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Deborah Brown Reading Order

6 series · 157 books

Action & Adventure

Deborah Brown is a prolific action and adventure novelist who has published over 150 books since 1987, building an impressive catalog across multiple series set in Florida and beyond. Her work spans the American Poets Continuum and Lauderdale series alongside several mysteries set in the Biscayne Bay and Florida Keys regions, showcasing her versatility in crafting engaging narratives within interconnected fictional worlds. Known for her consistent output and ability to sustain multiple ongoing series, Brown has established herself as a dedicated genre writer with a loyal readership built over nearly four decades.

American Poets Continuum Series

Likely Complete

108 books (1987–2022)

Start with Good Woman(By: Lucille Clifton), the first of 108 books in the American Poets Continuum series.

Start this series with Good Woman(By: Lucille Clifton)

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Good Woman(By: Lucille Clifton)
1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
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Next(By: Lucille Clifton)
1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3
The City in Which I Love You(By: Li-Young Lee)
1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4
Quilting(By: Lucille Clifton)
1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5
Red Suitcase(By: Naomi Shihab Nye)
1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6
What We Carry(By: Dorianne Laux)
1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7
The Terrible Stories(By: Lucille Clifton)
1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8
Fuel(By: Naomi Shihab Nye)
1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9
Blessing the Boats(By: Lucille Clifton)
2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10
Smoke(By: Dorianne Laux)
2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11
Tell Me(By: Kim Addonizio)
2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12
Book of My Nights(By: Li-Young Lee)
2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13
Mules of Love(By: Ellen Bass)
2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14
The Hawk Temple at Tierra Grande(By: Ray Gonzalez)
2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15
Love Song with Motor Vehicles(By: Alan Michael Parker)
2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16
The Owner of the House(By: Louis Simpson)
2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17
The Orchard(By: Brigit Pegeen Kelly)
2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18
Postcards from the Interior(By: Wyn Cooper)
2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19
The Rooster's Wife(By: Russell Edson)
2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20
You & Yours(By: Naomi Shihab Nye)
2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21
Darling Vulgarity(By: Michael Waters)
2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22
Not for Specialists(By: W.D. Snodgrass)
2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23
Sleeping With Houdini(By: Nin Andrews)
2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24
Slope of the Child Everlasting(By: Laurie Kutchins)
2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25
Elephants & Butterflies(By: Alan Michael Parker)
2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26
The Fortieth Day(By: Kazim Ali)
2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27
Voices(By: Lucille Clifton)
2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
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And(By: Michael Blumenthal)
2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
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Carpathia(By: Cecilia Woloch)
2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30
Seasons of Lotus, Seasons of Bone(By: Matthew Shenoda)
2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31
Sharp Stars(By: Sharon Bryan)
2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32
Burning of the Three Fires(By: Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont)
2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33
Chaos is the New Calm(By: Wyn Cooper)
2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34
Diwata )(By: Barbara Jane Reyes)
2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35
Long Lens(By: Peter Makuck)
2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
36
Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line(By: Sean Thomas Dougherty)
2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
37
Ennui Prophet(By: Christopher Kennedy)
2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
38
Gospel Night(By: Michael Waters)
2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
39
Kingdom Animalia(By: Aracelis Girmay)
2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
40
The Hands of Strangers(By: Janice N. Harrington)
2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
41
Transfer(By: Naomi Shihab Nye)
2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
42
Your Father on the Train of Ghosts(By: G.C. Waldrep,John Gallaher)
2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
43
The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010(By: Kevin Young,Toni Morrison,Lucille Clifton,Michael S. Glaser)
2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
44
The Reindeer Camps(By: Barton Sutter)
2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
45
Theophobia(By: Bruce Beasley)
2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
46
To Keep Love Blurry(By: Craig Morgan Teicher)
2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
47
True Faith(By: Ira Sadoff)
2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
48
Birth Marks(By: Jim Daniels)
2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
49
No Need of Sympathy(By: Fleda Brown)
2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
50
Refuge(By: Adrie Kusserow)
2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
51
The Book of Goodbyes(By: Jillian Weise)
