Sophie Hannah Reading Order

7 books (2004–2025)

Start with Hyphen: Anthology of Short Stories by Poets, the first of 7 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Hyphen: Anthology of Short Stories by Poets 2004Buy 🇺🇸
2	Bonne Route 2008Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 7 2010Buy 🇺🇸
4	Deadlier 2017Buy 🇺🇸
5	Ten Year Stretch 2018Buy 🇺🇸
6	Everyday Kindness 2021Buy 🇺🇸
7	Birds, Strangers and Psychos 2025Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2000–2012)

Start with Love Me Slender: Poems About Love and read in order.

#	Title
1	Love Me Slender: Poems About Love 2000Buy 🇺🇸
2	Selected Poems 2006Buy 🇺🇸
3	Something Untoward 2012Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2014–2025)

Start with The Monogram Murders, the first of 6 books in the New Hercule Poirot Mysteries series.

#	Title
1	The Monogram Murders 2014Buy 🇺🇸
2	Closed Casket 2016Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Mystery of Three Quarters 2018Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Killings at Kingfisher Hill 2020Buy 🇺🇸
5	Hercule Poirot's Silent Night 2023Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Last Death of the Year 2025Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2019–2020)

Start with How to Hold a Grudge and read in order.

#	Title
1	How to Hold a Grudge 2019Buy 🇺🇸
2	Happiness, a Mystery: And 66 Attempts to Solve It 2020Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1992–2002)

Start with Carrot the Goldfish and read in order.

#	Title
1	Carrot the Goldfish 1992Buy 🇺🇸
2	Early Bird Blues 1997Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Box Room 2002Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2015–2018)

Start with Pictures or It Didn't Happen and read in order.

#	Title
1	Pictures or It Didn't Happen 2015Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Warning 2015Buy 🇺🇸
3	Only Joseph 2018Buy 🇺🇸

12 books (1994–2016)

Start with Second Helping of Your Heart, the first of 12 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Second Helping of Your Heart 1994Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Hero and the Girl Next Door 1995Buy 🇺🇸
3	Hotels like Houses 1997Buy 🇺🇸
4	Leaving and Leaving You 1999Buy 🇺🇸
5	First of the Last Chances 2003Buy 🇺🇸
6	Leeds Stories 2 2005Buy 🇺🇸
7	Pessimism for Beginners 2007Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets 2008Buy 🇺🇸
9	Ideas Above Our Station 2010Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Poetry of Sex 2014Buy 🇺🇸
11	Marrying the Ugly Millionaire 2015Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Visitors Book 2016Buy 🇺🇸

9 books (1999–2025)

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

#	Title
1	Gripless 1999Buy 🇺🇸
2	Cordial and Corrosive 2000Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Superpower of Love 2002Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Orphan Choir 2014Buy 🇺🇸
5	A Game for All the Family 2015Buy 🇺🇸
6	Keep Her Safe / Did You See Melody? 2017Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Understudy(With: Clare Mackintosh,B.A. Paris,Holly Brown) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
8	Perfect Little Children / Haven't They Grown 2020Buy 🇺🇸
9	No One Would Do What The Lamberts Have Done 2025Buy 🇺🇸

14 books (2006–2026)

Start with Little Face, the first of 14 books in the Zailer & Waterhouse Mysteries series.

#	Title
1	Little Face 2006Buy 🇺🇸
2	Hurting Distance / The Truth-Teller\'s Lie 2007Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Wrong Mother / The Point of Rescue 2008Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Other Half Lives / The Dead Lie Down 2009Buy 🇺🇸
5	A Room Swept White / The Cradle in the Grave 2010Buy 🇺🇸
6	Lasting Damage / The Other Woman\'s House 2011Buy 🇺🇸
7	Kind of Cruel 2012Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Carrier 2013Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Telling Error / Woman with a Secret 2014Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Tennis Church 2015Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Dwelling 2016Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Narrow Bed / The Next to Die 2016Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Couple at the Table 2022Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Opposite of Murder 2026Buy 🇺🇸