What order did you read the Bond books in?

This is mine:

1. Carte Blanche (october 2011) (it doesn't take me a whole month to read a book, I simply read other books between a Bond book and another)
2. The World Is Not Enough (november 2011)
3. Casino Royale (21 december 2011)
4. Live And Let Die (january 2012)
5. For Your Eyes Only (february 2012)
6. Thunderball (march 2012)
7. Octopussy (april 2012)
8. Dr. No (june 2012)
9. Licence to Kill (june 2012) got bored and read:
10. Goldfinger (july 2012), then got back to LTK (july 2012)
11. Tomorrow Never Dies (july/august 2012)
12. Moonraker (Fleming, august/september 2012)
13. Die Another Day (september 2012)
14. On Her Majesty's Secret Service - first five chapters for chronological reasons (september 2012)
15. 007 in New York (september 2012)
16. The Spy Who Loved Me (september 2012)
17. On Her Majesty's Secret Service - chapters 10-15 (october 2012)
18. You Only Live Twice (october 2012)
19. Diamonds Are Forever (november 2012)
20. From Russia With Love (november 2012)
21. The Man With The Golden Gun (december 2012)
22. The Spy Who Loved Me (Wood) (december 2012/january 2013)
23. Moonraker (Wood) (january 2013)

TMWTGG (the movie had just come out)

then the John Pearson Bio of 007 (which I consider to be almost-Fleming it is so good)

then about 2 months later, all of the Fleming titles in order, all in a span of two weeks (though I gave up on SPY ... I've never read it all the way through), except for the short stories in the OCTOPUSSY collection, which I didn't find for another couple of years.

The Wood novelizations

the first 6 or 7 Gardner books and that terrible awful LTK novelization he did -- that about finished me, except of course for rereading Fleming and Pearson every couple of years.

In release order, and so far only Fleming. After four years I think I'll finally star reading the continuation books.

I read Fleming's entries in the order they were released.

Gave up on Carte Blanche half-way through. Don't think I want to read anymore Bond books that weren't penned by the Flemshizzle.

I started reading the Fleming paperbacks when I was 12 years old. I had to really scrounge around for them. First one I read was YOLT, as a neighbor's parents had it lying about. I still have it :oops: It's first edition 1964 Pan Paperback. Crazy book to start with, but what did I know. I was 12.

Next I read From Russia With Love. I saw it in the bookstore. I liked the naked blonde on the front cover. Tania model sporting only black stockings and collar. You could almost see her whole right breast. This was quite appealing to my 12-year-old sensibilities. Tapped out my allowance and bought it.

Then I started buying up the "still-life"-cover paperbacks in random order, basically based on what I read on the back jacket blurb and the front cover photo montages. I migh have read DAF third, as I liked the movie so much. By the time I was 15 I had managed to collect them all and read them all. I finished with Golden Gun and OP, only because these were the last two covers to get my attention.

DN was always my favourite. I loved it when he beat the giant squid and buried No in a pile of bird-dung. Honey Ryder spending half the book running about naked was real exciting too.

Then I read Colonel Sun and the Pearson book which was awesome. I actually believed Bond was real for a bit, until I grudgingly had to acknowledge the "work of fiction" disclaimer at the front of the book. I managed to read Wood's TSWLM and everything since, as titles were released. Although I missed the initial release of the Gardner books. Girlfriend gave me License Renewed paperback and For Special Services hardcover as a gift. What a gift. I didn't even know these books existed at the time. Smart girl. She'd figured out through coy enquiries that I was oblivious to these titles, let alone owned them. Imagine my surprise. Two fresh Bond books.

The right order. CR-TMWTGG.

Started with TSWLM. That was a grand mistake as I see it as one of the weaker books from the original set. Also, the narrative style is completely different so it wasn't a well representation of what to expect. So that turned me off from them for a few years. After that though I read all Fleming in proper order.

I do not recall the sequence as I found them on my dads bookshelves and decided to nick them and call them mine. He never missed them untill I told him about the Cheyney, Fleming and Charteris books I had borrowed forever.

I do believe I started reading Fleming with Goldfinger (De man met de gouden vingers) and took it from there. And I remember having bought TMWTGG and the two shortstory collections at a 2nd hand book store in order to complete my collection. And then found a copy of colonel Sun.

Read the Gardner books in sequence, the same applies to the Benson Books and all next continuation books. I even bought the Young Bond books and kinda enjoyed them. Am currently reading the Moneypenny diaries and enjoying them a lot.