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Lawrence Block Books in Order

Find every Lawrence Block book in order, including standalone titles and complete series reading orders with publication years.

Updated 2026-07-11 / 349 books / 22 series

American author Lawrence Block is best known for the hardboiled Matthew Scudder series and the witty burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr novels. A Grand Master of Mystery Writers of America, his books have sold millions worldwide. This page provides the Lawrence Block books in order, including both chronological order and series reading order.

All Lawrence Block Books in Chronological Order

1958 Carla POoSN / 1 Buy
1959 Into the Night(With: Cornell Woolrich) POoSN / 2 Buy
1959 69 Barrow Street POoSN / 3 Buy
1959 Campus Tramp POoSN / 4 Buy
1960 Babe in the Woods POoLLB / 1 Buy
1960 Candy POoSN / 5 Buy
1960 A Girl Called Honey POoSN / 6 Buy
1960 Kept POoSN / 7 Buy
1960 A Strange Kind of Love POoSN / 8 Buy
1960 The Adulterers POoSN / 9 Buy
1961 Grifter's Game / Mona / Sweet Slow Death POoSN / 10 Buy
1961 A Diet of Treacle POoSN / 11 Buy
1961 Cinderella Sims POoSN / 12 Buy
1961 Killing Castro POoSN / 13 Buy
1961 Coward's Kiss / Death Pulls a Doublecross POoSN / 14 Buy
1961 $20 Lust / Cinderella Sims POoSN / 15 Buy
1961 The Twisted Ones POoSN / 16 Buy
1962 Borderline POoSN / 17 Buy
1962 The Case of the Pornographic Photos / Markham / You Could Call it Murder POoSN / 18 Buy
1962 Strange Embrace POoSN / 19 Buy
1962 Sin Hellcat POoSN / 20 Buy
1964 Lucky at Cards POoSN / 21 Buy
1965 The Girl with the Long Green Heart POoSN / 22 Buy
1966 The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep POoETB / 1 Buy
1966 The Canceled Czech POoETB / 2 Buy
1967 Tanner's Twelve Swingers POoETB / 3 Buy
1967 Deadly Honeymoon POoSN / 23 Buy
1968 Here Comes a Hero / Tanner's Virgin POoETB / 4 Buy
1968 The Scoreless Thai / Two for Tanner POoETB / 5 Buy
1968 Tanner's Tiger POoETB / 6 Buy
1969 Such Men are Dangerous POoPKB / 1 Buy
1969 After the First Death POoSN / 24 Buy
1969 The Specialists POoSN / 25 Buy
1970 The Wife-Swap Report POoNB / 1 Buy
1970 No Score POoCHB / 1 Buy
1971 3 is Not a Crowd POoNB / 2 Buy
1971 Chip Harrison Scores Again POoCHB / 2 Buy
1971 Ronald Rabbit is a Dirty Old Man POoSN / 26 Buy
1972 A Madwoman's Diary / Sensuous POoJB / 1 Buy
1972 The Triumph of Evil POoPKB / 2 Buy
1972 Sex and the Stewardess POoNB / 3 Buy
1972 The Sex Therapists POoNB / 4 Buy
1974 Not Comin' Home to You POoPKB / 3 Buy
1974 Make Out with Murder POoCHB / 3 Buy
1974 Different Strokes POoNB / 5 Buy
1974 Total Sexuality POoNB / 6 Buy
1975 The Topless Tulip Caper POoCHB / 4 Buy
1975 A Week as Andrea Benstock POoSN / 27 Buy
1976 The Sins of the Fathers POoMSB / 1 Buy
1976 Time to Murder and Create POoMSB / 2 Buy
1976 In the Midst of Death POoMSB / 3 Buy
1977 Burglars Can't Be Choosers POoBRB / 1 Buy
1977 A Candle for the Bag Lady POoMSB / 4 Buy
1978 The Burglar in the Closet POoBRB / 2 Buy
1979 Collecting Ackermans POoSS / 1 Buy
1979 The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling POoBRB / 3 Buy
1979 Writing the Novel from Plot to Print to Pixel POoNB / 7 Buy
1979 Ariel POoSN / 28 Buy
1980 The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza POoBRB / 4 Buy
1981 A Stab in the Dark POoMSB / 5 Buy
1981 Telling Lies for Fun & Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers POoNB / 8 Buy
1981 Code of Arms(With: Harold King) POoSN / 29 Buy
1982 Eight Million Ways to Die POoMSB / 6 Buy
1983 The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian POoBRB / 5 Buy
1983 Like a Thief in the Night POoBRB / 6 Buy
1984 Like a Lamb to Slaughter POoSSC / 1 Buy
1984 Sometimes They Bite POoSSC / 2 Buy
1984 By the Dawn's Early Light POoMSB / 7 Buy
