Mickey Spillane Reading Order

10 books (1989–2023)

Start with City Sleuths and Tough Guys, the first of 10 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	City Sleuths and Tough Guys 1989Buy 🇺🇸
2	Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories 1996Buy 🇺🇸
3	Private Eyes 1998Buy 🇺🇸
4	A Century of Great Suspense Stories 2001Buy 🇺🇸
5	A Century of Noir 2002Buy 🇺🇸
6	Crimes by Moonlight 2010Buy 🇺🇸
7	Masters of Noir, Volume One 2010Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Best American Mystery Stories 2011 2011Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Interrogator and Other Criminally Good Fiction 2012Buy 🇺🇸
10	Ink and Daggers 2023Buy 🇺🇸

40 books (2012–2022)

Start with An Acceptable Sacrifice(By: Jeffery Deaver), the first of 40 books in the Bibliomysteries series.

#	Title
1	An Acceptable Sacrifice(By: Jeffery Deaver) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	Death Leaves a Bookmark(By: William Link) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
3	Pronghorns of the Third Reich(By: C.J. Box) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Book Case(By: Nelson DeMille) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Book Thing(By: Laura Lippman) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Book of Virtue(By: Ken Bruen) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
7	Rides a Stranger(By: David Bell) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Book of Ghosts(By: Reed Farrel Coleman) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Final Testament(By: Peter Blauner) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Long Sonata of the Dead(By: Andrew Taylor) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
11	Book Club(By: Loren D. Estleman) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
12	It's in the Book(With: Max Allan Collins) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
13	Remaindered(By: Peter Lovesey) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Compendium of Srem(By: F. Paul Wilson) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Gospel of Sheba(By: Lyndsay Faye) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Nature of My Inheritance(By: Bradford Morrow) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Scroll(By: Anne Perry) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Sequel(By: R.L. Stine) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
19	What's in a Name?(By: Thomas H. Cook) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
20	Condor in the Stacks(By: James Grady) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
21	Every Seven Years(By: Denise Mina) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
22	From the Queen(By: Carolyn Hart) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
23	Mystery, Inc.(By: Joyce Carol Oates) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Book of the Lion(By: Thomas Perry) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
25	The Little Men(By: Megan Abbott) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
26	Citadel(By: Stephen Hunter) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
27	Dead Dames Don't Sing(By: John Harvey) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
28	Reconciliation Day(By: Christopher Fowler) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
29	The Haze(By: James W. Hall) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
30	The Travelling Companion(By: Ian Rankin) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
31	Hoodoo Harry(By: Joe R. Lansdale) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
32	Seven Years(By: Peter Robinson) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
33	The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository(By: John Connolly) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
34	The Hemingway Valise(By: Robert Olen Butler) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
35	The Last Honest Horse Thief(By: Michael Koryta) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
36	The Pretty Little Box(By: Charles Todd) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
37	The Girl Who Did Say No(By: David Handler) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
38	The Dark Door(By: Lisa Unger) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
39	The Honeymoon Trap(By: Peter Swanson) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
40	The Traitor(By: Martin Edwards) 2022Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2015–2021)

Start with The Legend of Caleb York, the first of 6 books in the Caleb York series.

#	Title
1	The Legend of Caleb York 2015Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Big Showdown 2016Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Bloody Spur 2018Buy 🇺🇸
4	Last Stage to Hell Junction 2019Buy 🇺🇸
5	Hot Lead, Cold Justice 2020Buy 🇺🇸
6	Shoot-Out at Sugar Creek 2021Buy 🇺🇸

30 books (1947–2025)

Start with I, the Jury, the first of 30 books in the Mike Hammer series.

#	Title
1	I, the Jury 1947Buy 🇺🇸
2	My Gun Is Quick 1950Buy 🇺🇸
3	Vengeance is Mine 1950Buy 🇺🇸
4	One Lonely Night 1951Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Big Kill 1951Buy 🇺🇸
6	Kiss Me, Deadly 1952Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Girl Hunters 1962Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Snake 1964Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Twisted Thing 1966Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Body Lovers 1967Buy 🇺🇸
11	Survival... Zero 1970Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Killing Man 1989Buy 🇺🇸
13	Black Alley 1996Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Goliath Bone 2008Buy 🇺🇸
15	Kiss Her Goodbye 2009Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Big Bang 2010Buy 🇺🇸
17	Lady, Go Die! 2012Buy 🇺🇸
18	Skin 2012Buy 🇺🇸
19	Complex 90 2013Buy 🇺🇸
20	King of the Weeds 2014Buy 🇺🇸
21	Kill Me, Darling 2015Buy 🇺🇸
22	A Long Time Dead 2016Buy 🇺🇸
23	Murder Never Knocks 2016Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Will to Kill 2017Buy 🇺🇸
25	Killing Town 2018Buy 🇺🇸
26	Murder, My Love 2019Buy 🇺🇸
27	Masquerade for Murder 2020Buy 🇺🇸
28	Kill Me If You Can 2022Buy 🇺🇸
29	Dig Two Graves 2023Buy 🇺🇸
30	Baby, It's Murder 2025Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1989–2017)

Start with The Killing Man and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Killing Man 1989Buy 🇺🇸
2	So Long, Chief(With: Max Allan Collins) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
3	A Dangerous Cat(With: Max Allan Collins) 2017Buy 🇺🇸

8 books (1963–2022)

Start with Me, Hood!, the first of 8 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Me, Hood! 1963Buy 🇺🇸
2	Return of the Hood 1964Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Flier 1964Buy 🇺🇸
4	Killer Mine 1965Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Tough Guys 1969Buy 🇺🇸
6	Vintage Spillane 1974Buy 🇺🇸
7	Tomorrow I Die 1984Buy 🇺🇸
8	Stand Up and Die! 2022Buy 🇺🇸

12 books (1951–2022)

Start with The Long Wait, the first of 12 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	The Long Wait 1951Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Deep 1961Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Delta Factor 1968Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Erection Set 1972Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Last Cop Out 1973Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Day the Sea Rolled Back 1979Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Ship That Never Was 1982Buy 🇺🇸
8	Something's Down There 2003Buy 🇺🇸
9	Dead Street 2007Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Consummata(With: Max Allan Collins) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Last Stand 2018Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Menace 2022Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1964–1966)

Start with Day of the Guns, the first of 4 books in the Tiger Mann series.

#	Title
1	Day of the Guns 1964Buy 🇺🇸
2	Bloody Sunrise 1965Buy 🇺🇸
3	The By-Pass Control 1966Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Death Dealers 1966Buy 🇺🇸