Andrew Vachss Reading Order

3 books (2013–2015)

Start with Aftershock and read in order.

#	Title
1	Aftershock 2013Buy 🇺🇸
2	Shockwave 2014Buy 🇺🇸
3	Signwave 2015Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1991–2012)

Start with Cold Blood, the first of 5 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Cold Blood 1991Buy 🇺🇸
2	Dark at Heart 1992Buy 🇺🇸
3	Erbarmungslose Stiere 2000Buy 🇺🇸
4	L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories 2010Buy 🇺🇸
5	Protectors: Stories to Benefit PROTECT 2012Buy 🇺🇸

18 books (1985–2008)

Start with Flood, the first of 18 books in the Burke series.

#	Title
1	Flood 1985Buy 🇺🇸
2	Strega 1987Buy 🇺🇸
3	Blue Belle 1988Buy 🇺🇸
4	Hard Candy 1989Buy 🇺🇸
5	Blossom 1990Buy 🇺🇸
6	Sacrifice 1991Buy 🇺🇸
7	Down in the Zero 1994Buy 🇺🇸
8	Footsteps of the Hawk 1995Buy 🇺🇸
9	False Allegations 1996Buy 🇺🇸
10	Safe House 1998Buy 🇺🇸
11	Choice of Evil 1999Buy 🇺🇸
12	Dead and Gone 2000Buy 🇺🇸
13	Pain Management 2001Buy 🇺🇸
14	Only Child 2002Buy 🇺🇸
15	Down Here 2004Buy 🇺🇸
16	Mask Market 2006Buy 🇺🇸
17	Terminal 2007Buy 🇺🇸
18	Another Life 2008Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2012–2016)

Start with Blackjack and read in order.

#	Title
1	Blackjack 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	Urban Renewal 2014Buy 🇺🇸
3	Drawing Dead 2016Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1994–2014)

Start with Hard Looks: Adapted Stories, the first of 4 books in the Graphic Novels series.

#	Title
1	Hard Looks: Adapted Stories 1994Buy 🇺🇸
2	Harder Looks(With: Geof Darrow) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Shaolin Cowboy Adventure Magazine 2012Buy 🇺🇸
4	Vachss: Underground 2014Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1999–2017)

Start with Veil's Visit(With: Joe R. Lansdale) and read in order.

#	Title
1	Veil's Visit(With: Joe R. Lansdale) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
2	Hap and Leonard(By: Joe R. Lansdale) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
3	Hap and Leonard: Blood and Lemonade(By: Joe R. Lansdale) 2017Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2010–2011)

Start with L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories and read in order.

#	Title
1	L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories 2010Buy 🇺🇸
2	Black DahliaWhite Rose(By: Joyce Carol Oates) 2011Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (1979–1979)

#	Title
1	The Life Style Violent Juvenile 1979Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2018–2018)

3 books (1986–1999)

Start with Born Bad and read in order.

#	Title
1	Born Bad 1986Buy 🇺🇸
2	Another Chance to Get It Right 1993Buy 🇺🇸
3	Everybody Pays 1999Buy 🇺🇸

11 books (1993–2022)

Start with Shella, the first of 11 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Shella 1993Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Getaway Man 2003Buy 🇺🇸
3	Two Trains Running 2005Buy 🇺🇸
4	Haiku 2009Buy 🇺🇸
5	Heart Transplant 2010Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Weight 2010Buy 🇺🇸
7	A Bomb Built in Hell 2012Buy 🇺🇸
8	That's How I Roll 2012Buy 🇺🇸
9	Mortal Lock 2013Buy 🇺🇸
10	Carbon 2019Buy 🇺🇸
11	Blood Line 2022Buy 🇺🇸