1986 Me Tanner, You Jane POoETB / 7 Buy
1986 When the Sacred Ginmill Closes POoMSB / 8 Buy
1986 Write for Your Life POoNB / 9 Buy
1988 Spider, Spin Me A Web: A Handbook for Fiction Writers POoNB / 10 Buy
1988 Random Walk POoSN / 30 Buy
1989 Out on the Cutting Edge POoMSB / 9 Buy
1990 A Ticket to the Boneyard POoMSB / 10 Buy
1990 Batman’s Helpers POoMSB / 11 Buy
1991 A Dance at the Slaughterhouse POoMSB / 12 Buy
1992 A Walk Among the Tombstones POoMSB / 13 Buy
1993 Some Days You Get the Bear POoSSC / 3 Buy
1993 The Devil Knows You're Dead POoMSB / 14 Buy
1993 The Merciful Angel of Death POoMSB / 15 Buy
1994 By the Dawn's Early Light: And Other Stories POoSSC / 4 Buy
1994 The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams POoBRB / 7 Buy
1994 The Burglar Takes a Cat POoBRB / 8 Buy
1994 A Long Line of Dead Men POoMSB / 16 Buy
1995 The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart POoBRB / 9 Buy
1995 After Hours: Conversations With Lawrence Block POoNB / 11 Buy
1996 Even the Wicked POoMSB / 17 Buy
1997 The Burglar in the Library POoBRB / 10 Buy
1997 Out the Window POoMSB / 18 Buy
1997 Looking for David POoMSB / 19 Buy
1998 Hit Man POoJKB / 1 Buy
1998 Tanner on Ice POoETB / 8 Buy
1998 The Burglar in the Rye POoBRB / 11 Buy
1998 Everybody Dies POoMSB / 20 Buy
1999 One Night Stands and Lost Weekends POoMSSSC / 1 Buy
1999 The Collected Mystery Stories POoSSC / 5 Buy
1999 The Burglar Who Dropped in on Elvis POoBRB / 12 Buy
2000 Hit List POoJKB / 2 Buy
2000 Let's Get Lost POoMSB / 21 Buy
2001 Speaking of Lust: Stories of Forbidden Desire POoSDSB / 1 Buy
2001 Speaking of Greed: Stories of Envious Desire POoSDSB / 2 Buy
2001 The Burglar on the Prowl POoBRB / 13 Buy
2001 Hope to Die POoMSB / 22 Buy
2001 The Lost Cases of Ed London POoSN / 31 Buy
2002 San Francisco Noir POoANB / 1 Buy
2002 Speaking of Wrath POoSDSB / 3 Buy
2002 Enough Rope POoSSC / 6 Buy
2002 A Moment of Wrong Thinking POoMSB / 23 Buy
2002 Small Town POoSN / 32 Buy
2003 Seattle Noir POoANB / 2 Buy
2003 Bronx Noir POoANB / 3 Buy
2004 Brooklyn Noir POoANB / 4 Buy
2004 Hasidic Noir POoANB / 5 Buy
2004 The Crazy Years POoSSC / 7 Buy
2004 Gangsters, Swindlers, Killers, and Thieves: The Lives and Crimes of Fifty American Villains POoNB / 12 Buy
2005 Transgressions(With: Stephen King,Anne Perry,Jeffery Deaver,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain,Donald E Westlake,Bonnie Jeanne Perry,Joyce Carol Oates,Walter Mosley,John Farris) POoTB / 1 Buy
2005 Brooklyn Noir 2 POoANB / 6 Buy
2005 Chicago Noir POoANB / 7 Buy
2005 Dublin Noir POoANB / 8 Buy
2005 All the Flowers are Dying POoMSB / 24 Buy
2006 Transgressions, Vol. 2(With: Stephen King,Ed McBain,John Farris) POoTB / 2 Buy
2006 Transgressions, Vol. 3(By: Anne Perry,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain,Donald E Westlake,John Farris) POoTB / 3 Buy
2006 Hit Parade POoJKB / 3 Buy
2006 Transgressions, Vol. 4(By: Anne Perry,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain) POoTB / 4 Buy
2006 Manhattan Noir POoANB / 9 Buy
2006 Miami Noir POoANB / 10 Buy
2006 D.C. Noir POoANB / 11 Buy
2006 Baltimore Noir POoANB / 12 Buy
2006 Twin Cities Noir POoANB / 13 Buy
2006 London Noir POoANB / 14 Buy
2007 New Orleans Noir POoANB / 15 Buy
2007 Los Angeles Noir POoANB / 16 Buy
2007 Wall Street Noir POoANB / 17 Buy
2007 Havana Noir POoANB / 18 Buy
2007 Detroit Noir POoANB / 19 Buy
2008 Manhattan Noir 2: The Classics POoMNB / 2 Buy
2008 Hit and Run POoJKB / 4 Buy
2008 Queens Noir POoANB / 20 Buy
2008 Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But the Truth POoANB / 21 Buy
2008 Toronto Noir POoANB / 22 Buy
2008 Las Vegas Noir POoANB / 23 Buy
2008 Trinidad Noir POoANB / 24 Buy
2008 D.C. Noir 2 POoANB / 25 Buy
2008 Manhattan Noir 2 POoANB / 26 Buy
2008 Paris Noir POoANB / 27 Buy
