C.J. Box Reading Order

9 books (2006–2023)

Start with The Best American Mystery Stories 2006, the first of 9 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	The Best American Mystery Stories 2006 2006Buy 🇺🇸
2	Once Upon a Crime: An Anthology of Murder, Mayhem and Suspense 2009Buy 🇺🇸
3	Hook, Line & Sinister 2010Buy 🇺🇸
4	Mysterious Writers: The Many Facets of Mystery Writing 2010Buy 🇺🇸
5	Inherit the Dead 2013Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Highway Kind 2016Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Best American Mystery Stories 2017 2017Buy 🇺🇸
8	Birds of Prey: The Harlan Coben Challenge 2022Buy 🇺🇸
9	Killin’ Time in San Diego: Bouchercon Anthology 2023 2023Buy 🇺🇸

40 books (2012–2022)

Start with An Acceptable Sacrifice(By: Jeffery Deaver), the first of 40 books in the Bibliomysteries series.

#	Title
1	An Acceptable Sacrifice(By: Jeffery Deaver) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	Death Leaves a Bookmark(By: William Link) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
3	Pronghorns of the Third Reich 2012Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Book Case(By: Nelson DeMille) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Book Thing(By: Laura Lippman) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Book of Virtue(By: Ken Bruen) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
7	Rides a Stranger(By: David Bell) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Book of Ghosts(By: Reed Farrel Coleman) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Final Testament(By: Peter Blauner) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Long Sonata of the Dead(By: Andrew Taylor) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
11	Book Club(By: Loren D. Estleman) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
12	It's in the Book(By: Max Allan Collins,Mickey Spillane) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
13	Remaindered(By: Peter Lovesey) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Compendium of Srem(By: F. Paul Wilson) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Gospel of Sheba(By: Lyndsay Faye) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Nature of My Inheritance(By: Bradford Morrow) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Scroll(By: Anne Perry) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Sequel(By: R.L. Stine) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
19	What's in a Name?(By: Thomas H. Cook) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
20	Condor in the Stacks(By: James Grady) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
21	Every Seven Years(By: Denise Mina) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
22	From the Queen(By: Carolyn Hart) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
23	Mystery, Inc.(By: Joyce Carol Oates) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Book of the Lion(By: Thomas Perry) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
25	The Little Men(By: Megan Abbott) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
26	Citadel(By: Stephen Hunter) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
27	Dead Dames Don't Sing(By: John Harvey) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
28	Reconciliation Day(By: Christopher Fowler) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
29	The Haze(By: James W. Hall) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
30	The Travelling Companion(By: Ian Rankin) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
31	Hoodoo Harry(By: Joe R. Lansdale) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
32	Seven Years(By: Peter Robinson) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
33	The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository(By: John Connolly) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
34	The Hemingway Valise(By: Robert Olen Butler) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
35	The Last Honest Horse Thief(By: Michael Koryta) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
36	The Pretty Little Box(By: Charles Todd) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
37	The Girl Who Did Say No(By: David Handler) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
38	The Dark Door(By: Lisa Unger) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
39	The Honeymoon Trap(By: Peter Swanson) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
40	The Traitor(By: Martin Edwards) 2022Buy 🇺🇸

26 books (2001–2026)

Start with Open Season, the first of 26 books in the Joe Pickett series.

#	Title
1	Open Season 2001Buy 🇺🇸
2	Savage Run 2002Buy 🇺🇸
3	Winterkill 2003Buy 🇺🇸
4	Trophy Hunt 2004Buy 🇺🇸
5	Out of Range 2005Buy 🇺🇸
6	In Plain Sight 2006Buy 🇺🇸
7	Free Fire 2007Buy 🇺🇸
8	Blood Trail 2008Buy 🇺🇸
9	Below Zero 2009Buy 🇺🇸
10	Nowhere to Run 2010Buy 🇺🇸
11	Cold Wind 2011Buy 🇺🇸
12	Force of Nature 2012Buy 🇺🇸
13	Breaking Point 2013Buy 🇺🇸
14	Stone Cold 2014Buy 🇺🇸
15	Endangered 2015Buy 🇺🇸
16	Off the Grid 2016Buy 🇺🇸
17	Vicious Circle 2017Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Disappeared 2018Buy 🇺🇸
19	Wolf Pack 2019Buy 🇺🇸
20	Long Range 2020Buy 🇺🇸
21	Dark Sky 2021Buy 🇺🇸
22	Shadows Reel 2022Buy 🇺🇸
23	Storm Watch 2023Buy 🇺🇸
24	Three-Inch Teeth 2024Buy 🇺🇸
25	Battle Mountain 2025Buy 🇺🇸
26	The Crossroads 2026Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2014–2014)

#	Title
1	Shots Fired: Stories from Joe Pickett Country 2014Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2005–2022)

Start with Dull Knife, the first of 6 books in the Joe Pickett Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	Dull Knife 2005Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Master Falconer 2011Buy 🇺🇸
3	One-Car Bridge 2015Buy 🇺🇸
4	Pirates of Yellowstone 2015Buy 🇺🇸
5	Honor & ...(With: Sandra Brown) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
6	Precious Cargo 2022Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2011–2017)

Start with Lethal(By: Sandra Brown) and read in order.

#	Title
1	Lethal(By: Sandra Brown) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
2	Honor & ...(With: Sandra Brown) 2017Buy 🇺🇸

33 books (2022–2025)

Start with Alex Delaware(By: Jonathan Kellerman), the first of 33 books in the Mysterious Profiles series.

1 book (1998–1998)

#	Title
1	Travel Smart: Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho(With: Paul Otteson) 1998Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2015–2016)

Start with The End of Jim and Ezra and read in order.

3 books (2007–2012)

Start with Blue Heaven and read in order.

#	Title
1	Blue Heaven 2007Buy 🇺🇸
2	Three Weeks to Say Goodbye 2008Buy 🇺🇸
3	Pronghorns of the Third Reich 2012Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2011–2022)

Start with Back of Beyond, the first of 6 books in the The Hoyt/Dewell series.

#	Title
1	Back of Beyond 2011Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Highway 2013Buy 🇺🇸
3	Badlands 2015Buy 🇺🇸
4	Paradise Valley 2017Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Bitterroots 2019Buy 🇺🇸
6	Treasure State 2022Buy 🇺🇸

11 books (2017–2019)

Start with Deserves to Be Dead(By: John Sandford,Lisa Jackson), the first of 11 books in the The MatchUp Collection series.