Deborah Brown Reading Order
6 series · 156 books
Deborah Brown is a prolific author specializing in thrilling fiction, with an impressive catalog of 156 books spanning six series, including Biscayne Bay, Florida Keys Mysteries, and Lauderdale. Her engaging storytelling and vibrant characters have made her a standout in the genre, with her most notable work being part of the Tropical Adventure series. Active from 1987 to 2025, Brown has captivated readers with her adventurous narratives and compelling plots.
American Poets Continuum Series
Likely Complete108 books (1987–2022)
Start with Good Woman(By: Lucille Clifton), the first of 108 books in the American Poets Continuum series.
| # | Title |
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| 1 | Good Woman(By: Lucille Clifton) 1987Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 2 | Next(By: Lucille Clifton) 1987Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 3 | The City in Which I Love You(By: Li-Young Lee) 1990Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 4 | Quilting(By: Lucille Clifton) 1991Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 5 | Red Suitcase(By: Naomi Shihab Nye) 1994Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 6 | What We Carry(By: Dorianne Laux) 1994Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 7 | The Terrible Stories(By: Lucille Clifton) 1996Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 8 | Fuel(By: Naomi Shihab Nye) 1998Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 9 | Blessing the Boats(By: Lucille Clifton) 2000Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 10 | Smoke(By: Dorianne Laux) 2000Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 11 | Tell Me(By: Kim Addonizio) 2000Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 12 | Book of My Nights(By: Li-Young Lee) 2001Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 13 | Mules of Love(By: Ellen Bass) 2002Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 14 | The Hawk Temple at Tierra Grande(By: Ray Gonzalez) 2002Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 15 | Love Song with Motor Vehicles(By: Alan Michael Parker) 2003Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 16 | The Owner of the House(By: Louis Simpson) 2003Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 17 | The Orchard(By: Brigit Pegeen Kelly) 2004Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 18 | Postcards from the Interior(By: Wyn Cooper) 2005Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 19 | The Rooster's Wife(By: Russell Edson) 2005Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 20 | You & Yours(By: Naomi Shihab Nye) 2005Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 21 | Darling Vulgarity(By: Michael Waters) 2006Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 22 | Not for Specialists(By: W.D. Snodgrass) 2006Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 23 | Sleeping With Houdini(By: Nin Andrews) 2007Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 24 | Slope of the Child Everlasting(By: Laurie Kutchins) 2007Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 25 | Elephants & Butterflies(By: Alan Michael Parker) 2008Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 26 | The Fortieth Day(By: Kazim Ali) 2008Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 27 | Voices(By: Lucille Clifton) 2008Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 28 | And(By: Michael Blumenthal) 2009Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 29 | Carpathia(By: Cecilia Woloch) 2009Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 30 | Seasons of Lotus, Seasons of Bone(By: Matthew Shenoda) 2009Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 31 | Sharp Stars(By: Sharon Bryan) 2009Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 32 | Burning of the Three Fires(By: Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont) 2010Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 33 | Chaos is the New Calm(By: Wyn Cooper) 2010Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 34 | Diwata )(By: Barbara Jane Reyes) 2010Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 35 | Long Lens(By: Peter Makuck) 2010Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 36 | Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line(By: Sean Thomas Dougherty) 2010Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 37 | Ennui Prophet(By: Christopher Kennedy) 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 38 | Gospel Night(By: Michael Waters) 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 39 | Kingdom Animalia(By: Aracelis Girmay) 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 40 | The Hands of Strangers(By: Janice N. Harrington) 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 41 | Transfer(By: Naomi Shihab Nye) 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 42 | Your Father on the Train of Ghosts(By: G.C. Waldrep,John Gallaher) 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 43 | The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010(By: Kevin Young,Toni Morrison,Lucille Clifton,Michael S. Glaser) 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 44 | The Reindeer Camps(By: Barton Sutter) 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 45 | Theophobia(By: Bruce Beasley) 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 46 | To Keep Love Blurry(By: Craig Morgan Teicher) 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 47 | True Faith(By: Ira Sadoff) 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 48 | Birth Marks(By: Jim Daniels) 2013Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 49 | No Need of Sympathy(By: Fleda Brown) 2013Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 50 | Refuge(By: Adrie Kusserow) 2013Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 51 | The Book of Goodbyes(By: Jillian Weise) 2013Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 52 | There's a Box