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Series of books published from 1919 through 1978 by the Haldeman Julius Publishing Company

Little Blue Books are a series of small staple bound books published from 1919 through 1978 by the Haldeman Julius Publishing Company of Girard, Kansas. They were extremely popular, and achieved a total of 300 500 million booklets sold over the series' lifetime. A Big Blue Book range was also published.

Demand for existing titles remained steady throughout the Depression although only about 300 new titles were released during the 1930s, the bulk appearing prior to 1932. Following World War II, the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover viewed the Little Blue Books' inclusion of such subjects as socialism, atheism, and frank treatment of sexuality as a threat and put Haldeman Julius on their enemies list, getting him convicted of income tax evasion. This persecution caused a rapid decline in the number of bookstores carrying the Little Blue Books, and they slowly sank into obscurity by the 1950s, although still well remembered by older people who had read them in the 1920s and 1930s. The Cardinal Francis Spellman FBI file contains clear indications concerning the interest of the FBI on Haldeman Julius Publications by 1955, after an anonymous letter in late 1954 alerted the government to a book that was under press "vilifying" the Cardinal. At the time of Emanuel Haldeman Julius's death on July 31, 1951, the series supported 1873 active titles. Kent State University, Bowling Green State University, and California State University, Northridge.