2008 Istanbul Noir POoANB / 28 Buy
2009 Keller in Dallas POoJKB / 5 Buy
2009 Step by Step: A Pedestrian Memoir POoNB / 13 Buy
2009 Boston Noir POoANB / 29 Buy
2009 Rome Noir POoANB / 30 Buy
2009 San Francisco Noir 2 POoANB / 31 Buy
2009 Portland Noir POoANB / 32 Buy
2009 Delhi Noir POoANB / 33 Buy
2009 Phoenix Noir POoANB / 34 Buy
2010 L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories POoLNTCSB / 1 Buy
2010 Community of Women POoSN / 33 Buy
2010 Los Angeles Noir 2 POoANB / 35 Buy
2010 Mexico City Noir POoANB / 36 Buy
2010 Richmond Noir POoANB / 37 Buy
2010 Orange County Noir POoANB / 38 Buy
2010 Indian Country Noir POoANB / 39 Buy
2010 Moscow Noir POoANB / 40 Buy
2010 Lone Star Noir POoANB / 41 Buy
2010 Philadelphia Noir POoANB / 42 Buy
2010 Haiti Noir POoANB / 43 Buy
2010 Copenhagen Noir POoANB / 44 Buy
2011 How Far POoP / 1 Buy
2011 A Chance to Get Even POoSS / 2 Buy
2011 Getting Off POoJB / 2 Buy
2011 Black DahliaWhite Rose(By: Joyce Carol Oates) POoLNTCSB / 2 Buy
2011 The Night and the Music POoMSSSC / 2 Buy
2011 Dolly's Trash & Treasures POoSS / 3 Buy
2011 Welcome to the Real World POoSS / 4 Buy
2011 As Dark as Christmas Gets POoCHB / 5 Buy
2011 Who Knows Where It Goes POoSS / 5 Buy
2011 Scenarios POoSS / 6 Buy
2011 Headaches and Bad Dreams POoSS / 7 Buy
2011 Catch and Release POoSSC / 8 Buy
2011 Sweet Little Hands POoSS / 8 Buy
2011 You Don't Even Feel It POoSS / 9 Buy
2011 In For a Penny POoSS / 10 Buy
2011 Three in the Side Pocket POoSS / 11 Buy
2011 Like a Bone in the Throat POoSS / 12 Buy
2011 The Burglar Who Smelled Smoke POoBRB / 14 Buy
2011 The Liar's Bible POoNB / 14 Buy
2011 The Liar's Companion POoNB / 15 Buy
2011 A Bad Night for Burglars POoBRB / 15 Buy
2011 Mick Ballou Looks at the Blank Screen POoMSB / 25 Buy
2011 A Drop of the Hard Stuff POoMSB / 26 Buy
2011 One Last Night at Grogan’s POoMSB / 27 Buy
2011 Pittsburgh Noir POoANB / 45 Buy
2011 San Diego Noir POoANB / 46 Buy
2011 Barcelona Noir POoANB / 47 Buy
2011 Cape Cod Noir POoANB / 48 Buy
2011 New Jersey Noir POoANB / 49 Buy
2012 Hit Me POoJKB / 6 Buy
2012 Keller's Adjustment POoJKB / 7 Buy
2012 The Male Hustler POoNB / 16 Buy
2012 Wide Open POoNB / 17 Buy
2012 Doing It! - Going Beyond the Sexual Revolution POoNB / 18 Buy
2012 Come Fly With Us POoNB / 19 Buy
2012 Beyond Group Sex POoNB / 20 Buy
2012 Staten Island Noir POoANB / 50 Buy
2012 Mumbai Noir POoANB / 51 Buy
2012 Long Island Noir POoANB / 52 Buy
2012 Venice Noir POoANB / 53 Buy
2012 Kingston Noir POoANB / 54 Buy
2012 St. Petersburg Noir POoANB / 55 Buy
2012 Kansas City Noir POoANB / 56 Buy
2012 Boston Noir 2 POoANB / 57 Buy
2013 He-Men, Bag Men & Nymphos(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle,Walter Kaylin) POoTMALJB / 1 Buy
2013 If You Can't Stand the Heat POoKTB / 1 Buy
2013 Rude Awakening POoKTB / 2 Buy
2013 You Can Call Me Lucky POoKTB / 3 Buy
2013 Clean Slate POoKTB / 4 Buy
2013 Waitress Wanted POoKTB / 5 Buy
2013 Jilling POoKTB / 6 Buy
2013 Conjugal Rites POoKTB / 7 Buy
2013 One Kind Favor I Ask of You POoKTB / 8 Buy
2013 Keller on the Spot POoJKB / 8 Buy
2013 Keller's Therapy POoJKB / 9 Buy
2013 Don't Get in the Car POoKTB / 9 Buy
2013 Keller's Horoscope POoJKB / 10 Buy
2013 Fun with Brady and Angelica POoKTB / 10 Buy
2013 Zeroing In POoKTB / 11 Buy
2013 Unfinished Business POoKTB / 12 Buy
2013 Nothing Short of Highway Robbery POoSS / 13 Buy
2013 The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons POoBRB / 16 Buy
2013 USA Noir POoANB / 58 Buy
2013 Manila Noir POoANB / 59 Buy
2013 Buffalo Noir POoANB / 60 Buy
2013 Dallas Noir POoANB / 61 Buy
2013 Haiti Noir 2 POoANB / 62 Buy
2014 Defender of the Innocent: The Casebook of Martin Ehrengraf POoSSC / 9 Buy
2014 The Ehrengraf Fandango POoSS / 14 Buy
2014 I Know How to Pick 'Em POoSS / 15 Buy
2014 Singapore Noir POoANB / 63 Buy
