Mitch Albom Books in Order
See all Mitch Albom books in order, with brief summaries, Heaven series guide, background on his life, and simple advice on where to start reading.
Last updated: December 9, 2025
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Publication Order
20 books
Twice
by Mitch Albom
2025
Twice introduces Alfie Logan, who discovers as a boy that he can redo any moment in his life once, reliving it with full memory of the first attempt. He uses the gift to erase embarrassments and chase desire, until a rule about love and second chances comes back to haunt him decades later.
The Little Liar
by Mitch Albom
2023
Set in Nazi-occupied Greece, The Little Liar follows Nico Krispis, an eleven-year-old boy known for always telling the truth who is tricked into reassuring fellow Jews that deportation trains will carry them to safety. Realising he has helped send them to their deaths, he spends the rest of his life wrestling with guilt, identity and the hope of forgiveness.
The Stranger in the Lifeboat
by Mitch Albom
2021
After a luxury yacht explodes, a handful of survivors drift in a life raft until they pull aboard a quiet young man who claims to be God. As supplies dwindle and despair rises, he insists he can save them only if they truly believe, forcing everyone to question what a miracle might really mean.
Finding Chika
by Mitch Albom
2019
Finding Chika is a memoir about Chika Jeune, a Haitian girl from Albom's orphanage who is diagnosed with a rare brain tumour. Albom and his wife bring her to Michigan for treatment, and the book tenderly chronicles how caring for her reshaped their marriage, their idea of family and their understanding of grief.
The Next Person You Meet in Heaven
by Mitch Albom
2018
This sequel to The Five People You Meet in Heaven tells the story of Annie, the girl Eddie once saved, whose life has been shadowed by that childhood accident. After a catastrophe on her wedding day, she journeys through heaven and meets five people who reveal how love, guilt and forgiveness have shaped her path.
The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
by Mitch Albom
2015
Narrated by the voice of Music itself, this novel follows Frankie Presto, a gifted guitarist born during the Spanish Civil War and sent alone to America. As his enchanted strings change colour whenever he alters someone's fate, the story traces his rise through twentieth-century music and the sacrifices behind his legend.
The First Phone Call from Heaven
by Mitch Albom
2013
Residents of the small town of Coldwater, Michigan, begin receiving phone calls from loved ones who have died, sparking worldwide frenzy and religious debate. Recently released from prison and grieving his wife, Sully Harding is determined to uncover the truth behind the calls, even as the mystery forces him to confront his own loss.
The Time Keeper
by Mitch Albom
2012
The Time Keeper imagines Dor, the first man to measure time, who is punished for trying to control it and condemned to listen to humanity's endless pleas for more hours. Released with a mission to help a desperate teenage girl and a dying billionaire, he must show them how to value the time they already have.
Have a Little Faith
by Mitch Albom
2009
This nonfiction book begins when Albom's childhood rabbi asks him to deliver his eulogy, prompting years of conversations about belief, doubt and community. At the same time, Albom befriends a former drug dealer turned pastor in Detroit, and their intertwined stories explore what faith can look like in very different lives.
Duck Hunter Shoots Angel
by Mitch Albom
2007
Two bumbling Alabama duck hunters become convinced they have accidentally shot an angel instead of a bird and panic about what heaven will do to them. As a jaded tabloid reporter chases the story, the farce slowly turns into a gentle tale about guilt, stereotypes and grace.
And the Winner Is
by Mitch Albom
2007
This stage comedy follows Tyler Johnes, a vain movie star who dies the night before his first Oscar ceremony and is desperate to know if he won. Bargaining with a wisecracking heavenly gatekeeper for a trip back to Earth, he collides with people he wronged and learns what really matters.
For One More Day
by Mitch Albom
2006
Charley Chick Benetto, a former baseball player whose life has fallen apart, attempts suicide and instead finds himself spending an impossible day with his long-dead mother. As they revisit pivotal moments from his past, Chick confronts buried secrets and gets a final chance to make peace.
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
by Mitch Albom
2003
This novel follows Eddie, an aging amusement-park mechanic who dies in an accident while trying to save a little girl. In heaven he meets five people who reveal how their lives were linked to his, forcing him to see that even an ordinary life can carry profound meaning.
Tuesdays with Morrie
by Mitch Albom
1997
In this memoir, Albom reconnects with his former sociology professor Morrie Schwartz, who is dying of ALS, and begins visiting him every Tuesday. Their conversations become an informal class on how to live, offering gentle, practical lessons about love, work, family and accepting death.
Live Albom IV
by Mitch Albom
1996
Live Albom IV gathers mid-1990s columns on everything from figure-skating scandals and high-profile trials to Detroit Lions heartache and Red Wings glory. It also includes Albom's imaginative Secret World Series, proving how easily he moves between reporting and storytelling.
