Lawrence Block 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 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Bronx Noir 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
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
54	Mumbai Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
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

85 books (1983–2025)

Start with Alfred Hitchcock's A Choice of Evils, the first of 85 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Alfred Hitchcock's A Choice of Evils 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Eyes Have It 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Chapter and Hearse 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Second Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Perfect Murder 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1991 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Dark Crimes 2 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Monsters in Our Midst 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Fine Art of Murder: The Mystery Reader's Indispensable Companion 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	The New Mystery 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1992 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	The King is Dead: Tales of Elvis Postmortem 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1993 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Bad Behavior 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1996 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	First Cases, Volume 1 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Night Screams 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Win, Lose or Die 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Crimes of Passion 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	First Cases, Volume 2 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Law and Order 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Mystery's Most Wanted 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	The Plot Thickens 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Hot Blood X 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	Murder on the Run 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	The Best American Mystery Stories 1998 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	The Best of the Best 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1997 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	Death Cruise: Crime Stories on the Open Seas 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	Master's Choice: Mystery Stories by Today's Top Writers and the Masters Who Inspired Them 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	Opening Shots: Great Mystery and Crime Writers Share Their First Published Stories 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
36	Opening Shots, Vol. II 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
37	Pulp Masters 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
38	Tails of Wonder and Imagination 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
39	The Best American Mystery Stories 2001 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
40	Most Wanted 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
41	Murder Most Merry 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
42	The Mighty Johns 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
43	The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
44	Blood on Their Hands 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
45	High Stakes 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
46	In the Shadow of the Master 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
47	The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 4 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
48	Greatest Hits 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
49	Transgressions 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
50	These Guns for Hire 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
51	Transgressions, Vol. 2 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
52	The Best American Mystery Stories 2007 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
53	A Prisoner of Memory and 24 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
54	Indian Country Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
55	L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
56	Masters of Noir, Volume One 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
57	Masters of Noir, Volume Three 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
58	The Dark End of the Street 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
59	The Shamus Winners 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
60	The Sounds Of Crime 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
61	The Best American Mystery Stories 2011 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
62	Warriors 3 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
63	In Pursuit of Spenser 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
64	Obsession: Tales of Irresistible Desire 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
65	Psychos 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
66	Dangerous Women 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
67	Inherit the Dead 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
68	The Crooked Road, Volume 2 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
69	Weasels Ripped My Flesh!: Two-Fisted Stories From Men's Adventure Magazines of the 1950s, '60s & '70s 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
70	Have a NYC 3: New York Short Stories 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
71	Dark City Lights: New York Stories (Have a NYC) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
72	Gym Rat & Murder Club 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
73	In Sunlight or In Shadow 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
74	Mostly Murder 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
75	Alive in Shape and Color 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
76	Florida Happens 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
77	At Home in the Dark 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
78	The Darkling Halls of Ivy 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
79	The Misadventures of Nero Wolfe 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
80	Collectibles 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
81	Jewish Noir II: Tales of Crime and Other Dark Deeds 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
82	Playing Games 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
83	The Dark Waves of Winter 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
84	The Amber Waves of Autumn 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
85	Murderers' Row: Original Baseball Mysteries: Volume 1 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

18 books (1977–2022)

Start with Burglars Can't Be Choosers, the first of 18 books in the Bernie Rhodenbarr series.

#	Title
1	Burglars Can't Be Choosers 1977Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Burglar in the Closet 1978Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling 1979Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza 1980Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Like a Thief in the Night 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Burglar Takes a Cat 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	The Burglar in the Library 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Burglar in the Rye 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	The Burglar Who Dropped in on Elvis 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	The Burglar on the Prowl 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	A Bad Night for Burglars 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	The Burglar Who Smelled Smoke 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	The Burglar in Short Order 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	The Burglar Who Met Fredric Brown 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

6 books (1970–2016)

Start with No Score, the first of 6 books in the Chip Harrison series.

#	Title
1	No Score 1970Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Chip Harrison Scores Again 1971Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Make Out with Murder 1974Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Topless Tulip Caper 1975Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	As Dark as Christmas Gets 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Death of the Mallory Queen 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

8 books (1966–1998)

Start with The Canceled Czech, the first of 8 books in the Evan Tanner series.

