If you’re looking for the Lisa Jackson books in order, it’s good to know that her backlist has a few very different sides. Jackson has long-running suspense series, standalone thrillers, romantic suspense, older category romances, medieval romances, short fiction, anthologies, and plenty of reprinted bind-ups.
We’ll cover every book from every series and genre, plus help you figure out …
Carl Hiaasen has written a lot more than one kind of book, which is why reading the Carl Hiaasen books in order can get a little messy at first. He has adult crime novels, books for young readers, non-fiction, column collections, a few collaborations, and several recurring characters who show up across otherwise separate stories.
The simplest way to sort …
Jenny Colgan is best known for cozy, funny, romantic stories set in bookshops, bakeries, islands, schools, and seaside towns. But reading the Jenny Colgan books in order takes a little sorting because her bibliography also includes Doctor Who books, children’s books, short stories, and several titles that have appeared under different names.
I’d start with whichever setting sounds most appealing. …
Harry Hole is Jo Nesbø’s dark detective series about an Oslo investigator with a sharp mind, a stubborn streak, and a personal life that’s usually one bad decision away from falling apart. If you’re looking for Harry Hole books in order, this guide covers the novels, the main character, screen adaptations, and how the series fits into Nesbø’s larger …
Anthony Horowitz books in order span teenage spy adventures, adult murder mysteries, horror stories, fantasy, graphic novels, and official continuations of Sherlock Holmes and James Bond. This guide brings those works together by series, then covers his standalones, plays, collections, and anthologies.
I’ve listed retitled editions and useful omnibus collections without treating them as separate original stories. Publication years use …
Nelson DeMille wrote crime thrillers, military thrillers, suspense novels, short stories, and a few hard-to-find books under pen names. If you’re trying to read the Nelson DeMille books in order, I’d start with the series you care about most, especially John Corey, then come back for the standalones and early paperbacks.
Below, you’ll find his series, standalones, pseudonym books, short …
The Magic Tree House books in order are easy to follow once you know how the series is split. The main Jack and Annie chapter books are the core series, while History’s Heroes, the Merlin Missions, Fact Trackers, graphic novels, and companion books each serve a different purpose.
Start with Dinosaurs Before Dark for the main story. From there, you …
Reading the Captain Underpants books in order starts with Dav Pilkey’s illustrated chapter-book series about best friends George Beard and Harold Hutchins. After the boys hypnotize their school principal, Mr. Krupp, he becomes Captain Underpants, the superhero they created in their homemade comics.
The original story contains 12 books. The wider franchise also includes separate manga retellings, full-length graphic-novel spin-offs, …
For the simplest Dexter books in order, read Jeff Lindsay’s eight main novels in publication order. The series starts with Darkly Dreaming Dexter and ends with Dexter Is Dead, and the publication order is also the series order.
The TV series is the version most people know, but the books split away quickly. Season 1 mostly follows the first …
If you’re looking for the Jojo Moyes books in order, the main thing to know is that Moyes has a lot of standalones, a few connected books, and several shorter pieces that are easy to overlook. Once you split out the Lou Clark books, The Girl You Left Behind books, standalone novels, short fiction, and anthology appearances, her bibliography …