Mick Foley Books in Order
Explore Mick Foley books in order, with quick summaries of his wrestling memoirs, novels, and children's books, plus helpful notes on where to start.
Last updated: June 8, 2026
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Publication Order
17 books
Have a Nice Day!
by Mick Foley
1999
Foley's first memoir mixes backstage wrestling history, painful match stories, and a surprisingly warm voice. He traces his path from obsessed Long Island kid to Mankind, Cactus Jack, and one of wrestling's most unforgettable performers.
Mick Foley's Christmas Chaos
by Mick Foley
2000
Santa is ready to call off Christmas after the North Pole falls into bad behavior and selfishness. With wrestling-flavored humor and a timely reminder about generosity, Foley turns the mess into a warm holiday story.
Foley is Good
by Mick Foley
2001
This follow-up memoir picks up after his first bestseller and covers the final stretch of Foley's full-time ring career. He mixes humor and backstage detail while showing how fame, family, and wrestling were starting to collide.
Mick Foley's Halloween Hijinx
by Mick Foley
2001
In this rhyming Halloween picture book, monster children get one night to break the rules and cause trouble. Foley plays the mischief for laughs while building toward a simple reminder about the fun, and limits, of holiday chaos.
Tietam Brown
by Mick Foley
2003
Seventeen-year-old Andy Brown is trying to start over after a violent, damaged childhood. When he is pulled into the orbit of his reckless father and a first real love, he has to decide whether his past will keep defining him.
Tales from Wrescal Lane
by Mick Foley
2004
This illustrated collection imagines WWE stars as kids living on the same street. Through playful stories about young Mick Foley, Kurt Angle, the Dudleys, and others, it turns wrestling personalities into lessons about sharing and humility.
Scooter
by Mick Foley
2005
In 1969 the Bronx, baseball-loving Scooter Riley is growing up in a neighborhood and family under strain. After a terrible accident changes his body and confidence, he has to figure out what kind of boy, and later man, he wants to be.
The Hardcore Diaries
by Mick Foley
2007
Foley takes readers back inside WWE, focusing on his return to the ring and the path to a brutal hardcore match. The diary format captures creative meetings, family worries, and the physical price of doing it all again.
Countdown to Lockdown
by Mick Foley
2010
Written as a journal, this memoir follows Foley through his TNA run and the build to Lockdown. He mixes backstage stories, old grudges, and candid thoughts about aging, risk, and why wrestling still has such a hold on him.
A Most Mizerable Christmas
by Mick Foley
2012
On Wrescal Lane, The Miz has spent years bullying the other kids and still expects a perfect Christmas. A new boy's unselfish example forces him to rethink what the holiday, and getting what you want, should really mean.
WWE Superstars #1
by Mick Foley
2014
The first graphic novel drops WWE stars into the crooked world of Titan City. John Cena has been framed over a missing fortune, Randy Orton wants more power, and CM Punk is ready to tear the whole system down.
WWE Superstars #2
by Mick Foley
2014
Monday Night Raw is a wreck, the championship belt is gone, and four superstars cannot remember what happened. CM Punk, Rob Van Dam, Daniel Bryan, and Rey Mysterio have to retrace a wild night before Triple H loses patience.
WWE Superstars #3
by Mick Foley
2015
This volume goes big by throwing current WWE names and legends into the same story. The fun is in the clash of eras, with oversized rivalries, team-ups, and comic-book chaos driving the action.
WWE Superstars #4
by Mick Foley
2015
This later graphic novel returns to a crooked, hard-hitting comic-book version of WWE. The draw is the mood, the shifting alliances, and the way Foley turns wrestling personas into crime-story players.
WWE Superstars #5
by Mick Foley
2015
Roman Reigns, a cop on the rise, is sent to investigate the disappearance of Titan City's crime bosses. When his case collides with Sting's vigilante hunt for answers, the city becomes even more dangerous.
Saint Mick
by Mick Foley
2017
Part Christmas memoir, part personal reset, this book follows Foley's unexpected path from hardcore wrestling icon to professional Santa. It is a gentler, more reflective look at family, kindness, and why the holiday still means so much to him.
Cactus Jack and the Beanstalk
by Mick Foley
2019
This coloring comic gives Jack and the Beanstalk a wrestling twist by putting Cactus Jack in the lead. It plays the fairy tale for laughs, action, and rough-edged fun rather than as a straight retelling.
Where should I start?
If you want the essential wrestling memoir: Have a Nice Day! → Foley is Good → The Hardcore Diaries
If you want the later, more reflective backstage books: The Hardcore Diaries → Countdown to Lockdown → Saint Mick
If you want Mick Foley as a novelist: Tietam Brown → Scooter
If you want family-friendly holiday reads: Mick Foley's Christmas Chaos → Mick Foley's Halloween Hijinx → Tales from Wrescal Lane → A Most Mizerable Christmas
Author bio
Mick Foley was born in Bloomington, Indiana, in 1965, but he grew up in East Setauket on Long Island, New York. Before he was a bestselling author, he was the kind of kid who was completely taken with wrestling, not just the moves, but the characters, the drama, and the strange theater of it all.
That interest did not stay a hobby for long. Foley trained with Dominic DeNucci and came up through smaller promotions, building a reputation the hard way, with long drives, rough rings, and an unusual willingness to take punishment if it made the story better. He was never the polished, built-in-a-gym kind of star, which ended up becoming part of the point.
By the time fans knew him as Cactus Jack, Dude Love, and Mankind, Foley had become one of wrestling's most memorable personalities. He could be funny, unnerving, awkward, heartfelt, and reckless, sometimes all in the same segment. That mix helped him stand out in an industry full of larger-than-life performers.
Then he wrote.
His first memoir, Have a Nice Day!, surprised a lot of people. Foley wrote it himself, in longhand, and the book felt a lot like his best interviews, candid, self-aware, very funny, and more thoughtful than readers expected from a man famous for thumbtacks and falls from steel cages. It became a number one bestseller, and Foley is Good followed it with more backstage stories, family life, and the last stretch of his full-time ring career.
What makes Foley interesting as an author is that he did not stay in one lane. He came back to wrestling memoir in The Hardcore Diaries and Countdown to Lockdown, both of which pull readers into the day-to-day reality behind matches and storylines. But he also wrote fiction, including Tietam Brown and Scooter, two very different novels that still share some of his recurring interests, bruised people, hard childhoods, family tension, and the question of what kind of person someone can become after a rough start.
He also has a much softer side on the page than his ring reputation would suggest. Foley wrote children's books like Mick Foley's Christmas Chaos, Mick Foley's Halloween Hijinx, Tales from Wrescal Lane, and A Most Mizerable Christmas, often mixing rhyme, wrestling references, and a gentle lesson without making the stories feel stiff.
Christmas matters to him a lot.
That part of his life eventually fed into Saint Mick, a memoir about his love of the holiday and his work as a professional Santa. It fits more naturally with the rest of his writing than you might think. Readers tend to come back to Foley because the voice always feels like him, warm, self-mocking, sometimes sentimental, and very direct. He has long been based on Long Island with his family, while still touring, writing, and turning up for wrestling crowds. Not many people could make hardcore wrestling, children's books, novels, and Santa Claus all feel like chapters of the same life, but Foley somehow does.
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