Douglas Preston Reading Order

4 books (2012–2024)

Start with Gone Fishing and Other Stories, the first of 4 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Gone Fishing and Other Stories 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	FaceOff 2014Buy 🇺🇸
3	Gaslighted: Slappy the Ventriloquist Dummy vs. Aloysius Pendergast 2014Buy 🇺🇸
4	Fourteen Days: An Unauthorized Gathering 2024Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2024–2026)

Start with Extinction and read in order.

5 books (2011–2018)

Start with Gideon's Sword, the first of 5 books in the Gideon Crew series.

#	Title
1	Gideon's Sword 2011Buy 🇺🇸
2	Gideon's Corpse 2012Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Lost Island 2014Buy 🇺🇸
4	Beyond the Ice Limit 2016Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Pharaoh Key 2018Buy 🇺🇸

33 books (2022–2025)

Start with Alex Delaware(By: Jonathan Kellerman), the first of 33 books in the Mysterious Profiles series.

7 books (1986–2023)

Start with Dinosaurs in the Attic, the first of 7 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	Dinosaurs in the Attic 1986Buy 🇺🇸
2	Cities of Gold 1992Buy 🇺🇸
3	Talking to the Ground 1995Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Monster of Florence 2006Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Forgotten Killer: Rudy Guede and the Murder of Meredith Kercher(With: John Douglas Marshall) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Lost City of the Monkey God 2017Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Lost Tomb 2023Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (1999–2025)

Start with Thunderhead, the first of 6 books in the Nora Kelly series.

#	Title
1	Thunderhead 1999Buy 🇺🇸
2	Old Bones 2019Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Scorpion's Tail 2021Buy 🇺🇸
4	Diablo Mesa 2022Buy 🇺🇸
5	Dead Mountain 2023Buy 🇺🇸
6	Badlands 2025Buy 🇺🇸

26 books (1995–2026)

Start with Relic, the first of 26 books in the Pendergast series.

#	Title
1	Relic 1995Buy 🇺🇸
2	Reliquary 1997Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Cabinet of Curiosities 2001Buy 🇺🇸
4	Still Life with Crows 2003Buy 🇺🇸
5	Brimstone 2004Buy 🇺🇸
6	Dance of Death 2005Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Book of the Dead 2006Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Wheel of Darkness 2007Buy 🇺🇸
9	Cemetery Dance 2009Buy 🇺🇸
10	Fever Dream 2010Buy 🇺🇸
11	Cold Vengeance 2011Buy 🇺🇸
12	Extraction 2012Buy 🇺🇸
13	Two Graves 2012Buy 🇺🇸
14	White Fire 2013Buy 🇺🇸
15	Blue Labyrinth 2014Buy 🇺🇸
16	Crimson Shore 2015Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Obsidian Chamber 2016Buy 🇺🇸
18	City of Endless Night 2018Buy 🇺🇸
19	Verses for the Dead 2018Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Strange Case of Monsieur Bertin 2019Buy 🇺🇸
21	Crooked River 2020Buy 🇺🇸
22	Bloodless 2021Buy 🇺🇸
23	The Cabinet of Dr. Leng 2023Buy 🇺🇸
24	Angel of Vengeance 2024Buy 🇺🇸
25	Pendergast 2026Buy 🇺🇸
26	The Beginning 2026Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1994–2003)

Start with Jennie, the first of 5 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Jennie 1994Buy 🇺🇸
2	Mount Dragon(With: Lincoln Child) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
3	Riptide(With: Lincoln Child) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Ice Limit(With: Lincoln Child) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Codex 2003Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2005–2014)

Start with Tyrannosaur Canyon, the first of 4 books in the Wyman Ford series.

#	Title
1	Tyrannosaur Canyon 2005Buy 🇺🇸
2	Blasphemy 2007Buy 🇺🇸
3	Impact 2009Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Kraken Project 2014Buy 🇺🇸