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 🇺🇸🎧 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

10 books (1996–2025)

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

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

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

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

1 book (2019–2019)

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

2 books (1985–1987)

Start with Razor Game and read in order.

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

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 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Gargoyle Issue 15/16(By: Richard Peabody) 1980Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Gargoyle #22/23(By: Richard Peabody) 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Gargoyle 24(By: Richard Peabody) 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Gargoyle 25/26 Fiction/84(By: Richard Peabody) 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Gargoyle: Fiction/86(By: Richard Peabody) 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Gargoyle # 37/38(By: Richard Peabody) 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Gargoyle 39/40(By: Richard Peabody) 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Gargoyle 41(By: Richard Peabody) 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Gargoyle 50(By: Richard Peabody) 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Gargoyle 51(By: Richard Peabody) 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Gargoyle 53(By: Richard Peabody) 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Gargoyle #55(By: Richard Peabody) 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Gargoyle 54(By: Richard Peabody) 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Gargoyle 56(By: Richard Peabody) 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
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 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Gargoyle #59(By: Richard Peabody) 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Gargoyle 60(By: Richard Peabody) 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Gargoyle #61(By: Richard Peabody) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Gargoyle #64(By: Richard Peabody) 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Gargoyle 65(By: Richard Peabody) 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Gargoyle 66(By: Richard Peabody) 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Gargoyle 68(By: Richard Peabody) 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Gargoyle 70(By: Richard Peabody) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	Gargoyle 71(By: Richard Peabody) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	Gargoyle 72(By: Richard Peabody) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	Gargoyle #73(By: Richard Peabody) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	Gargoyle 74(By: Richard Peabody) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (2007–2014)

Start with The Chopin Manuscript and read in order.

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

2 books (1984–1985)

Start with Runner in the Street and read in order.

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

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)

12 books (1976–2026)

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

#	Title
1	The Great Pebble Affair 1976Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Catch the Wind 1980Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Steeltown 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	White Flame 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	River of Darkness / The Nature of the Game 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Thunder 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	City of Shadows(As: James Dalton) 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Mad Dogs 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	This Train 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	The Smoke in Our Eyes 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	American Sky 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Shadows on Sidewalks 2026Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible