Nelson DeMille Reading Order

7 books (1986–2017)

Start with Tales of Terror, the first of 7 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Tales of Terror 1986Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Plot Thickens 1997Buy 🇺🇸
3	A Poison That Leaves No Trace: With Mystery Jigsaw Puzzle 2002Buy 🇺🇸
4	In the Shadow of the Master 2003Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Best American Mystery Stories 2004 2004Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Rich and the Dead 2011Buy 🇺🇸
7	MatchUp 2017Buy 🇺🇸

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 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(By: Max Allan Collins,Mickey Spillane) 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 🇺🇸

11 books (1974–1976)

Start with The Hammer of God, the first of 11 books in the Joe Ryker series.

#	Title
1	The Hammer of God 1974Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Sniper 1974Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Terrorists 1974Buy 🇺🇸
4	Cannibal 1975Buy 🇺🇸
5	Child Killer(By: Edson T. Hamill) 1975Buy 🇺🇸
6	Motive For Murder(By: Edson T. Hamill) 1975Buy 🇺🇸
7	Ryker the Sadist(By: Edson T. Hamill) 1975Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Agent of Death / The Death Squad 1975Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Night of the Phoenix 1975Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Smack Man 1975Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Slasher(By: Edson T. Hamill) 1976Buy 🇺🇸

9 books (1997–2022)

Start with Plum Island, the first of 9 books in the John Corey series.

#	Title
1	Plum Island 1997Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Lion's Game 2000Buy 🇺🇸
3	Night Fall 2004Buy 🇺🇸
4	Wild Fire 2006Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Lion 2010Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Book Case 2012Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Panther 2012Buy 🇺🇸
8	Radiant Angel / A Quiet End 2015Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Maze 2022Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1990–2008)

Start with The Gold Coast and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Gold Coast 1990Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Gate House 2008Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1992–2012)

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

#	Title
1	The General's Daughter 1992Buy 🇺🇸
2	Up Country 2002Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Panther 2012Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2019–2025)

Start with The Deserter and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Deserter 2019Buy 🇺🇸
2	Blood Lines 2023Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Tin Men 2025Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2012–2012)

Start with Death Benefits and read in order.

9 books (1975–2017)

Start with The Quest, the first of 9 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	The Quest 1975Buy 🇺🇸
2	By the Rivers of Babylon 1978Buy 🇺🇸
3	Mayday(With: Thomas Block) 1979Buy 🇺🇸
4	Cathedral 1981Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Talbot Odyssey 1984Buy 🇺🇸
6	Word of Honor 1985Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Charm School 1988Buy 🇺🇸
8	Spencerville 1994Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Cuban Affair 2017Buy 🇺🇸

11 books (2017–2019)

Start with Deserves to Be Dead(By: John Sandford,Lisa Jackson), the first of 11 books in the The MatchUp Collection series.