Walter Mosley 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

17 books (1993–2023)

Start with The New Mystery, the first of 17 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	The New Mystery 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Plot Thickens 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Best American Mystery Stories 1998 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Writers on Writing 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Writing Los Angeles 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Best American Mystery Stories 2003 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Best American Short Stories 2003 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Reading the Bones 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Dangerous Women 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Transgressions 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	The Darker Mask 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Freedom 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	The Civil Rights Reader 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Black Pulp 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Crime Hits Home 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	New Suns 2 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

4 books (2012–2013)

Start with Disciple, the first of 4 books in the Crosstown to Oblivion series.

#	Title
1	Disciple 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Merge 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Gift of Fire and On the Head of a Pin 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Stepping Stone and Love Machine 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

17 books (1990–2025)

Start with Devil in a Blue Dress, the first of 17 books in the Easy Rawlins series.

#	Title
1	Devil in a Blue Dress 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	A Red Death 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	White Butterfly 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Black Betty 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	A Little Yellow Dog 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Gone Fishin' 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Bad Boy Brawly Brown 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Six Easy Pieces 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Little Scarlet 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Cinnamon Kiss 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Blonde Faith 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Little Green 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Rose Gold 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Charcoal Joe 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Blood Grove 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Farewell, Amethystine 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Gray Dawn 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (2001–2006)

Start with Fearless Jones and read in order.

#	Title
1	Fearless Jones 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Fear Itself 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Fear of the Dark 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2022–2022)

4 books (2018–2026)

Start with Down the River unto the Sea and read in order.

#	Title
1	Down the River unto the Sea 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Every Man a King 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Hanging and Burning 2026Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

7 books (2009–2020)

Start with The Long Fall, the first of 7 books in the Leonid McGill series.

#	Title
1	The Long Fall 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Karma 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Known to Evil 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	When the Thrill Is Gone 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	All I Did Was Shoot My Man 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	And Sometimes I Wonder About You 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Trouble Is What I Do 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

7 books (2000–2019)

Start with Workin' on the Chain Gang, the first of 7 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	Workin' on the Chain Gang 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	What Next 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Life Out of Context 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	This Year You Write Your Novel 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Twelve Steps Toward Political Revelation 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Folding the Red Into the Black 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Elements of Fiction Writing 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2011–2011)

#	Title
1	The Fall of Heaven 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

5 books (1993–2016)

Start with The Watt’s Lion, the first of 5 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	The Watt’s Lion 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Whispers in the Dark 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Jack Strong 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Archibald Lawless, Anarchist at Large 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (2001–2020)

Start with Futureland and read in order.

#	Title
1	Futureland 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Awkward Black Man 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1997–2008)

Start with Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned and read in order.

#	Title
1	Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Walkin' the Dog 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Right Mistake 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

18 books (1995–2026)

Start with RL's Dream, the first of 17 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	RL's Dream 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Blue Light 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Greatest 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Man in My Basement 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	47 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Wave 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Diablerie 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Fortunate Son 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Killing Johnny Fry 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	The Tempest Tales 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Parishioner 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Odyssey 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Inside a Silver Box 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	The Further Tales of Tempest Landry 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	John Woman 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Touched 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Ghalen 2026Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

6 books (2005–2006)

Start with Transgressions(With: Stephen King,Lawrence Block,Anne Perry,Jeffery Deaver,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain,Donald E Westlake,Bonnie Jeanne Perry,Joyce Carol Oates,John Farris), the first of 4 books in the Transgressions series.

#	Title
1	Transgressions(With: Stephen King,Lawrence Block,Anne Perry,Jeffery Deaver,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain,Donald E Westlake,Bonnie Jeanne Perry,Joyce Carol Oates,John Farris) 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Transgressions(With: Stephen King,Lawrence Block,Anne Perry,Jeffery Deaver,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain,Donald E. Westlake,Bonnie Jeanne Perry,Joyce Carol Oates,John Farris) 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Transgressions, Vol. 2(By: Stephen King,Lawrence Block,Ed McBain,John Farris) 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Transgressions, Vol. 3(By: Anne Perry,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain,Donald E Westlake,John Farris) 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Transgressions, Vol. 3(By: Anne Perry,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain,Donald E. Westlake,John Farris) 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Transgressions, Vol. 4(By: Anne Perry,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain) 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible