Michael Connelly 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 🇺🇸
2	Bronx Noir 2003Buy 🇺🇸
3	Seattle Noir 2003Buy 🇺🇸
4	Brooklyn Noir 2004Buy 🇺🇸
5	Hasidic Noir 2004Buy 🇺🇸
6	Brooklyn Noir 2 2005Buy 🇺🇸
7	Chicago Noir 2005Buy 🇺🇸
8	Dublin Noir 2005Buy 🇺🇸
9	Baltimore Noir 2006Buy 🇺🇸
10	D.C. Noir 2006Buy 🇺🇸
11	London Noir 2006Buy 🇺🇸
12	Manhattan Noir 2006Buy 🇺🇸
13	Miami Noir 2006Buy 🇺🇸
14	Twin Cities Noir 2006Buy 🇺🇸
15	Detroit Noir 2007Buy 🇺🇸
16	Havana Noir 2007Buy 🇺🇸
17	Los Angeles Noir 2007Buy 🇺🇸
18	New Orleans Noir 2007Buy 🇺🇸
19	Wall Street Noir 2007Buy 🇺🇸
20	Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But the Truth 2008Buy 🇺🇸
21	D.C. Noir 2 2008Buy 🇺🇸
22	Istanbul Noir 2008Buy 🇺🇸
23	Las Vegas Noir 2008Buy 🇺🇸
24	Manhattan Noir 2 2008Buy 🇺🇸
25	Paris Noir 2008Buy 🇺🇸
26	Queens Noir 2008Buy 🇺🇸
27	Toronto Noir 2008Buy 🇺🇸
28	Trinidad Noir 2008Buy 🇺🇸
29	Boston Noir 2009Buy 🇺🇸
30	Delhi Noir 2009Buy 🇺🇸
31	Phoenix Noir 2009Buy 🇺🇸
32	Portland Noir 2009Buy 🇺🇸
33	Rome Noir 2009Buy 🇺🇸
34	San Francisco Noir 2 2009Buy 🇺🇸
35	Copenhagen Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
36	Haiti Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
37	Indian Country Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
38	Lone Star Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
39	Los Angeles Noir 2 2010Buy 🇺🇸
40	Mexico City Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
41	Moscow Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
42	Orange County Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
43	Philadelphia Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
44	Richmond Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
45	Barcelona Noir 2011Buy 🇺🇸
46	Cape Cod Noir 2011Buy 🇺🇸
47	New Jersey Noir 2011Buy 🇺🇸
48	Pittsburgh Noir 2011Buy 🇺🇸
49	San Diego Noir 2011Buy 🇺🇸
50	Boston Noir 2 2012Buy 🇺🇸
51	Kansas City Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸
52	Kingston Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸
53	Long Island Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸
54	Mumbai Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸
55	St. Petersburg Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸
56	Staten Island Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸
57	Venice Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸
58	Buffalo Noir 2013Buy 🇺🇸
59	Dallas Noir 2013Buy 🇺🇸
60	Haiti Noir 2 2013Buy 🇺🇸
61	Manila Noir 2013Buy 🇺🇸
62	USA Noir 2013Buy 🇺🇸
63	Belfast Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸
64	Helsinki Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸
65	Prison Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸
66	Rio Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸
67	Singapore Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸
68	Tehran Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸
69	Tel Aviv Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸
70	Beirut Noir 2015Buy 🇺🇸
71	Chicago Noir: The Classics 2015Buy 🇺🇸
72	Marseille Noir 2015Buy 🇺🇸
73	Memphis Noir 2015Buy 🇺🇸
74	Providence Noir 2015Buy 🇺🇸
75	Zagreb Noir 2015Buy 🇺🇸
76	Brussels Noir 2016Buy 🇺🇸
77	Mississippi Noir 2016Buy 🇺🇸
78	New Orleans Noir: The Classics 2016Buy 🇺🇸
79	Prague Noir 2016Buy 🇺🇸
80	San Juan Noir 2016Buy 🇺🇸
81	St. Louis Noir 2016Buy 🇺🇸
82	Stockholm Noir 2016Buy 🇺🇸
83	Atlanta Noir 2017Buy 🇺🇸
84	Buenos Aires Noir 2017Buy 🇺🇸
85	Montana Noir 2017Buy 🇺🇸
86	Montreal Noir 2017Buy 🇺🇸
87	New Haven Noir 2017Buy 🇺🇸
88	Oakland Noir 2017Buy 🇺🇸
89	Trinidad Noir: The Classics 2017Buy 🇺🇸
90	Baghdad Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
91	Berlin Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
92	Hong Kong Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
93	Lagos Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
94	Marrakech Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
95	Santa Cruz Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
96	Sydney Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
97	São Paulo Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
98	Vancouver Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
99	Amsterdam Noir 2019Buy 🇺🇸
100	Houston Noir 2019Buy 🇺🇸
101	Milwaukee Noir 2019Buy 🇺🇸
102	Accra Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
103	Addis Ababa Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
104	Alabama Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
105	Belgrade Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
106	Berkeley Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
107	Columbus Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
108	Miami Noir: The Classics 2020Buy 🇺🇸
109	Nairobi Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
110	Santa Fe Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
111	Tampa Bay Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
112	Palm Springs Noir 2021Buy 🇺🇸
113	Denver Noir 2022Buy 🇺🇸
114	Paris Noir: The Suburbs 2022Buy 🇺🇸
115	South Central Noir 2022Buy 🇺🇸
116	Cleveland Noir 2023Buy 🇺🇸
117	East Jerusalem Noir 2023Buy 🇺🇸
118	West Jerusalem Noir 2023Buy 🇺🇸
119	Honolulu Noir 2024Buy 🇺🇸
120	Hamburg Noir 2025Buy 🇺🇸
121	Sacramento Noir 2025Buy 🇺🇸

25 books (2002–2025)

Start with Measures of Poison, the first of 25 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Measures of Poison 2002Buy 🇺🇸
2	In the Shadow of the Master 2003Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Best American Mystery Stories 2003 2003Buy 🇺🇸
4	Murder in Vegas: New Crime Tales of Gambling and Desperation 2005Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Secret Society of Demolition Writers 2005Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Penguin Book of Crime Stories 2007Buy 🇺🇸
7	A Prisoner of Memory and 24 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 2008Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Best American Mystery Stories 2008 2008Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Blue Religion 2008Buy 🇺🇸
10	Half-Minute Horrors 2009Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Best American Mystery Stories 2009 2009Buy 🇺🇸
12	Hook, Line & Sinister 2010Buy 🇺🇸
13	Down These Green Streets 2011Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Rich and the Dead 2011Buy 🇺🇸
15	Vengeance 2012Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Best American Mystery Stories 2013 2013Buy 🇺🇸
17	FaceOff 2014Buy 🇺🇸
18	In the Company of Sherlock Holmes 2014Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Best American Mystery Stories 2015 2015Buy 🇺🇸
20	In Sunlight or In Shadow 2016Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Highway Kind 2016Buy 🇺🇸
22	Alive in Shape and Color 2017Buy 🇺🇸
23	When a Stranger Comes to Town 2021Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2022 2022Buy 🇺🇸
25	Murderers' Row: Original Baseball Mysteries: Volume 1 2025Buy 🇺🇸

46 books (1992–2026)

Start with The Black Echo, the first of 46 books in the Bosch Universe series.

#	Title
1	The Black Echo 1992Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Black Ice 1993Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Concrete Blonde 1994Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Last Coyote 1995Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Poet 1996Buy 🇺🇸
6	Trunk Music 1997Buy 🇺🇸
7	Blood Work 1998Buy 🇺🇸
8	Angels Flight 1999Buy 🇺🇸
9	Void Moon 1999Buy 🇺🇸
10	A Darkness More Than Night 2000Buy 🇺🇸
11	City of Bones 2002Buy 🇺🇸
12	Lost Light 2003Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Narrows 2004Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Closers 2005Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Lincoln Lawyer 2005Buy 🇺🇸
16	Echo Park 2006Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Overlook 2007Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Brass Verdict 2008Buy 🇺🇸
19	Nine Dragons 2009Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Scarecrow 2009Buy 🇺🇸
21	Blue on Black 2010Buy 🇺🇸
22	The Reversal 2010Buy 🇺🇸
23	Angle of Investigation 2011Buy 🇺🇸
24	Suicide Run 2011Buy 🇺🇸
25	The Drop 2011Buy 🇺🇸
26	The Fifth Witness 2011Buy 🇺🇸
27	The Black Box 2012Buy 🇺🇸
28	The Gods of Guilt 2013Buy 🇺🇸
29	Switchblade 2014Buy 🇺🇸
30	The Burning Room 2014Buy 🇺🇸
31	The Crossing 2015Buy 🇺🇸
32	The Wrong Side of Goodbye 2016Buy 🇺🇸
33	The Late Show 2017Buy 🇺🇸
34	Two Kinds of Truth 2017Buy 🇺🇸
35	Dark Sacred Night 2018Buy 🇺🇸
36	The Night Fire 2019Buy 🇺🇸
37	Fair Warning 2020Buy 🇺🇸
38	The Law of Innocence 2020Buy 🇺🇸
39	The Dark Hours 2021Buy 🇺🇸
40	Desert Star 2022Buy 🇺🇸
41	Resurrection Walk 2023Buy 🇺🇸
42	The Waiting 2024Buy 🇺🇸
43	Nightshade 2025Buy 🇺🇸
44	The Proving Ground 2025Buy 🇺🇸
45	Ironwood 2026Buy 🇺🇸
46	The Hollow 2026Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2025–2026)