The Fab Five
by Mitch Albom
1993
The Fab Five chronicles the early-1990s University of Michigan basketball recruits whose swagger, style and talent shook college hoops. Albom takes readers inside their recruitment, their back-to-back title-game appearances and the pressures and controversies that came with sudden fame.
Live Albom III
by Mitch Albom
1992
Subtitled Gone to the Dogs, this volume continues Albom's mix of sports and social commentary. He writes about championship runs, eccentric fans and the changing city around its teams, using the sports page to explore family, loyalty and everyday absurdities.
Live Albom II
by Mitch Albom
1990
Live Albom II collects another round of Albom's newspaper columns, from big games and national scandals to quieter human-interest pieces. Together they show him refining his ability to find humour and heart in both victory and defeat.
Bo
by Mitch Albom
1989
This autobiography of legendary Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler, written with Mitch Albom, dives into the locker rooms, rivalries and turning points of his career. Schembechler reflects on leadership, loyalty and the cost of chasing perfection on and off the field.
Live Albom
by Mitch Albom
1988
This collection gathers Mitch Albom's early Detroit Free Press columns, mixing sharp sports commentary with portraits of fans, coaches and everyday Detroiters. It offers an early look at the wit and empathy that would later define his bestselling books.
Where should I start?
If you're new to Mitch Albom: Tuesdays with Morrie → The Five People You Meet in Heaven → For One More Day
If you want inspirational true stories: Tuesdays with Morrie → Have a Little Faith → Finding Chika
If you love spiritual novels: The Five People You Meet in Heaven → The Next Person You Meet in Heaven → The First Phone Call from Heaven → The Stranger in the Lifeboat
If you're interested in his sports writing roots: Live Albom → Bo → The Fab Five
If you want his recent fiction: The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto → The Little Liar → Twice
Author bio
Mitch Albom is an American author, sports journalist, broadcaster and musician whose stories about love, loss, faith and second chances have reached millions of readers around the world.
He was born in 1958 in Passaic, New Jersey, and grew up mainly in the small town of Oaklyn outside Philadelphia in a close Jewish family. As a child he taught himself to play piano, a passion that would weave through his life alongside writing.
Albom studied sociology at Brandeis University, where he formed a deep bond with his professor Morrie Schwartz. Those classroom conversations about meaning, work and responsibility stayed with him long after graduation and later became the heart of his memoir Tuesdays with Morrie.
After college he chased a career in music, playing piano in clubs in New York and Europe while scraping by on odd jobs. A stint at a small community newspaper in Queens sparked a new fascination with journalism and convinced him that storytelling on the page could be as powerful as performing on stage.
He returned to school for graduate work in journalism and business, juggling classes with night-time gigs and babysitting jobs. That hustle paid off when he landed a reporting role at a Florida newspaper and then, in the mid-1980s, the sports columnist position at the Detroit Free Press.
In Detroit he became one of the most decorated sports writers of his generation, known for columns that blended sharp analysis with warmth and humour. Collections such as the Live Albom books gathered his pieces on local teams, national events and the small human dramas that unfold around games.
At the same time Albom built a broadcasting career. He launched a long-running daily radio show in Detroit, created a Sunday night sports program and spent years as a panelist on ESPN's The Sports Reporters, becoming a familiar voice far beyond Michigan.
His early books grew out of that world, including Bo, a collaboration with University of Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler, and The Fab Five, about the era-defining Michigan basketball recruits. But his breakout came with Tuesdays with Morrie, which chronicles his visits to his former professor as Morrie was dying from ALS and distils their conversations into lessons on how to live.
The huge success of that book opened the door to a series of spiritually minded novels. The Five People You Meet in Heaven imagines an afterlife where an ordinary maintenance man learns how his life touched others; later works such as For One More Day, The Time Keeper, The First Phone Call from Heaven, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto, The Stranger in the Lifeboat, The Little Liar and Twice use fable-like plots to explore grief, hope and the hidden links between people.
Alongside his fiction, Albom has written nonfiction that draws directly on his relationships and charitable work. Have a Little Faith centres on his childhood rabbi and a Detroit pastor who rebuilt his life after crime and addiction, while Finding Chika tells the story of a young Haitian girl who became a daughter to Albom and his wife during her illness.
He is also an active playwright and musician. Albom co-wrote the stage adaptation of Tuesdays with Morrie and followed it with original plays, and he has spent years performing as a pianist and songwriter, including with a band of fellow authors that raised money for literacy causes.
Service is woven through much of his life. In Detroit he founded charities that support shelters, medical care, education programs and housing for people in need, and he directs an orphanage in Haiti that cares for children displaced by poverty and disaster.
Albom lives in the Detroit area with his wife, Janine Sabino. Between his radio show, newspaper columns and steady stream of books and plays, he keeps returning to the same mission: telling stories that help people find comfort, courage and meaning in their own lives.
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