in the Garage You Can Beat With a Stick(By: Michael Teig) 2013Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 53 | All You Ask For is Longing(By: Sean Thomas Dougherty) 2014Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 54 | Copia(By: Erika Meitner) 2014Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 55 | In a Landscape(By: John Gallaher) 2014Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 56 | The Chair(By: Richard Garcia) 2014Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 57 | The Keys to the Jail(By: Keetje Kuipers) 2014Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 58 | What He Took(By: Wendy Mnookin) 2014Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 59 | Antidote for Night(By: Marsha De LA O) 2015Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 60 | Beautiful Wall(By: Ray Gonzalez) 2015Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 61 | Broken Hallelujahs(By: Sean Thomas Dougherty) 2015Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 62 | Fanny Says(By: Nickole Brown) 2015Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 63 | I'm No Longer Troubled by the Extravagance(By: Rick Bursky) 2015Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 64 | Testament(By: G.C. Waldrep) 2015Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 65 | Why God is a Woman(By: Nin Andrews) 2015Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 66 | Celestial Joyride(By: Michael Waters) 2016Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 67 | Mandatory Evacuation(By: Makuck Peter) 2016Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 68 | Primitive(By: Janice N. Harrington) 2016Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 69 | Struggling Times(By: Louis Simpson) 2016Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 70 | The Black Maria(By: Aracelis Girmay) 2016Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 71 | The Day's Last Light Reddens the Leaves of the Copper Beech(By: Stephen Dobyns) 2016Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 72 | The End of Pink(By: Kathryn Nuernberger) 2016Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 73 | Whereso(By: Karen Volkman) 2016Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 74 | All Soul Parts Returned(By: Bruce Beasley) 2017Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 75 | Bye-Bye Land(By: Christian Barter) 2017Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 76 | Sky Country(By: Christine Kitano) 2017Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 77 | The Smoke of Horses(By: Charles Rafferty) 2017Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 78 | The Trembling Answers(By: Craig Morgan Teicher) 2017Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 79 | Clues from the Animal Kingdom )(By: Christopher Kennedy) 2018Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 80 | Dresses from the Old Country )(By: Laura Read) 2018Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 81 | Holy Moly Carry Me(By: Erika Meitner) 2018Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 82 | In Country(By: HughMartin) 2018Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 83 | The Second O of Sorrow )(By: Sean Thomas Dougherty) 2018Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 84 | All Its Charms(By: Keetje Kuipers) 2019Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 85 | Cyborg Detective(By: Jillian Weise) 2019Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 86 | Night Angler(By: Geffrey Davis) 2019Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 87 | On the Shores of Welcome Home(By: Bruce Weigl) 2019Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 88 | The Human Half 2019Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 89 | The Tiny Journalist(By: Naomi Shihab Nye) 2019Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 90 | Brand New Spacesuit(By: John Gallaher) 2020Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 91 | Caw(By: Michael Waters) 2020Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 92 | How to Carry Water(By: Lucille Clifton,Aracelis Girmay) 2020Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 93 | Let's Become a Ghost Story(By: Rick Bursky) 2020Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 94 | Letters to a Young Brown Girl(By: Barbara Jane Reyes) 2020Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 95 | Mercy(By: Lucille Clifton) 2020Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 96 | Mother Country(By: Elana Bell) 2020Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 97 | Rue(By: Kathryn Nuernberger) 2020Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 98 | Year of the Dog(By: Deborah Paredez) 2020Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 99 | Diamonds(By: Camille Guthrie) 2021Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 100 | I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World(By: Kendra DeColo) 2021Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 101 | The Naomi Letters(By: Rachel Mennies) 2021Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 102 | A Season in Hell with Rimbaud(By: Dustin Pearson) 2022Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 103 | A Tinderbox in Three Acts(By: Cynthia Dewi Oka) 2022Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 104 | Field Notes from the Flood Zone(By: Heather Sellers) 2022Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 105 | Little Mr. Prose Poem(By: Charles Simic,Russell Edson,Craig Morgan Teicher) 2022Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 106 | The Dug-Up Gun Museum(By: Ben Follows) 2022Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 107 | Useful Junk(By: Erika Meitner) 2022Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 108 | Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency(By: Chen Chen) 2022Buy 🇺🇸 |
Biscayne Bay Series
Likely Complete3 books (2021–2021)
Start with Hired Killer and read in order.
