Stuart M. Kaminsky Reading Order

10 books (1991–2007)

Start with Lieberman's Folly, the first of 10 books in the Abe Lieberman series.

#	Title
1	Lieberman's Folly 1991Buy 🇺🇸
2	Lieberman's Choice 1993Buy 🇺🇸
3	Lieberman's Day 1994Buy 🇺🇸
4	Lieberman's Thief 1995Buy 🇺🇸
5	Lieberman's Law 1996Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Big Silence 2000Buy 🇺🇸
7	Not Quite Kosher 2002Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Last Dark Place 2004Buy 🇺🇸
9	Terror Town 2006Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Dead Don't Lie 2007Buy 🇺🇸

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 🇺🇸
2	Bronx Noir 2003Buy 🇺🇸
3	Seattle Noir 2003Buy 🇺🇸
4	Brooklyn Noir 2004Buy 🇺🇸
5	Hasidic Noir 2004Buy 🇺🇸
6	Brooklyn Noir 2 2005Buy 🇺🇸
7	Chicago Noir 2005Buy 🇺🇸
8	Dublin Noir 2005Buy 🇺🇸
9	Baltimore Noir 2006Buy 🇺🇸
10	D.C. Noir 2006Buy 🇺🇸
11	London Noir 2006Buy 🇺🇸
12	Manhattan Noir 2006Buy 🇺🇸
13	Miami Noir 2006Buy 🇺🇸
14	Twin Cities Noir 2006Buy 🇺🇸
15	Detroit Noir 2007Buy 🇺🇸
16	Havana Noir 2007Buy 🇺🇸
17	Los Angeles Noir 2007Buy 🇺🇸
18	New Orleans Noir 2007Buy 🇺🇸
19	Wall Street Noir 2007Buy 🇺🇸
20	Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But the Truth 2008Buy 🇺🇸
21	D.C. Noir 2 2008Buy 🇺🇸
22	Istanbul Noir 2008Buy 🇺🇸
23	Las Vegas Noir 2008Buy 🇺🇸
24	Manhattan Noir 2 2008Buy 🇺🇸
25	Paris Noir 2008Buy 🇺🇸
26	Queens Noir 2008Buy 🇺🇸
27	Toronto Noir 2008Buy 🇺🇸
28	Trinidad Noir 2008Buy 🇺🇸
29	Boston Noir 2009Buy 🇺🇸
30	Delhi Noir 2009Buy 🇺🇸
31	Phoenix Noir 2009Buy 🇺🇸
32	Portland Noir 2009Buy 🇺🇸
33	Rome Noir 2009Buy 🇺🇸
34	San Francisco Noir 2 2009Buy 🇺🇸
35	Copenhagen Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
36	Haiti Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
37	Indian Country Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
38	Lone Star Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
39	Los Angeles Noir 2 2010Buy 🇺🇸
40	Mexico City Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
41	Moscow Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
42	Orange County Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
43	Philadelphia Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
44	Richmond Noir 2010Buy 🇺🇸
45	Barcelona Noir 2011Buy 🇺🇸
46	Cape Cod Noir 2011Buy 🇺🇸
47	New Jersey Noir 2011Buy 🇺🇸
48	Pittsburgh Noir 2011Buy 🇺🇸
49	San Diego Noir 2011Buy 🇺🇸
50	Boston Noir 2 2012Buy 🇺🇸
51	Kansas City Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸
52	Kingston Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸
53	Long Island Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸
54	Mumbai Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸
55	St. Petersburg Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸
56	Staten Island Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸
57	Venice Noir 2012Buy 🇺🇸
58	Buffalo Noir 2013Buy 🇺🇸
59	Dallas Noir 2013Buy 🇺🇸
60	Haiti Noir 2 2013Buy 🇺🇸
61	Manila Noir 2013Buy 🇺🇸
62	USA Noir 2013Buy 🇺🇸
63	Belfast Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸
64	Helsinki Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸
65	Prison Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸
66	Rio Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸
67	Singapore Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸
68	Tehran Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸
69	Tel Aviv Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸
70	Beirut Noir 2015Buy 🇺🇸
71	Chicago Noir: The Classics 2015Buy 🇺🇸
72	Marseille Noir 2015Buy 🇺🇸
73	Memphis Noir 2015Buy 🇺🇸
74	Providence Noir 2015Buy 🇺🇸
75	Zagreb Noir 2015Buy 🇺🇸
76	Brussels Noir 2016Buy 🇺🇸
77	Mississippi Noir 2016Buy 🇺🇸
78	New Orleans Noir: The Classics 2016Buy 🇺🇸
79	Prague Noir 2016Buy 🇺🇸
80	San Juan Noir 2016Buy 🇺🇸
81	St. Louis Noir 2016Buy 🇺🇸
82	Stockholm Noir 2016Buy 🇺🇸
83	Atlanta Noir 2017Buy 🇺🇸
84	Buenos Aires Noir 2017Buy 🇺🇸
85	Montana Noir 2017Buy 🇺🇸
86	Montreal Noir 2017Buy 🇺🇸
87	New Haven Noir 2017Buy 🇺🇸
88	Oakland Noir 2017Buy 🇺🇸
89	Trinidad Noir: The Classics 2017Buy 🇺🇸
90	Baghdad Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
91	Berlin Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
92	Hong Kong Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
93	Lagos Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
94	Marrakech Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
95	Santa Cruz Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
96	Sydney Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
97	São Paulo Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
98	Vancouver Noir 2018Buy 🇺🇸
99	Amsterdam Noir 2019Buy 🇺🇸
100	Houston Noir 2019Buy 🇺🇸
101	Milwaukee Noir 2019Buy 🇺🇸
102	Accra Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
103	Addis Ababa Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
104	Alabama Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
105	Belgrade Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
106	Berkeley Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
107	Columbus Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
108	Miami Noir: The Classics 2020Buy 🇺🇸
109	Nairobi Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
110	Santa Fe Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
111	Tampa Bay Noir 2020Buy 🇺🇸
112	Palm Springs Noir 2021Buy 🇺🇸
113	Denver Noir 2022Buy 🇺🇸
114	Paris Noir: The Suburbs 2022Buy 🇺🇸
115	South Central Noir 2022Buy 🇺🇸
116	Cleveland Noir 2023Buy 🇺🇸
117	East Jerusalem Noir 2023Buy 🇺🇸
118	West Jerusalem Noir 2023Buy 🇺🇸
119	Honolulu Noir 2024Buy 🇺🇸
120	Hamburg Noir 2025Buy 🇺🇸
121	Sacramento Noir 2025Buy 🇺🇸

