John Gardner Reading Order

2 books (1982–1999)

Start with The Best American Short Stories 1982 and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Best American Short Stories 1982 1982Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

11 books (1964–1975)

Start with The Liquidator, the first of 11 books in the Boysie Oakes series.

#	Title
1	The Liquidator 1964Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Understrike 1965Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Amber Nine 1966Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Madrigal 1967Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Hideaway 1968Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Founder Member 1969Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Traitor's Exit 1970Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Air Apparent 1973Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Airline Pirates 1973Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	The Assassination File 1974Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	A Killer for a Song 1975Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (1969–1976)

Start with A Complete State of Death and read in order.

#	Title
1	A Complete State of Death 1969Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Corner Men 1976Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

5 books (2002–2007)

Start with Bottled Spider, the first of 5 books in the Detective Sergeant Suzie Mountford series.

#	Title
1	Bottled Spider 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Streets of Town 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Angels Dining at the Ritz 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Troubled Midnight 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	No Human Enemy 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

5 books (1979–1995)

Start with The Nostradamus Traitor, the first of 5 books in the Herbie Kruger series.

#	Title
1	The Nostradamus Traitor 1979Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Garden of Weapons 1981Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Quiet Dogs 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Maestro 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Confessor 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

34 books (1968–2022)

Start with Colonel Sun(By: Kingsley Amis), the first of 33 books in the James Bond series.

#	Title
1	Colonel Sun(By: Kingsley Amis) 1968Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Authorized Biography of 007(By: John George Pearson) 1973Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	License Renewed 1981Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	For Special Services 1982Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Icebreaker 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Role of Honor 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Nobody Lives Forever 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	No Deals, Mr. Bond 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Scorpius 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Licence to Kill 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Win, Lose or Die 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Brokenclaw 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	The Man from Barbarossa 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Death Is Forever 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Never Send Flowers 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	SeaFire 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	GoldenEye 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Cold Fall 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Tomorrow Never Dies(By: Raymond Benson) 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Zero Minus Ten(By: Raymond Benson) 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	The Facts of Death(By: Raymond Benson) 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	High Time to Kill(By: Raymond Benson) 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Midsummer Nights Doom 1999
24	The World is Not Enough(By: Raymond Benson) 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	Doubleshot(By: Raymond Benson) 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	Never Dream of Dying(By: Raymond Benson) 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	Die Another Day(By: Raymond Benson) 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	The Man With the Red Tattoo(By: Raymond Benson) 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	Devil May Care(By: Sebastian Faulks) 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	Carte Blanche(By: Jeffery Deaver) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	Solo(By: William Boyd) 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	Trigger Mortis(By: Anthony Horowitz) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	Forever and a Day(By: Anthony Horowitz) 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	With a Mind to Kill(By: Anthony Horowitz) 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (1983–1994)

Start with On Becoming a Novelist and read in order.

#	Title
1	On Becoming a Novelist 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	On Writers and Writing 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1974–2008)

Start with The Return of Moriarty and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Return of Moriarty 1974Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Revenge of Moriarty 1975Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Moriarty 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1985–1989)

Start with The Secret Generations and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Secret Generations 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Secret Houses 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Secret Families 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

11 books (1972–2001)

Start with The Censor, the first of 11 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	The Censor 1972Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Every Night's a Bullfight 1973Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Director 1973Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	To Run a Little Faster 1976Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Werewolf Trace 1977Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Dancing Dodo 1979Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Golgotha 1980Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Last Trump 1980Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Flamingo 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Blood of the Fathers 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Day of Absolution 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible