Jeffrey Archer Reading Order

3 books (2002–2006)

Start with A Prison Diary and read in order.

#	Title
1	A Prison Diary 2002Buy 🇺🇸
2	Purgatory 2005Buy 🇺🇸
3	Heaven 2006Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1999–2013)

Start with The Grown-Ups' Book Of Books and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Grown-Ups' Book Of Books 1999Buy 🇺🇸
2	Suspense Magazine June 2013 2013Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1980–1994)

Start with By Royal Appointment, the first of 4 books in the Children's series.

#	Title
1	By Royal Appointment 1980Buy 🇺🇸
2	Willy Visits The Square World 1980Buy 🇺🇸
3	Willy And The Killer Kipper 1981Buy 🇺🇸
4	The First Miracle 1994Buy 🇺🇸

8 books (2019–2025)

Start with Nothing Ventured, the first of 8 books in the Detective William Warwick series.

#	Title
1	Nothing Ventured 2019Buy 🇺🇸
2	Hidden in Plain Sight 2020Buy 🇺🇸
3	Over My Dead Body 2021Buy 🇺🇸
4	Turn a Blind Eye 2021Buy 🇺🇸
5	Next in Line 2022Buy 🇺🇸
6	Traitors Gate 2023Buy 🇺🇸
7	An Eye for An Eye 2024Buy 🇺🇸
8	End Game 2025Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1977–1982)

Start with Shall We Tell the President? and read in order.

#	Title
1	Shall We Tell the President? 1977Buy 🇺🇸
2	Kane and Abel 1979Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Prodigal Daughter 1982Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2024–2024)

Start with Dance of the Underpants and read in order.

1 book (2007–2007)

#	Title
1	The Gospel According to Judas by Benjamin Iscariot 2007Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (1987–1987)

#	Title
1	Beyond Reasonable Doubt 1987Buy 🇺🇸

8 books (1990–2017)

Start with Old Love, the first of 8 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	Old Love 1990Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Grass is Always Greener 2000Buy 🇺🇸
3	Cheap at Half the Price 2011Buy 🇺🇸
4	In the Eye of the Beholder 2011Buy 🇺🇸
5	Never Stop on the Motorway 2011Buy 🇺🇸
6	A Wasted Hour 2017Buy 🇺🇸
7	It Can't be October Already 2017Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Senior Vice President 2017Buy 🇺🇸

12 books (1980–2020)

Start with A Quiver Full of Arrows, the first of 12 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	A Quiver Full of Arrows 1980Buy 🇺🇸
2	Fools, Knaves, and Heroes 1989Buy 🇺🇸
3	Twelve Red Herrings 1994Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Collected Short Stories 1997Buy 🇺🇸
5	To Cut a Long Story Short 1997Buy 🇺🇸
6	A Twist in the Tale 2000Buy 🇺🇸
7	Cat O'Nine Tales and Other Stories 2006Buy 🇺🇸
8	And Thereby Hangs a Tale 2010Buy 🇺🇸
9	The New Collected Short Stories 2011Buy 🇺🇸
10	Four Warned 2014Buy 🇺🇸
11	Tell Tale 2017Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Short, The Long and the Tall 2020Buy 🇺🇸

14 books (1976–2026)

Start with Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less, the first of 14 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less 1976Buy 🇺🇸
2	First Among Equals 1983Buy 🇺🇸
3	A Matter of Honor 1985Buy 🇺🇸
4	As the Crow Flies 1990Buy 🇺🇸
5	Honor Among Thieves 1993Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Fourth Estate 1996Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Eleventh Commandment 1998Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Accused 2000Buy 🇺🇸
9	Sons of Fortune 2002Buy 🇺🇸
10	False Impression 2005Buy 🇺🇸
11	A Prisoner of Birth 2008Buy 🇺🇸
12	Paths of Glory 2009Buy 🇺🇸
13	Heads You Win 2019Buy 🇺🇸
14	Adam and Eve 2026Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (2011–2016)

Start with Only Time Will Tell, the first of 7 books in the The Clifton Chronicles series.

#	Title
1	Only Time Will Tell 2011Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Sins of the Father 2012Buy 🇺🇸
3	Best Kept Secret 2013Buy 🇺🇸
4	Be Careful What You Wish For 2014Buy 🇺🇸
5	Mightier Than the Sword 2015Buy 🇺🇸
6	Cometh the Hour 2016Buy 🇺🇸
7	This Was a Man 2016Buy 🇺🇸