James Bond books in order

The books

1. 1

   Casino Royale 1953 3.5 h

   Introducing James Bond: charming, sophisticated, handsome, chillingly ruthless and licensed to kill.

2. 2

   Live and Let Die 1954 4.7 h

   Beautiful, fortune-telling Solitaire is the prisoner (and tool) of Mr Big - master of fear, artist in crime and Voodoo Baron of Death.

3. 3

   Moonraker 1955 4.7 h

   Flamboyant red cropped hair, florid skin, eyes blazing with hate— This Is the Face of Hugo Drax, The Mystery Man Behind Moonraker.

4. 4

   Diamonds Are Forever 1956 4.5 h

   "Listen, Bond," said Tiffany Case.

5. 5

   From Russia, with Love 1957 4.7 h

   James Bond is marked for death by the Soviet counterintelligence agency SMERSH in Ian Fleming’s masterful spy thriller, and the novel that President John F. Kennedy named one of…

6. 6

   Doctor No 1958 4.4 h

   The sixth James Bond thriller from Ian Fleming’s typewriter.

7. 7

   Goldfinger 1958 5.7 h

   A friendly game of two-handed canasta turns out to be thoroughly crooked.

8. 8

   For Your Eyes Only 1959 4.4 h

   "Bond watched her as she reached the edge of the tables and came up the aisle.

9. 9

   Thunderball 1961 4.8 h

   "When a stranger arrives in the Bahamas, the locals barely turn their heads, seeing another ex-pat with money to burn at the casino tables.

10. 10

    The Spy Who Loved Me 1962 3.8 h

    Vivienne Michel, a precocious French Canadian raised in the United Kingdom, seems a foreigner in every land.

11. 11

    On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1963 5.3 h

    In his Alpine base, Blofeld is developing biological weapons that will devastate Britain.

12. 12

    You Only Live Twice 1964 4.4 h

    Bond, a shattered man after the death of his wife at the hands of SPECTRE founder Ernst Stavro Blofeld, has gone to pieces as an agent, endangering himself and his fellow…

13. 13

    The Man with the Golden Gun 1965 3.5 h

    Bond may have a license to kill, but “Pistols” Scaramanga has a talent for it.

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