Ann Hood Reading Order

121 books (2002–2025)

The Akashic Noir series is an ongoing collection of noir anthologies featuring original short stories set in specific cities and regions around the world. With over 120 books published since 2002 and continuing to expand, the series offers readers crime fiction perspectives from locations spanning from San Francisco and Brooklyn to Dublin, London, and beyond. Each volume focuses on a different geographic area and should be read in publication order, beginning with San Francisco Noir. While individual anthologies can be enjoyed independently, following the publication sequence allows readers to experience how the series has evolved across its two-decade span.

Start with San Francisco Noir, the first of 121 books in the Akashic Noir series.

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1	San Francisco Noir 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Bronx Noir 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Seattle Noir 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Brooklyn Noir 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Hasidic Noir 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Brooklyn Noir 2 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Chicago Noir 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Dublin Noir 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Baltimore Noir 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	D.C. Noir 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	London Noir 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Manhattan Noir 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Miami Noir 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Twin Cities Noir 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Detroit Noir 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Havana Noir 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Los Angeles Noir 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	New Orleans Noir 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Wall Street Noir 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But the Truth 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	D.C. Noir 2 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Istanbul Noir 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Las Vegas Noir 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Manhattan Noir 2 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	Paris Noir 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	Queens Noir 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	Toronto Noir 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	Trinidad Noir 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	Boston Noir 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	Delhi Noir 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	Phoenix Noir 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	Portland Noir 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	Rome Noir 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	San Francisco Noir 2 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	Copenhagen Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
36	Haiti Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
37	Indian Country Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
38	Lone Star Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
39	Los Angeles Noir 2 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
40	Mexico City Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
41	Moscow Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
42	Orange County Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
43	Philadelphia Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
44	Richmond Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
45	Barcelona Noir 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
46	Cape Cod Noir 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
47	New Jersey Noir 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
48	Pittsburgh Noir 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
49	San Diego Noir 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
50	Boston Noir 2 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
51	Kansas City Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
52	Kingston Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
53	Long Island Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
54	Mumbai Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
55	St. Petersburg Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
56	Staten Island Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
57	Venice Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
58	Buffalo Noir 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
59	Dallas Noir 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
60	Haiti Noir 2 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
61	Manila Noir 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
62	USA Noir 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
63	Belfast Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
64	Helsinki Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
65	Prison Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
66	Rio Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
67	Singapore Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
68	Tehran Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
69	Tel Aviv Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
70	Beirut Noir 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
71	Chicago Noir: The Classics 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
72	Marseille Noir 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
73	Memphis Noir 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
74	Providence Noir 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
75	Zagreb Noir 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
76	Brussels Noir 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
77	Mississippi Noir 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
78	New Orleans Noir: The Classics 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
79	Prague Noir 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
80	San Juan Noir 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
81	St. Louis Noir 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
82	Stockholm Noir 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
83	Atlanta Noir 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
84	Buenos Aires Noir 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
85	Montana Noir 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
86	Montreal Noir 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
87	New Haven Noir 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
88	Oakland Noir 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
89	Trinidad Noir: The Classics 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
90	Baghdad Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
91	Berlin Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
92	Hong Kong Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
93	Lagos Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
94	Marrakech Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
95	Santa Cruz Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
96	Sydney Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
97	São Paulo Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
98	Vancouver Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
99	Amsterdam Noir 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
100	Houston Noir 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
101	Milwaukee Noir 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
102	Accra Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
103	Addis Ababa Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
104	Alabama Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
105	Belgrade Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
106	Berkeley Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
107	Columbus Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
108	Miami Noir: The Classics 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
109	Nairobi Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
110	Santa Fe Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
111	Tampa Bay Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
112	Palm Springs Noir 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
113	Denver Noir 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
114	Paris Noir: The Suburbs 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
115	South Central Noir 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
116	Cleveland Noir 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
117	East Jerusalem Noir 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
118	West Jerusalem Noir 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
119	Honolulu Noir 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
120	Hamburg Noir 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
121	Sacramento Noir 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

9 books (2007–2016)

Ann Hood edited nine complete anthologies between 2007 and 2016, each featuring contributions from multiple writers across various themes. These collections span topics including relationships, social causes, creative pursuits, and family dynamics, offering diverse perspectives and voices in each volume. The series should be read in publication order, beginning with Over the Hill and Between the Sheets and concluding with The Bitch Is Back. Each anthology functions as a standalone work, making it possible to read individual volumes independently or pursue the complete series.

