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Daniel Handler

Daniel Handler is an American writer famously known by his pen name, Lemony Snicket, particularly for the A Series of Unfortunate Events series. Following the conclusion of that series, he started releasing novels under his own name and has achieved notable success. Besides his fiction, he has contributed criticism to publications such as The New York Times, Newsday, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Believer. In The Believer, he writes a column called “What The Swedes Read,” which delves into the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Daniel Handler became a published novelist in 1999 with the novel The Bad Beginning. Below is a list of Daniel Handler's books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of A Series Of Unfortunate Events Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
The Bad Beginning (1999) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Reptile Room (1999) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Wide Window (2000) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Miserable Mill (2000) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Austere Academy (2000) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Ersatz Elevator (2001) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Vile Village (2001) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Hostile Hospital (2001) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Carnivorous Carnival (2002) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Slippery Slope (2003) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Grim Grotto (2004) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Penultimate Peril (2005) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The End (2006) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of All the Wrong Questions Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Who Could That Be at This Hour? (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
When Did You See Her Last? (2013) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Shouldn't You Be in School? (2014) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights? (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of All The Wrong Questions Collections Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents (2014) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Standalone Novels Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
The Basic Eight (1999) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Watch Your Mouth (2000) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Adverbs (2006) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Composer Is Dead (As: Lemony Snicket) (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Why We Broke Up (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
We Are Pirates (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
All the Dirty Parts (2017) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Bottle Grove (2019) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
And Then? And Then? What Else? (2024) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Picture Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Baby in the Manger (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Lump of Coal (2008) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
13 Words (2010) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Dark (2013) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
29 Myths on the Swinster Pharmacy (2014) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Bad Mood and the Stick (2017) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of A Series Of Unfortunate Events Companion Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography (2002) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Blank Book (2004) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Behind the Scenes with Count Olaf (2004) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Notorious Notations (2006) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Beatrice Letters (2006) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Horseradish (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Lemony Snicket Collections Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Read Something Else: Collected & Dubious Wit & Wisdom of Lemony Snicket (2019) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Lemony Snicket Picture Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Baby in the Manger (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Lump of Coal (2008) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
13 Words (2010) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Dark (2013) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
29 Myths on the Swinster Pharmacy (2014) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Goldfish Ghost (2017) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Bad Mood and the Stick (2017) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Anthologies Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
It Was a Dark and Silly Night... (2003) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Cabinet 24: Shadows (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Half-Minute Horrors (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Chronicles of Harris Burdick (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Radio Silence (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Who Done It? (2013) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
One Minute till Bedtime (2016) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Creativity Project (2018) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Tales of Ruma (2018) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The End of the Golden Gate (2021) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

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