Voyage at Sea(By: Simon Leys)
POoSBB / 2
Buy
2015
Resistance
POoDvTMB / 2
Buy
2015
The One Day(By: David Malouf)
POoSBB / 3
Buy
2015
Ascendance
POoDvTMB / 3
Buy
2015
The Brave Ones
POoSBB / 4
Buy
2015
Cypherpunk Revolutionary: On Julian Assange(By: Robert Manne)
POoSBB / 5
Buy
2015
Dear Life(By: Karen Hitchcock)
POoQEB / 54
Buy
2015
Blood Year(By: David Kilcullen)
POoQEB / 55
Buy
2015
Faction Man(By: David Marr)
POoQEB / 56
Buy
2015
Political Amnesia(By: Laura Tingle)
POoQEB / 57
Buy
2016
A Girl in Time
POoAGiTB / 1
Buy
2016
Cairo
POoAOTSHB / 2
Buy
2016
Paris
POoAOTSHB / 3
Buy
2016
Soul Full of Guns
POoDvTMB / 4
Buy
2016
A Protocol for Monsters
POoDvTMB / 5
Buy
2016
How to Be a Writer
POoNB / 6
Buy
2016
Balancing Act(By: George Megalogenis)
POoQEB / 58
Buy
2016
Stop at Nothing(By: Annabel Crabb)
POoQEB / 59
Buy
2016
Firing Line(By: James Brown)
POoQEB / 60
Buy
2016
Enemy Within(By: Don Watson)
POoQEB / 61
Buy
2016
The Australian Dream(By: Stan Grant)
POoQEB / 62
Buy
2017
The Demons of Butte Crack County
POoDvTMB / 6
Buy
2017
The White Queen(By: David Marr)
POoQEB / 63
Buy
2017
The Long Goodbye(By: Anna Krien)
POoQEB / 64
Buy
2017
Moral Panic 101(By: Benjamin Law)
POoQEB / 65
Buy
2017
Without America(By: HughWhite)
POoQEB / 66
Buy
2018
The Golden Minute
POoAGiTB / 2
Buy
2018
Fortune and Glory
POoSS / 3
Buy
2018
Stranger Thingies: From Felafel to Now
POoNB / 7
Buy
2018
The Seven Stages of Drinking Martinis.
POoNB / 8
Buy
2018
Moment of Truth(By: Mark McKenna)
POoQEB / 67
Buy
2018
Dead Right(By: Richard Denniss)
POoQEB / 68
Buy
2018
Follow the Leader(By: Laura Tingle)
POoQEB / 69
Buy
2018
Net Loss(By: Sebastian Smee)
POoQEB / 70
Buy
2019
The Cruel Stars
POoTCSB / 1
Buy
2019
On Father
POoNB / 9
Buy
2019
Australia Fair(By: Rebecca Huntley)
POoQEB / 71
Buy
2019
The Prosperity Gospel(By: Erik Jensen)
POoQEB / 72
Buy
2019
Men at Work(By: Annabel Crabb)
POoQEB / 73
Buy
2019
Red Flag(By: Peter Hartcher)
POoQEB / 74
Buy
2020
Cry Me a River(By: Margaret Simons)
POoQEB / 75
Buy
2020
The Coal Curse(By: Judith Brett)
POoQEB / 76
Buy
2020
The End of Certainty(By: Katharine Murphy)
POoQEB / 77
Buy
2020
The High Road(By: Laura Tingle)
POoQEB / 78
Buy
2021
Sleeper Agent
POoSAB / 1
Buy
2021
Zero Day Code
POoEoDB / 1
Buy
2021
Fail State
POoEoDB / 2
Buy
2021
Getting to Zero(By: Colin James,Frank Bongiorno,Shireen Morris,John Quiggin,AndrewLeigh,Laura Tingle,Alan Finkel,AlanAtkinson,Bain Attwood,Tim Hazledine,MirandaJohnson,Ben McKay,Hugh Riminton,DonRussell)
POoQEB / 79
Buy
2021
Exit Strategy(By: George Megalogenis)
POoQEB / 80
Buy
2021
Top Blokes(By: Lech Blaine)
POoQEB / 81
Buy
2021
The Reckoning(By: Jess Hill)
POoQEB / 82
Buy
2022
The Shattered Skies
POoTCSB / 2
Buy
