Joyce Carol Oates Reading Order

5 books (2005–2020)

Start with The Cocaine Chronicles(By: Lee Child,Laura Lippman,Gary Phillips,Ken Bruen,Jervey Tervalon,Bill Moody), the first of 5 books in the Akashic Drug Chronicles series.

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1	The Cocaine Chronicles(By: Lee Child,Laura Lippman,Gary Phillips,Ken Bruen,Jervey Tervalon,Bill Moody) 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Speed Chronicles(By: Megan Abbott,Scott Phillips,Sherman Alexie,James Franco,William T. Vollmann,Jess Walter,Beth Lisick,Tao Lin,JamesGreer,Jerry Stahl,Natalie Díaz,Joseph Mattson,Kenji Jasper,Rose Bunch) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Heroin Chronicles(By: Jervey Tervalon,Lydia Lunch,Erin Moon,Nathan Larson,Antonia Crane,Jerry Stahl,Eric Bogosian,Ava Stander,John Albert,Michael Albo,Sophia Langdon,Tony O'Neill,L.Z. Hansen) 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Marijuana Chronicles(By: Jonathan Santlofer) 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Nicotine Chronicles 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

121 books (2002–2025)

Start with San Francisco Noir, the first of 121 books in the Akashic Noir series.

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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
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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

146 books (1964–2026)