2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
52
There's a Box in the Garage You Can Beat With a Stick(By: Michael Teig)
2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
53
All You Ask For is Longing(By: Sean Thomas Dougherty)
2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
54
Copia(By: Erika Meitner)
2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
55
In a Landscape(By: John Gallaher)
2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
56
The Chair(By: Richard Garcia)
2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
57
The Keys to the Jail(By: Keetje Kuipers)
2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
58
What He Took(By: Wendy Mnookin)
2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
59
Antidote for Night(By: Marsha De LA O)
2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
60
Beautiful Wall(By: Ray Gonzalez)
2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
61
Broken Hallelujahs(By: Sean Thomas Dougherty)
2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
62
Fanny Says(By: Nickole Brown)
2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
63
I'm No Longer Troubled by the Extravagance(By: Rick Bursky)
2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
64
Testament(By: G.C. Waldrep)
2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
65
Why God is a Woman(By: Nin Andrews)
2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
66
Celestial Joyride(By: Michael Waters)
2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
67
Mandatory Evacuation(By: Makuck Peter)
2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
68
Primitive(By: Janice N. Harrington)
2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
69
Struggling Times(By: Louis Simpson)
2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
70
The Black Maria(By: Aracelis Girmay)
2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
71
The Day's Last Light Reddens the Leaves of the Copper Beech(By: Stephen Dobyns)
2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
72
The End of Pink(By: Kathryn Nuernberger)
2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
73
Whereso(By: Karen Volkman)
2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
74
All Soul Parts Returned(By: Bruce Beasley)
2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
75
Bye-Bye Land(By: Christian Barter)
2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
76
Sky Country(By: Christine Kitano)
2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
77
The Smoke of Horses(By: Charles Rafferty)
2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
78
The Trembling Answers(By: Craig Morgan Teicher)
2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
79
Clues from the Animal Kingdom )(By: Christopher Kennedy)
2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
80
Dresses from the Old Country )(By: Laura Read)
2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
81
Holy Moly Carry Me(By: Erika Meitner)
2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
82
In Country(By: HughMartin)
2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
83
The Second O of Sorrow )(By: Sean Thomas Dougherty)
2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
84
All Its Charms(By: Keetje Kuipers)
2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
85
Cyborg Detective(By: Jillian Weise)
2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
86
Night Angler(By: Geffrey Davis)
2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
87
On the Shores of Welcome Home(By: Bruce Weigl)
2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
88
The Human Half
2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
89
The Tiny Journalist(By: Naomi Shihab Nye)
2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
90
Brand New Spacesuit(By: John Gallaher)
2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
91
Caw(By: Michael Waters)
2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
92
How to Carry Water(By: Lucille Clifton,Aracelis Girmay)
2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
93
Let's Become a Ghost Story(By: Rick Bursky)
2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
94
Letters to a Young Brown Girl(By: Barbara Jane Reyes)
2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
95
Mercy(By: Lucille Clifton)
2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
96
Mother Country(By: Elana Bell)
2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
97
Rue(By: Kathryn Nuernberger)
2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
98
Year of the Dog(By: Deborah Paredez)
2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
99
Diamonds(By: Camille Guthrie)
2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
100
I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World(By: Kendra DeColo)
2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
101
The Naomi Letters(By: Rachel Mennies)
2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
102
A Season in Hell with Rimbaud(By: Dustin Pearson)
2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
103
A Tinderbox in Three Acts(By: Cynthia Dewi Oka)
2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
104
Field Notes from the Flood Zone(By: Heather Sellers)
2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
105
Little Mr. Prose Poem(By: Charles Simic,Russell Edson,Craig Morgan Teicher)
2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
106
The Dug-Up Gun Museum(By: Ben Follows)
2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
107
Useful Junk(By: Erika Meitner)
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108
Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency(By: Chen Chen)
2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

Biscayne Bay Series

Likely Complete

3 books (2021–2021)

Start with Hired Killer and read in order.

Start this series with Hired Killer

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Hired Killer
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Florida Keys Mysteries Series

Ongoing

36 books (2011–2026)

Start with Crazy in Paradise, the first of 35 books in the Florida Keys Mysteries series.

