Lincoln Child Reading Order

5 books (1987–2014)

Start with Tales of the Dark, the first of 5 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Tales of the Dark 1987Buy 🇺🇸
2	Tales of the Dark 2 1987Buy 🇺🇸
3	Gone Fishing and Other Stories 2012Buy 🇺🇸
4	FaceOff 2014Buy 🇺🇸
5	Gaslighted: Slappy the Ventriloquist Dummy vs. Aloysius Pendergast 2014Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2007–2022)

Start with Deep Storm, the first of 6 books in the Dr. Jeremy Logan series.

#	Title
1	Deep Storm 2007Buy 🇺🇸
2	Terminal Freeze 2008Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Third Gate 2012Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Forgotten Room 2015Buy 🇺🇸
5	Full Wolf Moon 2017Buy 🇺🇸
6	Chrysalis 2022Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (2011–2018)

Start with Gideon's Sword, the first of 5 books in the Gideon Crew series.

#	Title
1	Gideon's Sword 2011Buy 🇺🇸
2	Gideon's Corpse 2012Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Lost Island 2014Buy 🇺🇸
4	Beyond the Ice Limit 2016Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Pharaoh Key 2018Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (1999–2025)

Start with Thunderhead, the first of 6 books in the Nora Kelly series.

#	Title
1	Thunderhead 1999Buy 🇺🇸
2	Old Bones 2019Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Scorpion's Tail 2021Buy 🇺🇸
4	Diablo Mesa 2022Buy 🇺🇸
5	Dead Mountain 2023Buy 🇺🇸
6	Badlands 2025Buy 🇺🇸

26 books (1995–2026)

Start with Relic, the first of 26 books in the Pendergast series.

#	Title
1	Relic 1995Buy 🇺🇸
2	Reliquary 1997Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Cabinet of Curiosities 2001Buy 🇺🇸
4	Still Life with Crows 2003Buy 🇺🇸
5	Brimstone 2004Buy 🇺🇸
6	Dance of Death 2005Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Book of the Dead 2006Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Wheel of Darkness 2007Buy 🇺🇸
9	Cemetery Dance 2009Buy 🇺🇸
10	Fever Dream 2010Buy 🇺🇸
11	Cold Vengeance 2011Buy 🇺🇸
12	Extraction 2012Buy 🇺🇸
13	Two Graves 2012Buy 🇺🇸
14	White Fire 2013Buy 🇺🇸
15	Blue Labyrinth 2014Buy 🇺🇸
16	Crimson Shore 2015Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Obsidian Chamber 2016Buy 🇺🇸
18	City of Endless Night 2018Buy 🇺🇸
19	Verses for the Dead 2018Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Strange Case of Monsieur Bertin 2019Buy 🇺🇸
21	Crooked River 2020Buy 🇺🇸
22	Bloodless 2021Buy 🇺🇸
23	The Cabinet of Dr. Leng 2023Buy 🇺🇸
24	Angel of Vengeance 2024Buy 🇺🇸
25	Pendergast 2026Buy 🇺🇸
26	The Beginning 2026Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2017–2017)

2 books (1984–1985)

Start with Dark Company and read in order.

#	Title
1	Dark Company 1984Buy 🇺🇸
2	Dark Banquet 1985Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1996–2002)

Start with Mount Dragon(With: Douglas Preston), the first of 5 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Mount Dragon(With: Douglas Preston) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
2	Riptide(With: Douglas Preston) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
3	Death Match 2000Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Ice Limit(With: Douglas Preston) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
5	Utopia / Lethal Velocity 2002Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1987–1988)

Start with Tales of the Dark(With: Bram Stoker,Charlotte Perkins Gilman) and read in order.

#	Title
1	Tales of the Dark(With: Bram Stoker,Charlotte Perkins Gilman) 1987Buy 🇺🇸
2	Tales of the Dark 3 1988Buy 🇺🇸