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Updated 2026-07-11 / 127 books / 12 series
British author best known for the Peculiar Crimes Unit mystery series, featuring the detectives Bryant & May. His novels have earned multiple award nominations and a dedicated cult following. This page provides the Christopher Fowler books in order, including both chronological publication and series reading order.
All Christopher Fowler Books in Chronological Order
1984
The Bureau of Lost Souls
POoSSC / 1
Buy
1985
How to Impersonate Famous People
POoNB / 1
Buy
1985
Ultimate Party Book
POoNB / 2
Buy
1986
City Jitters
POoSSC / 2
Buy
1988
Roofworld
POoSN / 1
Buy
1988
More City Jitters
POoSSC / 3
Buy
1989
Flesh Wounds
POoSSC / 4
Buy
1992
Red Bride
POoSN / 3
Buy
1992
Sharper Knives
POoSSC / 5
Buy
1993
Darkest Day
POoSN / 4
Buy
1994
Spanky
POoSN / 5
Buy
1995
Psychoville
POoSN / 6
Buy
1997
Wage Slaves
POoSS / 1
Buy
1997
Menz Insana
POoGN / 1
Buy
1997
Disturbia
POoSN / 7
Buy
1998
Personal Demons
POoSSC / 6
Buy
1998
Soho Black
POoSN / 8
Buy
1999
Uncut
POoSSC / 7
Buy
2000
Calabash
POoSN / 9
Buy
2001
The Devil in Me
POoSSC / 8
Buy
2002
The Green Man
POoSS / 2
Buy
2003
Full Dark House
POoB&MPCUB / 1
Buy
2003
American Waitress
POoSS / 3
Buy
2003
Plastic
POoSN / 10
Buy
2004
The Water Room
POoB&MPCUB / 2
Buy
2004
Demonized
POoSSC / 9
Buy
2004
Breathe
POoSN / 11
Buy
2005
Seventy-Seven Clocks
POoB&MPCUB / 3
Buy
2006
Ten Second Staircase
POoB&MPCUB / 4
Buy
2007
The Spider Kiss
POoSS / 4
Buy
2007
White Corridor
POoB&MPCUB / 5
Buy
2007
Old Devil Moon
POoSSC / 10
Buy
2008
The Victoria Vanishes
POoB&MPCUB / 6
Buy
2009
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One
POoBHotYB / 1
Buy
2009
Paperboy
POoNB / 3
Buy
2009
Bryant & May on the Loose
POoB&MPCUB / 7
Buy
2010
The Curse of Snakes
POoHB / 1
Buy
2010
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two
POoBHotYB / 2
Buy
2010
Beautiful Men
POoSS / 5
Buy
2010
Off the Rails
POoB&MPCUB / 8
Buy
2011
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three
POoBHotYB / 3
Buy
2011
The Memory of Blood / Bryant & May and the Memory of Blood
POoB&MPCUB / 9
Buy
2011
Bryant & May's Mystery Tour
POoB&MPCUB / 10
Buy
2011
Red Gloves
POoSSC / 11
Buy
2011
Red Gloves Volume I & II
POoSSC / 12
Buy
2011
Hell Train
POoSN / 12
Buy
2012
The Casebook of Bryant & May: The Soho Devil
POoB&MGN / 1
Buy
2012
The Book of Virtue(By: Ken Bruen)
POoBB / 1
Buy
2012
Pronghorns of the Third Reich(By: C.J. Box)
POoBB / 2
Buy
2012
The Book Thing(By: Laura Lippman)
POoBB / 3
Buy
2012
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four
POoBHotYB / 4
Buy
2012
The Book Case(By: Nelson DeMille)
POoBB / 4
Buy
2012
Invisible Ink
POoNB / 4
Buy
2012
An Acceptable Sacrifice(By: Jeffery Deaver)
POoBB / 5
Buy
2012
Death Leaves a Bookmark(By: William Link)
POoBB / 6
Buy
2012
The Invisible Code
POoB&MPCUB / 11
Buy
2013
The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five
POoBHotYB / 5
Buy
2013
Film Freak
POoNB / 5
Buy
2013
The Final Testament(By: Peter Blauner)
POoBB / 7
Buy
2013
Rides a Stranger(By: David Bell)
POoBB / 8
Buy
2013
The Long Sonata of the Dead(By: Andrew Taylor)
POoBB / 9
Buy
2013
The Book of Ghosts(By: Reed Farrel Coleman)
POoBB / 10
Buy
2014
#ChooseThePlot(With: James Oswald,Jane Casey)
POoSS / 6
Buy
2014
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six
POoBHotYB / 6
Buy
2014
The Compendium of Srem(By: F. Paul Wilson)
POoBB / 11
Buy
2014
The Bleeding Heart
POoB&MPCUB / 12
Buy
2014
What's in a Name?(By: Thomas H. Cook)
POoBB / 12
Buy
2014
Remaindered(By: Peter Lovesey)
POoBB / 13
Buy
2014
Nyctophobia
POoSN / 13
Buy
2014
The Sequel(By: R.L. Stine)
POoBB / 14
Buy
2014
The Gospel of Sheba(By: Lyndsay Faye)
POoBB / 15
Buy
2014
Book Club(By: Loren D. Estleman)
POoBB / 16
Buy
2014
The Nature of My Inheritance(By: Bradford Morrow)
POoBB / 17
Buy
2014
It's in the Book(By: Max Allan Collins,Mickey Spillane)
POoBB / 18
Buy
2014
The Scroll(By: Anne Perry)
POoBB / 19
Buy
2015
London's Glory
POoB&MC / 1
Buy
2015
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven
POoBHotYB / 7
Buy
2015
Bryant & May and the Nameless Woman