Start with The Best American Short Stories 1964, the first of 144 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	The Best American Short Stories 1964 1964Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Prize Stories 1970: The O. Henry Awards 1970Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Anti-Story: An Anthology of Experimental Fiction 1971Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Fiction International, No.1, Fall 1973 1973Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Prize Stories 1973: The O. Henry Awards 1973Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Scenes From American Life: Contemporary Short Fiction 1973Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Women and Fiction 1975Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Banquet: Five Short Stories 1978Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	New American Writing 1979Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	The Best American Short Stories 1979 1979Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Dark Forces: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Horror 1980Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Night Walks 1982Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	The Web She Weaves 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Fiction International 15.1: Writing and Politics 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Witches' Brew 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	The Dark Descent 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Demons & Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Horror 1 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	First Annual Collection 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Among Sisters: Short Stories by Women Writers 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Third Annual Collection 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Women Writers at Work 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Colors of a New Day 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Cries of the Spirit 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	Fourth Annual Collection 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	The Architecture of Fear 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	The Best American Short Stories 1991 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	The Picador Book of the New Gothic 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fourth Annual Collection 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	Volume III:A Fabulous, Formless Darkness 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	Fiction International 22 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	Sisters In Crime 5 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	The Oxford Book of American Short Stories 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
36	God: An Anthology of Fiction 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
37	Ploughshares Winter 1993-94 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
38	Deadly Sins 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
39	Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine: November 1994 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
40	First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
41	The Missouri Review: First Kisses First Wheels First Jobs (Volume XVII Number 2) 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
42	Bad Behavior 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
43	Obsession 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
44	Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
45	The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
46	American Gothic Tales 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
47	Murder For Love 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
48	American Fiction 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
49	Black Swan, White Raven 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
50	Crimes of Passion 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
51	Granta 58: Ambition 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
52	Telling Stories 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
53	The Best American Mystery Stories 1997 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
54	Eleventh Annual Collection 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
55	Mirror, Mirror on the Wall 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
56	Murder for Revenge 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
57	Sex, Drugs, Rock'n'Roll: Stories to End the Century 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
58	Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
59	The Best of the Best 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
60	Irreconcilable Differences 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
61	The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
62	The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
63	40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
64	Black Heart, Ivory Bones 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
65	Here to Stay: Five Plays from the Women's Project 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
66	Master's Choice: Mystery Stories by Today's Top Writers and the Masters Who Inspired Them 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
67	Mr. Simonelli or the Fairy Widower 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
68	Ovid Metamorphosed 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
69	The Best American Essays of the Century 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
70	The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
71	The Best American Short Stories of the Century 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
72	The Good Parts 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
73	The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
74	Opening Shots, Vol. II 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
75	Redshift 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
76	Tails of Wonder and Imagination 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
77	The Best American Mystery Stories 2001 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
78	Writers on Writing 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
79	The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
80	The Best American Mystery Stories 2003 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
81	The Dark: New Ghost Stories 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
82	More Stories We Tell 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
83	The Future Dictionary of America 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
84	The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Vol. 15 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
85	The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 5 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
86	Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
87	Dangerous Women 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
88	Transgressions 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
89	Writers on Writers 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
90	Becoming Myself: Reflections on Growing Up Female 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
91	The Best American Mystery Stories 2007 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
92	The New Granta Book of the American Short Story 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
93	TwentiethAnnual Collection 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
94	Twenty-First Annual Collection 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
95	Unforgettable Ghost Stories by Women Writers 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
96	First Words: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
97	Freedom 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
98	Half-Minute Horrors 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
99	The Best American Mystery Stories 2009 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
100	Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
101	Hint Fiction 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
102	Kenyon Review Fall 2010 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
103	L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
104	My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
105	What's Your Exit?: A Literary Detour Through New Jersey 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
106	The Mammoth Book of Angels and Demons 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
107	What You Wish For 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
108	Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales From Great Fiction Writers 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
109	The Interrogator and Other Criminally Good Fiction 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
110	Hauntings 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
111	Ploughshares Spring 1988 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
112	What My Mother Gave Me 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
113	Boulevard 88 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
114	Boulevard No. 87 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
115	Choose Wisely: 35 Women Up To No Good 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
116	Taking Aim: Power and Pain, Teens and Guns 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
117	The Best American Mystery Stories 2015 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
118	The Best Stories from Boulevard, 1985-2015 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
119	The Doll Collection 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
120	Boulevard No. 94 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
121	In Sunlight or In Shadow 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
122	Sleights of Hand: The Deception Issue 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
123	Unloaded 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
124	Alive in Shape and Color 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
125	Boulevard Nos. 95 & 96 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
126	Shadows Over Main Street Volume 2 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
127	Tales of Two Americas 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
128	The Best American Mystery Stories 2017 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
129	Simpsonistas, Vol. 1 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
130	Uncertainties Volume III 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
131	Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
132	Simpsonistas, Vol. 2 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
133	Collectibles 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
134	Drawing Lines 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
135	Five Short Stories by Women 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
136	The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
137	When Things Get Dark 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
138	CVC10 Carter V Cooper Short Fiction Anthology: Book Ten 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
139	Screams from the Dark 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
140	Simpsonistas Vol. 4: Tales from the New Literary Project 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
141	The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2022 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
142	A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
143	Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, September-October 2023 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
144	Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, January-February 2025 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
145	Fears: Tales of Psychological Horror 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
146	Axe: Stories That Cut Deep 2026Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

19 books (1852–2022)

Start with A Sportsman's Notebook(By: Ivan Turgenev), the first of 19 books in the Art of the Story series.

#	Title
1	A Sportsman's Notebook(By: Ivan Turgenev) 1852Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The General Zapped an Angel(By: Howard Fast) 1970Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	In the Garden of the North American Martyrs(By: Tobias Wolff) 1981Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Essential Tales of Chekhov(By: Anton Chekhov) 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Garden Party and Other Stories(By: Katherine Mansfield) 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Continent(By: Jim Crace) 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Wild Nights! 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Tunneling to the Center of the Earth(By: Kevin Wilson) 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Monstress(By: Lysley Tenorio) 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Mr. and Mrs. Baby(By: Mark Strand) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Essential Tales Of Chekhov Deluxe Edition(By: Anton Chekhov) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	The Vanishing Princess(By: Jenny Diski) 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Catastrophe and Other Stories(By: Dino Buzzati) 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls(By: Alissa Nutting) 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	We Are Taking Only What We Need(By: Stephanie Powell Watts) 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry(By: Elizabeth McCracken) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Hue and Cry(By: Edward P. Jones,James McPherson) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	The Hurly Burly and Other Stories(By: Russell Banks,A.E. Coppard) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Loss of Memory Is Only Temporary(By: Francine Prose,Johanna Kaplan) 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

19 books (2009–2026)

Start with The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One, the first of 18 books in the Best Horror of the Year series.

