Reginald Hill Reading Order

5 books (1978–2005)

Start with Crime Writers, the first of 5 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Crime Writers 1978Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Man Who... 1992Buy 🇺🇸
3	2nd Culprit 1993Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Detection Collection 2005Buy 🇺🇸
5	Thou Shalt Not Kill 2005Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1978–1979)

Start with Captain Fantom and read in order.

#	Title
1	Captain Fantom 1978Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Forging of Fantom 1979Buy 🇺🇸

24 books (1970–2009)

Start with A Clubbable Woman, the first of 24 books in the Dalziel & Pascoe series.

#	Title
1	A Clubbable Woman 1970Buy 🇺🇸
2	An Advancement of Learning 1971Buy 🇺🇸
3	Ruling Passion 1973Buy 🇺🇸
4	An April Shroud 1975Buy 🇺🇸
5	A Pinch of Snuff 1978Buy 🇺🇸
6	A Killing Kindness 1980Buy 🇺🇸
7	Deadheads 1983Buy 🇺🇸
8	Exit Lines 1984Buy 🇺🇸
9	Child's Play 1986Buy 🇺🇸
10	Under World 1988Buy 🇺🇸
11	Bones and Silence 1990Buy 🇺🇸
12	One Small Step 1990Buy 🇺🇸
13	Recalled to Life 1992Buy 🇺🇸
14	Pictures of Perfection 1994Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Wood Beyond 1995Buy 🇺🇸
16	On Beulah Height 1998Buy 🇺🇸
17	Arms and the Women 1999Buy 🇺🇸
18	Dialogues of the Dead 2001Buy 🇺🇸
19	Death's Jest-Book 2002Buy 🇺🇸
20	Good Morning, Midnight 2004Buy 🇺🇸
21	Death Comes for the Fat Man / The Death of Dalziel 2007Buy 🇺🇸
22	The Last National Service Man 2007Buy 🇺🇸
23	A Cure for All Diseases / The Price of Butcher's Meat 2008Buy 🇺🇸
24	Midnight Fugue 2009Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1979–2022)

Start with Pascoe's Ghost and read in order.

#	Title
1	Pascoe's Ghost 1979Buy 🇺🇸
2	Asking for the Moon 1996Buy 🇺🇸
3	Dalziel and Pascoe Hunt the Christmas Killer 2022Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1993–2008)

Start with Blood Sympathy, the first of 5 books in the Joe Sixsmith series.

#	Title
1	Blood Sympathy 1993Buy 🇺🇸
2	Born Guilty 1995Buy 🇺🇸
3	Killing the Lawyers 1997Buy 🇺🇸
4	Singing the Sadness 1999Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Roar of the Butterflies 2008Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1990–2000)

Start with Proxime Accessit and read in order.

3 books (1987–2023)

Start with There Are No Ghosts in the Soviet Union and read in order.

#	Title
1	There Are No Ghosts in the Soviet Union 1987Buy 🇺🇸
2	Brother's Keeper 1992Buy 🇺🇸
3	A Candle for Christmas & Other Stories 2023Buy 🇺🇸

21 books (1971–2010)

Start with The Castle of the Demon / The Turning of the Tide(As: Patrick Ruell), the first of 21 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	The Castle of the Demon / The Turning of the Tide(As: Patrick Ruell) 1971Buy 🇺🇸
2	A Fairly Dangerous Thing 1972Buy 🇺🇸
3	Red Christmas(As: Patrick Ruell) 1972Buy 🇺🇸
4	Matlock's System / Heart Clock(As: Dick Morland) 1973Buy 🇺🇸
5	A Very Good Hater 1974Buy 🇺🇸
6	Albion! Albion! / Singleton's Law(As: Dick Morland) 1974Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Low Road / Death Takes the Low Road(As: Patrick Ruell) 1974Buy 🇺🇸
8	Urn Burial / Beyond the Bone(As: Patrick Ruell) 1975Buy 🇺🇸
9	Another Death in Venice 1976Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Spy's Wife 1980Buy 🇺🇸
11	Who Guards a Prince? / Guardians of the Prince 1982Buy 🇺🇸
12	Traitor's Blood 1983Buy 🇺🇸
13	No Man's Land 1985Buy 🇺🇸
14	Fell of Dark 1986Buy 🇺🇸
15	Death of a Dormouse(As: Patrick Ruell) 1987Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Collaborators 1987Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Long Kill(As: Patrick Ruell) 1988Buy 🇺🇸
18	Dream of Darkness(As: Patrick Ruell) 1989Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Only Game(As: Patrick Ruell) 1993Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Stranger House 2005Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Woodcutter 2010Buy 🇺🇸