John Connolly Reading Order

16 books (2004–2021)

Start with Like a Charm, the first of 16 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Like a Charm 2004Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Reflecting Eye 2004Buy 🇺🇸
3	Dangerous Women 2005Buy 🇺🇸
4	The British Fantasy Society: A Celebration 2006Buy 🇺🇸
5	Dark Delicacies II: Fear 2007Buy 🇺🇸
6	Something Wicked #8 2008Buy 🇺🇸
7	Uncage Me 2009Buy 🇺🇸
8	From the Republic of Conscience 2010Buy 🇺🇸
9	Down These Green Streets 2011Buy 🇺🇸
10	A Carnivàle of Horror 2012Buy 🇺🇸
11	Books to Die For 2012Buy 🇺🇸
12	Inherit the Dead 2013Buy 🇺🇸
13	Echoes of Sherlock Holmes 2016Buy 🇺🇸
14	Exit Wounds 2019Buy 🇺🇸
15	First Edition: Celebrating 21 Years of Goldsboro Books 2020Buy 🇺🇸
16	Daggers Drawn 2021Buy 🇺🇸

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(By: James Grady) 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 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 🇺🇸

24 books (1999–2026)

Start with Every Dead Thing, the first of 24 books in the Charlie Parker series.

#	Title
1	Every Dead Thing 1999Buy 🇺🇸
2	Dark Hollow 2000Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Killing Kind 2001Buy 🇺🇸
4	The White Road 2002Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Reflecting Eye 2004Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Black Angel 2005Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Unquiet 2007Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Reapers 2008Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Lovers 2009Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Whisperers 2010Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Burning Soul 2011Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Wrath of Angels 2012Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Wolf in Winter 2014Buy 🇺🇸
14	A Song of Shadows 2015Buy 🇺🇸
15	A Time of Torment 2016Buy 🇺🇸
16	A Game of Ghosts 2017Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Woman in the Woods 2018Buy 🇺🇸
18	A Book of Bones 2019Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Dirty South 2020Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Nameless Ones 2021Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Furies 2022Buy 🇺🇸
22	The Instruments of Darkness 2024Buy 🇺🇸
23	The Children of Eve 2025Buy 🇺🇸
24	A River Red with Blood 2026Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2016–2021)

Start with Parker: A Miscellany and read in order.

#	Title
1	Parker: A Miscellany 2016Buy 🇺🇸
2	Horror Express 2018Buy 🇺🇸
3	Shadow Voices 2021Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2013–2016)

Start with Conquest and read in order.

#	Title
1	Conquest 2013Buy 🇺🇸
2	Empire 2014Buy 🇺🇸
3	Dominion 2016Buy 🇺🇸

33 books (2022–2025)

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

2 books (2004–2015)

Start with Nocturnes and read in order.

#	Title
1	Nocturnes 2004Buy 🇺🇸
2	Night Music 2015Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2016–2016)

#	Title
1	Filthy Rich(With: James Patterson,Tim Malloy) 2016Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2009–2013)

Start with The Gates and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Gates 2009Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Infernals / Hell's Bells 2011Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Creeps 2013Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (2006–2020)

Start with The Underbury Witches, the first of 7 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	The Underbury Witches 2006Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Museum of Literary Souls 2013Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Wanderer in Unknown Realms 2013Buy 🇺🇸
4	Holmes on the Range: A Tale of the Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository 2015Buy 🇺🇸
5	On the Anatomization of an Unknown Man (1637) by Frans Mier 2015Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Monks of Appalling Dreadfulness 2020Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Sisters Strange 2020Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2024–2024)

2 books (2003–2017)

Start with Bad Men and read in order.

#	Title
1	Bad Men 2003Buy 🇺🇸
2	He 2017Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2006–2023)

Start with The Book of Lost Things and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Book of Lost Things 2006Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Land of Lost Things 2023Buy 🇺🇸