2014 Prison Noir POoANB / 64 Buy
2014 Tel Aviv Noir POoANB / 65 Buy
2014 Tehran Noir POoANB / 66 Buy
2014 Belfast Noir POoANB / 67 Buy
2014 Helsinki Noir POoANB / 68 Buy
2014 Rio Noir POoANB / 69 Buy
2015 Cryptozoology Anthology(By: David Coleman,Wyatt Doyle) POoTMALJB / 2 Buy
2015 The Crime of Our Lives POoNB / 21 Buy
2015 The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes POoSN / 34 Buy
2015 Providence Noir POoANB / 70 Buy
2015 Chicago Noir: The Classics POoANB / 71 Buy
2015 Memphis Noir POoANB / 72 Buy
2015 Zagreb Noir POoANB / 73 Buy
2015 Marseille Noir POoANB / 74 Buy
2015 Beirut Noir POoANB / 75 Buy
2016 Murder under the Christmas Tree POoMCSB / 1 Buy
2016 The Trouble with Eden POoJB / 3 Buy
2016 A Handful of Hell(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle,Robert F. Dorr) POoTMALJB / 3 Buy
2016 Barbarians on Bikes(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle) POoTMALJB / 4 Buy
2016 Shadows POoJB / 4 Buy
2016 Enough of Sorrow POoJB / 5 Buy
2016 Threesome POoJB / 6 Buy
2016 Death of the Mallory Queen POoCHB / 6 Buy
2016 Warm and Willing POoJB / 7 Buy
2016 Thirty POoJB / 8 Buy
2016 Keller's Fedora POoJKB / 11 Buy
2016 Keller's Homecoming POoJKB / 12 Buy
2016 Keller's Designated Hitter POoJKB / 13 Buy
2016 Keller the Dogkiller POoJKB / 14 Buy
2016 Keller in Des Moines POoJKB / 15 Buy
2016 Autumn at the Automat POoSS / 16 Buy
2016 Resume Speed POoSS / 17 Buy
2016 Passport to Peril(With: Anne Campbell Clark) POoSN / 35 Buy
2016 Sinner Man POoSN / 36 Buy
2016 New Orleans Noir: The Classics POoANB / 76 Buy
2016 Stockholm Noir POoANB / 77 Buy
2016 Brussels Noir POoANB / 78 Buy
2016 Mississippi Noir POoANB / 79 Buy
2016 St. Louis Noir POoANB / 80 Buy
2016 Prague Noir POoANB / 81 Buy
2016 San Juan Noir POoANB / 82 Buy
2017 Murder on Christmas Eve POoMCSB / 2 Buy
2017 I Watched Them Eat Me Alive(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle) POoTMALJB / 5 Buy
2017 Quotidian Keller POoJKB / 16 Buy
2017 Oakland Noir POoANB / 83 Buy
2017 Trinidad Noir: The Classics POoANB / 84 Buy
2017 Atlanta Noir POoANB / 85 Buy
2017 New Haven Noir POoANB / 86 Buy
2017 Montana Noir POoANB / 87 Buy
2017 Buenos Aires Noir POoANB / 88 Buy
2017 Montreal Noir POoANB / 89 Buy
2018 A Very Murderous Christmas POoMCSB / 3 Buy
2018 Pollen's Women(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle,Samson Pollen) POoTMALJB / 6 Buy
2018 Cuba: Sugar, Sex, and Slaughter(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle) POoTMALJB / 7 Buy
2018 Resume Speed and Other Stories POoSSC / 10 Buy
2018 A Time to Scatter Stones POoMSB / 28 Buy
2018 Berlin Noir POoANB / 90 Buy
2018 S’o Paulo Noir POoANB / 91 Buy
2018 Santa Cruz Noir POoANB / 92 Buy
2018 Lagos Noir POoANB / 93 Buy
2018 Marrakech Noir POoANB / 94 Buy
2018 Baghdad Noir POoANB / 95 Buy
2018 Vancouver Noir POoANB / 96 Buy
2018 Sydney Noir POoANB / 97 Buy
2018 Hong Kong Noir POoANB / 98 Buy
2019 Murder at Christmas POoMCSB / 4 Buy
2019 Pollen's Action(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle,Samson Pollen) POoTMALJB / 8 Buy
2019 Eva: Men's Adventure Supermodel(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle) POoTMALJB / 9 Buy
2019 Mort Kunstler(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle) POoTMALJB / 10 Buy
2019 From Sea to Stormy Sea POoSSC / 11 Buy
2019 Hunting Buffalo With Bent Nails POoNB / 22 Buy
2019 April North / High School Sex Club POoSN / 37 Buy
2019 Amsterdam Noir POoANB / 99 Buy
2019 Milwaukee Noir POoANB / 100 Buy
2019 Houston Noir POoANB / 101 Buy
2020 Murder in Midwinter POoMCSB / 5 Buy
2020 One Man Army(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle,Gil Cohen) POoTMALJB / 11 Buy
2020 The Burglar in Short Order POoBRB / 17 Buy
2020 Dead Girl Blues POoSN / 38 Buy
2020 Nairobi Noir POoANB / 102 Buy
2020 Columbus Noir POoANB / 103 Buy
2020 Santa Fe Noir POoANB / 104 Buy
2020 Alabama Noir POoANB / 105 Buy
2020 Berkeley Noir POoANB / 106 Buy
2020 Addis Ababa Noir POoANB / 107 Buy
2020 Tampa Bay Noir POoANB / 108 Buy
2020 Miami Noir: The Classics POoANB / 109 Buy
2020 Accra Noir POoANB / 110 Buy
2020 Belgrade Noir POoANB / 111 Buy
2021 Murder on a Winter's Night POoMCSB / 6 Buy
2021 Exotic Adventures of Robert Silverberg(By: Robert Silverberg,Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle) POoTMALJB / 12 Buy
2021 Maneaters(By: Mort K’nstler,Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle) POoTMALJB / 13 Buy
2021 Keller on Horseback POoJKB / 17 Buy
2021 A Writer Prepares POoNB / 23 Buy
2021 Afterthoughts: Version 2.0 POoNB / 24 Buy
2021 Palm Springs Noir POoANB / 112 Buy
2022 Murder in the Falling Snow POoMCSB / 7 Buy
2022 George Gross: Covered(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle) POoTMALJB / 14 Buy
2022 The Burglar Who Met Fredric Brown POoBRB / 18 Buy
2022 Paris Noir: The Suburbs POoANB / 113 Buy
2022 Denver Noir POoANB / 114 Buy
2022 South Central Noir POoANB / 115 Buy
2023 The Naked and the Deadly POoTMALJB / 15 Buy
2023 Atomic Werewolves and Man-Eating Plants(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle) POoTMALJB / 16 Buy
2023 The Autobiography of Matthew Scudder POoMSB / 29 Buy
2023 Cleveland Noir POoANB / 116 Buy
2023 East Jerusalem Noir POoANB / 117 Buy
2023 West Jerusalem Noir POoANB / 118 Buy
2024 Honolulu Noir POoANB / 119 Buy
2025 Sacramento Noir POoANB / 120 Buy
2025 Hamburg Noir POoANB / 121 Buy

Lawrence Block Book Series Reading Orders / browse all ->

01 The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep 1966 Buy
02 The Canceled Czech 1966 Buy
03 Tanner's Twelve Swingers 1967 Buy
04 Here Comes a Hero / Tanner's Virgin 1968 Buy
05 The Scoreless Thai / Two for Tanner 1968 Buy
06 Tanner's Tiger 1968 Buy
07 Me Tanner, You Jane 1986 Buy
08 Tanner on Ice 1998 Buy
01 How Far 2011 Buy
01 Like a Lamb to Slaughter 1984 Buy
02 Sometimes They Bite 1984 Buy
03 Some Days You Get the Bear 1993 Buy
04 By the Dawn's Early Light: And Other Stories 1994 Buy
05 The Collected Mystery Stories 1999 Buy
06 Enough Rope 2002 Buy
07 The Crazy Years 2004 Buy
08 Catch and Release 2011 Buy
09 Defender of the Innocent: The Casebook of Martin Ehrengraf 2014 Buy
10 Resume Speed and Other Stories 2018 Buy
11 From Sea to Stormy Sea 2019 Buy
01 Transgressions(With: Stephen King,Anne Perry,Jeffery Deaver,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain,Donald E Westlake,Bonnie Jeanne Perry,Joyce Carol Oates,Walter Mosley,John Farris) 2005 Buy
02 Transgressions, Vol. 2(With: Stephen King,Ed McBain,John Farris) 2006 Buy
03 Transgressions, Vol. 3(By: Anne Perry,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain,Donald E Westlake,John Farris) 2006 Buy
04 Transgressions, Vol. 4(By: Anne Perry,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain) 2006 Buy
Standalone Books in Reading Order 38 books / 1958-2020
01 Carla 1958 Buy
02 Into the Night(With: Cornell Woolrich) 1959 Buy
03 69 Barrow Street 1959 Buy
04 Campus Tramp 1959 Buy
05 Candy 1960 Buy
06 A Girl Called Honey 1960 Buy
07 Kept 1960 Buy
08 A Strange Kind of Love 1960 Buy
09 The Adulterers 1960 Buy
10 Grifter's Game / Mona / Sweet Slow Death 1961 Buy
11 A Diet of Treacle 1961 Buy
12 Cinderella Sims 1961 Buy
13 Killing Castro 1961 Buy
14 Coward's Kiss / Death Pulls a Doublecross 1961 Buy
15 $20 Lust / Cinderella Sims 1961 Buy
16 The Twisted Ones 1961 Buy
17 Borderline 1962 Buy
18 The Case of the Pornographic Photos / Markham / You Could Call it Murder 1962 Buy
19 Strange Embrace 1962 Buy
20 Sin Hellcat 1962 Buy
21 Lucky at Cards 1964 Buy
22 The Girl with the Long Green Heart 1965 Buy
