Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Paper Revolutionaries | 1972 | Laurence Leamer | Buy |
| 2 | Playing for keeps | 1977 | Laurence Leamer | Buy |
| 3 | Ascent | 1982 | Laurence Leamer | Buy |
| 4 | Make-Believe | 1983 | Laurence Leamer | Buy |
| 5 | As Time Goes By | 1986 | Laurence Leamer | Buy |
| 6 | My years with Harpur College and SUNY-Binghamton’s Economics Department and Social Sciences Division | 1986 | Laurence Leamer | Buy |
| 7 | King of the Night | 1989 | Laurence Leamer | Buy |
| 8 | The Kennedy Women | 1994 | Laurence Leamer | Buy |
| 9 | Three Chords and the Truth | 1997 | Laurence Leamer | Buy |
| 10 | The Kennedy Men | 2001 | Laurence Leamer | Buy |
| 11 | Sons of Camelot | 2004 | Laurence Leamer | Buy |
| 12 | Fantastic | 2005 | Laurence Leamer | Buy |
| 13 | Madness Under the Royal Palms | 2009 | Laurence Leamer | Buy |
| 14 | The Price of Justice | 2013 | Laurence Leamer | Buy |
| 15 | Rose | 2016 | Laurence Leamer | Buy |
| 16 | The Lynching | 2016 | Laurence Leamer | Buy |
| 17 | Mar-A-Lago | 2019 | Laurence Leamer | Buy |
| 18 | Capote’s Women | 2021 | Laurence Leamer | Buy |
| 19 | Hitchcock’s Blondes | 2023 | Laurence Leamer | Buy |
| 20 | Warhol’s Muses | 2025 | Laurence Leamer | Buy |
Laurence Leamer’s nonfiction catalog stretches over five decades, starting with The Paper Revolutionaries (1972), a look at the underground press movement. His early books covered a range of American subjects, from the Peace Corps (Playing for Keeps) to mountain climbing (Ascent) to Hollywood’s golden era (Make-Believe, about Nancy and Ronald Reagan in show business).
His Kennedy family trilogy, published between 1994 and 2004, brought him his widest audience. The Kennedy Women examines the mothers, wives, and daughters of the Kennedy clan, while The Kennedy Men focuses on the political careers and personal lives of JFK, RFK, and Ted. Sons of Camelot follows the next generation. Leamer has continued writing at a steady pace since then, with subjects ranging from the 1981 lynching of Michael Donald (The Lynching) to the social history of Mar-a-Lago to a series of cultural biographies examining the circles around Truman Capote, Alfred Hitchcock, and Andy Warhol.