2022
American Kill Switch
POoEoDB / 3
Buy
2022
Not Waving, Drowning(By: Sarah Krasnostein)
POoQEB / 83
Buy
2022
Sleepwalk to War(By: HughWhite)
POoQEB / 84
Buy
2022
Uncivil Wars(By: Waleed Aly,ScottStephens)
POoQEB / 85
Buy
2022
Lone Wolf(By: Katharine Murphy)
POoQEB / 86
Buy
2023
World War 3.1
POoAoTRB / 1
Buy
2023
The Wires That Bind(By: Saul Griffith)
POoQEB / 87
Buy
2023
Voice of Reason(By: MeganDavis)
POoQEB / 88
Buy
2023
Lifeboat(By: Micheline Lee)
POoQEB / 89
Buy
2023
The Great Divide(By: Alan Kohler)
POoQEB / 90
Buy
2024
Vengeance
POoSAB / 2
Buy
2024
The Forever Dead
POoTCSB / 3
Buy
2024
The Javan War(With: Jason Lambright)
POoTCSB / 4
Buy
2024
Bad Cop(By: Stephen Smith)
POoQEB / 91
Buy
2024
Highway to Hell(By: Jo’lle Gergis)
POoQEB / 92
Buy
2024
High Noon(By: Don Watson)
POoQEB / 93
Buy
2024
Minority Report(By: George Megalogenis)
POoQEB / 94
Buy
2025
World War 3.2: The Axis of Time
POoAoTRB / 2
Buy
2025
Losing It(By: Jess Hill)
POoQEB / 95
Buy
2025
Hard New World(By: HughWhite)
POoQEB / 96
Buy
2025
Woodside vs the Planet(By: Marian Wilkinson)
POoQEB / 97
Buy
2025
The Good Fight(By: Sean Kelly)
POoQEB / 98
Buy
2026
World War 3.3
POoAoTRB / 3
Buy
2026
On Australia and Asia(By: Michael Wesley)
POoQEB / 99
Buy
Complete John Birmingham Series Reading Order /
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01
World War 3.1
2023
Buy
02
World War 3.2: The Axis of Time
2025
Buy
03
World War 3.3
2026
Buy
04
Soul Full of Guns
2016
Buy
05
A Protocol for Monsters
2016
Buy
06
The Demons of Butte Crack County
2017
Buy
01
A Girl in Time
2016
Buy
02
The Golden Minute
2018
Buy
01
Without Warning
2009
Buy
02
After America
2010
Buy
03
Angels Of Vengeance
2012
Buy
01
In Denial(By: Robert Manne)
2001
Buy
02
Appeasing Jakarta
2001
Buy
03
The Opportunist(By: Guy Rundle)
2001
Buy
04
Rabbit Syndrome(By: Don Watson)
2001
Buy
05
Beyond Belief(By: John Button)
2002
Buy
06
Girt By Sea(By: Mungo MacCallum)
2002
Buy
07
Paradise Betrayed(By: John Martinkus)
2002
Buy
08
Groundswell(By: Amanda Lohrey)
2002
Buy
09
Beautiful Lies(By: Tim Flannery)
2003
Buy
10
Bad Company(By: Gideon Haigh)
2003
Buy
11
Whitefella Jump Up(By: Germaine Greer)
2003
Buy
12
Made in England(By: David Malouf)
2003
Buy
13
Sending Them Home(By: Robert Manne,David Corlett)
2004
Buy
14
Mission Impossible(By: Paul McGeough)
2004
Buy
15
Latham's World(By: Margaret Simons)
2004
Buy
16
Breach of Trust(By: Raimond Gaita)
2004
Buy
17
Kangaroo Court(By: John Hirst)
2005
Buy
18
The Worried Well(By: Gail Bell)
2005
Buy
19
Relaxed and Comfortable(By: Judith Brett)
2005
Buy
20
A Time for War
2005
Buy
21
What's Left?(By: Clive Hamilton)
2006
Buy
22
Voting for Jesus(By: Amanda Lohrey)
2006
Buy
23