#	Title
1	The Canceled Czech 1966Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep 1966Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Tanner's Twelve Swingers 1967Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Here Comes a Hero / Tanner's Virgin 1968Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Tanner's Tiger 1968Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Scoreless Thai / Two for Tanner 1968Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Me Tanner, You Jane 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Tanner on Ice 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

8 books (1972–2016)

Start with A Madwoman's Diary / Sensuous, the first of 8 books in the JillEmerson series.

#	Title
1	A Madwoman's Diary / Sensuous 1972Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Getting Off 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Enough of Sorrow 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Shadows 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Trouble with Eden 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Thirty 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Threesome 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Warm and Willing 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

17 books (1998–2021)

Start with Hit Man, the first of 17 books in the John Keller series.

#	Title
1	Hit Man 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Hit List 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Hit Parade 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Hit and Run 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Keller in Dallas 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Hit Me 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Keller's Adjustment 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Keller on the Spot 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Keller's Horoscope 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Keller's Therapy 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Keller in Des Moines 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Keller the Dogkiller 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Keller's Designated Hitter 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Keller's Fedora 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Keller's Homecoming 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Quotidian Keller 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Keller on Horseback 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

12 books (2013–2013)

Start with Clean Slate, the first of 12 books in the Kit Tolliver 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(By: Joyce Carol Oates) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (1960–1960)

2 books (2006–2008)

Start with Manhattan Noir and read in order.

#	Title
1	Manhattan Noir 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Manhattan Noir 2: The Classics 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

29 books (1976–2023)

Start with In the Midst of Death, the first of 29 books in the Matthew Scudder series.

#	Title
1	In the Midst of Death 1976Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Sins of the Fathers 1976Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Time to Murder and Create 1976Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	A Candle for the Bag Lady 1977Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	A Stab in the Dark 1981Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Eight Million Ways to Die 1982Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	By the Dawn's Early Light 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	When the Sacred Ginmill Closes 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Out on the Cutting Edge 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	A Ticket to the Boneyard 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Batman’s Helpers 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	A Dance at the Slaughterhouse 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	A Walk Among the Tombstones 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	The Devil Knows You're Dead 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	The Merciful Angel of Death 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	A Long Line of Dead Men 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Even the Wicked 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Looking for David 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Out the Window 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Everybody Dies 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Let's Get Lost 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Hope to Die 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	A Moment of Wrong Thinking 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	All the Flowers are Dying 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	A Drop of the Hard Stuff 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	Mick Ballou Looks at the Blank Screen 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	One Last Night at Grogan’s 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	A Time to Scatter Stones 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	The Autobiography of Matthew Scudder 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (1999–2011)

Start with One Night Stands and Lost Weekends and read in order.

#	Title
1	One Night Stands and Lost Weekends 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Night and the Music 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

7 books (2016–2022)

Start with Murder under the Christmas Tree, the first of 7 books in the Murderous Christmas Stories series.

#	Title
1	Murder under the Christmas Tree 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Murder on Christmas Eve 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	A Very Murderous Christmas 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Murder at Christmas 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Murder in Midwinter 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Murder on a Winter's Night 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Murder in the Falling Snow 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

24 books (1970–2021)

Start with The Wife-Swap Report, the first of 24 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	The Wife-Swap Report 1970Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	3 is Not a Crowd 1971Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Sex and the Stewardess 1972Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Sex Therapists 1972Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Different Strokes 1974Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Total Sexuality 1974Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Writing the Novel from Plot to Print to Pixel 1979Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Telling Lies for Fun & Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers 1981Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Write for Your Life 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Spider, Spin Me A Web: A Handbook for Fiction Writers 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	After Hours: Conversations With Lawrence Block 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Gangsters, Swindlers, Killers, and Thieves: The Lives and Crimes of Fifty American Villains 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Step by Step: A Pedestrian Memoir 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	The Liar's Bible 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	The Liar's Companion 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Beyond Group Sex 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Come Fly With Us 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Doing It! - Going Beyond the Sexual Revolution 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	The Male Hustler 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Wide Open 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	The Crime of Our Lives 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Hunting Buffalo With Bent Nails 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	A Writer Prepares 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Afterthoughts: Version 2.0 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1969–1974)

Start with Such Men are Dangerous and read in order.

#	Title
1	Such Men are Dangerous 1969Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Triumph of Evil 1972Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Not Comin' Home to You 1974Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2011–2011)

3 books (2001–2002)

Start with Speaking of Greed: Stories of Envious Desire and read in order.

