Elmore Leonard 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 🇺🇸

13 books (1961–2014)

Start with Western Roundup, the first of 13 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Western Roundup 1961Buy 🇺🇸
2	Florida Stories 1993Buy 🇺🇸
3	New Trails: Twenty-Three Original Stories 1994Buy 🇺🇸
4	Murder For Love 1996Buy 🇺🇸
5	Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories 1996Buy 🇺🇸
6	Naked Came the Manatee 1997Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Best American Mystery Stories 1997 1997Buy 🇺🇸
8	Western Movies 1997Buy 🇺🇸
9	Murder On The Railways 2003Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Best American Mystery Stories 2003 2003Buy 🇺🇸
11	Mysterious Writers: The Many Facets of Mystery Writing 2010Buy 🇺🇸
12	Books to Die For 2012Buy 🇺🇸
13	Long Night 2014Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2005–2009)

Start with The Hot Kid and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Hot Kid 2005Buy 🇺🇸
2	Up in Honey's Room 2007Buy 🇺🇸
3	Comfort to the Enemy and Other Carl Webster Stories 2009Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1990–1999)

Start with Get Shorty and read in order.

#	Title
1	Get Shorty 1990Buy 🇺🇸
2	Be Cool 1999Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1998–1998)

Start with Elmore Leonard's Western Roundup #1 and read in order.

#	Title
1	Elmore Leonard's Western Roundup #1 1998Buy 🇺🇸
2	Elmore Leonard's Western Roundup #2 1998Buy 🇺🇸
3	Elmore Leonard's Western Roundup #3 1998Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1976–1982)

Start with Swag / Ryan's Rules and read in order.

#	Title
1	Swag / Ryan's Rules 1976Buy 🇺🇸
2	Stick 1982Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1996–2009)

Start with Out Of Sight and read in order.

#	Title
1	Out Of Sight 1996Buy 🇺🇸
2	Road Dogs 2009Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1969–1977)

Start with The Big Bounce and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Big Bounce 1969Buy 🇺🇸
2	Unknown Man #89 1977Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1990–2006)

Start with Notebooks and read in order.

#	Title
1	Notebooks 1990Buy 🇺🇸
2	Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing 2006Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1978–1992)

Start with The Switch and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Switch 1978Buy 🇺🇸
2	Rum Punch 1992Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1993–2018)

Start with Pronto, the first of 5 books in the Raylan Givens series.

#	Title
1	Pronto 1993Buy 🇺🇸
2	Riding the Rap 1995Buy 🇺🇸
3	Fire in the Hole 2001Buy 🇺🇸
4	Raylan 2011Buy 🇺🇸
5	Raylan Goes to Detroit(By: Peter Leonard) 2018Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2025–2025)

10 books (1953–2015)

Start with Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories, the first of 10 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories 1953Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Tonto Woman and Other Western Stories 1975Buy 🇺🇸
3	Dutch Treat 1985Buy 🇺🇸
4	When the Women Come Out to Dance 2001Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Complete Western Stories 2004Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard 2004Buy 🇺🇸
7	Blood Money and Other Stories 2006Buy 🇺🇸
8	Moment of Vengeance and Other Stories 2006Buy 🇺🇸
9	Trail of the Apache and Other Stories 2007Buy 🇺🇸
10	Charlie Martz and Other Stories 2015Buy 🇺🇸

31 books (1953–2013)

Start with The Bounty Hunters, the first of 31 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	The Bounty Hunters 1953Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Law at Randado 1954Buy 🇺🇸
3	Escape from Five Shadows 1956Buy 🇺🇸
4	Last Stand at Saber River 1959Buy 🇺🇸
5	Hombre 1961Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Moonshine War 1969Buy 🇺🇸
7	Valdez Is Coming 1970Buy 🇺🇸
8	Forty Lashes Less One 1972Buy 🇺🇸
9	52 Pick Up 1974Buy 🇺🇸
10	Mr Majestyk 1974Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Hunted 1977Buy 🇺🇸
12	Gunsights 1979Buy 🇺🇸
13	City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit 1980Buy 🇺🇸
14	Gold Coast 1980Buy 🇺🇸
15	Split Images 1981Buy 🇺🇸
16	Cat Chaser 1982Buy 🇺🇸
17	LaBrava 1983Buy 🇺🇸
18	Glitz 1985Buy 🇺🇸
19	Bandits 1987Buy 🇺🇸
20	Touch 1987Buy 🇺🇸
21	Freaky Deaky 1988Buy 🇺🇸
22	Killshot 1989Buy 🇺🇸
23	Maximum Bob 1991Buy 🇺🇸
24	Cuba Libre 1998Buy 🇺🇸
25	Pagan Babies 2000Buy 🇺🇸
26	Tishomingo Blues 2002Buy 🇺🇸
27	A Coyote's in the House 2004Buy 🇺🇸
28	Mr. Paradise 2004Buy 🇺🇸
29	Djibouti 2010Buy 🇺🇸
30	Confession 2013Buy 🇺🇸
31	The Trespassers 2013Buy 🇺🇸