James Grady 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 🇺🇸

9 books (1996–2025)

Start with Unusual Suspects, the first of 9 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Unusual Suspects 1996Buy 🇺🇸
2	Son of Retro Pulp Tales 2009Buy 🇺🇸
3	Watchlist 2009Buy 🇺🇸
4	Home Improvement: Undead Edition 2011Buy 🇺🇸
5	Inherit the Dead 2013Buy 🇺🇸
6	Explosions: Stories of Our Landmined World 2014Buy 🇺🇸
7	Invisible Blood 2019Buy 🇺🇸
8	Reports from the Deep End 2023Buy 🇺🇸
9	Birds, Strangers and Psychos 2025Buy 🇺🇸

40 books (2012–2022)

Start with An Acceptable Sacrifice(By: Jeffery Deaver), the first of 40 books in the Bibliomysteries series.

#	Title
1	An Acceptable Sacrifice(By: Jeffery Deaver) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	Death Leaves a Bookmark(By: William Link) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
3	Pronghorns of the Third Reich(By: C.J. Box) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Book Case(By: Nelson DeMille) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Book Thing(By: Laura Lippman) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Book of Virtue(By: Ken Bruen) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
7	Rides a Stranger(By: David Bell) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Book of Ghosts(By: Reed Farrel Coleman) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Final Testament(By: Peter Blauner) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Long Sonata of the Dead(By: Andrew Taylor) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
11	Book Club(By: Loren D. Estleman) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
12	It's in the Book(By: Max Allan Collins,Mickey Spillane) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
13	Remaindered(By: Peter Lovesey) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Compendium of Srem(By: F. Paul Wilson) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Gospel of Sheba(By: Lyndsay Faye) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Nature of My Inheritance(By: Bradford Morrow) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Scroll(By: Anne Perry) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Sequel(By: R.L. Stine) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
19	What's in a Name?(By: Thomas H. Cook) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
20	Condor in the Stacks 2015Buy 🇺🇸
21	Every Seven Years(By: Denise Mina) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
22	From the Queen(By: Carolyn Hart) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
23	Mystery, Inc.(By: Joyce Carol Oates) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Book of the Lion(By: Thomas Perry) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
25	The Little Men(By: Megan Abbott) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
26	Citadel(By: Stephen Hunter) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
27	Dead Dames Don't Sing(By: John Harvey) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
28	Reconciliation Day(By: Christopher Fowler) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
29	The Haze(By: James W. Hall) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
30	The Travelling Companion(By: Ian Rankin) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
31	Hoodoo Harry(By: Joe R. Lansdale) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
32	Seven Years(By: Peter Robinson) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
33	The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository(By: John Connolly) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
34	The Hemingway Valise(By: Robert Olen Butler) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
35	The Last Honest Horse Thief(By: Michael Koryta) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
36	The Pretty Little Box(By: Charles Todd) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
37	The Girl Who Did Say No(By: David Handler) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
38	The Dark Door(By: Lisa Unger) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
39	The Honeymoon Trap(By: Peter Swanson) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
40	The Traitor(By: Martin Edwards) 2022Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (1974–2015)

Start with Six Days of the Condor, the first of 7 books in the Condor series.

#	Title
1	Six Days of the Condor 1974Buy 🇺🇸
2	Three Days of the Condor 1974Buy 🇺🇸
3	Shadow of the Condor 1975Buy 🇺🇸
4	condor.net 2011Buy 🇺🇸
5	Last Days of the Condor 2014Buy 🇺🇸
6	Condor in the Stacks 2015Buy 🇺🇸
7	Next Day of the Condor 2015Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2019–2019)

#	Title
1	Condor: The Short Takes 2019Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1985–1987)

Start with Razor Game and read in order.

#	Title
1	Razor Game 1985Buy 🇺🇸
2	Just a Shot Away 1987Buy 🇺🇸

28 books (1980–2021)

Start with Gargoyle 14(By: Richard Peabody), the first of 28 books in the Gargoyle series.

