If you’re trying to read the Orphan X books in order, start with Gregg Hurwitz’s first Evan Smoak novel and follow publication order. The main cases usually have their own thriller plots, but Evan’s past, his rules, his enemies, and his relationships build across the series.
Evan Smoak was raised inside the government’s Orphan Program and trained to become …
If you’re looking for Steve Berry books in order, the big thing to know is that his bibliography is built around historical thrillers, secret history, and international conspiracies. Cotton Malone is his signature character, but Berry has also written standalone thrillers, the Luke Daniels books with Grant Blackwood, Cassiopeia Vitt stories, short fiction, and anthology crossovers.
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If you’re looking for Cotton Malone books in order, publication order is the best place to start. Steve Berry wrote the series so each thriller can stand on its own, but Cotton’s history, friendships, enemies, and personal life make more sense when you read the books as they were released.
Cotton Malone is a former Justice Department operative who …
If you want to read the Ben Coes books in order, start with Power Down and follow the Dewey Andreas novels in publication order. This guide also includes the Rob Tacoma series and the optional Dewey Andreas short stories that fit between the main books.
The novels build on Dewey’s relationships, losses, and earlier missions, so skipping around can reveal …
The Catherine Coulter books in order cover FBI thrillers, historical romance, romantic suspense, paranormal-leaning Sherbrooke novellas, and a few standalones. If you’re here for Savich and Sherlock, start with the FBI Thriller series below. If you’re here for the romances, jump to the series that fits your mood.
Coulter’s bibliography looks much easier once you separate the suspense books from …
I was first introduced to Ted Dekker’s books in 2013 when I read Black, the first book in the Circle trilogy. I usually lean toward fantasy books like Throne of Glass, so Dekker’s mix of fantasy, suspense, and Christian fiction worked well for me. Once I finished it, I wanted a simple way to read the Ted Dekker …
Gabriel Allon is Daniel Silva’s long-running spy thriller series about an Israeli intelligence operative and art restorer who keeps getting pulled back into dangerous work. If you’re looking for the Gabriel Allon books in order, start with The Kill Artist and continue in publication order. That’s also the chronological order for the series.
This guide focuses only on Gabriel …
If you’re trying to read the Left Behind books in order, there are 16 main adult novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. Read them in publication order first, starting with Left Behind and ending with Kingdom Come. The chronological order is better for a reread because it moves the three prequels to the front.
There are also …
Most Donna Leon books in order belong to her Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery series. Set in Venice, the novels follow a thoughtful police commissario whose cases expose murder, corruption, abuse of power, and the tensions beneath the city’s beauty.
Leon has also written one standalone novel, several nonfiction and essay collections, and books inspired by her interests in Venice, food, …
If you’re looking for the Hannah Swensen books in order, I’d start with publication order. Joanne Fluke’s cozy mystery series follows Hannah Swensen, the owner of The Cookie Jar bakery in Lake Eden, Minnesota, where murder keeps showing up right alongside the dessert recipes.
The tricky part isn’t the main series. It’s all the extras. There are short holiday …