Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Day the World Ended: The Mount Pelée Disaster: May 7, 1902 | 1969 | Gordon Thomas | Buy |
| 2 | The San Francisco Earthquake: A Minute-by-Minute Account of the 1906 Disaster | 1971 | Gordon Thomas | Buy |
| 3 | Shipwreck: The Strange Fate of the Morro Castle | 1972 | Gordon Thomas | Buy |
| 4 | Voyage of the Damned | 1974 | Gordon Thomas | Buy |
| 5 | Issels: The Biography of a Doctor | 1975 | Gordon Thomas | Buy |
| 6 | The Day Guernica Died | 1975 | Gordon Thomas | Buy |
| 7 | Enola Gay: Mission to Hiroshima | 1977 | Gordon Thomas | Buy |
| 8 | The Day the Bubble Burst: A Social History of the Wall Street Crash of 1929 | 1979 | Gordon Thomas | Buy |
| 9 | Bed of Nails: The Story of the Amazing Blondini | 1981 | Gordon Thomas | Buy |
| 10 | Anatomy of an Epidemic | 1981 | Gordon Thomas | Buy |
| 11 | Pontiff | 1983 | Gordon Thomas | Buy |
| 12 | The Operation | 1984 | Gordon Thomas | Buy |
| 13 | The Year of Armageddon: The Pope and the Bomb | 1984 | Gordon Thomas | Buy |
| 14 | Desire and Denial: Celibacy and the Church | 1986 | Gordon Thomas | Buy |
| 15 | The Jesus Conspiracy: An Investigative Reporter’s Look at an Extraordinary Life & Death | 1987 | Gordon Thomas | Buy |
| 16 | The Trial | 1987 | Gordon Thomas | Buy |
| 17 | Journey into Madness: The True Story of Secret CIA Mind Control & Medical Abuse | 1987 | Gordon Thomas | Buy |
| 18 | Enslaved | 1989 | Gordon Thomas | Buy |
| 19 | Chaos Under Heaven: The Shocking Story of China’s Search for Democracy | 1991 | Gordon Thomas | Buy |
| 20 | Trespass into Temptation | 1997 | Gordon Thomas | Buy |
| 21 | Gideon’s Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad | 1999 | Gordon Thomas | Buy |
| 22 | Seeds of Fire: China and the Story Behind the Attack on America | 2001 | Gordon Thomas | Buy |
| 23 | Robert Maxwell, Israel’s Superspy | 2003 | Gordon Thomas | Buy |
| 24 | Human Beings: The Weird and the Wonderful | 2005 | Gordon Thomas | Buy |
| 25 | Secret Wars: One Hundred Years of British Intelligence Inside MI5 and MI6 | 2009 | Gordon Thomas | Buy |
| 26 | Operation Exodus: From the Nazi Death Camps to the Promised Land: A Perilous Journey That Shaped Israel’s Fate | 2009 | Gordon Thomas | Buy |
| 27 | Secret Wars / Inside British Intelligence | 2009 | Gordon Thomas | Buy |
| 28 | Prisoners in Rabaul: Civilians Surviving Japanese Captivity, 1942-1945 | 2012 | Gordon Thomas | Buy |
| 29 | The Pope’s Jews: The Vatican’s Secret Plan to Save Jews from the Nazis | 2012 | Gordon Thomas | Buy |
| 30 | Magdalene: Jesus and the Woman Who Loved Him | 2014 | Gordon Thomas | Buy |
| 31 | Shadow Warriors of World War II: The Daring Women of the OSS and SOE | 2017 | Gordon Thomas | Buy |
| 32 | Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule | 2019 | Gordon Thomas | Buy |
Gordon Thomas’s non-fiction career spanned five decades, from The Day the World Ended in 1969 to Defying Hitler in 2019. His early work focused on disaster narratives, recreating events like the Mount Pelee eruption, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and the sinking of the Morro Castle in vivid detail. Voyage of the Damned (1974) told the story of Jewish refugees aboard the SS St. Louis, and was adapted into a film.
His focus shifted toward intelligence and espionage in the 1980s and beyond. Journey into Madness (1987) exposed CIA mind control experiments, while Gideon’s Spies (1999) became the standard popular account of the Mossad. Later works like Secret Wars (2009) covered a century of British intelligence, and The Pope’s Jews (2012) examined Vatican efforts to rescue Jews during the Holocaust. His last books addressed World War II resistance, including Shadow Warriors (2017) and Defying Hitler (2019).