Ian Fleming Books

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Ian Fleming is the highly popular author from the twentieth century who developed the character of James Bond.

Order of James Bond Series

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1 Casino Royale 1953 Description / Buy
2 Live and Let Die 1954 Description / Buy
3 Moonraker 1955 Description / Buy
4 Diamonds Are Forever 1956 Description / Buy
5 From Russia with Love 1957 Description / Buy
6 Doctor No 1958 Description / Buy
7 Goldfinger 1959 Description / Buy
8 Thunderball 1961 Description / Buy
9 The Spy Who Loved Me 1962 Description / Buy
10 The Living Daylights 1962 Description / Buy
11 On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1963 Description / Buy
12 You Only Live Twice 1964 Description / Buy
13 The Man with the Golden Gun 1965 Description / Buy

Order of James Bond Collections

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1 For Your Eyes Only 1960 Description / Buy
2 Octopussy and The Living Daylights 1966 Description / Buy
3 Quantum of Solace 2008 Description / Buy

Order of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Series by Frank Cottrell Boyce

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1 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 1964 Description / Buy
2 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again ( By: Frank Cottrell Boyce) 2011 Description / Buy
3 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Race Against Time ( By: Frank Cottrell Boyce) 2012 Description / Buy
4 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Over the Moon ( By: Frank Cottrell Boyce) 2013 Description / Buy

Order of Ian Fleming Standalone Novels

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1 The Diamond Smugglers 1957 Description / Buy

Order of Ian Fleming Non-Fiction Books

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1 Thrilling Cities 1963 Description / Buy
2 Ian Fleming: The Playboy Interview 2012 Description / Buy

Order of James Bond (Extended) Series

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1 Colonel Sun ( By: Kingsley Amis) 1968 Description / Buy
2 License Renewed ( By: John Gardner) 1981 Description / Buy
3 For Special Services ( By: John Gardner) 1982 Description / Buy
4 Icebreaker ( By: John Gardner) 1983 Description / Buy
5 Role of Honor ( By: John Gardner) 1984 Description / Buy
6 Nobody Lives Forever ( By: John Gardner) 1986 Description / Buy
7 No Deals, Mr. Bond ( By: John Gardner) 1987 Description / Buy
8 Scorpius ( By: John Gardner) 1988 Description / Buy
9 Licence to Kill ( By: John Gardner) 1989 Description / Buy
10 Win, Lose or Die ( By: John Gardner) 1989 Description / Buy
11 Brokenclaw ( By: John Gardner) 1990 Description / Buy
12 The Man from Barbarossa ( By: John Gardner) 1991 Description / Buy
13 Death Is Forever ( By: John Gardner) 1992 Description / Buy
14 Never Send Flowers ( By: John Gardner) 1993 Description / Buy
15 SeaFire ( By: John Gardner) 1994 Description / Buy
16 GoldenEye ( By: John Gardner) 1995 Description / Buy
17 Cold Fall ( By: John Gardner) 1996 Description / Buy
18 Zero Minus Ten ( By: Raymond Benson) 1997 Description / Buy
19 Tomorrow Never Dies ( By: Raymond Benson) 1997 Description / Buy
20 The Facts of Death ( By: Raymond Benson) 1998 Description / Buy
21 The World is Not Enough ( By: Raymond Benson) 1999 Description / Buy
22 High Time to Kill ( By: Raymond Benson) 1999 Description / Buy
23 Doubleshot ( By: Raymond Benson) 2000 Description / Buy
24 Never Dream of Dying ( By: Raymond Benson) 2001 Description / Buy
25 The Man With the Red Tattoo ( By: Raymond Benson) 2002 Description / Buy
26 Die Another Day ( By: Raymond Benson) 2002 Description / Buy
27 Devil May Care ( By: Sebastian Faulks) 2008 Description / Buy
28 Carte Blanche ( By: Jeffery Deaver) 2011 Description / Buy
29 Solo ( By: William Boyd) 2013 Description / Buy
30 Trigger Mortis ( By: Anthony Horowitz) 2015 Description / Buy
31 Forever and a Day ( By: Anthony Horowitz) 2018 Description / Buy
32 With a Mind to Kill ( By: Anthony Horowitz) 2022 Description / Buy

