Dan Smith Reading Order

1 book (2025–2025)

#	Title
1	The Night House Files - The Wintermoor Lights 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

4 books (2021–2023)

The Crooked Oak Mysteries series comprises four books published between 2021 and 2023, following a complete story arc across The Beast of Harwood Forest, The Invasion of Crooked Oak, The Horror of Dunwick Farm, and The Terror of Hilltop House. This young adult horror series blends mystery and suspenseful storytelling across rural settings, with each installment building on the previous one. Readers should follow the books in publication order to experience the full narrative progression. The series appears to be complete as of 2023.

Start with The Beast of Harwood Forest, the first of 4 books in the Crooked Oak Mysteries series.

#	Title
1	The Beast of Harwood Forest 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Invasion of Crooked Oak 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Horror of Dunwick Farm 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Terror of Hilltop House(By: Dan Smith) 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

11 books (2010–2019)

Dan Smith's Standalone Novels series consists of eleven complete books published between 2010 and 2019, each designed to be read independently. The series spans multiple genres including science fiction, horror, and young adult fiction, with titles such as Dry Season, Dark Horizons, The Child Thief, My Friend the Enemy, Red Winter, My Brother's Secret, The Darkest Heart, Big Game, Boy X, Below Zero, and She Wolf. While each novel stands alone as a separate story, reading in publication order from Dry Season onward provides the most coherent experience of Smith's evolving work across this decade-long period.

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

#	Title
1	Dry Season 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Dark Horizons 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Child Thief 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	My Friend the Enemy 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Red Winter 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	My Brother's Secret 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Darkest Heart 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Big Game 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Boy X 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Below Zero 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	She Wolf 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible