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==Novels== {| class="wikitable" width="100%" |- ! Order Number ! Release Year ! Title ! ISBN !Peak on NY Times Best Seller List ! Summary |- ! 1 | align="center"| 1966 | ''[[The Cat Who Could Read Backwards]]'' | 0-515-09017-4 |'''--''' | Qwilleran and Koko's first meeting. |- ! 2 | align="center"| 1967 | ''[[The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern]]'' | 0-515-08712-2 |'''--''' | Qwill is given the interior design beat for his newspaper. He also meets Yum Yum. |- ! 3 | align="center"| 1968 | ''[[The Cat Who Turned On and Off]]'' | 0-515-08794-7 |'''--''' | Qwill goes to Junktown to write a Christmas feature series. |- ! 4 | align="center"| 1986 | ''[[The Cat Who Saw Red]]'' | 0-515-09016-6 |'''--''' | Qwill gets assigned to the culinary beat and reunites with an old flame. |- ! 5 | align="center"| 1987 | ''[[The Cat Who Played Brahms]]'' | 0-515-09050-6 |'''--''' | A contemplative Qwill withdraws from the big city to visit his Aunt Fanny in Moose County. |- ! 6 | align="center"| 1988 | ''[[The Cat Who Played Post Office]]'' | 0-515-09320-3 |'''--''' | A bicycling mishap and a brightly painted room have Qwill's mustache twitching. |- ! 7 | align="center"| 1988 | ''[[The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare]]'' | 0-515-09582-6 |'''--''' | Fire and death at the newspaper offices. |- ! 8 | align="center"| 1988 | ''[[The Cat Who Sniffed Glue]]'' | 0-515-09954-6 |'''--''' | Vandalism appears in Pickax and a couple is murdered. |- ! 9 | align="center"| 1989 | ''[[The Cat Who Went Underground]]'' | 0-515-10123-0 |'''--''' | Qwill goes on vacation and carpenters in the area start dying. |- ! 10 | align="center"| 1990 | ''The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts'' | 0-515-10265-2 |'''--''' | One of Qwill's friends is found scared to death in her own home. |- ! 11 | align="center"| 1990 | ''[[The Cat Who Lived High]]'' | 0-515-10566-X |'''--''' | Qwill returns to Junktown to try to restore an old apartment building. |- ! 12 | align="center"| 1991 | ''[[The Cat Who Knew a Cardinal]]'' | 0-515-10786-7 |11 | Pickax's principal is found fatally shot after a party at Qwill's barn. |- ! 13 | align="center"| 1991 | ''The Cat Who Moved a Mountain'' | 0-515-10950-9 |9 | Qwill and the cats go on retreat in the Potatoes. |- ! 14 | align="center"| 1992 | ''The Cat Who Wasn't There'' | 0-515-11127-9 |11 | Sixteen Moose County residents go on group tour to Scotland. |- ! 15 | align="center"| 1993 | ''The Cat Who Went Into the Closet'' | 0-515-11332-8 |15 | Qwill attempts to solve a murder mystery long distance. |- ! 16 | align="center"| 1994 | ''[[The Cat Who Came to Breakfast]]'' | 0-515-11564-9 |6 | Qwill and his felines take a trip to Breakfast Island resort. |- ! 17 | align="center"| 1995 | ''The Cat Who Blew the Whistle'' | 0-515-11824-9 |8 | A railroad buff and president of a local bank disappears. |- ! 18 | align="center"| 1996 | ''The Cat Who Said Cheese'' | 0-515-12027-8 |5 | A stranger checks into the New Pickax Hotel. Not too long after, the hotel is bombed. |- ! 19 | align="center"| 1997 | ''[[The Cat Who Tailed a Thief]]'' | 0-515-12240-8 |9 | Small actions of theft are occurring in Pickax and a few people are found dead. |- ! 20 | align="center"| 1998 | ''The Cat Who Sang for the Birds'' | 0-515-12463-X |5 | An old barn across from the new art center burns down. |- ! 21 | align="center"| 1999 | ''The Cat Who Saw Stars'' | 0-515-12739-6 |6 | Qwill takes a vacation in Mooseville. |- ! 22 | align="center"| 2000 | ''The Cat Who Robbed a Bank'' | 0-515-12994-1 |9 | A jewelry dealer from Chicago comes to visit and is murdered. |- ! 23 | align="center"| 2001 | ''The Cat Who Smelled a Rat'' | 0-399-14665-2 |2 | A very dry year and concerns about wildfires have everyone praying for snow. |- ! 24 | align="center"| 2002 | ''The Cat Who Went Up The Creek'' | 0-515-13438-4 |4 | Qwill and the cats stay at a riverside inn in Black Creek. |- ! 25 | align="center"| 2003 | ''[[The Cat Who Brought Down the House]]'' | 0-515-13655-7 |3 | An aging film star retires to Pickax. |- ! 26 | align="center"| 2004 | ''[[The Cat Who Talked Turkey]]'' | 0-399-15107-9 |4 | The long-absent turkey population begins to return to Pickax. |- ! 27 | align="center"| 2005 | ''[[The Cat Who Went Bananas]]'' | 0-399-15224-5 |14 | A new bookstore opens. |- ! 28 | align="center"| 2006 | ''The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell'' | 0-399-15307-1 |3 | Moose County prepares for its 150th anniversary. |- ! 29 | align="center"| 2007 | ''[[The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers]]'' | 978-0399153907 |10 | Polly unexpectedly takes a library job in Paris, leaving without even saying goodbye to Qwill, and a gardener's so-called accidental death does not seem so accidental. |- ! 30 | align="center"| -- | ''The Cat Who Smelled Smoke'' | 978-0399154744 | | '''Unpublished.''' Title supposedly a reference to events in the previous book. |- |} ===Related Works by Lilian Jackson Braun=== #''The Cat Who Had 14 Tales'', 1988 ({{ISBN|0-515-09497-8}}): an anthology of unrelated short stories involving various cats. Note that Qwilleran, Koko and Yum Yum do not appear in these tales. #''Short and Tall Tales: Moose County Legends Collected by James Mackintosh Qwilleran'', 2002 ({{ISBN|0-515-13635-2}}): collected anecdotes and regional folklore from residents of Pickax & environs #''The Private Life of the Cat Who ...: Tales of Koko and Yum Yum (from the Journals of James Mackintosh Qwilleran)'', 2004 ({{ISBN|0-515-13832-0}}): collection of extracts from several previous works with limited new material ===Related Works by Other Authors=== *''The Cat Who... Companion'', 1998 ({{ISBN|0-425-18642-3}}) by Sharon A. Feaster, including Braun interview *''The Cat Who... Quiz Book'', 2003 ({{ISBN|0-425-19187-7}}) by Robert J. Headrick, Jr., with introduction by Braun *''The Cat Who... Cookbook'', 2000 ({{ISBN|0-425-17674-6}}) by Julie Murphy and Sally Abney Stempinski, with foreword by Braun *''The Cat Who... Reunion Cookbook'', 2006 ({{ISBN|0-425-21188-6}}) by Julie Murphy and Sally Abney Stempinski, with foreword by Braun *''The Cat Who Killed Lilian Jackson Braun'', 2003 ({{ISBN|1-893-22484-8}}), a parody novel by Robert Kaplow
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