Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Basking in Beirut | 1991 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 2 | Nick Farr-Jones: the authorised biography | 1993 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 3 | Rugby Stories | 1994 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 4 | The Rugby War | 1996 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 5 | Beazley: A Biography | 1998 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 6 | FitzSimons On Rugby: Loose In The Tight Five | 1999 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 7 | Everyone and Phar Lap: Face to Face with the Best of Australian Sport | 1999 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 8 | Nancy Wake | 2001 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 9 | John Eales: The Biography | 2001 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 10 | Nene | 2002 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 11 | Kokoda | 2004 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 12 | Hitchhiking for Ugly People and Other Life Experiences | 2004 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 13 | Steve Waugh | 2004 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 14 | Tobruk | 2006 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 15 | Great Australian Sports Champions | 2006 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 16 | Little Theories of Life | 2007 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 17 | Nietzsche, Ethics and Education: An Account of Difference | 2008 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 18 | And Now for Some Light Relief…: The Genuinely Funny Joke Book | 2009 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 19 | How Hemlines Predict the Economy: Explanations, Rationalizations, and Theories on Everything | 2009 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 20 | Charles Kingsford Smith And Those Magnificent Men | 2009 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 21 | Mawson: And the Ice Men of the Heroic Age: Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen | 2011 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 22 | Batavia | 2011 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 23 | Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution | 2012 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 24 | Ned Kelly: The Story of Australia’s Most Notorious Legend | 2013 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 25 | More Important than Life or Death | 2013 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 26 | Gallipoli | 2014 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 27 | Gotta Love This Country!: Great stories from around Australia to lift your heart, make you laugh and puff out your chest | 2015 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 28 | Fromelles and Pozières: In The Trenches Of Hell | 2015 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 29 | The Ballad of Les Darcy | 2015 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 30 | Kokoda: Teen Edition | 2016 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 31 | Victory at Villers-Bretonneux | 2016 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 32 | The Great Aussie Bloke Slim-Down: How an Over-50 Former Footballer Went From Fat to Fit . . . and Lost 45 Kilos | 2016 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 33 | Burke and Wills: The triumph and tragedy of Australia’s most famous explorers | 2017 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 34 | Seriously…You Have to Laugh: Great Yarns and Tall Tales From the Sporting Fields, Dressing Rooms and Commentary Boxes of Australia | 2018 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 35 | Monash’s Masterpiece | 2018 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 36 | The Catalpa Rescue | 2019 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 37 | Fair Go, Sport: Inspiring and Uplifting Tales of the Good Folks, Great Sportsmanship and Fair Play | 2020 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 38 | James Cook: the story of the man who mapped the world | 2020 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 39 | Breaker Morant | 2020 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 40 | Mutiny on the Bounty | 2020 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 41 | Straight to the Pool Room | 2021 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 42 | The Incredible Life of Hubert Wilkins | 2022 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 43 | The Opera House | 2022 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 44 | The Battle of Long Tan | 2023 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
| 45 | The Legend of Albert Jacka | 2025 | Peter FitzSimons | Buy |
Peter FitzSimons has published 45 non-fiction books spanning Australian military history, exploration, biography, and sports. His earliest works focused on rugby, drawing on his own playing career, before he expanded into the sweeping historical narratives that made him a bestselling author.
His military history books cover both World Wars with a focus on Australian campaigns — Gallipoli, Tobruk, Fromelles, Kokoda, and Long Tan. His biographical works range from explorers like Burke and Wills and Hubert Wilkins to cultural icons like Ned Kelly and Phar Lap. More recently, he has written about the Sydney Opera House and Australia’s most decorated soldiers.