The History Question(By: Inga Clendinnen)
2006
Buy
24
His Master's Voice(By: David Marr)
2007
Buy
25
Bipolar Nation(By: Peter Hartcher)
2007
Buy
26
Reaction Time(By: Ian Lowe)
2007
Buy
27
Exit Right(By: Ian Lowe)
2007
Buy
28
Love & Money(By: Anne Manne)
2008
Buy
29
Last Drinks(By: Paul Toohey)
2008
Buy
30
American Revolution(By: Kate Jennings)
2008
Buy
31
Now or Never(By: Tim Flannery)
2008
Buy
32
Quarry Vision(By: Guy Pearse)
2009
Buy
33
Radical Hope(By: Noel Pearson)
2009
Buy
34
Australian Story(By: Mungo MacCallum)
2009
Buy
35
What's Right?(By: Waleed Aly)
2010
Buy
36
Power Trip(By: David Marr)
2010
Buy
37
Power Shift(By: HughWhite)
2010
Buy
38
Trivial Pursuit(By: George Megalogenis)
2010
Buy
39
The Happy Life(By: David Malouf)
2011
Buy
40
Fair Share(By: Judith Brett)
2011
Buy
41
Bad News(By: Robert Manne)
2011
Buy
42
Man-Made World(By: Andrew Charlton)
2011
Buy
43
Us and Them(By: Anna Krien)
2012
Buy
44
After The Future(By: Tim Flannery)
2012
Buy
45
Not Dead Yet(By: Mark Latham)
2013
Buy
46
Unfinished Business(By: Anna Goldsworthy)
2013
Buy
47
Great Expectations(By: Laura Tingle)
2013
Buy
48
The Prince(By: David Marr)
2013
Buy
49
Found in Translation(By: Linda Jaivin)
2013
Buy
50
That Sinking Feeling(By: Paul Toohey)
2014
Buy
51
Dragon's Tail(By: Andrew Charlton)
2014
Buy
52
A Rightful Place(By: Noel Pearson)
2014
Buy
53
Clivosaurus(By: Guy Rundle)
2014
Buy
54
Dear Life(By: Karen Hitchcock)
2015
Buy
55
Blood Year(By: David Kilcullen)
2015
Buy
56
Faction Man(By: David Marr)
2015
Buy
57
Political Amnesia(By: Laura Tingle)
2015
Buy
58
Balancing Act(By: George Megalogenis)
2016
Buy
59
Stop at Nothing(By: Annabel Crabb)
2016
Buy
60
Firing Line(By: James Brown)
2016
Buy
61
Enemy Within(By: Don Watson)
2016
Buy
62
The Australian Dream(By: Stan Grant)
2016
Buy
63
The White Queen(By: David Marr)
2017
Buy
64
The Long Goodbye(By: Anna Krien)
2017
Buy
65
Moral Panic 101(By: Benjamin Law)
2017
Buy
66
Without America(By: HughWhite)
2017
Buy
67
Moment of Truth(By: Mark McKenna)
2018
Buy
68
Dead Right(By: Richard Denniss)
2018
Buy
69
Follow the Leader(By: Laura Tingle)
2018
Buy
70
Net Loss(By: Sebastian Smee)
2018
Buy
71
Australia Fair(By: Rebecca Huntley)
2019
Buy
72
The Prosperity Gospel(By: Erik Jensen)
2019
Buy
73
Men at Work(By: Annabel Crabb)
2019
Buy
74
Red Flag(By: Peter Hartcher)
2019
Buy
75
Cry Me a River(By: Margaret Simons)
2020
Buy
76
The Coal Curse(By: Judith Brett)
2020
Buy
77
The End of Certainty(By: Katharine Murphy)
2020
Buy
78
The High Road(By: Laura Tingle)
2020
Buy
79
Getting to Zero(By: Colin James,Frank Bongiorno,Shireen Morris,John Quiggin,AndrewLeigh,Laura Tingle,Alan Finkel,AlanAtkinson,Bain Attwood,Tim Hazledine,MirandaJohnson,Ben McKay,Hugh Riminton,DonRussell)
