David Morrell Reading Order

26 books (1992–2023)

Start with Dark at Heart, the first of 26 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Dark at Heart 1992Buy 🇺🇸
2	Fifth Annual Collection 1992Buy 🇺🇸
3	Dark Crimes 2 1993Buy 🇺🇸
4	Hollywood Fantasies: Ten Surreal Visions of Tinsel Town 1997Buy 🇺🇸
5	Millenium 1997Buy 🇺🇸
6	Murder for Revenge 1998Buy 🇺🇸
7	Best New Horror 17 2006Buy 🇺🇸
8	These Guns for Hire 2006Buy 🇺🇸
9	Best New Horror 18 2007Buy 🇺🇸
10	Dark Delicacies II: Fear 2007Buy 🇺🇸
11	Crucified Dreams 2011Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Rich and the Dead 2011Buy 🇺🇸
13	Warriors 3 2011Buy 🇺🇸
14	All-American Horror of the 21st Century: The First Decade 2012Buy 🇺🇸
15	Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury 2012Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Interrogator and Other Criminally Good Fiction 2012Buy 🇺🇸
17	Chiral Mad 2 2013Buy 🇺🇸
18	Dark Discoveries - Issue #24 2013Buy 🇺🇸
19	Hauntings 2013Buy 🇺🇸
20	Suspense Magazine May 2013 2013Buy 🇺🇸
21	Thriller Almanac 2014Buy 🇺🇸
22	Eulogies III 2015Buy 🇺🇸
23	Detours 2016Buy 🇺🇸
24	Alive in Shape and Color 2017Buy 🇺🇸
25	MatchUp 2017Buy 🇺🇸
26	Playing Games 2023Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2008–2008)

#	Title
1	The Chosen 2008Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2003–2012)

Start with The Protector and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Protector 2003Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Naked Edge 2010Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Attitude Adjuster 2012Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (2012–2013)

Start with John Wayne: The Westerns, the first of 5 books in the Cultural-Icon Non-Fiction series.

2 books (2005–2007)

Start with Creepers and read in order.

#	Title
1	Creepers 2005Buy 🇺🇸
2	Scavenger 2007Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1983–2006)

Start with The Brotherhood of the Rose, the first of 4 books in the Mortalis series.

#	Title
1	The Brotherhood of the Rose 1983Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Fraternity Of The Stone 1985Buy 🇺🇸
3	The League of Night and Fog 1987Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Abelard Sanction 2006Buy 🇺🇸

33 books (2022–2025)

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

#	Title
1	Alex Delaware(By: Jonathan Kellerman) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
2	Aloysius X. L. Pendergast(By: Douglas Preston) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
3	Amos Walker(By: Loren D. Estleman) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
4	Bob Lee Swagger(By: Stephen Hunter) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
5	Charlie Parker(By: John Connolly) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
6	Charlie Resnick(By: John Harvey) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
7	Charlotte and Thomas Pitt(By: Anne Perry) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
8	Dismas Hardy(By: John Lescroart) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
9	Elvis Cole and Joe Pike(By: Robert Crais) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
10	Hieronymus Bosch(By: Michael Connelly) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
11	Ian Rutledge(By: Charles Todd) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
12	Inspector Morse(By: Colin Dexter) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
13	Jack Reacher(By: Lee Child) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
14	Jack Taylor(By: Ken Bruen) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
15	Jane Whitefield(By: Thomas Perry) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
16	John Rebus(By: Ian Rankin) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
17	Lincoln Rhyme(By: Jeffery Deaver) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
18	Lou Boldt(By: Ridley Pearson) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
19	Maisie Dobbs(By: Jacqueline Winspear) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
20	Mallory(By: Carol O'Connell) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
21	Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus(By: Faye Kellerman) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
22	Precious Ramotswe(By: Alexander McCall Smith) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
23	Rambo 2022Buy 🇺🇸
24	Spenser(By: Robert B. Parker) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
25	Tess Monaghan(By: Laura Lippman) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
26	The Lincoln Lawyer(By: Michael Connelly) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
27	Ben Kincaid(By: William Bernhardt) 2023Buy 🇺🇸
28	Condor(By: James Grady) 2023Buy 🇺🇸
29	Repairman Jack(By: F. Paul Wilson) 2023Buy 🇺🇸
30	Joe Pickett(By: C.J. Box) 2024Buy 🇺🇸
31	Nathan Heller(By: Max Allan Collins) 2024Buy 🇺🇸
32	Peter Diamond(By: Peter Lovesey) 2024Buy 🇺🇸
33	Orphan X(By: Gregg Hurwitz) 2025Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (1976–2022)

Start with John Barth, the first of 6 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	John Barth 1976Buy 🇺🇸
2	Fireflies 1988Buy 🇺🇸
3	Lessons From A Lifetime Of Writing 2002Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Successful Novelist 2008Buy 🇺🇸
5	Thrillers: 100 Must Reads(With: Hank Wagner) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
6	Stars In My Eyes: My Love Affair With Books, Movies, And Music 2022Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2009–2009)

#	Title
1	The Hundred Year Christmas 2009Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1972–1988)

Start with First Blood and read in order.

#	Title
1	First Blood 1972Buy 🇺🇸
2	Rambo: First Blood Part II 1985Buy 🇺🇸
3	Rambo III 1988Buy 🇺🇸

10 books (1983–2012)

Start with The Hundred-Year Christmas, the first of 10 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	The Hundred-Year Christmas 1983Buy 🇺🇸
2	Dead Image 1987Buy 🇺🇸
3	Orange is for Anguish, Blue for Insanity 1988Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Beautiful Uncut Hair of Graves 1991Buy 🇺🇸
5	Nothing Will Hurt You 1992Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Shrine 1992Buy 🇺🇸
7	My Name is Legion 2011Buy 🇺🇸
8	They 2011Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Architecture of Snow 2012Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Interrogator 2012Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1999–2019)

Start with Black Evening and read in order.

#	Title
1	Black Evening 1999Buy 🇺🇸
2	Nightscape 2004Buy 🇺🇸
3	Before I Wake 2019Buy 🇺🇸

14 books (1975–2009)

Start with Testament, the first of 14 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Testament 1975Buy 🇺🇸
2	Last Reveille 1977Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Totem 1979Buy 🇺🇸
4	Blood Oath 1982Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Fifth Profession 1990Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Covenant of the Flame 1991Buy 🇺🇸
7	Assumed Identity 1993Buy 🇺🇸
8	Desperate Measures 1994Buy 🇺🇸
9	Extreme Denial 1996Buy 🇺🇸
10	Double Image 1998Buy 🇺🇸
11	Burnt Sienna 2000Buy 🇺🇸
12	Long Lost 2002Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Spy Who Came for Christmas 2008Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Shimmer 2009Buy 🇺🇸

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.

4 books (2013–2016)

Start with Murder as a Fine Art, the first of 4 books in the Thomas De Quincey series.

#	Title
1	Murder as a Fine Art 2013Buy 🇺🇸
2	Inspector of the Dead 2015Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Opium-Eater 2015Buy 🇺🇸
4	Ruler of the Night 2016Buy 🇺🇸