Florida Keys Mysteries Series
Ongoing35 books (2011–2025)
Start with Crazy in Paradise, the first of 35 books in the Florida Keys Mysteries series.
| # | Title |
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| 1 |  Crazy in Paradise 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 2 |  Deception in Paradise 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 3 |  Trouble in Paradise 2013Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 4 |  Greed in Paradise 2014Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 5 |  Murder in Paradise 2014Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 6 |  Revenge in Paradise 2014Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 7 |  Kidnapped in Paradise 2015Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 8 | Swindled in Paradise 2015Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 9 |  Executed in Paradise 2016Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 10 | Hurricane in Paradise 2016Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 11 |  Ambushed in Paradise 2017Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 12 |  Christmas in Paradise 2017Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 13 |  Lottery in Paradise 2017Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 14 |  Blownup in Paradise 2018Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 15 |  Overdose in Paradise 2018Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 16 |  Psycho in Paradise 2018Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 17 |  Initiation in Paradise 2019Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 18 |  Jealous in Paradise 2019Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 19 | Wronged in Paradise 2019Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 20 | Fraud in Paradise 2020Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 21 | Naive in Paradise 2020Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 22 |  Vanished in Paradise 2020Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 23 | Accused in Paradise 2021Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 24 | Bodies in Paradise 2021Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 25 | Deceit in Paradise 2022Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 26 | Escaped in Paradise 2022Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 27 | Fear in Paradise 2022Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 28 | Retaliation in Paradise 2023Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 29 | Theft in Paradise 2023Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 30 | Shark in Paradise 2024Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 31 | Stolen in Paradise 2024Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 32 | Entitled in Paradise 2025Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 33 | Hunted in Paradise 2025Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 34 | Rescued in Paradise 2025Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 35 | Stalked in Paradise 2025Buy 🇺🇸 |
Lauderdale Series
Ongoing4 books (2022–2024)
Start with In Over Her Head, the first of 4 books in the Lauderdale series.
Standalone Novels Series
Complete1 book (2016–2016)
| # | Title |
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| 1 |  Starfish Island 2016Buy 🇺🇸 |
Tropical Adventure (Tropical Authors) Series
Likely Complete5 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.
| # | Title |
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| 1 | Graceless(By: Nick Sullivan,Wayne Stinnett,Nicholas Harvey,John H. Cunningham) 2022Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 2 | Timeless(By: Nick Sullivan,Wayne Stinnett,Nicholas Harvey,John H. Cunningham) 2022Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 3 | Faceless(By: Nick Sullivan,A.J. Stewart,Chris Niles,Nicholas Harvey,Douglas Pratt) 2023Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 4 | Priceless(With: Don Rich,Nicholas Harvey) 2023Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 5 | Shameless(By: David F. Berens,Steven Becker,Chris Niles,Douglas Pratt) 2023Buy 🇺🇸 |
Frequently Asked Questions
- How many books has Deborah Brown written?
- Deborah Brown has written 156 books across 6 series. Their published works span from 1987 to 2025.
- 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.