There are currently 37 officially licenced James Bond books authored by six writers since 1953. The first and most famous 14 were written by Ian Fleming, spawning a wide world of Bond media including films, comic strips, comic books, and video games.

Several novelizations, spin-off books, short stories, and anthologies have also been published.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Fleming 1.2 Gildrose Publications 1.3 Gardner 1.4 Benson 1.5 2000's 2 List of novels and short story collections 3 List of novels 4 List of novelisations 5 List of spin-off works

History

Fleming

After serving in the British Naval Intelligence Division during World War II, Fleming was inspired to write a novel about an international spy. Fleming bragged to his friends about how good he believed the book would be. Fleming chose a bland but masculine name for his main character and gave the character many of his own personal tastes including golf and gambling. He began writing his first Bond novel in 1952 in Jamaica over two months to take his mind off his upcoming wedding and pregnant fiancé. Casino Royale was published in 1953 to moderate reviews but great sales in the UK.

Fleming, who's full time job was a Forgeign Manager for a UK newspaper, used his yearly 3-month holiday to write each Bond book resulting in 1954's Live and Let Die, 1955's Moonraker, 1956's Diamonds Are Forever, 1957's From Russia with Love, 1958's Dr. No, 1959's Goldfinger, 1960's For Your Eyes Only -- a collection of short Bond stories -- 1961's Thunderball, 1962's The Spy Who Loved Me, 1963's On Her Magesty's Secret Service, and 1964's You Only Live Twice. Fleming was a heavy drinker and smoker and suffered heart disease. He suffered his first heart attack in 1961 and a fatal heart attack in August 1964. His final two books, 1965's The Man with the Golden Gun and 1966's collection of short stories Octopussy and The Living Daylights were published posthumously.

Gildrose Publications

With the success and fortune found by Casino Royale, Fleming purchased the small publication company Gildrose Publications, which had only published his novel. Gildrose, latered renamed Ian Fleming Publications in 1999 continues to license the Bond franchise and expand the literary catalogue.

Gildrose planned on having several authors use the pen name "Robert Markham" to continue to scribe more Bond books but the idea was scrapped after only one work, Colonel Sun, was written by English author and Bond fan Kingsley Amis in 1968.

Gildrose produced two novelizations to the EON films, James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me and James Bond and Moonraker in 1977 and 1979, respectively.

Gardner

After a thirteen year hiatus of original content (and recently after the death of Anne Charteris, Fleming's wife) Gildrose contracted John Gardner to scribe several Bond novels and to bring Bond in the modern 1980s. In 1981 Licence Renewed was published to mediocre critical response and sales. Nevertheless Gardner wrote a total of 16 Bond novels, including two novelizations of feature films. In 1996 Gardner published his last Bond book, COLD and retired from writing due to his poor health.

Benson

After Gardner's departure Raymond Benson was contracted by Gildrose to continue the Bond story. Benson, an American, was accused by fans of Americanizing the series but was also hailed as returning to Fleming's roots more than Amis or Gardner had managed. Benson wrote six original Bond novels, starting with 1997's Zero Minus Ten. Benson's novels, like Gardner's, featured James Bond in a modern year. He also wrote three film novelizations and three Bond short stories. In 2002 Benson left the Bond series.

2000's

Ian Fleming Publications asked British author Sebastian Faulks to pen a new Bond novel in the early 2000's. Faulks delivered a novel set in the 1960's in 2008 titled Devil May Care. Faulks chose to not continue and was replaced with American author Jeffery Deaver who penned Carte Blanche in 2011.

Ian Fleming Publications has announced that William Boyd will pen the next Bond book, Solo, set to be released in 2013.

List of novels and short story collections

List of novels

	Title	Year	Author
	Casino Royale	1953	Ian Fleming
	Live and Let Die	1954
	Moonraker	1955
	Diamonds Are Forever	1956
	From Russia with Love	1957
	Dr. No	1958
	Goldfinger	1959
	For Your Eyes Only (short stories)	1960
	Thunderball	1961
	The Spy Who Loved Me	1962
	On Her Majesty's Secret Service	1963
	You Only Live Twice	1964
	The Man with the Golden Gun	1965
	Octopussy and The Living Daylights (short stories)	1966
	Colonel Sun	1968	Kingsley Amis
	Licence Renewed	1981	John Gardner
	For Special Services	1982
	Icebreaker	1983
	Role of Honour	1984
	Nobody Lives For Ever	1986
	No Deals, Mr. Bond	1987
	Scorpius	1988
	Win, Lose or Die	1989
	Brokenclaw	1990
	The Man from Barbarossa	1991
	Death is Forever	1992
	Never Send Flowers	1993
	SeaFire	1994
	COLD	1996
	Zero Minus Ten	1997	Raymond Benson
	The Facts of Death	1998
	High Time to Kill	1999
	Doubleshot	2000
	Never Dream of Dying	2001
	The Man with the Red Tattoo	2002
	Devil May Care	2008	Sebastian Faulks
	Carte Blanche	2011	Jeffery Deaver

List of novelisations

	Title	Year	Author
	James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me	1977	Christopher Wood
	James Bond and Moonraker	1979
	Licence to Kill	1989	John Gardner
	GoldenEye	1995
	Tomorrow Never Dies	1997	Raymond Benson
	The World is Not Enough	1999
	Die Another Day	2002

List of spin-off works

	Title	Year	Series	Author
	003½: The Adventures of James Bond Junior	1967		R.D. Mascott
	James Bond: The Authorised Biography of 007	1973		John Pearson
	SilverFin	2005	Young Bond	Charlie Higson
	Blood Fever	2006
	Double or Die	2007
	Hurricane Gold
	By Royal Command	2008
	Guardian Angel	2005	The Moneypenny Diaries	Samantha Weinberg
	Secret Servant	2006
	Final Fling	2008

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