23 Deadly Honeymoon 1967 Buy
24 After the First Death 1969 Buy
25 The Specialists 1969 Buy
26 Ronald Rabbit is a Dirty Old Man 1971 Buy
27 A Week as Andrea Benstock 1975 Buy
28 Ariel 1979 Buy
29 Code of Arms(With: Harold King) 1981 Buy
30 Random Walk 1988 Buy
31 The Lost Cases of Ed London 2001 Buy
32 Small Town 2002 Buy
33 Community of Women 2010 Buy
34 The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes 2015 Buy
35 Passport to Peril(With: Anne Campbell Clark) 2016 Buy
36 Sinner Man 2016 Buy
37 April North / High School Sex Club 2019 Buy
38 Dead Girl Blues 2020 Buy
01 Collecting Ackermans 1979 Buy
02 A Chance to Get Even 2011 Buy
03 Dolly's Trash & Treasures 2011 Buy
04 Welcome to the Real World 2011 Buy
05 Who Knows Where It Goes 2011 Buy
06 Scenarios 2011 Buy
07 Headaches and Bad Dreams 2011 Buy
08 Sweet Little Hands 2011 Buy
09 You Don't Even Feel It 2011 Buy
10 In For a Penny 2011 Buy
11 Three in the Side Pocket 2011 Buy
12 Like a Bone in the Throat 2011 Buy
13 Nothing Short of Highway Robbery 2013 Buy
14 The Ehrengraf Fandango 2014 Buy
15 I Know How to Pick 'Em 2014 Buy
16 Autumn at the Automat 2016 Buy
17 Resume Speed 2016 Buy
01 Speaking of Lust: Stories of Forbidden Desire 2001 Buy
02 Speaking of Greed: Stories of Envious Desire 2001 Buy
03 Speaking of Wrath 2002 Buy
01 One Night Stands and Lost Weekends 1999 Buy
02 The Night and the Music 2011 Buy
02 Manhattan Noir 2: The Classics 2008 Buy
John Keller Books in Reading Order 17 books / 1998-2021
01 Hit Man 1998 Buy
02 Hit List 2000 Buy
03 Hit Parade 2006 Buy
04 Hit and Run 2008 Buy
05 Keller in Dallas 2009 Buy
06 Hit Me 2012 Buy
07 Keller's Adjustment 2012 Buy
08 Keller on the Spot 2013 Buy
09 Keller's Therapy 2013 Buy
10 Keller's Horoscope 2013 Buy
11 Keller's Fedora 2016 Buy
12 Keller's Homecoming 2016 Buy
13 Keller's Designated Hitter 2016 Buy
14 Keller the Dogkiller 2016 Buy
15 Keller in Des Moines 2016 Buy
16 Quotidian Keller 2017 Buy
17 Keller on Horseback 2021 Buy
Akashic Noir Books in Reading Order 121 books / 2002-2025
01 San Francisco Noir 2002 Buy
02 Seattle Noir 2003 Buy
03 Bronx Noir 2003 Buy
04 Brooklyn Noir 2004 Buy
05 Hasidic Noir 2004 Buy
06 Brooklyn Noir 2 2005 Buy
07 Chicago Noir 2005 Buy
08 Dublin Noir 2005 Buy
09 Manhattan Noir 2006 Buy
10 Miami Noir 2006 Buy
11 D.C. Noir 2006 Buy
12 Baltimore Noir 2006 Buy
13 Twin Cities Noir 2006 Buy
14 London Noir 2006 Buy
15 New Orleans Noir 2007 Buy
16 Los Angeles Noir 2007 Buy
17 Wall Street Noir 2007 Buy
18 Havana Noir 2007 Buy
19 Detroit Noir 2007 Buy
20 Queens Noir 2008 Buy
21 Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But the Truth 2008 Buy
22 Toronto Noir 2008 Buy
23 Las Vegas Noir 2008 Buy
24 Trinidad Noir 2008 Buy
25 D.C. Noir 2 2008 Buy
26 Manhattan Noir 2 2008 Buy
27 Paris Noir 2008 Buy
28 Istanbul Noir 2008 Buy
29 Boston Noir 2009 Buy
30 Rome Noir 2009 Buy
31 San Francisco Noir 2 2009 Buy
32 Portland Noir 2009 Buy
33 Delhi Noir 2009 Buy
34 Phoenix Noir 2009 Buy
35 Los Angeles Noir 2 2010 Buy
36 Mexico City Noir 2010 Buy
37 Richmond Noir 2010 Buy
38 Orange County Noir 2010 Buy
39 Indian Country Noir 2010 Buy
40 Moscow Noir 2010 Buy
41 Lone Star Noir 2010 Buy
42 Philadelphia Noir 2010 Buy
43 Haiti Noir 2010 Buy
44 Copenhagen Noir 2010 Buy
45 Pittsburgh Noir 2011 Buy
46 San Diego Noir 2011 Buy
47 Barcelona Noir 2011 Buy
48 Cape Cod Noir 2011 Buy
49 New Jersey Noir 2011 Buy
50 Staten Island Noir 2012 Buy
51 Mumbai Noir 2012 Buy
52 Long Island Noir 2012 Buy
53 Venice Noir 2012 Buy
54 Kingston Noir 2012 Buy
55 St. Petersburg Noir 2012 Buy
56 Kansas City Noir 2012 Buy
57 Boston Noir 2 2012 Buy
58 USA Noir 2013 Buy
59 Manila Noir 2013 Buy
60 Buffalo Noir 2013 Buy
61 Dallas Noir 2013 Buy
62 Haiti Noir 2 2013 Buy
63 Singapore Noir 2014 Buy
64 Prison Noir 2014 Buy
65 Tel Aviv Noir 2014 Buy
66 Tehran Noir 2014 Buy
67 Belfast Noir 2014 Buy
68 Helsinki Noir 2014 Buy
69 Rio Noir 2014 Buy
70 Providence Noir 2015 Buy
71 Chicago Noir: The Classics 2015 Buy
72 Memphis Noir 2015 Buy
73 Zagreb Noir 2015 Buy
74 Marseille Noir 2015 Buy
75 Beirut Noir 2015 Buy
76 New Orleans Noir: The Classics 2016 Buy
77 Stockholm Noir 2016 Buy
78 Brussels Noir 2016 Buy
79 Mississippi Noir 2016 Buy
80 St. Louis Noir 2016 Buy
81 Prague Noir 2016 Buy
82 San Juan Noir 2016 Buy
83 Oakland Noir 2017 Buy
84 Trinidad Noir: The Classics 2017 Buy
85 Atlanta Noir 2017 Buy
86 New Haven Noir 2017 Buy
87 Montana Noir 2017 Buy
88 Buenos Aires Noir 2017 Buy
89 Montreal Noir 2017 Buy
90 Berlin Noir 2018 Buy
91 S’o Paulo Noir 2018 Buy
92 Santa Cruz Noir 2018 Buy
93 Lagos Noir 2018 Buy
94 Marrakech Noir 2018 Buy
95 Baghdad Noir 2018 Buy
96 Vancouver Noir 2018 Buy
97 Sydney Noir 2018 Buy
98 Hong Kong Noir 2018 Buy
99 Amsterdam Noir 2019 Buy
100 Milwaukee Noir 2019 Buy
101 Houston Noir 2019 Buy
102 Nairobi Noir 2020 Buy
103 Columbus Noir 2020 Buy
104 Santa Fe Noir 2020 Buy
105 Alabama Noir 2020 Buy
106 Berkeley Noir 2020 Buy
107 Addis Ababa Noir 2020 Buy
108 Tampa Bay Noir 2020 Buy
109 Miami Noir: The Classics 2020 Buy
110 Accra Noir 2020 Buy
111 Belgrade Noir 2020 Buy
112 Palm Springs Noir 2021 Buy
113 Paris Noir: The Suburbs 2022 Buy
114 Denver Noir 2022 Buy
115 South Central Noir 2022 Buy
116 Cleveland Noir 2023 Buy
117 East Jerusalem Noir 2023 Buy
118 West Jerusalem Noir 2023 Buy
119 Honolulu Noir 2024 Buy
120 Sacramento Noir 2025 Buy
121 Hamburg Noir 2025 Buy
01 Burglars Can't Be Choosers 1977 Buy
02 The Burglar in the Closet 1978 Buy
03 The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling 1979 Buy
04 The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza 1980 Buy
05 The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian 1983 Buy
06 Like a Thief in the Night 1983 Buy
07 The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams 1994 Buy
08 The Burglar Takes a Cat 1994 Buy
09 The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart 1995 Buy
10 The Burglar in the Library 1997 Buy
11 The Burglar in the Rye 1998 Buy
12 The Burglar Who Dropped in on Elvis 1999 Buy
13 The Burglar on the Prowl 2001 Buy
14 The Burglar Who Smelled Smoke 2011 Buy
15 A Bad Night for Burglars 2011 Buy
16 The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons 2013 Buy
17 The Burglar in Short Order 2020 Buy
18 The Burglar Who Met Fredric Brown 2022 Buy
01 A Madwoman's Diary / Sensuous 1972 Buy
02 Getting Off 2011 Buy
03 The Trouble with Eden 2016 Buy
04 Shadows 2016 Buy
05 Enough of Sorrow 2016 Buy
06 Threesome 2016 Buy
07 Warm and Willing 2016 Buy
08 Thirty 2016 Buy
01 Babe in the Woods 1960 Buy
01 He-Men, Bag Men & Nymphos(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle,Walter Kaylin) 2013 Buy
02 Cryptozoology Anthology(By: David Coleman,Wyatt Doyle) 2015 Buy
03 A Handful of Hell(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle,Robert F. Dorr) 2016 Buy
04 Barbarians on Bikes(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle) 2016 Buy
05 I Watched Them Eat Me Alive(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle) 2017 Buy
06 Pollen's Women(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle,Samson Pollen) 2018 Buy
07 Cuba: Sugar, Sex, and Slaughter(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle) 2018 Buy
08 Pollen's Action(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle,Samson Pollen) 2019 Buy
09 Eva: Men's Adventure Supermodel(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle) 2019 Buy
10 Mort Kunstler(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle) 2019 Buy
11 One Man Army(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle,Gil Cohen) 2020 Buy