POoSS / 7
Buy
2015
The Secret Santa
POoB&MPCUB / 13
Buy
2015
The Burning Man
POoB&MPCUB / 14
Buy
2015
The Sand Men
POoSN / 14
Buy
2015
The Book of the Lion(By: Thomas Perry)
POoBB / 20
Buy
2015
The Little Men(By: Megan Abbott)
POoBB / 21
Buy
2015
Condor in the Stacks(By: James Grady)
POoBB / 22
Buy
2015
Mystery, Inc.(By: Joyce Carol Oates)
POoBB / 23
Buy
2015
Every Seven Years(By: Denise Mina)
POoBB / 24
Buy
2015
From the Queen(By: Carolyn Hart)
POoBB / 25
Buy
2016
Reconciliation Day
POoSS / 8
Buy
2016
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight
POoBHotYB / 8
Buy
2016
Strange Tide
POoB&MPCUB / 15
Buy
2016
The Travelling Companion(By: Ian Rankin)
POoBB / 26
Buy
2016
Citadel(By: Stephen Hunter)
POoBB / 27
Buy
2016
Dead Dames Don't Sing(By: John Harvey)
POoBB / 29
Buy
2016
The Haze(By: James W. Hall)
POoBB / 30
Buy
2017
The Book of Forgotten Authors
POoNB / 6
Buy
2017
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine
POoBHotYB / 9
Buy
2017
Little Boy Found(As: L.K. Fox)
POoSN / 15
Buy
2017
Wild Chamber
POoB&MPCUB / 16
Buy
2017
Hoodoo Harry(By: Joe R. Lansdale)
POoBB / 31
Buy
2018
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten
POoBHotYB / 10
Buy
2018
The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction
POoBHotYB / 11
Buy
2018
Hall of Mirrors
POoB&MPCUB / 17
Buy
2018
The Pretty Little Box(By: Charles Todd)
POoBB / 32
Buy
2018
Seven Years(By: Peter Robinson)
POoBB / 33
Buy
2018
The Hemingway Valise(By: Robert Olen Butler)
POoBB / 34
Buy
2018
The Last Honest Horse Thief(By: Michael Koryta)
POoBB / 35
Buy
2018
The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository(By: John Connolly)
POoBB / 36
Buy
2019
England’s Finest
POoB&MC / 2
Buy
2019
The Washing
POoSS / 9
Buy
2019
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven
POoBHotYB / 12
Buy
2019
The Lonely Hour
POoB&MPCUB / 18
Buy
2020
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve
POoBHotYB / 13
Buy
2020
Oranges and Lemons
POoB&MPCUB / 20
Buy
2020
The Girl Who Did Say No(By: David Handler)
POoBB / 37
Buy
2021
The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen
POoBHotYB / 14
Buy
2021
London Bridge Is Falling Down
POoB&MPCUB / 21
Buy
2022
Peculiar London
POoB&MCB / 1
Buy
2022
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen
POoBHotYB / 15
Buy
2022
Hot Water
POoSN / 16
Buy
2022
The Traitor(By: Martin Edwards)
POoBB / 38
Buy
2022
The Dark Door(By: Lisa Unger)
POoBB / 39
Buy
2022
The Honeymoon Trap(By: Peter Swanson)
POoBB / 40
Buy
2024
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen
POoBHotYB / 16
Buy
2024
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Sixteen
POoBHotYB / 17
Buy
2025
The Foot on the Crown
POoSN / 17
Buy
2025
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seventeen
POoBHotYB / 18
Buy
Christopher Fowler Book Series Reading Orders /
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01
The Book of Virtue(By: Ken Bruen)
2012
Buy
02
Pronghorns of the Third Reich(By: C.J. Box)
2012
Buy
03
The Book Thing(By: Laura Lippman)
2012
Buy
04
The Book Case(By: Nelson DeMille)
2012
Buy
05
An Acceptable Sacrifice(By: Jeffery Deaver)
2012
Buy
06
Death Leaves a Bookmark(By: William Link)
2012
Buy
07
The Final Testament(By: Peter Blauner)
2013
Buy
08
Rides a Stranger(By: David Bell)
2013
Buy
09
The Long Sonata of the Dead(By: Andrew Taylor)
2013
Buy
10
The Book of Ghosts(By: Reed Farrel Coleman)
2013
Buy
11
The Compendium of Srem(By: F. Paul Wilson)
2014
Buy
12
What's in a Name?(By: Thomas H. Cook)
2014
Buy
13
Remaindered(By: Peter Lovesey)
2014
Buy
14
The Sequel(By: R.L. Stine)
2014
Buy
15
The Gospel of Sheba(By: Lyndsay Faye)
2014
Buy
16
Book Club(By: Loren D. Estleman)
2014
Buy
17
The Nature of My Inheritance(By: Bradford Morrow)
2014
Buy
18
It's in the Book(By: Max Allan Collins,Mickey Spillane)
2014
Buy
19
The Scroll(By: Anne Perry)
2014
Buy
20
The Book of the Lion(By: Thomas Perry)
2015
Buy
21
The Little Men(By: Megan Abbott)
2015
Buy
22
Condor in the Stacks(By: James Grady)
2015
Buy
23
Mystery, Inc.(By: Joyce Carol Oates)
2015
Buy
24
Every Seven Years(By: Denise Mina)
2015
Buy
25
From the Queen(By: Carolyn Hart)
2015
Buy
26
The Travelling Companion(By: Ian Rankin)
2016
Buy
27
Citadel(By: Stephen Hunter)
2016
Buy
29
Dead Dames Don't Sing(By: John Harvey)
2016
Buy
30
The Haze(By: James W. Hall)
2016
Buy
31
Hoodoo Harry(By: Joe R. Lansdale)
2017
Buy
32
The Pretty Little Box(By: Charles Todd)
2018
Buy
33
Seven Years(By: Peter Robinson)
2018
Buy
34
The Hemingway Valise(By: Robert Olen Butler)
2018
Buy
35
The Last Honest Horse Thief(By: Michael Koryta)
2018
Buy
36
The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository(By: John Connolly)
2018
Buy
37
The Girl Who Did Say No(By: David Handler)
2020
Buy
38
The Traitor(By: Martin Edwards)
2022
Buy
39
The Dark Door(By: Lisa Unger)
2022
Buy
40
The Honeymoon Trap(By: Peter Swanson)
2022
Buy
01
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One
2009
Buy
02
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two
2010
Buy
03
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three
2011
Buy
04
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four
2012
Buy
05
The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five
2013
Buy
06
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six
2014
Buy
07
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven
2015
Buy
08
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight
2016
Buy
09
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine
2017
Buy
10
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten
2018
Buy
11
The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction
2018
Buy
12
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven
2019
Buy
13
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve
2020
Buy
14
The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen
2021
Buy
15
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen
2022
Buy
16
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen
2024
Buy
17
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Sixteen
2024
Buy
18
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seventeen
2025
Buy
15
Little Boy Found(As: L.K. Fox)
2017
Buy
17
The Foot on the Crown
2025
Buy
02
The Green Man
2002
Buy
03
American Waitress
2003
Buy
04
The Spider Kiss
2007
Buy
05
Beautiful Men
2010
Buy
06
#ChooseThePlot(With: James Oswald,Jane Casey)
2014
Buy
07
Bryant & May and the Nameless Woman
2015
Buy
08
Reconciliation Day
2016
Buy
01
How to Impersonate Famous People
1985
Buy
02
Ultimate Party Book
1985
Buy
04
Invisible Ink
2012
Buy
06
The Book of Forgotten Authors
2017
Buy
01
London's Glory
2015
Buy
02
England’s Finest
2019
Buy
01
Peculiar London
2022
Buy
01
The Casebook of Bryant & May: The Soho Devil
2012
Buy
01
The Bureau of Lost Souls
1984
Buy
03
More City Jitters
1988
Buy
05
Sharper Knives
1992
Buy
06
Personal Demons
1998
Buy
08
The Devil in Me
2001
Buy
10
Old Devil Moon
2007
Buy
12
Red Gloves Volume I & II
2011
Buy
01
The Curse of Snakes
2010
Buy
01
Full Dark House
2003
Buy
02
The Water Room
2004
Buy
03
Seventy-Seven Clocks
2005
Buy
04
Ten Second Staircase
2006
Buy
05
White Corridor
2007
Buy
06
The Victoria Vanishes
2008
Buy
07
Bryant & May on the Loose
2009
Buy
08
Off the Rails
2010
Buy
09
The Memory of Blood / Bryant & May and the Memory of Blood
2011
Buy
10
Bryant & May's Mystery Tour
2011
Buy
11
The Invisible Code
2012
Buy
12
The Bleeding Heart
2014
Buy
13
The Secret Santa
2015
Buy
14
The Burning Man
2015
Buy
17
Hall of Mirrors
2018
Buy
18
The Lonely Hour
2019
Buy
20
Oranges and Lemons
2020
Buy
21
London Bridge Is Falling Down
2021
Buy
Where to start with Christopher Fowler
What is the best order to read Christopher Fowler books?
Publication order is usually the safest place to start. If a book belongs to a series,
follow the numbered series reading order shown on this page.
Are standalone books and series both included?
Yes. Standalone titles appear in the full chronological bibliography, and series are
broken out separately with reading-order links when catalog data is available.
Source note: Sequencebooks organizes author, book, and series records from its catalog data.
Publication years and series order are shown when available.