Dean Koontz Reading Order

2 books (2011–2011)

Start with 77 Shadow Street and read in order.

#	Title
1	77 Shadow Street 2011Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Moonlit Mind 2011Buy 🇺🇸

19 books (1973–2019)

Start with Infinity Five, the first of 19 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Infinity Five 1973Buy 🇺🇸
2	Continuum 1 1974Buy 🇺🇸
3	Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology 1974Buy 🇺🇸
4	Wondermakers 2 1974Buy 🇺🇸
5	Horror Factor 7 1988Buy 🇺🇸
6	Night Visions 4 1988Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Bone Yard 1988Buy 🇺🇸
8	Tropical Chills: Fourteen Tales of Scorching Horror to Make Your Blood Run Cold 1988Buy 🇺🇸
9	Night Fears 1990Buy 🇺🇸
10	Under the Gun 1990Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Architecture of Fear 1991Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Ultimate Witch 1993Buy 🇺🇸
13	Strange Highways 1995Buy 🇺🇸
14	October Dreams 2000Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Book Of Counted Sorrows 2003Buy 🇺🇸
16	Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance 2009Buy 🇺🇸
17	Suspense Magazine January 2010 2010Buy 🇺🇸
18	Detours 2016Buy 🇺🇸
19	Exit Wounds 2019Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2015–2015)

Start with Ashley Bell and read in order.

#	Title
1	Ashley Bell 2015Buy 🇺🇸
2	Final Hour 2015Buy 🇺🇸
3	Last Light 2015Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1973–1975)

Start with Blood Risk and read in order.

#	Title
1	Blood Risk 1973Buy 🇺🇸
2	Surrounded 1974Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Wall of Masks 1975Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1988–2003)

Start with Oddkins: A Fable for All Ages and read in order.

#	Title
1	Oddkins: A Fable for All Ages 1988Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Paper Doorway: Funny Verse and Nothing Worse 2001Buy 🇺🇸
3	Every Day's a Holiday: Amusing Rhymes for Happy Times 2003Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (2005–2011)

Start with City of Night(With: Ed Gorman), the first of 5 books in the Dean Koontz's Frankenstein series.

#	Title
1	City of Night(With: Ed Gorman) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
2	Prodigal Son(With: Kevin J. Anderson) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
3	Dead and Alive 2009Buy 🇺🇸
4	Lost Souls 2009Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Dead Town 2011Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2009–2009)

#	Title
1	Nevermore(With: Keith Champagne) 2009Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2013–2013)

Start with Innocence and read in order.

#	Title
1	Innocence 2013Buy 🇺🇸
2	Wilderness 2013Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (2017–2019)

Start with The Silent Corner, the first of 5 books in the Jane Hawk series.

#	Title
1	The Silent Corner 2017Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Whispering Room 2017Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Crooked Staircase 2018Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Forbidden Door 2018Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Night Window 2019Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2018–2018)

2 books (1998–1998)

Start with Fear Nothing and read in order.

#	Title
1	Fear Nothing 1998Buy 🇺🇸
2	Seize the Night 1998Buy 🇺🇸

12 books (2019–2021)

Start with In the Heart of the Fire, the first of 12 books in the Nameless series.

4 books (1972–2014)

Start with Writing Popular Fiction, the first of 4 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	Writing Popular Fiction 1972Buy 🇺🇸
2	How to Write Best Selling Fiction 1981Buy 🇺🇸
3	Beautiful Death: The Art of the Cemetery 1996Buy 🇺🇸
4	Ask Anna 2014Buy 🇺🇸

9 books (2003–2015)

Start with Odd Thomas, the first of 9 books in the Odd Thomas series.

#	Title
1	Odd Thomas 2003Buy 🇺🇸
2	Forever Odd 2005Buy 🇺🇸
3	Brother Odd 2006Buy 🇺🇸
4	Odd Hours 2008Buy 🇺🇸
5	Odd Apocalypse 2012Buy 🇺🇸
6	Odd Interlude 2012Buy 🇺🇸
7	Deeply Odd 2013Buy 🇺🇸
8	You Are Destined To Be Together Forever 2014Buy 🇺🇸
9	Saint Odd 2015Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2008–2012)

Start with In Odd We Trust and read in order.

#	Title
1	In Odd We Trust 2008Buy 🇺🇸
2	Odd Is on Our Side 2010Buy 🇺🇸
3	House of Odd 2012Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1995–2004)

Start with Santa's Twin and read in order.

#	Title
1	Santa's Twin 1995Buy 🇺🇸
2	Robot Santa: The Further Adventures of Santa's Twin 2004Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2017–2017)

1 book (2022–2022)

#	Title
1	Strange Highways and Other Stories 2022Buy 🇺🇸

91 books (1968–2026)

Start with Star Quest / Doom of the Green Planet, the first of 91 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Star Quest / Doom of the Green Planet 1968Buy 🇺🇸
2	Fear That Man / Toyman 1969Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Fall of the Dream Machine / The Star Ventures 1969Buy 🇺🇸
4	Anti-Man 1970Buy 🇺🇸
5	Beastchild 1970Buy 🇺🇸
6	Dark Symphony 1970Buy 🇺🇸
7	Dark of the Woods / Soft Come the Dragons 1970Buy 🇺🇸
8	Hell's Gate 1970Buy 🇺🇸
9	Demon Child(As: Deanna Dwyer) 1971Buy 🇺🇸
10	Legacy of Terror(As: Deanna Dwyer) 1971Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Crimson Witch 1971Buy 🇺🇸
12	A Darker Heritage 1972Buy 🇺🇸
13	Chase 1972Buy 🇺🇸
14	Children of the Storm(As: Deanna Dwyer) 1972Buy 🇺🇸
15	Dance with the Devil(As: Deanna Dwyer) 1972Buy 🇺🇸
16	Darkness in My Soul 1972Buy 🇺🇸
17	Starblood 1972Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Dark of Summer(As: Deanna Dwyer) 1972Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Flesh in the Furnace 1972Buy 🇺🇸
20	Time Thieves 1972Buy 🇺🇸
21	Warlock 1972Buy 🇺🇸
22	A Werewolf Among Us 1973Buy 🇺🇸
23	Demon Seed 1973Buy 🇺🇸
24	Hanging on 1973Buy 🇺🇸
25	Shattered 1973Buy 🇺🇸
26	The Haunted Earth 1973Buy 🇺🇸
27	After the Last Race 1974Buy 🇺🇸
28	Strike Deep 1974Buy 🇺🇸
29	Invasion(As: Aaron Wolfe) 1975Buy 🇺🇸
30	Nightmare Journey 1975Buy 🇺🇸
31	The Long Sleep(As: John Hill) 1975Buy 🇺🇸
32	Dragonfly 1976Buy 🇺🇸
33	Icebound 1976Buy 🇺🇸
34	Night Chills 1976Buy 🇺🇸
35	Prison Of Ice 1976Buy 🇺🇸
36	The Face of Fear 1977Buy 🇺🇸
37	The Vision 1977Buy 🇺🇸
38	The Key to Midnight 1979Buy 🇺🇸
39	The Funhouse(As: Owen West) 1980Buy 🇺🇸
40	The Voice of the Night 1980Buy 🇺🇸
41	Whispers 1980Buy 🇺🇸
42	The Eyes of Darkness(As: Leigh Nichols) 1981Buy 🇺🇸
43	The Mask(As: Owen West) 1981Buy 🇺🇸
44	The House of Thunder 1982Buy 🇺🇸
45	Phantoms 1983Buy 🇺🇸
46	Darkfall / Darkness Comes 1984Buy 🇺🇸
47	The Servants of Twilight 1984Buy 🇺🇸
48	Twilight Eyes 1984Buy 🇺🇸
49	The Door to December 1985Buy 🇺🇸
50	Strangers 1986Buy 🇺🇸
51	Shadowfires(As: Leigh Nichols) 1987Buy 🇺🇸
52	Watchers 1987Buy 🇺🇸
53	Lightning 1988Buy 🇺🇸
54	Midnight 1989Buy 🇺🇸
55	Trapped 1989Buy 🇺🇸
56	The Bad Place 1990Buy 🇺🇸
57	Cold Fire 1991Buy 🇺🇸
58	Hideaway 1992Buy 🇺🇸
59	Dragon Tears 1993Buy 🇺🇸
60	Mr. Murder 1993Buy 🇺🇸
61	Winter Moon 1993Buy 🇺🇸
62	Dark Rivers of the Heart 1994Buy 🇺🇸
63	Intensity 1995Buy 🇺🇸
64	Tick Tock 1996Buy 🇺🇸
65	Sole Survivor 1997Buy 🇺🇸
66	False Memory 1999Buy 🇺🇸
67	From the Corner of His Eye 2000Buy 🇺🇸
68	One Door Away from Heaven 2001Buy 🇺🇸
69	Watchers & Mr Murder 2001Buy 🇺🇸
70	By the Light of the Moon 2002Buy 🇺🇸
71	The Face 2003Buy 🇺🇸
72	Life Expectancy 2004Buy 🇺🇸
73	The Taking 2004Buy 🇺🇸
74	Velocity 2005Buy 🇺🇸
75	The Husband 2006Buy 🇺🇸
76	The Darkest Evening of the Year 2007Buy 🇺🇸
77	The Good Guy 2007Buy 🇺🇸
78	Your Heart Belongs to Me 2008Buy 🇺🇸
79	Breathless 2009Buy 🇺🇸
80	Relentless 2009Buy 🇺🇸
81	Devoted 2020Buy 🇺🇸
82	Elsewhere 2020Buy 🇺🇸
83	The Other Emily 2021Buy 🇺🇸
84	Quicksilver 2022Buy 🇺🇸
85	The Big Dark Sky 2022Buy 🇺🇸
86	After Death 2023Buy 🇺🇸
87	The House at the End of the World 2023Buy 🇺🇸
88	The Bad Weather Friend 2024Buy 🇺🇸
89	The Forest of Lost Souls 2024Buy 🇺🇸
90	Going Home in the Dark 2025Buy 🇺🇸
91	The Friend of the Family 2026Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2014–2014)

Start with The City and read in order.

#	Title
1	The City 2014Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Neighbor 2014Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2004–2010)

Start with Life Is Good: Lessons in Joyful Living, the first of 6 books in the Trixie Koontz series.

#	Title
1	Life Is Good: Lessons in Joyful Living 2004Buy 🇺🇸
2	Christmas Is Good: Trixie's Guide to a Happy Holiday 2005Buy 🇺🇸
3	Bliss to You: Trixie's Guide to a Happy Life 2008Buy 🇺🇸
4	A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog 2009Buy 🇺🇸
5	I, Trixie, Who is Dog 2009Buy 🇺🇸
6	Trixie and Jinx 2010Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2010–2010)

Start with Darkness Under the Sun and read in order.

#	Title
1	Darkness Under the Sun 2010Buy 🇺🇸
2	What the Night Knows 2010Buy 🇺🇸