How many books has Luis Alberto Urrea written?

Luis Alberto Urrea has written 150 books across 8 series. Their published works span from 1993 to 2025.

What is the first book in each Luis Alberto Urrea series?

Here are the first books in Luis Alberto Urrea's series: Akashic Noir: San Francisco Noir; Anthologies: Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection; Border Trilogy: Across the Wire; Collections: The Fever of Being; Non-Fiction: A World of Turtles: A Literary Celebration(With: Gregory McNamee).

What order should I read Luis Alberto Urrea's books?

We recommend reading Luis Alberto Urrea's series in publication order. Each series can be read independently.

Is Luis Alberto Urrea still writing new books?

Yes, Luis Alberto Urrea has 2 ongoing series: Akashic Noir, Anthologies.

Luis Alberto Urrea Reading Order

8 series · 150 books · Born 1955

Mystery & Thriller Non-Fiction

Luis Alberto Urrea is a Mexican-American writer known for blending literary depth with genre storytelling across poetry, novels, and essays. His work frequently explores the complexities of border culture and identity, appearing prominently in anthologies like Akashic Noir while developing substantial series including his Border Trilogy. With a prolific output spanning over three decades, Urrea crafts narratives that resonate with both mystery enthusiasts and readers seeking meaningful explorations of Mexican-American experience and social themes.

Akashic Noir Series

Ongoing

121 books (2002–2025)

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

Start this series with San Francisco Noir

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#	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
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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
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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

Anthologies Series

Ongoing

7 books (2003–2024)

Start with Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection, the first of 6 books in the Anthologies series.

Start this series with Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection

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#	Title
1	Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	By Hook or By Crook and 27 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Highway Kind 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Alone Together 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Don’t Turn Out the Lights 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Growing Up Chicago 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Fourteen Days: An Unauthorized Gathering 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

Border Trilogy Series

Complete

3 books (1993–1998)

Start with Across the Wire and read in order.

Start this series with Across the Wire

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#	Title
1	Across the Wire 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	By the Lake of Sleeping Children 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Nobody's Son 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

Collections Series

Likely Complete

7 books (1994–2023)

Start with The Fever of Being, the first of 7 books in the Collections series.

Start this series with The Fever of Being

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#	Title
1	The Fever of Being 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Ghost Sickness 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Vatos 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Six Kinds of Sky 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Water Museum 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Tijuana Book of the Dead 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Piedra 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

Non-Fiction Series

Complete

3 books (1997–2004)

Start with A World of Turtles: A Literary Celebration(With: Gregory McNamee) and read in order.

Start this series with A World of Turtles: A Literary Celebration(With: Gregory McNamee)

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#	Title
1	A World of Turtles: A Literary Celebration(With: Gregory McNamee) 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Wandering Time 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Devil's Highway 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

Short Stories/Novellas Series

Likely Complete

2 books (2009–2022)

Start with Amapola and read in order.

Start this series with Amapola

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#	Title
1	Amapola 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The King of Bread 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

Standalone Novels Series

Likely Complete

5 books (1994–2023)

Start with In Search of Snow, the first of 5 books in the Standalone Novels series.

Start this series with In Search of Snow

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#	Title
1	In Search of Snow 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Into the Beautiful North 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Mr. Mendoza's Paintbrush 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The House of Broken Angels 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Good Night, Irene 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

The Hummingbird's Daughter Series

Complete

2 books (2005–2011)

Start with The Hummingbird's Daughter and read in order.

Start this series with The Hummingbird's Daughter

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#	Title
1	The Hummingbird's Daughter 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Queen of America 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

Frequently Asked Questions

How many books has Luis Alberto Urrea written?: Luis Alberto Urrea has written 150 books across 8 series. Their published works span from 1993 to 2025.
What is the first book in each Luis Alberto Urrea series?: Here are the first books in Luis Alberto Urrea's series: Akashic Noir: San Francisco Noir; Anthologies: Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection; Border Trilogy: Across the Wire; Collections: The Fever of Being; Non-Fiction: A World of Turtles: A Literary Celebration(With: Gregory McNamee).
What order should I read Luis Alberto Urrea's books?: We recommend reading Luis Alberto Urrea's series in publication order. Each series can be read independently.
Is Luis Alberto Urrea still writing new books?: Yes, Luis Alberto Urrea has 2 ongoing series: Akashic Noir, Anthologies.

Luis Alberto Urrea Reading Order

Akashic Noir Series

Anthologies Series

Border Trilogy Series

Collections Series

Non-Fiction Series

Short Stories/Novellas Series

Standalone Novels Series

The Hummingbird's Daughter Series

Frequently Asked Questions

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