Reading order
Twin Peaks books reading order
- The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer1990
- The Autobiography of FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper: My Life, My Tapes1991
- The Secret History of Twin Peaks2016
- Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier2017
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- Score
- 4 volumes
- Volumes
- 1990–2017
- Published
- about 18 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
- Crime & mystery
- Genre
Quick answer
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Publication order
4 volumes1990–2017Completed
- Tie-in books to David Lynch and Mark Frost’s television series Twin Peaks.
- The Secret History of Twin Peaks, by Frost himself and the one with enough ratings, is a dossier of documents, letters and annotations that traces the town’s strange history back to Lewis and Clark and bridges the original series and its 2017 return; The Final Dossier follows the revival.
- The earlier Secret Diary of Laura Palmer and Dale Cooper’s taped autobiography were written by Jennifer Lynch and Scott Frost.
- For fans of the show.
A plan for the whole series
4 volumes, 984 pages, about 18 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 3 weeks.
Stages
This series fits in one stage. You finish around November 22, 2026.
- Stage 118 habout 3 weeksby November 22, 2026
- 1. The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer
- 2. The Autobiography of FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper: My Life, My Tapes
- 3. The Secret History of Twin Peaks
- 4. Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier
- The end of the series
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How this plan is calculated
The plan comes from the pages and ratings of each volume: we split the series into stages of about three weeks’ reading, size each break to the stage before it, and read the chance of finishing from how many readers rate the last volume compared with the first. How we work out the plan →
Every volume in order
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Frequently asked questions
Which Twin Peaks books book is the longest?
“The Secret History of Twin Peaks” is the longest at 359 pages; the shortest is “The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer” with 184 pages.