#	Title
1	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Sixteen 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seventeen 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Best Horror of the Year, Volume Eighteen 2026Buy 🇺🇸🎧 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(By: James Grady) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Every Seven Years(By: Denise Mina) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	From the Queen(By: Carolyn Hart) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Mystery, Inc. 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 (2018–2018)

Start with Hannah-Beast(By: Jennifer McMahon), the first of 7 books in the Dark Corners series.

2 books (2010–2011)

Start with L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories and read in order.

#	Title
1	L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Black DahliaWhite Rose 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

97 books (1969–2023)

Start with Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges, the first of 97 books in the Literary Conversations series.

#	Title
1	Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges 1969Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz 1981Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Conversations with Graham Greene 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Conversations with Eudora Welty 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Conversations with Walker Percy 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Conversations with William Styron 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Conversations with Ernest Hemingway 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Conversations with Lillian Hellman 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Conversations with Malcolm Cowley 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Conversations with Tennessee Williams 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Conversations with Arthur Miller 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Conversations with Flannery O'Connor 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Conversations with Peter Taylor 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Truman Capote: Conversations 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Conversations with Edward Albee 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Conversations with Erskine Caldwell 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Conversations with Norman Mailer 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Conversations with James Baldwin 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Conversations with Robert Graves 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Conversations with Robertson Davies 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	Conversations with Shelby Foote 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	Conversations with Eugene O'Neill 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	Conversations with John Gardner 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	Conversations with Raymond Carver 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	Conversations with Richard Wilbur 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	Conversations with Tom Wolfe 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	Conversations with Bernard Malamud 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	Conversations with Reynolds Price 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	Conversations With Thornton Wilder 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
36	Conversations with Nikki Giovanni 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
37	Conversations with Robert Coles 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
38	Conversations with Paul Bowles 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
39	Conversations with Richard Wright 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
40	More Conversations with Walker Percy 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
41	Conversations with Amiri Baraka 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
42	Conversations with Henry Miller 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
43	Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
44	Conversations with Saul Bellow 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
45	Conversations with Toni Morrison 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
46	Conversations With S.J. Perelman 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
47	Conversations with Chester Himes 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
48	Conversations with Ernest Gaines 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
49	Conversations with Ishmael Reed 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
50	Conversations with Ralph Ellison 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
51	Conversations with Susan Sontag 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
52	Conversations with Derek Walcott 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
53	Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
54	Conversations with Pauline Kael 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
55	More Conversations with Eudora Welty 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
56	Conversations with Chinua Achebe 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
57	Conversations with N. Scott Momaday 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
58	Conversations with V. S. Naipaul 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
59	Conversations with Denise Levertov 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
60	Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
61	Conversations With John Fowles 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
62	Conversations With William Faulkner 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
63	Conversations with E. L. Doctorow 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
64	Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
65	Conversations with Salman Rushdie 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
66	Conversations with William S. Burroughs 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
67	Conversations with Chaim Potok 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
68	Conversations with Christopher Isherwood 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
69	Conversations with Richard Ford 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
70	Conversations with Clarence Major 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
71	Conversations with Erica Jong 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
72	Conversations with Jim Harrison 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
73	Conversations with Margaret Walker 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
74	Conversations with Mary Gordon 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
75	Elie Wiesel: Conversations 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
76	Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
77	Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
78	Conversations with Rita Dove 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
79	Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
80	Joseph Brodsky: Conversations 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
81	Conversations With John le Carré 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
82	Conversations with Audre Lorde 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
83	Conversations with Gloria Naylor 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
84	Conversations with Ray Bradbury 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
85	Conversations with Don DeLillo 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
86	Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
87	Conversations with Gore Vidal 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
88	Conversations with Isaac Asimov 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
89	Conversations with Jack Kerouac 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
90	Conversations with Robert Penn Warren 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
91	Conversations with Thomas McGuane 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
92	Conversations with Larry Brown 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
93	Conversations with Leon Forrest 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
94	Conversations with Sonia Sanchez 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
95	Conversations with Wendell Berry 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
96	Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
97	Conversations with Jimmy Carter 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

20 books (1972–2024)

Start with The Edge Of Impossibility, the first of 20 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	The Edge Of Impossibility 1972Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Hostile Sun 1973Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	New Heaven New Earth 1974Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Contraries 1981Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	First Person Singular 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Profane Art 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	On Boxing 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Woman Writer 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Life of the Writer, the Life of the Career 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Muhammad Ali: Ringside(With: Norman Mailer,Alex Haley) 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	George Bellows: American Artist 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	The Faith of a Writer 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Uncensored 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	A Widow's Story 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	In Rough Country 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Gerald Slota: Story 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	The Lost Landscape 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Soul at the White Heat 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Joyce Carol Oates: Letters to a Biographer(With: Greg Johnson) 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

4 books (1998–2019)

Start with Come Meet Muffin!, the first of 4 books in the Picture series.

#	Title
1	Come Meet Muffin! 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Where is Little Reynard?(With: Mark Graham) 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Naughty Chérie!(With: Mark Graham) 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The New Kitten 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1974–1991)

Start with Miracle Play and read in order.

#	Title
1	Miracle Play 1974Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	I Stand Before You Naked 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Key & Tone Clusters: Two Short Plays 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

17 books (1993–2012)

Start with For Better and for Worse, the first of 17 books in the Selected Shorts series.

#	Title
1	For Better and for Worse 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Even More Laughs 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Timeless Classics 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Edith Wharton 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Falling in Love 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Family Matters 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Food Fictions 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Pets! 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Tales of Betrayal 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Travel Tales 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Are We There Yet? 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	A Touch of Magic 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	The William Hurt Collection 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Whodunit? 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	American Classics 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	New American Stories 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Poe! 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

19 books (1976–2022)

Start with The Triumph of the Spider Monkey, the first of 19 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	The Triumph of the Spider Monkey 1976Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	I Lock My Door Upon Myself 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Rise of Life on Earth 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Black Water 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	First Love 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	In Shock 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Beasts 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Rape 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Haunting 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Fossil-Fiigures 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Spotted Hyenas 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Patricide 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	The Rescuer 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Mystery, Inc. 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Big Momma 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Gun Accident 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	The Crawl Space 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	The Sign of the Beast 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	33 Clues Into the Disappearance of My Sister 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

64 books (1963–2026)

Start with By the North Gate, the first of 63 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	By the North Gate 1963Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Goddess and Other Women 1966Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Upon the Sweeping Flood, and Other Stories 1966Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? 1966Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Anonymous Sins and Other Poems 1969Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Cupid & Psyche 1970Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Wheel of Love and Other Stories 1970Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Angel Fire: Poems 1973Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Love and Its Derangements and Other Poems 1974Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	The Hungry Ghosts 1974Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Fabulous Beasts 1975Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	The Poisoned Kiss and Other Stories from the Portuguese 1975Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	The Seduction and Other Stories 1975Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Crossing the Border 1976Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Night-Side 1977Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Marriages and Infidelities 1978Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money 1978Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	All the Good People I've Left Behind 1979Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	A Sentimental Education 1980Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Three Plays 1980Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	The Perfectionist and Other Plays 1981Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Invisible Woman 1982Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Last Days 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Wild Saturday, and Other Stories 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	Raven's Wing 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	The Assignation 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	Time Traveler 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	Heat and Other Stories 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	Oates in Exile 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	Twelve Plays 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	Where is Here? 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	Haunted 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	Demon and Other Tales 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	Tenderness 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	Will You Always Love Me? and Other Stories 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
36	New Plays 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
37	The Collector of Hearts 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
38	Where I've Been, and Where I'm Going 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
39	Faithless 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
40	Small Avalanches and Other Stories 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
41	I Am No One You Know 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
42	The Female of the Species 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
43	High Lonesome 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
44	The Museum of Dr. Moses 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
45	Wild Nights! 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
46	Dear Husband 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
47	Give Me Your Heart 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
48	Sourland 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
49	The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
50	Evil Eye 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
51	High Crime Area 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
52	Lovely, Dark, Deep 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
53	The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
54	Beautiful Days 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
55	Dis Mem Ber and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
56	Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
57	Cardiff, by the Sea 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
58	American Melancholy: Poems 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
59	Night, Neon 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
60	The (Other) You: Stories 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
61	Extenuating Circumstances 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
62	Zero Sum 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
63	Flint Kill Creek 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
64	The Frenzy: Stories 2026Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

