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

4 books (1967–1971)

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

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

12 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 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow... 1974Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Tales to Send Chills Down Your Spine 1979Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Alfred Hitchcock's A Choice of Evils 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	High Jinx 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Fifty Best Mysteries 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Murderous Schemes 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Plot Thickens 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology: Celebrating 25 Years 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Price of Desire 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Transgressions 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Transgressions, Vol. 3 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

15 books (1970–2009)

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

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

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 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Murder Among Children 1967Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	A Jade In Aries 1970Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Wax Apple 1970Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Don't Lie To Me 1972Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (1972–2014)

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

6 books (2009–2013)

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

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

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 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	One Of Us Is Wrong 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	What I Tell You Three Times Is False 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Fourth Dimension Is Death 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (1988–1994)

Start with Trust Me On This and read in order.

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

1 book (1989–1989)

9 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 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Enough 1978Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Levine 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Transylvania Station(With: Abby Westlake) 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Tomorrow's Crimes 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	A Good Story and Other Stories 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Meteor Strike 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Double Feature 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Spy in the Elevator 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

54 books (1959–2022)

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

#	Title
1	All My Lovers 1959Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Man Hungry 1959Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Sally 1959Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	All about Annette 1960Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	SO WILLING. 1960Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Mercenaries / The Cutie 1960Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Wife Next Door 1960Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Virgin's Summer 1960Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Brother and Sister 1961Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Call Me Sinner 1961Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Campus Doll 1961Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Killing Time 1961Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Passion's Playthings 1961Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Young and Innocent 1961Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	361 1962Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Strange affair. 1962Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Campus Lovers 1963Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Killy 1963Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Pity Him Afterwards 1964Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	The Fugitive Pigeon 1965Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Spy in the Ointment 1966Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	The Busy Body 1966Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Anarchaos 1967Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	God Save the Mark 1967Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	Philip 1967Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	Who stole Sassi Manoon? 1968Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	Somebody Owes Me Money 1969Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	Up Your Banners 1969Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	Adios Scheherazade 1970Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	Comfort Station 1970Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	Ex Officio 1970Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	I Gave at the Office 1971Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	Cops and Robbers 1972Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	Gangway!(With: Brian Garfield) 1973Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	Help, I Am Being Held Prisoner 1974Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
36	Brothers Keepers 1975Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
37	Two Much 1975Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
38	Dancing Aztecs 1976Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
39	Castle in the Air 1980Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
40	Kahawa 1981Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
41	A Likely Story 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
42	High Adventure 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
43	Sacred Monster 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
44	Humans 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
45	Smoke 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
46	The Ax 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
47	The Hook 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
48	The Scared Stiff 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
49	Put a Lid on It 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
50	Money for Nothing 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
51	Memory / The Actor 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
52	The Comedy is Finished 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
53	Forever and a Death 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
54	Call Me a Cab 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

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 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Transgressions, Vol. 2(By: Stephen King,Lawrence Block,Ed McBain,John Farris) 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Transgressions, Vol. 3(With: Anne Perry,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain,John Farris) 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Transgressions, Vol. 4(By: Anne Perry,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain) 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible