David Gordon

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  • Bibliography:
    32 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1959
  • Latest Book:
    July 2025
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Full Series List in Order

A Joe the Bouncer Novel

1 - The Bouncer (Aug-2018)
2 - The Hard Stuff (Jul-2019)
3 - Against the Law (May-2021)

Out There

1 - Paradise (Feb-2014)
2 - Adonae (Feb-2014)
3 - TiWat (Feb-2014)
4 - Earth (Feb-2014)
5 - The Clan Wars (Apr-2014)

Book List in Order: 32 titles

  • Despoilers of the Golden Empire

    A handful of men, and an incredible adventure - a few super-men, led by a fanatic, seeking to conquer a new world! David Gordon truly weaves a masterful science fiction tale with his magnum opus, Despoilers of the Golden Empire!...

  • Ugly Truckling

    As hard as she tries, the ugly truckling cannot keep up with her brothers and sisters. She can't pull logs, she can't carry hay, and her three small wheels are no match for their four big, strong ones. She'll never be a good truck. So the ugly tru...

  • Three Little Rigs

    From the author/illustrator of Extremely Cute Animals Operating Heavy Machinery!

    "Will mesmerize tool-and-vehicle-obsessed little ones" (ALA Booklist). "Kids who love trucks will enjoy this adaptation" (School Library Journal).

    When th...

  • Hansel and Diesel

    "Guzzle, guzzle, drip and drool, who is drinking all my fuel?"

    When Hansel and Diesel set out to search for fuel in their junkyard, they leave a path of nuts and bolts behind to show their way home. But when snow falls and they get lost, bro...

  • Smitten

    Sock and Mitten are both lost singles in a city full of pairs. Mitten is a left without her right. Sock is neither left nor right, but he knows how she feels. They set off on an adventure to find their other halves. But what they find instead is some...

  • The Serialist

    Harry Bloch is a struggling writer who pumps out pulpy serial novels -- from vampire books to detective stories -- under various pseudonyms. But his life begins to imitate his fiction when he agrees to ghostwrite the memoir of Darian Clay, New York C...

  • Wet Dreams

  • Wet Dreams: The Collection Volume 1

    The written word has never been sexier!Wet Dreams: The Collection Volume 1They happen so fast. You're in them. You want to stay. But before you know it. They're gone, and just like that you're left with a feeling of intense pleasure...and a yearni...

  • Your New Jett-Pup Owner's Manual

    With these easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions, young readers learn how to quickly assemble and safely operate their brand new JETT-pup (Junior Electrospheric Time Traveler). Once they get the awesome, kid-operated machine bolted together, youn...



  • Right Here, Right Now!

    Right Here, Right Now! A Journey from Darkness into the Light is an inspiring work in spiritual and emotional enlightenment. Drawing upon a lifetime of insights and experience, David Gordon lays out a cathartic path to discovering lasting happiness, ...

  • Mystery Girl

    When Sam Kornberg’s wife, Lala, walks out on him, he’s an unemployed used-book store clerk and failed experimental novelist with a broken heart. Desperate to win her back, he takes a job as assistant detective to the enigmatic Solar Lonsky, a pri...

  • Adonae

    Out There - 2

    Sami has helped her alien friend, Brian, and her human nemesis, Alejandro, to escape Earth. But she is not someone who likes to be left behind. Soon she, too, is on Adonae, a world of oceans and volcanic islands, and of staggering technological marve...

  • Earth

    Out There - 4

    When Sami, Alejandro and Brian rematerialize in Paradise, Arizona...no one is there. The worsening planet-wide water shortages have forced everyone to pack themselves into the major cities. The three friends trek across the desert to Phoenix to find ...

  • Paradise

    Out There - 1

    Sami Lightfoot is not so thrilled about her life in Paradise, Arizona. To begin with, there is the sixth grade, which is, well, school. Then there is the fact that the world is running out of fresh water, making everything drab, difficult, and scary....