Order of Haunted America Series

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1 Ghosts of the South Carolina Upcountry ( By:) 2005 Description / Buy
2 Ghosts of the South Carolina Midlands ( By:) 2007 Description / Buy
3 Charleston Mysteries ( By: Cathy Pickens) 2007 Description / Buy
4 Haunted Rochester: A Supernatural History of the Lower Genesee (Short Story) ( By:) 2008 Description / Buy
5 Haunted Birmingham (Short Story) ( By:) 2009 Description / Buy
6 Ghosts of the Pee Dee (Short Story) ( By:) 2009 Description / Buy
7 Ghosts of the Triangle: Historic Haunts of Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill (Short Story) ( By:) 2009 Description / Buy
8 Supernatural Saratoga: Haunted Places and Famous Ghosts of the Spa City ( By:) 2009 Description / Buy
9 Haunted Natchez (Short Story) ( By:) 2010 Description / Buy
10 Haunted St. Paul ( By:) 2010 Description / Buy
11 Ghosts of St. Charles ( By:) 2010 Description / Buy
12 Haunted Vicksburg (Short Story) ( By:) 2010 Description / Buy
13 Haunted Pensacola (Short Story) ( By:) 2010 Description / Buy
14 Ghosts of the SouthCoast ( By:) 2010 Description / Buy
15 Haunted Meridian, Mississippi (Short Story) ( By:) 2011 Description / Buy
16 Haunted Southern Tier ( By:) 2011 Description / Buy
17 Ghosts of Virginia's Tidewater ( By:) 2011 Description / Buy
18 Haunted Door County ( By:) 2012 Description / Buy
19 Haunted Tuscaloosa ( By:) 2012 Description / Buy
20 Haunted Annapolis: Ghosts of the Capital City ( By:) 2012 Description / Buy
21 Ghosts of Boston: Haunts of the Hub ( By:) 2012 Description / Buy
22 Haunted History of Delaware (Short Story) ( By: Josh Hitchens) 2013 Description / Buy
23 Haunted Roanoke (Short Story) ( By:) 2013 Description / Buy
24 Haunted Roanoke ( By:) 2013 Description / Buy
25 Ghosts of Georgetown ( By: Louis Bayard) 2013 Description / Buy
26 Haunted Big Bend, Florida (Short Story) ( By:) 2013 Description / Buy
27 Civil War Ghosts of Central Georgia and Savannah ( By:) 2013 Description / Buy
28 Civil War Ghosts of Atlanta ( By:) 2013 Description / Buy
29 Haunted Alabama Black Belt ( By:) 2013 Description / Buy
30 Ghosts of Boulder ( By:) 2013 Description / Buy
31 Ghosts of Bobby Mackey's Music World ( By:) 2013 Description / Buy
32 Campus Ghosts of Norman, Oklahoma ( By:) 2013 Description / Buy
33 The Haunted South ( By:) 2014 Description / Buy
34 Haunted Granbury ( By:) 2014 Description / Buy
35 Haunted Springfield, Missouri ( By: Sherry Jones) 2014 Description / Buy
36 Ghosts of Salem: Haunts of the Witch City ( By:) 2014 Description / Buy
37 Haunted Hillsborough County ( By:) 2014 Description / Buy
38 Ghosts of the Queen Mary ( By:) 2014 Description / Buy
39 Haunted Norman, Oklahoma ( By:) 2014 Description / Buy
40 Haunted Burlington, Wisconsin ( By:) 2014 Description / Buy
41 Haunted Guthrie, Oklahoma ( By:) 2015 Description / Buy
42 The Haunted Mid-Shore: Spirits of Caroline, Dorchester and Talbot Counties 2015 Description / Buy
43 Ghosts of the Rio Grande Valley ( By:) 2016 Description / Buy
44 Haunted Tuscarawas County ( By:) 2016 Description / Buy
45 Haunted Southwest (Short Story) ( By:) 2016 Description / Buy
46 Ghosts of Mississippi’s Golden Triangle (Short Story) ( By:) 2016 Description / Buy
47 Haunted Oklahoma City ( By:) 2016 Description / Buy
48 Haunted Pittsburgh (Short Story) ( By:) 2016 Description / Buy
49 Haunted Pittsburgh ( By:) 2016 Description / Buy
50 Haunted South Georgia ( By:) 2017 Description / Buy
51 Haunted Central Georgia ( By:) 2017 Description / Buy
52 Haunted Anchor Bay, Michigan ( By:) 2017 Description / Buy
53 Haunted Lawrence ( By:) 2017 Description / Buy
54 Haunted History of Philadelphia ( By: Josh Hitchens) 2022 Description / Buy

Ian Fleming Anthologies

# Read Title Published Details
1 The Mammoth Book of Short Spy Novels 1996 Description / Buy
2 My Name is Bond, James Bond 2000 Description / Buy
3 A Century of British Mystery and Suspense 2000 Description / Buy
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Born in 1908 in England, Ian was one of four sons of an influential family who lost his father to the war when he was nine. A student of Eton College and the Sandhurst military academy, there was a time when it looked like Ian would make a name for himself as a member of the Reuters News Agency.

