Reading order · Mystery & thriller
The Cat Who Reading Order
The Cat Who by Lilian Jackson Braun has 29 main books (1966–2007). Start with The Cat Who Could Read Backwards (1966) and read the numbered books in order.
The Cat Who books in order
Your reading speed
- 4 h 17 min
- 3 h 38 min
- 3 h 28 min
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- 4 h 35 min
- 3 h 54 min
- 3 h 49 min
- 4 h 1 min
- 3 h 38 min
- 3 h 54 min
- 4 h 11 min
- 4 h 12 min
- 4 h 49 min
- 4 h 34 min
- 4 h 53 min
- 4 h 23 min
- 4 h 29 min
- 4 h 44 min
- 5 h 3 min
- 4 h 27 min
- 4 h 33 min
- 4 h 45 min
- 4 h 15 min
- 4 h 1 min
- 3 h 57 min
- 4 h 54 min
- 3 h 10 min
- 4 h 54 min
- 3 h 57 min
- 3 h 21 min
Main books together: 7,013 pages, about 122 h 46 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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The Cat Who: common questions
- How many books are in the The Cat Who series?
- There are 29 main books in The Cat Who. The most recent main book listed here is The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers (2007).
- What order should I read The Cat Who in?
- Read The Cat Who in its numbered order: The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern, The Cat Who Turned On and Off, The Cat Who Saw Red, and so on.
- What is the first The Cat Who book?
- The first book is The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun, published in 1966.
- How long does it take to read the whole The Cat Who series?
- The 29 main books add up to about 7,013 pages (median edition lengths). At 238 words per minute that is about 123 hours of reading, or about 246 days at 30 minutes a day.