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Stephanie Plum Reading Order
Stephanie Plum by Janet Evanovich has 31 main books (1994–2024), plus 4 novella or companions. Start with One for the Money (1994) and read the numbered books in order.
Stephanie Plum books in order
Your reading speed
- 5 h 36 min
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- 6 h 10 min
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Main books together: 10,167 pages, about 178 h 2 min at 238 words per minute.
Page counts: median across editions on Open Library. Times assume about 250 words per page. How we calculate.
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Stephanie Plum: common questions
- How many books are in the Stephanie Plum series?
- There are 31 main books in Stephanie Plum, plus 4 novella or companion books. The most recent main book listed here is Now or Never (2024).
- What order should I read Stephanie Plum in?
- Read Stephanie Plum in its numbered order: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly, Four to Score, and so on.
- What is the first Stephanie Plum book?
- The first book is One for the Money by Janet Evanovich, published in 1994.
- How long does it take to read the whole Stephanie Plum series?
- The 31 main books add up to about 10,167 pages (median edition lengths). At 238 words per minute that is about 178 hours of reading, or about 357 days at 30 minutes a day.
- Do I need to read the Stephanie Plum novellas?
- The 4 novella or companion books (Visions of Sugar Plums, Plum Lovin', Plum Lucky, Plum Spooky) sit outside the main numbering. You can follow the main story without them; their numbers (like 0.5 or 2.5) show where they fit between the main books.