Carl Hiaasen

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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1986
  • Latest Book:
    October 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Andrew Yancy

1 - Bad Monkey (Jun-2013)
2 - Razor Girl (Sep-2016)

Skink

1 - Double Whammy (Jan-1988)
2 - Native Tongue (Sep-1991)
3 - Stormy Weather (Aug-1995)
4 - Sick Puppy (Jan-2000)
5 - Skinny Dip (Jul-2004)
6 - Star Island (Aug-2010)
7 - Skink -- No Surrender (Sep-2014)

Book List in Order: 24 titles

  • Tourist Season

    The only trace of the first victim was his Shriner's fez washed up on the Miami beach. The second victim, the head of the city's chamber of commerce, was found dead with a toy rubber alligator lodged in his throat. And that was just the beginning... ...

  • Double Whammy

    Skink - 1

    R.J. Decker, star tenant of the local trailer park and neophyte private eye is fishing for a killer. Thanks to a sportsman's scam that's anything but sportsmanlike, there's a body floating in Coon Bog, Florida--and a lot that's rotten in the murky wa...

  • Skin Tight

    Somebody wants Mick Stranahan dead. Mick is sure of this, because he has just had to spear an intruder with a stuffed marlin head and deposit the body in Biscayne Bay. But who would want to hurt a forty-two-year-old former Florida state investigator?...

  • Native Tongue

    Skink - 2

    NATIVE TONGUE Who let the voles out? The precious, blue-tongued mango voles have been stolen from the Amazing Kingdom theme park on North Key Largo by ruthless thugs who have much bigger -- and deadlier -- things in mind. On the hunt for the rare rod...

  • Strip Tease

    Only in America could an innocent, if drunken, guest of honor at a strip joint bachelor party become a mortal threat against Big Money and Big Government. Only in South Florida, land of roadside honky-tonks and sinister pleasure boats -- not to menti...

  • Stormy Weather

    Skink - 3

    Two honeymooners wake up early, make love twice, and brace themselves for a spectacle they won't be watching from the sidelines. A seductive con artiste stumbles into a scam that 'promises more cool cash than the lottery. A shotgun-toting mobile home...

  • Naked Came the Manatee

    In South Florida, everyone wants to get a head. But not just any head. A very famous human head--severed and snugged away in a cryonic container. A head that could spark a revolution and change the course of history.

    Everybody wants a piece of...

  • Lucky You

    JoLayne lucks lives in a town infamous for its suspicious miracles, but she's still elated when her lottery numbers finally pay off big: $28 million to be exact. And she has great plans for her fortune: to save a rare piece of Florida paradise from t...

  • Sick Puppy

    Skink - 4

    An eco-terrorist with a trust fund, Twilly Spree is tailing a litterbug in a purple Range Rover with plates that read "cojones." Before he knows it, Spree is up to his cojones in corrupt Florida politicos and some very sick puppies, including a Toyot...



  • Basket Case

    Once a hotshot investigative reporter, Jack Tagger now bangs out obituaries for a South Florida daily, "plotting to resurrect my career by yoking my byline to some famous stiff." Jimmy Stoma, the infamous front man of Jimmy and the Slut Puppies, dead...

  • Hoot

    Unfortunately, Roy’s first acquaintance in Florida is Dana Matherson, a well-known bully. Then again, if Dana hadn’t been sinking his thumbs into Roy’s temples and mashing his face against the school-bus window, Roy might never have spotted the...

  • Skinny Dip

    Skink - 5

    Marine biologist Chaz Perrone can't tell a sea horse from a sawhorse. And when he throws his beautiful wife, Joey, off a cruise liner, he really should know better. An expert swimmer, Joey makes her way to a floating bale of Jamaican pot -- and then ...

  • Flush

    Bestselling novelist Carl Hiaasen is back with another hysterical mystery adventure for young readers, set in the Florida Keys. Noah's dad has a little problem with anger control. He tried to stop the Coral Queen casino boat's illegal dumping . . ....

  • Nature Girl

    Honey Santana--impassioned, willful, possibly bipolar, self-proclaimed "queen of lost causes"--has a scheme to help rid the world of irresponsibility, indifference, and dinnertime sales calls. She's taking rude, gullible Relentless, Inc., telemarkete...

  • Scat

    Bestselling author and columnist Carl Hiaasen returns with another hysterical mystery for kids set in Florida's Everglades. Bunny Starch, the most feared biology teacher ever, is missing. She disappeared after a school field trip to Black Vine Swa...

  • Star Island

    Skink - 6

  • Chomp

    Wahoo Cray lives in a zoo. His father is an animal wrangler, so he's grown up with all manner of gators, snakes, parrots, rats, monkeys, snappers, and more in his backyard. The critters he can handle. His father is the unpredictable one. When his...

  • Bad Monkey

    Andrew Yancy - 1

    Andrew Yancy -- late of the Miami Police and soon-to-be-late of the Monroe County sheriff’s office -- has a human arm in his freezer. There’s a logical (Hiaasenian) explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its shadowy owner. Y...

  • The Edible Exile

    Cuervo is a pampered Nicaraguan moneyman, funding a guerrilla war from his cushy Miami penthouse. Sixto is his hulking, pistol-packing attendant, whose job satisfaction is on the wane. When an aging mobster enters their lives with a promise to help t...



  • Skink -- No Surrender

    Skink - 7

    Classic Malley -- to avoid being shipped off to boarding school, she takes off with some guy she met online. Poor Richard -- he knows his cousin’s in trouble before she does. Wild Skink -- he’s a ragged, one-eyed ex-governor of Florida, and enoug...

  • Razor Girl

    Andrew Yancy - 2

    A lovable con woman and a disgraced detective team up to find a redneck reality TV star in this raucous and razor-sharp new novel from Carl Hiaasen, the bestselling author of Bad Monkey. Merry Mansfield, the eponymous Razor Girl, specializes in k...

  • Squirm

    A wildly entertaining novel involving snakes, grizzlies, a missing dad, a menacing drone, and more! Some facts about Billy Dickens: * He once saw a biker swerve across the road in order to run over a snake. * Later, that motorcycle somehow...

  • Squeeze Me

    From the best-selling author of Skinny Dip and Razor Girl, a new novel that captures the Trump era with Hiaasen's inimitable savage humor and wonderful, eccentric characters. A surefire best seller. Carl Hiaasen's Squeeze Me is set among t...

  • Wrecker

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Wrecker needs to deal with smugglers, grave robbers, and pooping iguanas -- just as soon as he finishes Zoom school. Welcome to another wild adventure in Carl Hiaasen's Florida!Valdez Jones VIII calls himself Wre...

Award-Winning Books by Carl Hiaasen

Chomp
2014 Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award -- Grades 6-8
Flush
2005 Agatha Award -- Children/Young Adult
2005 NAPPA Gold Award -- Ages 9 & Up
2007 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award -- Children's
2008 Georgia Children's Book Award -- Children's Book
2009 Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award -- Grades 3-5
Hoot
2003 Bookseller's Choice -- Middle Readers
2003 Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize -- Children's
2003 SIBA Book Award -- Children's
2004 Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award -- Grades 6-8
2005 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award -- Grades 4-8
2006 Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award -- Grades 6-8
2007 Golden Archer Award -- Middle/Junior High
Native Tongue
1992 Dilys Award -- Mystery Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Carl Hiaasen has published 24 books.

Carl Hiaasen does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Wrecker, was published in October 2023.

The first book by Carl Hiaasen, Tourist Season, was published in March 1986.

Yes. Carl Hiaasen has 2 series.
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