62 books (1964–2025)

Start with With Shuddering Fall, the first of 62 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	With Shuddering Fall 1964Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Do With Me What You Will 1973Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Assassins: A Book of Hours 1975Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Childwold 1976Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Cybele 1978Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Son of the Morning 1978Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Unholy Loves 1979Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Angel of Light 1981Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	A Bloodsmoor Romance 1982Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Luxury of Sin 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Mysteries of Winterthurn 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Solstice 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Marya: A Life 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Lives of the Twins / Kindred Passions(As: Rosamond Smith) 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	You Must Remember This 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	American Appetites 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Nemesis(As:Rosamond Smith) 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Soul/Mate(As: Rosamond Smith) 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Snake Eyes(As:Rosamond Smith) 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	What I Lived For 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	You Can't Catch Me(As:Rosamond Smith) 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Zombie 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	We Were the Mulvaneys 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	Double Delight(As:Rosamond Smith) 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	Man Crazy 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	Broke Heart Blues 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	Starr Bright Will Be With You Soon(As:Rosamond Smith) 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	Blonde 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	Middle-Age: A Romance 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	The Barrens(As:Rosamond Smith) 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	Big Mouth and Ugly Girl 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	I'll Take You There 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	Freaky Green Eyes 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
36	The Tattooed Girl 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
37	The Falls 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
38	Missing Mom / Mother, Missing 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
39	Sexy 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
40	After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
41	Black Girl/White Girl 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
42	Little Bird of Heaven 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
43	The Gravedigger's Daughter 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
44	My Sister, My Love 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
45	A Fair Maiden 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
46	Mudwoman 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
47	Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
48	Daddy Love 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
49	Carthage 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
50	Jack of Spades 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
51	The Sacrifice 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
52	The Man Without a Shadow 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
53	A Book of American Martyrs 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
54	Hazards of Time Travel 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
55	My Life as a Rat 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
56	The Pursuit 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
57	Night Sleep Death The Stars 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
58	Breathe 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
59	Babysitter 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
60	48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
61	Butcher 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
62	Fox 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1987–1991)

Start with Volume I: The Color of Evil and read in order.

#	Title
1	Volume I: The Color of Evil 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Volume II: The Medusa In The Shield 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Volume III:A Fabulous, Formless Darkness 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1980–2013)

Start with Bellefleur and read in order.

#	Title
1	Bellefleur 1980Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	My Heart Laid Bare 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Accursed 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

6 books (2005–2006)

Start with Transgressions(With: Stephen King,Lawrence Block,Anne Perry,Jeffery Deaver,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain,Donald E Westlake,Bonnie Jeanne Perry,Walter Mosley,John Farris), the first of 4 books in the Transgressions series.

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1	Transgressions(With: Stephen King,Lawrence Block,Anne Perry,Jeffery Deaver,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain,Donald E Westlake,Bonnie Jeanne Perry,Walter Mosley,John Farris) 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Transgressions(With: Stephen King,Lawrence Block,Anne Perry,Jeffery Deaver,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain,Donald E. Westlake,Bonnie Jeanne Perry,Walter Mosley,John Farris) 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Transgressions, Vol. 2(By: Stephen King,Lawrence Block,Ed McBain,John Farris) 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Transgressions, Vol. 3(By: Anne Perry,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain,Donald E Westlake,John Farris) 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Transgressions, Vol. 3(By: Anne Perry,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain,Donald E. Westlake,John Farris) 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Transgressions, Vol. 4(By: Anne Perry,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain) 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible