Louis Sachar

At the age of nine, they moved to Tustin, California, which at the time, was filled with orange groves all around. Local kids would team up and have orange fights, with 'ammo' hanging from the trees, but the best ones were the rotten, gushy ones lying on the ground. Louis enjoyed school and was a pretty good student, but he became an avid reader only once he hit high school.

The best place to start is the Wayside School series, the earliest of Louis Sachar's multi-book series: it opens with Sideways Stories from Wayside School (1978) and runs to 7 books across 1978–2020, ending with Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom (2020). Louis Sachar's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Louis Sachar has 30 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1978 and 2025. 20 of them belong to 4 named series — the largest being the Marvin Redpost series with 8 books — and 10 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Louis Sachar's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Wayside School (1978–2020, 7 books), Someday Angeline (1983–1991, 2 books) and Marvin Redpost (1992–2000, 8 books), plus 1 more.

This guide splits Louis Sachar's 30 books into 4 named series and 10 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Marvin Redpost (8 books, 1992–2000); Wayside School (7 books, 1978–2020); Holes (3 books, 1998–2006); Someday Angeline (2 books, 1983–1991).