  • TiWat

    Out There - 3

    After the narrowest of escapes from Adonae, Sami and Alejandro land on TiWat, the home planet of their relentless enemy, KetaNim.TiWat is a bizarre and danger-filled world of forests and rivers. From the moment they arrive, Sami and Alejandro are run...

  • ...or Your Money Back

    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

  • The Clan Wars

    Out There - 5

    Sami Lightfoot is not so thrilled about her life in Paradise, Arizona. To begin with, there is the sixth grade, which is, well, school. Then there is the fact that the world is running out of fresh water, making everything drab, difficult, and scary....

  • The Hilarious Misadventures of Tubby and Mater J

    This book is a laugh out loud retelling of two best friends learning and growing through everyday life during high school....

  • The Amateur

    A young man fleeing heartbreak back home meets a mysterious expat at a café in Paris. What begins as a friendly conversation between two outsiders soon transforms into a heart-pounding confession that threatens to shake both men to their cores. In t...



  • White Tiger on Snow Mountain

    Thirteen hilarious, moving, and beautifully brutal stories by David Gordon, the award-winning author of Mystery Girl and The Serialist. In these funny, surprising, and touching stories, Gordon gets at the big stuff art and religion, literature and...

  • Extremely Cute Animals Operating Heavy Machinery

    Just because you’re extremely cute, doesn’t mean you can’t operate a bulldozer! From author-illustrator David Gordon comes a fun, funny, and whimsical take on believing in yourself and telling bullies who’s boss! Karen and the other extrem...

  • The Foreign Hand Tie

  • Hanging by a Thread

    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

  • The Asses of Balaam

    The remarkable characteristic of Balaam's ass was that it was more perceptive than its master. Sometimes a child is more perceptive -- because more straightforward and logical -- than an adult.......

  • By Proxy

    It's been said that the act of creation is a solitary thing -- that teams never create; only individuals. But sometimes a team may be needed to make creation effective.......

  • The Golden Judge

    A suggestion and a highly intriguing one--on how to settle the problems that involve face-saving among nations!...

  • The Bouncer

    A Joe the Bouncer Novel - 1

    In David Gordon’s diabolically imaginative new thriller, THE BOUNCER, nothing and no one is as expected―from a vial of yellow fragrance to a gangster who moonlights in women’s clothes. Joe Brody is just your average Dostoevsky-reading, Harva...

  • The Hard Stuff

    A Joe the Bouncer Novel - 2

    In this humorous, action-packed crime thriller, a strip club bouncer working for a coalition of mob bosses must steal $4 million in diamonds -- twice.Ex-black-ops-specialist-turned-strip-club-bouncer Joe Brody has a new qualification to add to his re...

  • Against the Law

    A Joe the Bouncer Novel - 3

    A Special Forces agent turned strip club bouncer with a side hustle as a fixer for the New York mob seeks the source of a new brand of heroin flooding the city streetsJoe is an ex-Special Forces operative with a bad case of PTSD and some substance ab...



  • The Wild Life

    Joe the Bouncer seeks the killer of NYC’s most desirable call girls in the newest caper in “a unique and worthwhile series” (CrimeReads)Expulsed Harvard student and ex-Special Forces operative suffering post-traumatic stress syndrome so severe ...

  • The Pigeon

    A BookPage best mystery of the month.A New York mob fixer’s search for a stolen racing pigeon sends him into a warren of assassins.Harvard dropout and ex-Special Forces operative Joe Brody is climbing the ranks in the criminal underworld. After suc...

  • Behind Sunset

    In this comically noir tale from the acclaimed author of the Joe the Bouncer series, a struggling writer follows a mystery into one of Los Angeles’ darkest corners: the intersection of the porn industry and New Age wellness. For generations...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

David Gordon has published 32 books.

The next book by David Gordon, Behind Sunset, will be published in July 2025.

The first book by David Gordon, Despoilers of the Golden Empire, was published in March 1959.

Yes. David Gordon has 2 series.
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