Start with Nightshade and read in order.

28 books (1992–2026)

Start with The Black Echo, the first of 28 books in the Harry Bosch series.

#	Title
1	The Black Echo 1992Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Black Ice 1993Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Concrete Blonde 1994Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Last Coyote 1995Buy 🇺🇸
5	Trunk Music 1997Buy 🇺🇸
6	Angels Flight 1999Buy 🇺🇸
7	A Darkness More Than Night 2000Buy 🇺🇸
8	City of Bones 2002Buy 🇺🇸
9	Lost Light 2003Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Narrows 2004Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Closers 2005Buy 🇺🇸
12	Echo Park 2006Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Overlook 2007Buy 🇺🇸
14	Nine Dragons 2009Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Drop 2011Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Black Box 2012Buy 🇺🇸
17	Switchblade 2014Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Burning Room 2014Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Crossing 2015Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Wrong Side of Goodbye 2016Buy 🇺🇸
21	Two Kinds of Truth 2017Buy 🇺🇸
22	Dark Sacred Night 2018Buy 🇺🇸
23	The Night Fire 2019Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Dark Hours 2021Buy 🇺🇸
25	Desert Star 2022Buy 🇺🇸
26	Resurrection Walk 2023Buy 🇺🇸
27	The Waiting 2024Buy 🇺🇸
28	The Hollow 2026Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2010–2014)

Start with Blue on Black, the first of 4 books in the Harry Bosch Short Stories/Novellas series.

3 books (1996–2020)

Start with The Poet and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Poet 1996Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Scarecrow 2009Buy 🇺🇸
3	Fair Warning 2020Buy 🇺🇸

8 books (2005–2025)

Start with The Lincoln Lawyer, the first of 8 books in the Lincoln Lawyer series.

#	Title
1	The Lincoln Lawyer 2005Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Brass Verdict 2008Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Reversal 2010Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Fifth Witness 2011Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Gods of Guilt 2013Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Law of Innocence 2020Buy 🇺🇸
7	Resurrection Walk 2023Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Proving Ground 2025Buy 🇺🇸

33 books (2022–2025)

Start with Alex Delaware(By: Jonathan Kellerman), the first of 33 books in the Mysterious Profiles series.

1 book (2004–2004)

#	Title
1	Crime Beat 2004Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2017–2024)

Start with The Late Show, the first of 6 books in the Renée Ballard series.

#	Title
1	The Late Show 2017Buy 🇺🇸
2	Dark Sacred Night 2018Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Night Fire 2019Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Dark Hours 2021Buy 🇺🇸
5	Desert Star 2022Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Waiting 2024Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2012–2014)

Start with The Safe Man: A Ghost Story and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Safe Man: A Ghost Story 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	Red Eye(With: Dennis Lehane) 2014Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2012–2012)

2 books (1999–2002)

Start with Void Moon and read in order.

#	Title
1	Void Moon 1999Buy 🇺🇸
2	Chasing the Dime 2002Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1998–2004)

Start with Blood Work and read in order.

#	Title
1	Blood Work 1998Buy 🇺🇸
2	A Darkness More Than Night 2000Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Narrows 2004Buy 🇺🇸