2021
Buy
80
Exit Strategy(By: George Megalogenis)
2021
Buy
81
Top Blokes(By: Lech Blaine)
2021
Buy
82
The Reckoning(By: Jess Hill)
2021
Buy
83
Not Waving, Drowning(By: Sarah Krasnostein)
2022
Buy
84
Sleepwalk to War(By: HughWhite)
2022
Buy
85
Uncivil Wars(By: Waleed Aly,ScottStephens)
2022
Buy
86
Lone Wolf(By: Katharine Murphy)
2022
Buy
87
The Wires That Bind(By: Saul Griffith)
2023
Buy
88
Voice of Reason(By: MeganDavis)
2023
Buy
89
Lifeboat(By: Micheline Lee)
2023
Buy
90
The Great Divide(By: Alan Kohler)
2023
Buy
91
Bad Cop(By: Stephen Smith)
2024
Buy
92
Highway to Hell(By: Jo’lle Gergis)
2024
Buy
93
High Noon(By: Don Watson)
2024
Buy
94
Minority Report(By: George Megalogenis)
2024
Buy
95
Losing It(By: Jess Hill)
2025
Buy
96
Hard New World(By: HughWhite)
2025
Buy
97
Woodside vs the Planet(By: Marian Wilkinson)
2025
Buy
98
The Good Fight(By: Sean Kelly)
2025
Buy
99
On Australia and Asia(By: Michael Wesley)
2026
Buy
01
Here Be Monsters
2008
Buy
02
A Captain of the Gate
2011
Buy
03
Fortune and Glory
2018
Buy
01
The Cruel Stars
2019
Buy
02
The Shattered Skies
2022
Buy
03
The Forever Dead
2024
Buy
04
The Javan War(With: Jason Lambright)
2024
Buy
01
Regions of Thick-Ribbed Ice(By: Helen Garner)
2001
Buy
02
Prosper: A Voyage at Sea(By: Simon Leys)
2015
Buy
03
The One Day(By: David Malouf)
2015
Buy
04
The Brave Ones
2015
Buy
05
Cypherpunk Revolutionary: On Julian Assange(By: Robert Manne)
2015
Buy
01
Zero Day Code
2021
Buy
03
American Kill Switch
2022
Buy
01
Sleeper Agent
2021
Buy
01
Weapons of Choice
2004
Buy
02
Designated Targets
2005
Buy
01
He Died with a Felafel in His Hand
1994
Buy
02
How to be a Man
1995
Buy
03
Leviathan: The Unauthorised Biography of Sydney
1999
Buy
04
Off One's Tits: Ill-Considered Rants And Raves from a Graceless Oaf Named John Birmingham
2002
Buy
05
Dopeland; Taking The High Road Through Australia's Marijuana Culture
2003
Buy
06
How to Be a Writer
2016
Buy
07
Stranger Thingies: From Felafel to Now
2018
Buy
08
The Seven Stages of Drinking Martinis.
2018
Buy
01
The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco
1996
Buy
Where to start with John Birmingham
What is the best order to read John Birmingham books?
Publication order is usually the safest place to start. If a book belongs to a series,
follow the numbered series reading order shown on this page.
Are standalone books and series both included?
Yes. Standalone titles appear in the full chronological bibliography, and series are
broken out separately with reading-order links when catalog data is available.
Source note: Sequencebooks organizes author, book, and series records from its catalog data.
Publication years and series order are shown when available.