#	Title
1	Speaking of Greed: Stories of Envious Desire 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Speaking of Lust: Stories of Forbidden Desire 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Speaking of Wrath 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

17 books (1979–2016)

Start with Collecting Ackermans, the first of 17 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	Collecting Ackermans 1979Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	A Chance to Get Even 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Dolly's Trash & Treasures 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Headaches and Bad Dreams 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	In For a Penny 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Like a Bone in the Throat 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Scenarios 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Sweet Little Hands 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Three in the Side Pocket 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Welcome to the Real World 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Who Knows Where It Goes 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	You Don't Even Feel It 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Nothing Short of Highway Robbery 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	I Know How to Pick 'Em 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	The Ehrengraf Fandango 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Autumn at the Automat 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Resume Speed 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

11 books (1984–2019)

Start with Like a Lamb to Slaughter, the first of 11 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Like a Lamb to Slaughter 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Sometimes They Bite 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Some Days You Get the Bear 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	By the Dawn's Early Light: And Other Stories 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Collected Mystery Stories 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Enough Rope 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Crazy Years 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Catch and Release 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Defender of the Innocent: The Casebook of Martin Ehrengraf 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Resume Speed and Other Stories 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	From Sea to Stormy Sea 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

38 books (1958–2020)

Start with Carla, the first of 38 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Carla 1958Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	69 Barrow Street 1959Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Campus Tramp 1959Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Into the Night(With: Cornell Woolrich) 1959Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	A Girl Called Honey 1960Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	A Strange Kind of Love 1960Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Candy 1960Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Kept 1960Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Adulterers 1960Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	$20 Lust / Cinderella Sims 1961Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	A Diet of Treacle 1961Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Cinderella Sims 1961Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Coward's Kiss / Death Pulls a Doublecross 1961Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Grifter's Game / Mona / Sweet Slow Death 1961Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Killing Castro 1961Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	The Twisted Ones 1961Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Borderline 1962Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Sin Hellcat 1962Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Strange Embrace 1962Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	The Case of the Pornographic Photos / Markham / You Could Call it Murder 1962Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Lucky at Cards 1964Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	The Girl with the Long Green Heart 1965Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Deadly Honeymoon 1967Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	After the First Death 1969Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	The Specialists 1969Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	Ronald Rabbit is a Dirty Old Man 1971Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	A Week as Andrea Benstock 1975Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	Ariel 1979Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	Code of Arms(With: Harold King) 1981Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	Random Walk 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	The Lost Cases of Ed London 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	Small Town 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	Community of Women 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	Passport to Peril(With: Anne Campbell Clark) 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
36	Sinner Man 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
37	April North / High School Sex Club 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
38	Dead Girl Blues 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

16 books (2013–2023)

Start with He-Men, Bag Men & Nymphos(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle,Walter Kaylin), the first of 16 books in the The Men's Adventure Library Journal series.

#	Title
1	He-Men, Bag Men & Nymphos(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle,Walter Kaylin) 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Cryptozoology Anthology(By: David Coleman,Wyatt Doyle) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	A Handful of Hell(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle,Robert F. Dorr) 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Barbarians on Bikes(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle) 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	I Watched Them Eat Me Alive(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle) 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Cuba: Sugar, Sex, and Slaughter(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle) 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Pollen's Women(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle,Samson Pollen) 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Eva: Men's Adventure Supermodel(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Mort Kunstler(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Pollen's Action(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle,Samson Pollen) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	One Man Army(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle,Gil Cohen) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Exotic Adventures of Robert Silverberg(By: Robert Silverberg,Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Maneaters(By: Mort Künstler,Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	George Gross: Covered(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle) 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Atomic Werewolves and Man-Eating Plants(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle) 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	The Naked and the Deadly 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

6 books (2005–2006)

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

#	Title
1	Transgressions(With: Stephen King,Anne Perry,Jeffery Deaver,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain,Donald E Westlake,Bonnie Jeanne Perry,Joyce Carol Oates,Walter Mosley,John Farris) 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Transgressions(With: Stephen King,Anne Perry,Jeffery Deaver,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain,Donald E. Westlake,Bonnie Jeanne Perry,Joyce Carol Oates,Walter Mosley,John Farris) 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Transgressions, Vol. 2(With: Stephen King,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