Order of Lemony Snicket Books

Lemony Snicket is the pen name of American author Daniel Handler. Lemony Snicket is also a character who acts as a narrator in the novels he appears in. He is best known for the A Series of Unfortunate Events children’s series.

Daniel Handler’s first novel was The Basic Eight in 1999. The Lemony Snicket pseudonym would make its debut with The Bad Beginning (the first book in A Series of Unfortunate Events) that same year. Below is a list of Lemony Snicket’s books in order of when they were originally released (and in chronological order):

Publication Order of Of Unfortunate Events Books

The Bad Beginning	(1999)
The Reptile Room	(1999)
The Wide Window	(2000)
The Miserable Mill	(2000)
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 Of Unfortunate Events Companion Books

Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography	(2002)
The Blank Book	(2004)
Behind the Scenes with Count Olaf	(2004)
The Notorious Notations	(2006)
The Beatrice Letters	(2006)
Horseradish	(2007)

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

File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents

(2014)

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

The Composer Is Dead	(2009)
Poison for Breakfast	(2021)
Model Citizens (As: Daniel Handler)	(2022)

Publication Order of Picture Books

Baby in the Manger	(2007)
The Latke Who Couldn'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 Little Lit Books

Little Lit: Folklore and Fairy Tale Funnies (By: Art Spiegelman)	(2000)
Strange Stories for Strange Kids (By: Paul Auster,Art Spiegelman,,David Sedaris)	(2001)
It Was a Dark and Silly Night... (With: Neil Gaiman,,,Art Spiegelman,,,William Joyce)	(2003)
Big Fat Little Lit (With: Neil Gaiman,Maurice Sendak,Art Spiegelman,,,,David Sedaris,Daniel Clowes)	(2006)

Publication Order of Anthologies

It Was a Dark and Silly Night...	(2003)
Big Fat Little Lit	(2006)

Notes: The Wide Window was also published as Disappearance!. The Basic Eight, Watch Your Mouth, Adverbs and Why We Broke Up were written under his real name of Daniel Handler.

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One Response to “Order of Lemony Snicket Books”

1. Libby: 8 years ago

   Fantaticalicious author! I can’t get enough.

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