Donald E. Westlake 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 🇺🇸

4 books (1967–1971)

Start with The Damsel, the first of 4 books in the Alan Grofield series.

#	Title
1	The Damsel 1967Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Blackbird 1969Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Dame 1969Buy 🇺🇸
4	Lemons Never Lie 1971Buy 🇺🇸

11 books (1970–2006)

Start with Simply The Best Mysteries, Edgar Award Winners And Front Runners, the first of 11 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Simply The Best Mysteries, Edgar Award Winners And Front Runners 1970Buy 🇺🇸
2	Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow... 1974Buy 🇺🇸
3	Tales to Send Chills Down Your Spine 1979Buy 🇺🇸
4	Alfred Hitchcock's A Choice of Evils 1983Buy 🇺🇸
5	Fifty Best Mysteries 1993Buy 🇺🇸
6	Murderous Schemes 1996Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Plot Thickens 1997Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology: Celebrating 25 Years 2001Buy 🇺🇸
9	Price of Desire 2005Buy 🇺🇸
10	Transgressions 2005Buy 🇺🇸
11	Transgressions, Vol. 3 2006Buy 🇺🇸

15 books (1970–2009)

Start with The Hot Rock, the first of 15 books in the Dortmunder series.

#	Title
1	The Hot Rock 1970Buy 🇺🇸
2	Bank Shot 1972Buy 🇺🇸
3	Jimmy The Kid 1974Buy 🇺🇸
4	Nobody's Perfect 1977Buy 🇺🇸
5	Why Me? 1983Buy 🇺🇸
6	Good Behavior 1985Buy 🇺🇸
7	Drowned Hopes 1990Buy 🇺🇸
8	Don't Ask 1993Buy 🇺🇸
9	What's The Worst That Could Happen? 1996Buy 🇺🇸
10	Bad News 2001Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Road To Ruin 2004Buy 🇺🇸
12	Thieves' Dozen 2004Buy 🇺🇸
13	Watch Your Back! 2005Buy 🇺🇸
14	What's So Funny? 2007Buy 🇺🇸
15	Get Real 2009Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1966–1972)

Start with Kinds of Love, Kinds of Death, the first of 5 books in the Mitch Tobin series.

#	Title
1	Kinds of Love, Kinds of Death 1966Buy 🇺🇸
2	Murder Among Children 1967Buy 🇺🇸
3	A Jade In Aries 1970Buy 🇺🇸
4	Wax Apple 1970Buy 🇺🇸
5	Don't Lie To Me 1972Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2014–2014)

24 books (1962–2008)

Start with Payback / Point Blank / The Hunter, the first of 24 books in the Parker series.

#	Title
1	Payback / Point Blank / The Hunter 1962Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Mourner 1963Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Outfit 1963Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Score / Killtown 1963Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Steel Hit / The Man With The Getaway Face 1963Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Jugger 1965Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Handle / Run Lethal 1966Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Seventh / The Split 1966Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Green Eagle Score 1967Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Rare Coin Score 1967Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Black Ice Score 1968Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Sour Lemon Score 1969Buy 🇺🇸
13	Deadly Edge 1971Buy 🇺🇸
14	Slayground 1971Buy 🇺🇸
15	Plunder Squad 1972Buy 🇺🇸
16	Butcher's Moon 1974Buy 🇺🇸
17	Comeback 1997Buy 🇺🇸
18	Backflash 1998Buy 🇺🇸
19	Flashfire / Parker 2000Buy 🇺🇸
20	Firebreak 2001Buy 🇺🇸
21	Breakout 2002Buy 🇺🇸
22	Nobody Runs Forever 2004Buy 🇺🇸
23	Ask The Parrot 2006Buy 🇺🇸
24	Dirty Money 2008Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2009–2013)

Start with The Hunter, the first of 6 books in the Parker Graphic Novels series.

#	Title
1	The Hunter 2009Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Man with the Getaway Face 2010Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Outfit 2010Buy 🇺🇸
4	Richard Stark’s Parker: The Martini Edition 2011Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Score 2012Buy 🇺🇸
6	Slayground 2013Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1959–1962)

Start with Backstage Love and read in order.

4 books (1986–1989)

Start with I Know A Trick Worth Two Of That, the first of 4 books in the Sam Holt series.

#	Title
1	I Know A Trick Worth Two Of That 1986Buy 🇺🇸
2	One Of Us Is Wrong 1986Buy 🇺🇸
3	What I Tell You Three Times Is False 1987Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Fourth Dimension Is Death 1989Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1988–1994)

Start with Trust Me On This and read in order.