13 books (1993–2016)

Start with The Ultimate Witch, the first of 13 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	The Ultimate Witch 1993Buy 🇺🇸
2	Guilty as Charged 1996Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1997 1998Buy 🇺🇸
4	Mystery in the Sunshine State 1999Buy 🇺🇸
5	The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1999Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Oxford Book of Detective Stories 2000Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology: Celebrating 25 Years 2001Buy 🇺🇸
8	Mr. President, Private Eye 2004Buy 🇺🇸
9	Show Business is Murder 2004Buy 🇺🇸
10	Kolchak: The Night Stalker Chronicles 2005Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Adventure of the Missing Detective and 19 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 2005Buy 🇺🇸
12	On a Raven's Wing 2009Buy 🇺🇸
13	Silent Night, Deadly Night 2016Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2005–2008)

Start with Dead of Winter, the first of 4 books in the CSI: New York series.

#	Title
1	Dead of Winter 2005Buy 🇺🇸
2	Blood on the Sun 2006Buy 🇺🇸
3	Deluge 2007Buy 🇺🇸
4	Four Walls(By: Keith R.A. DeCandido) 2008Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2004–2004)

#	Title
1	Kolchak the Night Stalker Volume 1 2004Buy 🇺🇸

22 books (1973–2016)

Start with The Night Stalker(By: Jeff Rice), the first of 22 books in the Kolchak: The Night Stalker series.

#	Title
1	The Night Stalker(By: Jeff Rice) 1973Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Night Strangler(By: Jeff Rice) 1974Buy 🇺🇸
3	Devil in the Details(By: Stefan Petrucha) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
4	Fever Pitch 2003Buy 🇺🇸
5	Get of Belial(By: Joe Gentile) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
6	Lambs to the Slaughter(By: Joe Gentile) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
7	Kolchak the Night Stalker Volume 1 2004Buy 🇺🇸
8	Pain Without Tears(By: C.J. Henderson) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
9	Kolchak: The Night Stalker Chronicles(With: Max Allan Collins,Robert Weinberg) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
10	Bare Bones(By: Joe Gentile) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
11	Terror Within(By: C.J. Henderson,Stefan Petrucha) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
12	A Black & Evil Truth(By: C.J. Henderson) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Kolchak Papers(By: Jeff Rice) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Lovecraftian Horror(By: C.J. Henderson) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
15	Sound of Fear(By: Joe Gentile) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Rise & Fall of Carl Kolchak(By: Dave Ulanski) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
17	Cry Of Thunder(By: Joe Gentile) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
18	Compendium(With: Max Allan Collins,Christopher Golden) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
19	Kolchak and the Lost World(By: C.J. Henderson) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
20	Necronomicon(By: C.J. Henderson) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Lost World(By: C.J. Henderson) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
22	Passages of the Macabre(By: Ed Gorman,Nancy Holder,C.J. Henderson) 2016Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (1999–2009)

Start with Retribution, the first of 6 books in the Lew Fonesca series.

#	Title
1	Retribution 1999Buy 🇺🇸
2	Vengeance 1999Buy 🇺🇸
3	Midnight Pass 2003Buy 🇺🇸
4	Denial 2005Buy 🇺🇸
5	Always Say Goodbye 2006Buy 🇺🇸
6	Bright Futures 2009Buy 🇺🇸

10 books (1974–2005)

Start with American Film Genres: Approaches to a Critical Theory of Popular Film, the first of 10 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	American Film Genres: Approaches to a Critical Theory of Popular Film 1974Buy 🇺🇸
2	Clint Eastwood: The Candid On-and-off-screen of the World's #1 Male Superstar 1974Buy 🇺🇸
3	Don Siegel : Director 1974Buy 🇺🇸
4	Ingmar Bergman; Essays in Criticism 1975Buy 🇺🇸
5	John Huston, Maker of Magic 1978Buy 🇺🇸
6	Coop: The Life and Legend of Gary Cooper 1979Buy 🇺🇸
7	Basic Filmmaking 1981Buy 🇺🇸
8	American Television Genres 1985Buy 🇺🇸
9	Writing for television 1988Buy 🇺🇸
10	Behind the Mystery 2005Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2008–2008)

Start with Books and read in order.

#	Title
1	Books 2008Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Final Toast 2008Buy 🇺🇸

16 books (1981–2009)

Start with Death of a Dissident / Rostnikov's Corpse, the first of 16 books in the Porfiry Rostnikov series.

#	Title
1	Death of a Dissident / Rostnikov's Corpse 1981Buy 🇺🇸
2	Black Knight in Red Square 1984Buy 🇺🇸
3	Red Chameleon 1985Buy 🇺🇸
4	A Cold Red Sunrise 1987Buy 🇺🇸
5	A Fine Red Rain 1987Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Man Who Walked Like a Bear 1990Buy 🇺🇸
7	Rostnikov's Vacation 1991Buy 🇺🇸
8	Death of a Russian Priest 1992Buy 🇺🇸
9	Hard Currency 1995Buy 🇺🇸
10	Blood and Rubles 1996Buy 🇺🇸
11	Tarnished Icons 1997Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Dog Who Bit a Policeman 1998Buy 🇺🇸
13	Fall of a Cosmonaut 2000Buy 🇺🇸
14	Murder on the Trans-Siberian Express 2001Buy 🇺🇸
15	People Who Walk in Darkness 2008Buy 🇺🇸
16	A Whisper to the Living 2009Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (1997–1997)

2 books (1991–1999)

Start with Opening Shots and read in order.

#	Title
1	Opening Shots 1991Buy 🇺🇸
2	Hidden and Other Stories 1999Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1983–2001)

Start with When the Dark Man Calls and read in order.

#	Title
1	When the Dark Man Calls 1983Buy 🇺🇸
2	Exercise in Terror 2001Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1996–1998)

Start with The Green Bottle and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Green Bottle 1996Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Devil on my Doorstep 1998Buy 🇺🇸

24 books (1977–2004)

Start with Bullet for a Star, the first of 24 books in the Toby Peters series.

#	Title
1	Bullet for a Star 1977Buy 🇺🇸
2	Murder on the Yellow Brick Road 1977Buy 🇺🇸
3	You Bet Your Life 1978Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Howard Hughes Affair 1979Buy 🇺🇸
5	Never Cross a Vampire 1980Buy 🇺🇸
6	High Midnight 1981Buy 🇺🇸
7	Catch a Falling Clown 1982Buy 🇺🇸
8	He Done Her Wrong 1983Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Fala Factor 1984Buy 🇺🇸
10	Down for the Count 1985Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Man Who Shot Lewis Vance 1986Buy 🇺🇸
12	Smart Moves 1987Buy 🇺🇸
13	Think Fast, Mr. Peters 1988Buy 🇺🇸
14	Buried Caesars 1989Buy 🇺🇸
15	Poor Butterfly 1990Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Melting Clock 1991Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Devil Met a Lady 1993Buy 🇺🇸
18	Tomorrow is Another Day 1995Buy 🇺🇸
19	Dancing in the Dark 1996Buy 🇺🇸
20	A Fatal Glass of Beer 1997Buy 🇺🇸
21	A Few Minutes Past Midnight 2001Buy 🇺🇸
22	To Catch A Spy 2002Buy 🇺🇸
23	Mildred Pierced 2003Buy 🇺🇸
24	Now You See It 2004Buy 🇺🇸