#	Title
1	Gargoyle 14(By: Richard Peabody) 1980Buy 🇺🇸
2	Gargoyle Issue 15/16(By: Richard Peabody) 1980Buy 🇺🇸
3	Gargoyle #22/23(By: Richard Peabody) 1983Buy 🇺🇸
4	Gargoyle 24(By: Richard Peabody) 1984Buy 🇺🇸
5	Gargoyle 25/26 Fiction/84(By: Richard Peabody) 1984Buy 🇺🇸
6	Gargoyle: Fiction/86(By: Richard Peabody) 1986Buy 🇺🇸
7	Gargoyle # 37/38(By: Richard Peabody) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
8	Gargoyle 39/40(By: Richard Peabody) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
9	Gargoyle 41(By: Richard Peabody) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
10	Gargoyle 50(By: Richard Peabody) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
11	Gargoyle 51(By: Richard Peabody) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
12	Gargoyle 53(By: Richard Peabody) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
13	Gargoyle #55(By: Richard Peabody) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
14	Gargoyle 54(By: Richard Peabody) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
15	Gargoyle 56(By: Richard Peabody) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
16	Gargoyle 57(With: Forrest Aguirre,Ben Loory,Kristine Ong Muslim,Joyce Mansour,Roberta Allen,Lynda Sexson,Nin Andrews,Curtis Smith,Robert Kloss,Ethel Rohan,Kim Chinquee,Janet Mitchell,Doug Rice,Corey Mesler,Ramola D,Patricia Smith,Nathan Leslie,Pilar Quintana,Marilyn Stablein,Adrian C. Louis,Richard Peabody,Jim Daniels,Colette Inez,Janice Eidus,Tom Carson,Molly Gaudry,Jonathan Mack,Brandel France de Bravo,Simiki Ghebremichael,Claire Blechman,Carolyn Cooke,Carmen Delzell,Stephanie Allen,Mary Bargteil,Michael Casey,Susann Cokal,Thaisa Frank,Aoife Mannix,Kris Saknusseumm,Susan Smith Nash,James Norcliffe,Zena Polin,Wena Poon,Tomaž Šalamun,Robert Scotellaro,Elisabeth Sheffield,Barry Silesky,Edgar Gabriel Silex,Daniel Stolar,Lee A. Tonouchi,Ronald Wallace,ElizabethWarren,C. Albert,Bill Wolak,Peter Tieryas Liu) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
17	Gargoyle #59(By: Richard Peabody) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
18	Gargoyle 60(By: Richard Peabody) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
19	Gargoyle #61(By: Richard Peabody) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
20	Gargoyle #64(By: Richard Peabody) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
21	Gargoyle 65(By: Richard Peabody) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
22	Gargoyle 66(By: Richard Peabody) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
23	Gargoyle 68(By: Richard Peabody) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
24	Gargoyle 70(By: Richard Peabody) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
25	Gargoyle 71(By: Richard Peabody) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
26	Gargoyle 72(By: Richard Peabody) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
27	Gargoyle #73(By: Richard Peabody) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
28	Gargoyle 74(By: Richard Peabody) 2021Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2007–2014)

Start with The Chopin Manuscript and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Chopin Manuscript 2007Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Copper Bracelet 2009Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Starling Project: An Audible Drama 2014Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1984–1985)

Start with Runner in the Street and read in order.

#	Title
1	Runner in the Street 1984Buy 🇺🇸
2	Hard Bargains 1985Buy 🇺🇸

33 books (2022–2025)

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

1 book (2011–2011)

11 books (1976–2025)

Start with The Great Pebble Affair, the first of 11 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	The Great Pebble Affair 1976Buy 🇺🇸
2	Catch the Wind 1980Buy 🇺🇸
3	Steeltown 1988Buy 🇺🇸
4	White Flame 1990Buy 🇺🇸
5	River of Darkness / The Nature of the Game 1991Buy 🇺🇸
6	Thunder 1994Buy 🇺🇸
7	City of Shadows(As: James Dalton) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
8	Mad Dogs 2006Buy 🇺🇸
9	This Train 2022Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Smoke in Our Eyes 2024Buy 🇺🇸
11	American Sky 2025Buy 🇺🇸