Order of Daniel Handler Books

Daniel Handler is an American author who is well known by the pen name of Lemony Snicket and the A Series of Unfortunate Events series. After the end of that series, he began publishing novels under his own name and has had some great success in doing so.

In addition to his writing, he’s also written criticism that has appeared in The New York Times, Newsday, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Believer. For The Believer he has a column exploring the Nobel Prize in Literature titled “What The Swedes Read.”

Publication Order of A Series Of Unfortunate Events Books

The Bad Beginning	(1999)
The Reptile Room	(1999)
The Wide Window	(1999)
The Miserable Mill	(1999)
The Austere Academy	(2000)
The Ersatz Elevator	(2001)
The Vile Village	(2001)
The Hostile Hospital	(2001)
The Carnivorous Carnival	(2002)
The Slippery Slope	(2003)
The Grim Grotto	(2004)
The Penultimate Peril	(2005)
The End	(2006)

Publication Order of All The Wrong Questions Books

Who Could That Be At This Hour?	(2012)
When Did You See Her Last?	(2013)
Shouldn't You Be in School?	(2014)
Why is This Night Different from All Other Nights?	(2015)

Publication Order of All The Wrong Questions Collections

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(2014)

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

The Basic Eight	(1999)
Watch Your Mouth	(2000)
Adverbs	(2006)
The Composer is Dead	(2008)
Why We Broke Up	(2011)
We Are Pirates	(2015)
All the Dirty Parts	(2017)
Bottle Grove: A Novel	(2019)

Publication Order of Picture Books

Baby in the Manger	(2007)
The Latke Who Wouldn't Stop Screaming	(2007)
The Lump of Coal	(2008)
13 Words	(2010)
The Dark	(2013)
29 Myths on the Swinster Pharmacy	(2014)

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

The Unauthorized Autobiography	(2002)
The Blank Book	(2004)
Behind the Scenes with Count Olaf	(2004)
The Notorious Notations	(2006)
The Beatrice Letters	(2006)
Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid	(2007)
The Puzzling Puzzles	(2007)

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Bottle Grove: A Novel is Handler’s tale of two couples, two marriages, a bar, and a San Francisco start-up. The story begins with a wedding in a San Francisco forest. In the corner is Padgett, drinking vodka from a cough-syrup bottle. The two at the altar are the Nickels with the bride being emphatic to change her name and leave her old life behind. The story is dark comedy about two unions, one forged of love and the other made of greed, and the forces that can drive couples together and apart. Adding an ominous shape-shifter to the story makes this book strange and delightful, while wholly unique.

Daniel Handler is also the author of Why We Broke Up. This book sees Min Green writing a letter to Ed Slaterton to tell him why the book up. She puts it inside of a box with two bottle caps, a movie ticket, a folded note, a box of matches, a protractor, books, a toy truck, a pair of ugly earrings, a comb from a motel room, and every other item collected over the course of their relationship. The items are illustrated and accounted for in the letter, and then the letter and the box will be dumped. Just like their relationship.