12 Exotic Adventures of Robert Silverberg(By: Robert Silverberg,Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle) 2021 Buy
13 Maneaters(By: Mort K’nstler,Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle) 2021 Buy
14 George Gross: Covered(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle) 2022 Buy
15 The Naked and the Deadly 2023 Buy
16 Atomic Werewolves and Man-Eating Plants(By: Robert Deis,Wyatt Doyle) 2023 Buy
Non-Fiction Books in Reading Order 24 books / 1970-2021
01 The Wife-Swap Report 1970 Buy
02 3 is Not a Crowd 1971 Buy
03 Sex and the Stewardess 1972 Buy
04 The Sex Therapists 1972 Buy
05 Different Strokes 1974 Buy
06 Total Sexuality 1974 Buy
07 Writing the Novel from Plot to Print to Pixel 1979 Buy
08 Telling Lies for Fun & Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers 1981 Buy
09 Write for Your Life 1986 Buy
10 Spider, Spin Me A Web: A Handbook for Fiction Writers 1988 Buy
11 After Hours: Conversations With Lawrence Block 1995 Buy
12 Gangsters, Swindlers, Killers, and Thieves: The Lives and Crimes of Fifty American Villains 2004 Buy
13 Step by Step: A Pedestrian Memoir 2009 Buy
14 The Liar's Bible 2011 Buy
15 The Liar's Companion 2011 Buy
16 The Male Hustler 2012 Buy
17 Wide Open 2012 Buy
18 Doing It! - Going Beyond the Sexual Revolution 2012 Buy
19 Come Fly With Us 2012 Buy
20 Beyond Group Sex 2012 Buy
21 The Crime of Our Lives 2015 Buy
22 Hunting Buffalo With Bent Nails 2019 Buy
23 A Writer Prepares 2021 Buy
24 Afterthoughts: Version 2.0 2021 Buy
01 L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories 2010 Buy
02 Black DahliaWhite Rose(By: Joyce Carol Oates) 2011 Buy
01 If You Can't Stand the Heat 2013 Buy
02 Rude Awakening 2013 Buy
03 You Can Call Me Lucky 2013 Buy
04 Clean Slate 2013 Buy
05 Waitress Wanted 2013 Buy
06 Jilling 2013 Buy
07 Conjugal Rites 2013 Buy
08 One Kind Favor I Ask of You 2013 Buy
09 Don't Get in the Car 2013 Buy
10 Fun with Brady and Angelica 2013 Buy
11 Zeroing In 2013 Buy
12 Unfinished Business 2013 Buy
01 Such Men are Dangerous 1969 Buy
02 The Triumph of Evil 1972 Buy
03 Not Comin' Home to You 1974 Buy
01 The Sins of the Fathers 1976 Buy
02 Time to Murder and Create 1976 Buy
03 In the Midst of Death 1976 Buy
04 A Candle for the Bag Lady 1977 Buy
05 A Stab in the Dark 1981 Buy
06 Eight Million Ways to Die 1982 Buy
07 By the Dawn's Early Light 1984 Buy
08 When the Sacred Ginmill Closes 1986 Buy
09 Out on the Cutting Edge 1989 Buy
10 A Ticket to the Boneyard 1990 Buy
11 Batman’s Helpers 1990 Buy
12 A Dance at the Slaughterhouse 1991 Buy
13 A Walk Among the Tombstones 1992 Buy
14 The Devil Knows You're Dead 1993 Buy
15 The Merciful Angel of Death 1993 Buy
16 A Long Line of Dead Men 1994 Buy
17 Even the Wicked 1996 Buy
18 Out the Window 1997 Buy
19 Looking for David 1997 Buy
20 Everybody Dies 1998 Buy
21 Let's Get Lost 2000 Buy
22 Hope to Die 2001 Buy
23 A Moment of Wrong Thinking 2002 Buy
24 All the Flowers are Dying 2005 Buy
25 Mick Ballou Looks at the Blank Screen 2011 Buy
26 A Drop of the Hard Stuff 2011 Buy
27 One Last Night at Grogan’s 2011 Buy
28 A Time to Scatter Stones 2018 Buy
29 The Autobiography of Matthew Scudder 2023 Buy
01 Murder under the Christmas Tree 2016 Buy
02 Murder on Christmas Eve 2017 Buy
03 A Very Murderous Christmas 2018 Buy
04 Murder at Christmas 2019 Buy
05 Murder in Midwinter 2020 Buy
06 Murder on a Winter's Night 2021 Buy
07 Murder in the Falling Snow 2022 Buy
01 No Score 1970 Buy
02 Chip Harrison Scores Again 1971 Buy
03 Make Out with Murder 1974 Buy
04 The Topless Tulip Caper 1975 Buy
05 As Dark as Christmas Gets 2011 Buy
06 Death of the Mallory Queen 2016 Buy

Where to start with Lawrence Block

What is the best order to read Lawrence Block 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.

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