Start this series with Crazy in Paradise

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Cover of Crazy in Paradise
Crazy in Paradise
2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
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Cover of Deception in Paradise
Deception in Paradise
2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3
Cover of Trouble in Paradise
Trouble in Paradise
2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4
Cover of Greed in Paradise
Greed in Paradise
2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5
Cover of Murder in Paradise
Murder in Paradise
2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6
Cover of Revenge in Paradise
Revenge in Paradise
2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7
Cover of Kidnapped in Paradise
Kidnapped in Paradise
2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8
Swindled in Paradise
2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9
Cover of Executed in Paradise
Executed in Paradise
2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10
Hurricane in Paradise
2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11
Cover of Ambushed in Paradise
Ambushed in Paradise
2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12
Cover of Christmas in Paradise
Christmas in Paradise
2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13
Cover of Lottery in Paradise
Lottery in Paradise
2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14
Cover of Blownup in Paradise
Blownup in Paradise
2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15
Cover of Overdose in Paradise
Overdose in Paradise
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16
Cover of Psycho in Paradise
Psycho in Paradise
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17
Cover of Initiation in Paradise
Initiation in Paradise
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18
Cover of Jealous in Paradise
Jealous in Paradise
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19
Wronged in Paradise
2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
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Fraud in Paradise
2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
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Naive in Paradise
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Cover of Vanished in Paradise
Vanished in Paradise
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Accused in Paradise
2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24
Bodies in Paradise
2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25
Deceit in Paradise
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26
Escaped in Paradise
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27
Fear in Paradise
2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28
Retaliation in Paradise
2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
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Theft in Paradise
2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30
Shark in Paradise
2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
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Stolen in Paradise
2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
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Entitled in Paradise
2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
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Hunted in Paradise
2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34
Rescued in Paradise
2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35
Stalked in Paradise
2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
36
Chaos in Paradise
2026Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

Lauderdale Series

Ongoing

4 books (2022–2024)

Start with In Over Her Head, the first of 4 books in the Lauderdale series.

Start this series with In Over Her Head

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In Over Her Head
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Stealing Hadley
2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
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What Happens in Vegas
2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

Standalone Novels Series

Complete

1 book (2016–2016)

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Cover of Starfish Island
Starfish Island
2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

Tropical Adventure (Tropical Authors) Series

Likely Complete

5 books (2022–2023)

Start with Graceless(By: Nick Sullivan,Wayne Stinnett,Nicholas Harvey,John H. Cunningham), the first of 5 books in the Tropical Adventure (Tropical Authors) series.

Start this series with Graceless(By: Nick Sullivan,Wayne Stinnett,Nicholas Harvey,John H. Cunningham)

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Graceless(By: Nick Sullivan,Wayne Stinnett,Nicholas Harvey,John H. Cunningham)
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Timeless(By: Nick Sullivan,Wayne Stinnett,Nicholas Harvey,John H. Cunningham)
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Faceless(By: Nick Sullivan,A.J. Stewart,Chris Niles,Nicholas Harvey,Douglas Pratt)
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Priceless(With: Don Rich,Nicholas Harvey)
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Shameless(By: David F. Berens,Steven Becker,Chris Niles,Douglas Pratt)
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Frequently Asked Questions

How many books has Deborah Brown written?
Deborah Brown has written 157 books across 6 series. Their published works span from 1987 to 2026.
What is the first book in each Deborah Brown series?
Here are the first books in Deborah Brown's series: American Poets Continuum: Good Woman(By: Lucille Clifton); Biscayne Bay: Hired Killer; Florida Keys Mysteries: Crazy in Paradise; Lauderdale: In Over Her Head; Tropical Adventure (Tropical Authors): Graceless(By: Nick Sullivan,Wayne Stinnett,Nicholas Harvey,John H. Cunningham).
What order should I read Deborah Brown's books?
We recommend reading Deborah Brown's series in publication order. Each series can be read independently.
Is Deborah Brown still writing new books?
Yes, Deborah Brown has 2 ongoing series: Florida Keys Mysteries, Lauderdale.

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