Reed Farrel Coleman 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 🇺🇸🎧 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

13 books (2006–2018)

Start with Hardboiled Brooklyn, the first of 13 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Hardboiled Brooklyn 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Darker Mask 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Once Upon a Crime: An Anthology of Murder, Mayhem and Suspense 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Indian Country Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	PULP INK 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	In Pursuit of Spenser 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Writes of Spring 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Crimespree Magazine #52 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Kwik Krimes 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Crimespree Magazine #58 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Silent Night, Deadly Night 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Unloaded 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Florida Happens 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

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

3 books (1991–1997)

Start with Life Goes Sleeping and read in order.

#	Title
1	Life Goes Sleeping 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Little Easter 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	They Don't Play Stickball in Milwaukee 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

4 books (2013–2016)

Start with Dirty Work, the first of 4 books in the Gulliver Dowd series.

#	Title
1	Dirty Work 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Valentino Pier 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Boardwalk 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Love and Fear 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (2016–2017)

Start with Where It Hurts and read in order.

#	Title
1	Where It Hurts 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	What You Break 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2012–2012)

24 books (1997–2027)

Start with Night Passage(By: Robert B. Parker), the first of 23 books in the Jesse Stone series.

#	Title
1	Night Passage(By: Robert B. Parker) 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Trouble in Paradise(By: Robert B. Parker) 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Death in Paradise(By: Robert B. Parker) 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Stone Cold(By: Robert B. Parker) 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Sea Change(By: Robert B. Parker) 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	High Profile(By: Robert B. Parker) 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Stranger in Paradise(By: Robert B. Parker) 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Night and Day(By: Robert B. Parker) 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Split Image(By: Robert B. Parker) 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Killing The Blues(By: Michael Brandman) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Fool Me Twice(By: Michael Brandman) 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Damned If You Do(By: Michael Brandman) 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Blind Spot 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	The Devil Wins 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Debt to Pay 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Colorblind 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	The Hangman's Sonnet 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	The Bitterest Pill 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Fool's Paradise(By: Mike Lupica) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Stone's Throw(By: Mike Lupica) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Fallout(By: Mike Lupica) 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Buried Secrets(By: Christopher Farnsworth) 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Big Shot(By: Christopher Farnsworth) 2026Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Lockdown(By: Christopher Farnsworth) 2027Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (2006–2008)

Start with Hose Monkey and read in order.

#	Title
1	Hose Monkey 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Gun Bunnies 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Fourth Victim 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

9 books (2002–2014)

Start with Walking the Perfect Square, the first of 9 books in the Moe Prager series.

#	Title
1	Walking the Perfect Square 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Redemption Street 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The James Deans 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Empty Ever After 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Soul Patch 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Innocent Monster 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Hurt Machine 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Onion Street 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Hollow Girl 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

4 books (2022–2025)

Start with Hotel California(With: Heather Graham,John Gilstrap,Andrew Child,Amanda Flower,Don Bruns,Rick Bleiweiss,Jennifer Dornbush), the first of 4 books in the Music and Murder Mystery series.

2 books (2023–2024)

Start with Sleepless City and read in order.

18 books (2013–2019)

Start with The Terminal, the first of 18 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

2 books (2019–2026)

Start with Short Stack and read in order.

#	Title
1	Short Stack 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Final Score(With: Don Winslow) 2026Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (2009–2011)

Start with Tower(With: Ken Bruen) and read in order.

#	Title
1	Tower(With: Ken Bruen) 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Gun Church 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

6 books (2013–2014)

Start with The Bell Curse(By: Kevin G. Summers), the first of 6 books in the World Of Kurt Vonnegut series.

#	Title
1	The Bell Curse(By: Kevin G. Summers) 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The World of Kurt Vonnegut 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	As Much Protein as an Egg(By: Seth Harwood) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Children's Crusade(By: Peter Cawdron) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Newt and Zinka's Wild, Wild Week OR How the K.G.B. Got Ice-Nine(By: Seth Harwood) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Peace in Amber(By: Hugh Howey) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible