Books in chronological order

bainesy1usbainesy1us Posts: 43MI6 Agent
edited October 2022 in James Bond Literature

Cant find it anywhere but does anyone have a list of all Bond novels in chronological order that they were set. I'm guessing Forever and a day is the first, Bond getting his 00 licence to kill. I want to read them all in order.

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  • caractacus pottscaractacus potts Orbital communicator, level 10Posts: 4,109MI6 Agent
    edited October 2022

    there was this recent thread that discussed the chronological order of the continuation novels set immediately after Man with the Golden Gun, four books all meant to happen in the 1960s

    as you suggest Forever and Day should come immediately before Casino Royale.

    and Horowitz's first novel Trigger Mortis should immediately follow Goldfinger

    theres also the Young Bond series which would all happen decades before Forever and a Day (early 1930s)

    and there was a recent comic book series called Origin covering Bond's war years that would fall between Young Bond and Forever and Day


    if you can find it, there's John Pearson's James Bond; the Authorised Biography, that covers his whole life up til 1973. All these other books would happen in between chapters of the Biography. Its very hard to find and will contradict everything in every other continuation novel, and even much of Fleming. Good book though

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