Mary Alice Monroe books in order are simplest to follow by series. Her connected series include the Beach House books, Lowcountry Summer, The Islanders, and the Rivers Duology. Read each series in order, while her standalone novels can be read in any order.
Monroe’s contemporary fiction often blends complicated family relationships with conservation themes. Her stories draw on hands-on experience …
If you’re looking for the John Connolly books in order, you’re probably most interested in Charlie Parker. I’ve included that complete series first, followed by Connolly’s fantasy, science-fiction, standalone, short-fiction, and nonfiction books.
The dates below use the first U.S. publication year when a U.S. edition is available. Original U.K. titles are included when they differ.
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If you’re trying to read the Paul Doiron books in order, start with the Mike Bowditch novels. Publication order is the cleanest path because Mike’s personal arc builds as the cases go, starting with The Poacher’s Son.
The short stories and collections are optional, but they’re worth reading if you want more of Mike, Charley Stevens, and the Maine …
The Linwood Barclay books in order span darkly funny mysteries, psychological thrillers, supernatural suspense, middle-grade adventures, short fiction, and nonfiction. Barclay began his fiction career with the Zack Walker mysteries before No Time for Goodbye brought his thrillers to a much wider international audience.
His stories often begin with an ordinary family facing a sudden, unsettling mystery. Some share characters …
Following her debut publication, Tami Hoag wrote quite a few category romances before shifting into romantic suspense and then crime thrillers. That means reading the Tami Hoag books in order can look a little different depending on whether you want her early romances, her darker suspense novels, or one of her crime series.
I’ve grouped her books by series below, …
Beverly Cleary’s books in order are easiest to follow by character and series. Henry Huggins begins the Klickitat Street stories, Beezus and Ramona starts the Ramona series, and The Mouse and the Motorcycle introduces Ralph S. Mouse. Cleary also wrote young adult novels, standalones, picture books, activity books, and memoirs.
Most of these series stand on their own, so you …
Mary Kay Andrews books in order can be a little more complicated than they first appear, because her bibliography includes novels published under both Mary Kay Andrews and Kathy Hogan Trocheck. This guide puts everything in one place, so you can see her series, standalones, short fiction, and cookbook in publication order without having to piece it together yourself.
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Reading the Nick Petrie books in order is straightforward because all of his novels follow Peter Ash, a former Marine dealing with PTSD and severe claustrophobia after returning home from war. The crime thrillers take Peter across the United States and beyond as he steps in to help people facing dangerous situations.
Nick Petrie introduced Peter in The Drifter. …
The Amos Decker series in order is easiest to read from the beginning. Each book gives Decker a new case, but his personal story, FBI work, and relationships build as the series goes.
David Baldacci’s Amos Decker series is also known as the Memory Man series. It follows a former football player turned investigator whose life changes after a violent …
Looking for the Gray Man books in order? Mark Greaney’s Court Gentry series is best read in publication order, starting with The Gray Man and continuing through The Hard Line.
The series follows Court Gentry, a former CIA operative and assassin whose past keeps catching up with him. The books move fast, but the relationships, betrayals, and fallout …