#	Title
1	Trust Me On This 1988Buy 🇺🇸
2	Baby, Would I Lie? 1994Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (1989–1989)

7 books (1968–2020)

Start with Curious Facts Preceding My Execution, the first of 7 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Curious Facts Preceding My Execution 1968Buy 🇺🇸
2	Enough 1978Buy 🇺🇸
3	Transylvania Station(With: Abby Westlake) 1987Buy 🇺🇸
4	Tomorrow's Crimes 1989Buy 🇺🇸
5	A Good Story and Other Stories 1999Buy 🇺🇸
6	Meteor Strike 2012Buy 🇺🇸
7	Double Feature 2020Buy 🇺🇸

53 books (1959–2022)

Start with All My Lovers, the first of 53 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	All My Lovers 1959Buy 🇺🇸
2	Man Hungry 1959Buy 🇺🇸
3	Sally 1959Buy 🇺🇸
4	All about Annette 1960Buy 🇺🇸
5	SO WILLING. 1960Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Mercenaries / The Cutie 1960Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Wife Next Door 1960Buy 🇺🇸
8	Virgin's Summer 1960Buy 🇺🇸
9	Brother and Sister 1961Buy 🇺🇸
10	Call Me Sinner 1961Buy 🇺🇸
11	Campus Doll 1961Buy 🇺🇸
12	Killing Time 1961Buy 🇺🇸
13	Passion's Playthings 1961Buy 🇺🇸
14	Young and Innocent 1961Buy 🇺🇸
15	361 1962Buy 🇺🇸
16	Strange affair. 1962Buy 🇺🇸
17	Campus Lovers 1963Buy 🇺🇸
18	Killy 1963Buy 🇺🇸
19	Pity Him Afterwards 1964Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Fugitive Pigeon 1965Buy 🇺🇸
21	Spy in the Ointment 1966Buy 🇺🇸
22	The Busy Body 1966Buy 🇺🇸
23	Anarchaos 1967Buy 🇺🇸
24	God Save the Mark 1967Buy 🇺🇸
25	Philip 1967Buy 🇺🇸
26	Who stole Sassi Manoon? 1968Buy 🇺🇸
27	Somebody Owes Me Money 1969Buy 🇺🇸
28	Up Your Banners 1969Buy 🇺🇸
29	Adios Scheherazade 1970Buy 🇺🇸
30	Comfort Station 1970Buy 🇺🇸
31	Ex Officio 1970Buy 🇺🇸
32	I Gave at the Office 1971Buy 🇺🇸
33	Cops and Robbers 1972Buy 🇺🇸
34	Gangway!(With: Brian Garfield) 1973Buy 🇺🇸
35	Help, I Am Being Held Prisoner 1974Buy 🇺🇸
36	Brothers Keepers 1975Buy 🇺🇸
37	Two Much 1975Buy 🇺🇸
38	Dancing Aztecs 1976Buy 🇺🇸
39	Castle in the Air 1980Buy 🇺🇸
40	Kahawa 1981Buy 🇺🇸
41	A Likely Story 1984Buy 🇺🇸
42	High Adventure 1985Buy 🇺🇸
43	Humans 1992Buy 🇺🇸
44	Smoke 1995Buy 🇺🇸
45	The Ax 1997Buy 🇺🇸
46	The Hook 2000Buy 🇺🇸
47	The Scared Stiff 2001Buy 🇺🇸
48	Put a Lid on It 2002Buy 🇺🇸
49	Money for Nothing 2003Buy 🇺🇸
50	Memory / The Actor 2010Buy 🇺🇸
51	The Comedy is Finished 2012Buy 🇺🇸
52	Forever and a Death 2017Buy 🇺🇸
53	Call Me a Cab 2022Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2005–2006)

Start with Transgressions(With: Stephen King,Lawrence Block,Anne Perry,Jeffery Deaver,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain,Bonnie Jeanne Perry,Joyce Carol Oates,Walter Mosley,John Farris), the first of 4 books in the Transgressions series.

#	Title
1	Transgressions(With: Stephen King,Lawrence Block,Anne Perry,Jeffery Deaver,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain,Bonnie Jeanne Perry,Joyce Carol Oates,Walter Mosley,John Farris) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
2	Transgressions, Vol. 2(By: Stephen King,Lawrence Block,Ed McBain,John Farris) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
3	Transgressions, Vol. 3(With: Anne Perry,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain,John Farris) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
4	Transgressions, Vol. 4(By: Anne Perry,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain) 2006Buy 🇺🇸