James Sallis 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 🇺🇸

16 books (1967–2023)

Start with Orbit 3, the first of 16 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Orbit 3 1967Buy 🇺🇸
2	Orbit 6 1970Buy 🇺🇸
3	Orbit 11 1972Buy 🇺🇸
4	New Worlds 6 1975Buy 🇺🇸
5	Lone Star Universe 1976Buy 🇺🇸
6	Whispers 1977Buy 🇺🇸
7	Breaking Windows 2003Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Volume 104 Number 2, February 2003 2003Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Best of Talebones 2010Buy 🇺🇸
10	Books to Die For 2012Buy 🇺🇸
11	Borderland Noir 2015Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Highway Kind 2016Buy 🇺🇸
13	Bound by Mystery 2017Buy 🇺🇸
14	Ten Year Stretch 2018Buy 🇺🇸
15	Bullets and Other Hurting Things: A Tribute to Bill Crider 2021Buy 🇺🇸
16	Ink and Daggers 2023Buy 🇺🇸

10 books (2000–2024)

Start with A City Equal to My Desire, the first of 10 books in the Collections series.

#	Title
1	A City Equal to My Desire 2000Buy 🇺🇸
2	Sorrow's Kitchen Poems 2000Buy 🇺🇸
3	Time's Hammers: The Collected Short Fiction of James Sallis 2000Buy 🇺🇸
4	Limits of the Sensible World 2003Buy 🇺🇸
5	Potato Tree 2006Buy 🇺🇸
6	Rain's Eagerness 2013Buy 🇺🇸
7	Black Night's Gonna Catch Me Here 2015Buy 🇺🇸
8	Night's Pardons 2016Buy 🇺🇸
9	Dayenu and Other Stories 2021Buy 🇺🇸
10	Bright Segments: The Complete Short Fiction 2024Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2005–2012)

Start with Drive and read in order.

#	Title
1	Drive 2005Buy 🇺🇸
2	Driven 2012Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (1992–2001)

Start with The Long-Legged Fly, the first of 6 books in the Lew Griffin series.

#	Title
1	The Long-Legged Fly 1992Buy 🇺🇸
2	Moth 1993Buy 🇺🇸
3	Black Hornet 1994Buy 🇺🇸
4	Eye of the Cricket 1997Buy 🇺🇸
5	Bluebottle 1999Buy 🇺🇸
6	Ghost of a Flea 2001Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (1982–2018)

Start with The Guitar Players: One Instrument and Its Masters in American Music, the first of 7 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	The Guitar Players: One Instrument and Its Masters in American Music 1982Buy 🇺🇸
2	Ash of Stars 1996Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Guitar in Jazz: An Anthology 1996Buy 🇺🇸
4	Chester Himes: A Life 2000Buy 🇺🇸
5	Difficult Lives 2000Buy 🇺🇸
6	Gently into the Land of the Meateaters 2000Buy 🇺🇸
7	Difficult Lives Hitching Rides 2018Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1998–2016)

Start with More Light and read in order.

7 books (1995–2026)

Start with Renderings, the first of 7 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Renderings 1995Buy 🇺🇸
2	Death Will Have Your Eyes 1997Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Killer Is Dying 2011Buy 🇺🇸
4	Others of My Kind 2013Buy 🇺🇸
5	Willnot 2016Buy 🇺🇸
6	Sarah Jane 2019Buy 🇺🇸
7	World's Edge 2026Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2003–2007)

Start with Cypress Grove and read in order.

#	Title
1	Cypress Grove 2003Buy 🇺🇸
2	Cripple Creek 2006Buy 🇺🇸
3	Salt River 2007Buy 🇺🇸