Diana Gabaldon Reading Order

121 books (2002–2025)

Start with San Francisco Noir, the first of 121 books in the Akashic Noir series.

#	Title
1	San Francisco Noir 2002Buy 🇺🇸
2	Bronx Noir 2003Buy 🇺🇸
3	Seattle Noir 2003Buy 🇺🇸
4	Brooklyn Noir 2004Buy 🇺🇸
5	Hasidic Noir 2004Buy 🇺🇸
6	Brooklyn Noir 2 2005Buy 🇺🇸
7	Chicago Noir 2005Buy 🇺🇸
8	Dublin Noir 2005Buy 🇺🇸
9	Baltimore Noir 2006Buy 🇺🇸
10	D.C. Noir 2006Buy 🇺🇸
11	London Noir 2006Buy 🇺🇸
12	Manhattan Noir 2006Buy 🇺🇸
13	Miami Noir 2006Buy 🇺🇸
14	Twin Cities Noir 2006Buy 🇺🇸
15	Detroit Noir 2007Buy 🇺🇸
16	Havana Noir 2007Buy 🇺🇸
17	Los Angeles Noir 2007Buy 🇺🇸
18	New Orleans Noir 2007Buy 🇺🇸
19	Wall Street Noir 2007Buy 🇺🇸
20	Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But the Truth 2008Buy 🇺🇸
21	D.C. Noir 2 2008Buy 🇺🇸
22	Istanbul Noir 2008Buy 🇺🇸
23	Las Vegas Noir 2008Buy 🇺🇸
24	Manhattan Noir 2 2008Buy 🇺🇸
25	Paris Noir 2008Buy 🇺🇸
26	Queens Noir 2008Buy 🇺🇸
27	Toronto Noir 2008Buy 🇺🇸
28	Trinidad Noir 2008Buy 🇺🇸
29	Boston Noir 2009Buy 🇺🇸
30	Delhi Noir 2009Buy 🇺🇸
31	Phoenix Noir 2009Buy 🇺🇸
32	Portland Noir 2009Buy 🇺🇸
33	Rome Noir 2009Buy 🇺🇸
34	San Francisco Noir 2 2009Buy 🇺🇸
35	Copenhagen Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
36	Haiti Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
37	Indian Country Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
38	Lone Star Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
39	Los Angeles Noir 2 2010Buy 🇺🇸
40	Mexico City Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
41	Moscow Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
42	Orange County Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
43	Philadelphia Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
44	Richmond Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
45	Barcelona Noir 2011Buy 🇺🇸
46	Cape Cod Noir 2011Buy 🇺🇸
47	New Jersey Noir 2011Buy 🇺🇸
48	Pittsburgh Noir 2011Buy 🇺🇸
49	San Diego Noir 2011Buy 🇺🇸
50	Boston Noir 2 2012Buy 🇺🇸
51	Kansas City Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸
52	Kingston Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸
53	Long Island Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸
54	Mumbai Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸
55	St. Petersburg Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸
56	Staten Island Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸
57	Venice Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸
58	Buffalo Noir 2013Buy 🇺🇸
59	Dallas Noir 2013Buy 🇺🇸
60	Haiti Noir 2 2013Buy 🇺🇸
61	Manila Noir 2013Buy 🇺🇸
62	USA Noir 2013Buy 🇺🇸
63	Belfast Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸
64	Helsinki Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸
65	Prison Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸
66	Rio Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸
67	Singapore Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸
68	Tehran Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸
69	Tel Aviv Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸
70	Beirut Noir 2015Buy 🇺🇸
71	Chicago Noir: The Classics 2015Buy 🇺🇸
72	Marseille Noir 2015Buy 🇺🇸
73	Memphis Noir 2015Buy 🇺🇸
74	Providence Noir 2015Buy 🇺🇸
75	Zagreb Noir 2015Buy 🇺🇸
76	Brussels Noir 2016Buy 🇺🇸
77	Mississippi Noir 2016Buy 🇺🇸
78	New Orleans Noir: The Classics 2016Buy 🇺🇸
79	Prague Noir 2016Buy 🇺🇸
80	San Juan Noir 2016Buy 🇺🇸
81	St. Louis Noir 2016Buy 🇺🇸
82	Stockholm Noir 2016Buy 🇺🇸
83	Atlanta Noir 2017Buy 🇺🇸
84	Buenos Aires Noir 2017Buy 🇺🇸
85	Montana Noir 2017Buy 🇺🇸
86	Montreal Noir 2017Buy 🇺🇸
87	New Haven Noir 2017Buy 🇺🇸
88	Oakland Noir 2017Buy 🇺🇸
89	Trinidad Noir: The Classics 2017Buy 🇺🇸
90	Baghdad Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
91	Berlin Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
92	Hong Kong Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
93	Lagos Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
94	Marrakech Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
95	Santa Cruz Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
96	Sydney Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
97	São Paulo Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
98	Vancouver Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
99	Amsterdam Noir 2019Buy 🇺🇸
100	Houston Noir 2019Buy 🇺🇸
101	Milwaukee Noir 2019Buy 🇺🇸
102	Accra Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
103	Addis Ababa Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
104	Alabama Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
105	Belgrade Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
106	Berkeley Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
107	Columbus Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
108	Miami Noir: The Classics 2020Buy 🇺🇸
109	Nairobi Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
110	Santa Fe Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
111	Tampa Bay Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
112	Palm Springs Noir 2021Buy 🇺🇸
113	Denver Noir 2022Buy 🇺🇸
114	Paris Noir: The Suburbs 2022Buy 🇺🇸
115	South Central Noir 2022Buy 🇺🇸
116	Cleveland Noir 2023Buy 🇺🇸
117	East Jerusalem Noir 2023Buy 🇺🇸
118	West Jerusalem Noir 2023Buy 🇺🇸
119	Honolulu Noir 2024Buy 🇺🇸
120	Hamburg Noir 2025Buy 🇺🇸
121	Sacramento Noir 2025Buy 🇺🇸

16 books (1995–2024)

Start with Excalibur, the first of 16 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Excalibur 1995Buy 🇺🇸
2	Legends II: Dragon, Sword, and King 1998Buy 🇺🇸
3	Mothers and Daughters 1998Buy 🇺🇸
4	Naked Came the Phoenix 2001Buy 🇺🇸
5	Songs of Love and Death 2010Buy 🇺🇸
6	Warriors 2010Buy 🇺🇸
7	Down These Strange Streets 2011Buy 🇺🇸
8	No Rest for the Dead 2011Buy 🇺🇸
9	Warriors 3 2011Buy 🇺🇸
10	Chicks Unravel Time: Women Journey Through Every Season of Doctor Who 2012Buy 🇺🇸
11	Dangerous Women 2013Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination 2013Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Highway Kind 2016Buy 🇺🇸
14	MatchUp 2017Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 2020Buy 🇺🇸
16	Fourteen Days: An Unauthorized Gathering 2024Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1998–1999)

Start with Legends II: Dragon, Sword, and King(With: George R.R. Martin,Orson Scott Card,Terry Brooks,Robert Silverberg,Neil Gaiman,Elizabeth Haydon) and read in order.

#	Title
1	Legends II: Dragon, Sword, and King(With: George R.R. Martin,Orson Scott Card,Terry Brooks,Robert Silverberg,Neil Gaiman,Elizabeth Haydon) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
2	Legends(By: Stephen King,Anne McCaffrey,Robert Silverberg) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
3	Legends 3(By: Terry Pratchett,Tad Williams,Robert Jordan,Robert Silverberg,Ursula K. Le Guin) 1999Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2003–2011)

Start with Lord John and the Private Matter, the first of 4 books in the Lord John Grey series.

#	Title
1	Lord John and the Private Matter 2003Buy 🇺🇸
2	Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade 2007Buy 🇺🇸
3	Lord John and the Hand of Devils 2008Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Scottish Prisoner 2011Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1998–2013)

Start with Lord John and the Hell-Fire Club, the first of 4 books in the Lord John Short Stories series.

#	Title
1	Lord John and the Hell-Fire Club 1998Buy 🇺🇸
2	Lord John and the Haunted Soldier 2008Buy 🇺🇸
3	Lord John and the Succubus 2008Buy 🇺🇸
4	A Plague of Zombies 2013Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2016–2016)

9 books (1991–2021)

Start with Outlander / Cross Stitch, the first of 9 books in the Outlander series.

#	Title
1	Outlander / Cross Stitch 1991Buy 🇺🇸
2	Dragonfly in Amber 1992Buy 🇺🇸
3	Voyager 1993Buy 🇺🇸
4	Drums of Autumn 1996Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Fiery Cross 2001Buy 🇺🇸
6	A Breath of Snow and Ashes 2005Buy 🇺🇸
7	An Echo in the Bone 2009Buy 🇺🇸
8	Written in My Own Heart's Blood 2014Buy 🇺🇸
9	Go Tell The Bees That I Am Gone 2021Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2012–2017)

Start with A Trail of Fire and read in order.

#	Title
1	A Trail of Fire 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	Seven Stones to Stand or Fall 2017Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2016–2020)

Start with The Official Outlander Companion Cookbook(By: Theresa Carle-Sanders) and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Official Outlander Companion Cookbook(By: Theresa Carle-Sanders) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
2	To the New World and Back Again(With: Theresa Carle-Sanders) 2020Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2010–2010)

#	Title
1	The Exile: An Outlander Graphic Novel 2010Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1999–2015)

Start with The Outlandish Companion and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Outlandish Companion 1999Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Official Outlander Coloring Book: An Adult Coloring Book 2015Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Outlandish Companion Volume Two 2015Buy 🇺🇸

8 books (2010–2022)

Start with The Custom of the Army, the first of 8 books in the Outlander Short Stories series.

#	Title
1	The Custom of the Army 2010Buy 🇺🇸
2	A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows 2012Buy 🇺🇸
3	A Plague of Zombies 2013Buy 🇺🇸
4	Virgins 2013Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Space Between 2014Buy 🇺🇸
6	Past Prologue(With: Steve Berry) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
7	A Fugitive Green 2022Buy 🇺🇸
8	Besieged 2022Buy 🇺🇸

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.

1 book (2004–2004)

#	Title
1	White Knight 2004Buy 🇺🇸