Luis Alberto Urrea Reading Order

121 books (2002–2025)

The Akashic Noir series is an ongoing collection of crime fiction anthologies featuring original stories set in different cities and neighborhoods around the world. With 121 volumes published between 2002 and 2025, the series covers locations ranging from San Francisco and Brooklyn to Dublin, London, and beyond, each book collecting noir tales from that specific place. Readers should follow publication order, beginning with San Francisco Noir, as each volume stands independently while contributing to the broader geographic and thematic scope of the series. These anthologies showcase mystery and thriller writing talent from authors with deep connections to their featured locales.

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

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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

7 books (2003–2024)

Luis Alberto Urrea has contributed to seven anthology collections spanning from 2003 to 2024, with the series remaining active and ongoing. These diverse compilations should be read in publication order, beginning with Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection and progressing through By Hook or By Crook and 27 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year, The Highway Kind, Alone Together, Don't Turn Out the Lights, Growing Up Chicago, and concluding with Fourteen Days: An Unauthorized Gathering. The anthologies draw from Urrea's interests in mystery, thriller, and nonfiction storytelling, featuring curated selections from various contributors across multiple genres.

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

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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

3 books (1993–1998)

Luis Alberto Urrea's Border Trilogy comprises three complete works published between 1993 and 1998 that should be read in publication order. The series begins with Across the Wire, followed by By the Lake of Sleeping Children and concludes with Nobody's Son. These interconnected works explore themes relevant to mystery, thriller, and non-fiction genres as they examine life along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Start with Across the Wire and read in order.

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

7 books (1994–2023)

Luis Alberto Urrea's Collections series spans seven books published from 1994 to 2023, with the sequence likely now complete. Begin with The Fever of Being and follow the books in publication order through Piedra. The series blends mystery, thriller, and non-fiction elements across its entries, which should be read sequentially to experience the full arc of the collection.

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

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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

3 books (1997–2004)

Luis Alberto Urrea's three-book nonfiction series spans from 1997 to 2004 and is now complete. These works should be read in publication order, beginning with A World of Turtles: A Literary Celebration, co-written with Gregory McNamee, followed by Wandering Time and concluding with The Devil's Highway. The series showcases Urrea's exploration of compelling real-world subjects through narrative nonfiction.

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

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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

2 books (2009–2022)

Luis Alberto Urrea's short story and novella collection spans from 2009 to 2022 with two published volumes that should be read in publication order. Begin with Amapola before moving to The King of Bread. The series appears to be complete, offering readers a curated selection of shorter works from this prolific author known for both mystery and thriller narratives alongside nonfiction pieces.

Start with Amapola and read in order.

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

5 books (1994–2023)

Luis Alberto Urrea's five standalone novels span from 1994 to 2023 and should be read in publication order beginning with In Search of Snow. Each book stands independently with its own characters and story, though Urrea's distinctive voice carries through works that blend mystery, thriller, and literary fiction elements. The series appears to be complete as of 2023. These novels showcase Urrea's range across contemporary American settings and complex human narratives.

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

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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

2 books (2005–2011)

Luis Alberto Urrea's two-book series, completed between 2005 and 2011, should be read in publication order beginning with The Hummingbird's Daughter followed by Queen of America. This complete series blends mystery, thriller, and non-fiction elements across its two volumes.

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

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