But that was before the Second World War began. Ian was drawn into the conflict, a boon for his future career because he quickly found a place in British Naval Intelligence where he gained great insight into the workings of espionage.

Ian Fleming’s career in the war was quite illustrious, seeing him work under the likes of Admiral John Godfrey and traveling to countries like the United States where he coordinated intelligence operations.

It is difficult to determine the true nature of Ian Fleming’s efforts in the war, especially with regards to the work he did for the British Government’s Intelligence wing, not when the British government swore him to secrecy.

None the less, it has been speculated that Ian probably wasn’t so different from James Bond and might have drawn ideas for his stories from actual missions and occurrences from World War II.

Naturally, despite his efforts during World War II, it is for his novels that Ian Fleming is known, particularly the James Bond books. It all began with Casino Royale, the first book in the James Bond series which was published in 1953.

Like most unpublished authors, Ian’s first few James Bond books went largely unnoticed. However, with the war finally over and audiences looking for the next great adventure, it wasn’t long before the author’s stories about a skilled spy with a license to kill caught fire.

Everything about James Bond, the fast cars and the women and the incredulous villains, all of it tickled the fancy of readers and it wasn’t long before James Bond books were flying off the shelf.

Ian Fleming’s death came in 1964 and it wasn’t so surprising. His health complications began in 1962 with his first heart attack.

Ian’s books were representative of the time. The first few Bond novels were cold war stories. As relations between the East and West thawed, the direction of Ian’s storytelling changed.

Ian’s stories tackled themes like the effects of war, comradeship, Britain’s position in the world and even Good VS Evil.

Ian Fleming Awards

In life, Ian Fleming was never recognized for any awards, but in death he has not only been recognized but actually had awards named after him. The Times recognized him as one of the 50 Greatest Writers since 1945, ranking him at #14. The Crime Writers’ Association also has the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award which goes to the best thriller, adventure or spy novel originally published in the UK.

In another honor, he has an airport named after him in Jamaica with the Ian Fleming International Airport in Oracabessa.

Ian Fleming Books into Movies/TV

Ian Fleming’s novels have since become a common aspect of popular culture and this is primarily because of the considerable renown the movie adaptations of the James Bond books have attained.

It all began with Dr. No in 1962, the first of the James bond movies. Since then, nearly all of the dozen James Bond books Ian Fleming wrote before his death have received movie adaptations.

And that isn’t even taking into account the Big Screen Adaptations of those James Bond novels that were written after Ian Fleming’s death.

Best Ian Fleming Books

Ian Fleming has built a legacy that will last for decades to come, cementing his place in the publishing arena, with some of the best books in his bibliography including:

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service: It all began with a beautiful girl in a fast car. Bond did not think much of his decision to rescue her, until he realized the chance it granted him to find Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the most dangerous man in the world.

The head of SPECTRE is all but determined to bring the world to its knees from his Alpine base unless Bond can put a stop to him.

This book finally brings James Bond into more direct contention with Blofeld, an arch-nemesis of sorts. Because of the era during which the book was written, some of its attitudes are likely to offend.

From Russia with Love: The lethal Russian Organization SMERSH isn’t the only one out to get James Bond. But they might have the perfect bait for him. Tatiana Romanova successfully gets Bond to Istanbul. Bond thinks he’s about to get his hands on a powerful cipher machine. Instead, he encounters a dangerous game of double cross.

Tatiana Romanova takes center stage in this book as she is manipulated into seducing James Bond, believing that he will come to no harm at the end of it all.

Live and Let Die: The film adaptation of this book led to the iconic Paul McCartney & Wings song of the same name, but it’s also one of his better books.

The book sends Bond from London to the United States to Jamaica. The plot involves Bond’s search for Mr. Big who is linked to SMERSH (the Russian Secret Service), the American crime world and Jamaican voodoo. The novel deals with some big real world themes including the East-West struggle of the Cold War, the seemingly never ending trouble with race relations in the world and the British-American relationship. The struggle between good and evil is at play here.

This book has some serial elements as there are plot points in this one that directly tie in with For Your Eyes Only and License to Kill.

When Does The Next Ian Fleming book come out?

Ian Fleming doesn't seem to have an upcoming book. Their newest book is The Haunted Mid-Shore: Spirits of Caroline, Dorchester and Talbot Counties and was released on August, 24th 2015. It is the newest book in the Haunted America Series.

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