Start with Over the Hill and Between the Sheets, the first of 9 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Over the Hill and Between the Sheets 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Dedicated to the People of Darfur 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Blue Christmas 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Crush: 26 Real-life Tales of First Love 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Goodbye to All That 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	What My Mother Gave Me 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Every Father's Daughter 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Bitch Is Back 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2004–2004)

#	Title
1	An Ornithologist's Guide to Life 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

7 books (1998–2022)

Ann Hood's non-fiction series spans from 1998 to 2022 across seven books that blend memoir, personal essay, and reflection on topics ranging from creative writing craft to grief, spirituality, food, and literature. The series appears to be complete and should be read in publication order, beginning with Creating Character Emotions and concluding with Fly Girl: A Memoir. Hood's works in this collection draw from both her experience as a thriller and mystery writer and her personal life, offering readers insights into writing technique, spiritual searching, the grieving process, and the formative role of books and creativity.

Start with Creating Character Emotions, the first of 7 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	Creating Character Emotions 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Do Not Go Gentle: My Search for Miracles in a Cynical Time 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Comfort: A Journey Through Grief 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Knitting Pearls: Writers Writing About Knitting 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Morningstar: Growing Up With Books 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Fly Girl: A Memoir 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2010–2010)

16 books (1987–2024)

Ann Hood has written 16 standalone novels from 1987 to 2024, with the series remaining ongoing. Though each book functions as an independent story, readers should follow publication order beginning with Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine to experience Hood's evolving narrative style across mystery, thriller, and literary fiction. The series spans nearly four decades of her work, concluding with titles like She Loves You (Yeah, Yeah, Yeah) and Jude Banks, Superhero among the most recent releases.

Start with Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine, the first of 16 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Waiting to Vanish 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Three Legged Horse 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Something Blue 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Places to Stay the Night 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Properties of Water 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Ruby 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Knitting Circle 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	How I Saved My Father's Life (And Ruined Everything Else) 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	The Red Thread 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Obituary Writer 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	An Italian Wife 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	The Book That Matters Most 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	She Loves You (Yeah, Yeah, Yeah) 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Jude Banks, Superhero 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	The Stolen Child 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

10 books (2011–2014)

The Treasure Chest is a complete ten-book series by Ann Hood published between 2011 and 2014, with titles focusing on historical figures including Alexander Hamilton, Clara Barton, Harry Houdini, Pearl Buck, Alexander Graham Bell, Crazy Horse, Queen Liliuokalani, Amelia Earhart, Anastasia Romanov, and Leonardo da Vinci. The books should be read in publication order, beginning with Alexander Hamilton: Little Lion. Each standalone entry explores the life of a notable historical figure, making the series suitable for readers interested in biography and history.

Start with Alexander Hamilton: Little Lion, the first of 10 books in the The Treasure Chest series.

#	Title
1	Alexander Hamilton: Little Lion 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Clara Barton: Angel of the Battlefield 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Harry Houdini: Prince of Air 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Pearl Buck: Jewel of the East 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Alexander Graham Bell: Master of Sound 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Crazy Horse: Brave Warrior 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Queen Liliuokalani: Royal Prisoner 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Amelia Earhart: Lady Lindy 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Anastasia Romanov: The Last Grand Duchess 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Leonardo da Vinci: Renaissance Master 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible