Following up on my First in Series post and, again inspired by Moonlight Reader, this reading list collects all of my ongoing series; i.e. all series that I have started and neither fully completed nor decided to discontinue. Like my First in Series list, this is primarily for my own reference, so in order not to have too many sub-series sections I’m combining golden age and noir mysteries into classic crime fiction, ditto both major branches of speculative fiction (sci-fi and fantasy), and my major areas of nonfiction interest (history and biographies / memoirs).
Wherever I didn’t start reading a given series in order, I’m listing book 1 (not crossed out) in addition to the (crossed out) completed books to mark this fact. By the same token, since I didn’t start all of the series with book 1, it makes more sense to me to actually record the books I’v already read rather than the one following next after my respective last read. — Once I have read all books belonging to a series, it is moved to my completed series / authors list.
CLASSIC MYSTERIES / CRIME FICTION
(GOLDEN AGE & NOIR)
Margery Allingham: Albert Campion
– read all books through No. 16 (Hide My Eyes), plus assorted short stories
Eric Ambler: Charles Latimer
1. The Mask of Dimitrios
Phoebe Atwood Taylor: Asey Mayo
1. The Cape Cod Mystery
H.C. Bailey: Reggie Fortune
1. Call Mr Fortune
4. Mr Fortune, Please
George Bellairs: Inspector Littlejohn
1. Littlejohn on Leave
3. Death of a Busybody
E.C. Bentley: Philip Trent
1. Trent’s Last Case
2. Trent’s Own Case
Anthony Berkeley: Roger Sheringham
1. The Layton Court Mystery
2. The Wychford Poisoning Case
4. The Silk Stocking Murders
5. The Poisoned Chocolates Case
8. Murder in the Basement9.
Jumping Jenny
Anthony Berkeley: Ambrose Chitterwick
1. The Piccadilly Murder
2. Trial and Error
Nicholas Blake: Nigel Strangeways
1. A Question of Proof
2. Thou Shell of Death
4. The Beast Must Die
7. The Case of the Abominable Snowman
8. Minute for Murder15.
The Sad Variety
Phyllis Bottome: Mark Chalmers
1. The Lifeline
Ernest Bramah: Max Carrados
1. The Tales of Max Carrados
Christianna Brand: Inspector Cockrill
1. Heads You Lose
2. Green for Danger
3. Suddenly at His Residence
4. Death of Jezebel
5. Fog of Doubt
6. Tour de Force– Completed.
Christianna Brand: Inspector Charlesworth
1. Death in High Heels
3. Death of Jezebel
4. Fog of Doubt
British Library Crime Classics: Short Story Anthologies
1. Capital Crimes: London Mysteries
2. Resorting to Murder: Holiday Mysteries
3. Murder at the Manor: Country House Mysteries4.
Serpents in Eden: Countryside Crimes
5. Miraculous Mysteries: Locked-Room Murders and Impossible Crimes
6. Continental Crimes
7. Foreign Bodies8.
The Long Arm of the Law: Classic Police Stories
9. Blood on the Tracks: Railway Mysteries
10. Deep Waters: Mysteries on the Waves11.
The Measure of Malice: Scientific Detective Stories
12. Settling Scores: Sporting Mysteries13.
Guilty Creatures: A Menagerie of Mysteries
14. Murder by the Book: Mysteries for Bibliophiles15.
The Edinburgh Mystery and Other Tales of Scottish Crime
16. Final Acts: Theatrical Mysteries
British Library Crime Classics: Christmas Anthologies
1. Silent Nights: Christmas Mysteries
2. Crimson Snow: Winter Mysteries
3. The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories4.
A Surprise for Christmas: and Other Seasonal Mysteries
Fredric Brown: Ed and Am Hunter
1. The Fabulous Clipjoint
2. The Dead Ringer
John Buchan: Richard Hannay
1. The 39 Steps
John Bude: Superintendent William Meredith
1. The Lake District Murder
Christopher Bush: Ludovic Travers
1. The Plumley Inheritance
2. The Perfect Murder Case
5. Dancing Death
Joanna Cannan: Inspector Guy Northeast
1. They Called the Police
Joanna Cannan: D.I. Price
1. Murder Included
Carol Carnac (Edith Caroline Rivett): Julian Rivers
1. A Double for Detection
8. Crossed Skis
John Dickson Carr: Dr. Gideon Fell
1. Hag’s Nook
5. Death-Watch
6. The Hollow Man
9. To Wake the Dead
15. Till Death Do Us Part
John Dickson Carr: Henri Bencolin
1. It Walks by Night4.
The Corpse in the Waxworks
Raymond Chandler: Philip Marlowe
1. The Big Sleep
2. Farewell, My Lovely
3. The High Window
5. The Little Sister
6. The Long Goodbye
J.J. Connington: Sir Clinton Driffield
1. Murder in the Maze
3. Mystery at Lynden Sands
Edmund Crispin: Gervase Fen
1. The Case of the Gilded Fly
2. Holy Disorders
3. The Moving Toyshop
4. Swan Song
5. Love Lies Bleeding
6. Buried for Pleasure
10. The Glimpses of the Moon
Freeman Wills Crofts: Inspector French
1. Inspector French’s Greatest Case
7. Mystery in the Channel
10. The Hog’s Back Mystery
Moray Dalton: Inspector Collier
1. One By One They Disappeared
2. The Night Of Fear
Moray Dalton: Hermann Glide
1. The Body In The Road
2. The Night Of Fear
Clemence Dane & Helen Simpson: Sir John Saumarez
1. Enter Sir John
Glyn Daniel: Sir Richard Cherrington
1. The Cambridge Murders
(Members of the) Detection Club: Round Robins
1. The Scoop / Behind the Screen
3. Ask a Policeman
5. Six Against the Yard
10. Verdict of 13
Note: The Floating Admiral duology (original book = round robin no. 2, book 2 (The Sinking Admiral) = round robin no. 14) completed.
Carter Dickson: Sir Henry Merrivale
1. The Plague Court Murders
2. The White Priory Murders
Francis Duncan: Mordecai Tremaine
1. They’ll Never Find Out
2. Murder Has a Motive
4. Murder for Christmas
Abandoned.
Brian Flynn: Anthony Bathurst
1. The Billiard-Room Mystery
4. The Murders Near Mapleton5.
The Five Red Fingers
R. Austin Freeman: Dr. Thorndyke
1. The Red Thumb Mark
3. The Eye of Osiris
4. The Singing Bone: Adventures of Dr. Thorndyke
Erle Stanley Gardner: Perry Mason
1. The Case of the Velvet Claws
37. The Case of the Fiery Fingers
Michael Gilbert: Henry Bohun
1. Smallbone Deceased
Michael Gilbert: Inspector Hazelrigg
1. Close Quarters
4. Smallbone Deceased
Anna Katharine Green: Ebenezer Gryce
1. The Leavenworth Case
Anna Katharine Green: Violet Strange
1. The Golden Slipper
Leonard Gribble: Inspector Slade
1. The Case Of The Marsden Rubies
16. The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
Dashiell Hammett: The Continental Op
1. Red Harvest
2. The Dain Curse
Cyril Hare: Francis Pettigrew
1. Tragedy at Law
Cyril Hare: Inspector Mallett
1. Tenant for Death2.
Death Is No Sportsman
3. Suicide Excepted
4. Tragedy at Law
Patricia Highsmith: Tom Ripley
1. The Talented Mr. Ripley
2. Ripley Under Ground
3. Ripley’s Game
E.W. Hornung: Raffles
1. Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman
Mary Kelly: Inspector Brett Nightingale
1. A Cold Coming
3. The Christmas Egg
Mary Kelly: Hedley Nicholson
1. The Spoilt Kill
C.H.B. Kitchin: Malcolm Warren
1. Death of My Aunt
2. Crime at Christmas
Ronald Knox: Miles Bredon
1. The Three Taps
3. The Body in the Silo
Maurice Leblanc: Arsène Lupin
1. Arsène Lupin, Gentleman cambrioleur
2. Arsène Lupin contre Herlock Sholmes
** Arsène Lupin (novelized play) Abandoned thereafter.
Gaston Leroux: Joseph Rouletabille
1. Le mystère de la chambre jaune
Nap Lombard: Agnes and Andrew Kinghof
2. Murder’s a Swine
E.C.R. Lorac: Robert MacDonald
1. The Murder on the Burrows
12. These Names Make Clues
13. Bats in the Belfry
25. Checkmate to Murder
26. Murder by Matchlight
37. Murder in the Mill-Race
Margaret Millar: Tom Aragon
1. Ask for Me Tomorrow
Gladys Mitchell: Mrs. Bradley
1. Speedy Death
2. The Mystery of a Butcher’s Shop
4. The Saltmarsh Murders
5. Death at the Opera
7. Death Comes at Christmas (aka Dead Men’s Morris)
23. Murder in the Snow (aka The Groaning Spinney)
Stuart Palmer: Hildegarde Withers
1. The Penguin Pool Murder
Q. Patrick: Crime Files
1. File on Fenton and Farr
Ellery Queen: Ellery Queen, Detective
1. The Roman Hat Mystery5.
The Egyptian Cross Mystery
8. The Chinese Orange Mystery16.
Calamity Town Abandoned thereafter.
Clayton Rawson: The Great Merlini
1. Death From a Top Hat
5. The Great Merlini: The Complete Stories of the Magician Detective
Mary Roberts Rinehart: Nurse Hilda Adams
1. Miss Pinkerton
2. Locked Doors
Harriet Rutland: Mr. Winkley
– Completed.
Dorothy L. Sayers, Jill Paton Walsh: Wimsey & Vane Sequels
1. Thrones, Dominations
Georges Simenon: Maigret
1. Pietr le Letton
4. Le pendu de Saint-Pholien
6. Le chien jaune
11. La guinguette à deux sous
13. L’affaire Saint-Fiacre
16. Le fou de Bergerac
28. Les vacances de Maigret
30. La première enquête de Maigret
36. Maigret au Picratt’s
38. Maigret et la Grande Perche
41. Maigret et l’homme du banc
44. Maigret à l’école
46. Maigret chez le ministre
48. Maigret tend un piège
52. Les Scrupules de Maigret
56. Maigret et les vieillards
68. Maigret hésite
75. Maigret et Monsieur Charles
Rex Stout: Nero Wolfe
1. Fer-De-Lance
5. Too Many Cooks
7. Over My Dead Body
11. The Silent Speaker
13. And Be a Villain
14. Trouble in Triplicate
16. Three Doors to Death
20. Triple Jeopardy
21. Prisoner’s Base
22. The Golden Spiders
26. Three Witnesses
28. Three for the Chair
30. And Four to Go
31. Champagne for Death
33. Three at Wolfe’s Door
34. Too Many Clients
36. Homicide Trinity
38. The Mother Hunt
39. Trio for Blunt Instruments
41. The Doorbell Rang
42. Death of a Doxy
Josephine Tey: Inspector Alan Grant
– Completed.
Molly Thynne: Dr. Constantine
1. The Crime at the ‘Noah’s Ark’3.
He Dies and Makes No Sign
J.V. Turner: Amos Petrie
1. Death Must Have Laughed
7. Below the Clock
S.S. Van Dine: Philo Vance
1. The Benson Murder Case
6. The Kennel Murder Case
Various Authors & Tony Medawar (ed.): Bodies from the Library
1. Bodies from the Library
2. Bodies from the Library 2
3. Bodies From the Library 34.
Bodies from the Library 45.
Bodies from the Library 5
Henry Wade: Inspector Poole
1. The Missing Partners
9. Lonely Magdalen
Patricia Wentworth: Miss Silver
– see list of read books HERE.
Anthony Wynne: Dr. Eustace Hailey
1. The Sign of Evil
12. Murder of a Lady
Seishi Yokomizo: Kosuke Kindaichi
1. The Honjin Murders
SILVER AGE & CONTEMPORARY CRIME & MYSTERY
Catherine Aird: Inspector Sloan
1. The Religious Body2.
Henrietta Who?3.
The Stately Home Murder7.
Parting Breath
Akashic Noir
Barcelona Noir
Helsinki Noir
Los Angeles Noir
New Orleans Noir
Trinidad Noir
Robert Arthur, et al.: The Three Investigators
1. The Secret of Terror Castle
1. Die drei ??? und der 5. Advent
2. Stille Nacht, düstere Nacht
3. O du finstere
Adventskalender Kids
1. Der Adventskalender
11. 24 Tage Chaos im Zoo
Jean-Luc Bannalec: Kommissar Dupin
1. Bretonische Verhältnisse
Nevada Barr: Anna Pigeon
1. Track of the Cat
2. A Superior Death3.
Ill Wind
Stephen Booth: Cooper & Fry
1. Black Dog
Simon Brett: Charles Paris
1. Cast, in Order of Disappearance
4. An Amateur Corpse
Ken Bruen: Jack Taylor
1. The Guards
Alafair Burke: Ellie Hatcher
1. Dead Connection
3. 212
4. Never Tell
Andrea Camilleri: Inspector Montalbano
1. The Shape of Water
Andrea Carter: Inishowen
1. Death at Whitewater Church
Suzanne Chazin: Jimmy Vega
1. Land of Careful Shadows
Tom Clancy: Jack Ryan
1. Patriot Games
3. The Hunt for Red October
5. Clear and Present Danger
Ann Cleeves: Shetland
1. Raven Black
2. White Nights
3. Red Bones
4. Blue Lightning
Ann Cleeves: Two Rivers
1. The Long Call
2.5 The Girls on the Shore
Ann Cleeves: Inspector Ramsay
1. A Lesson in Dying
Michael Connelly: Harry Bosch
– read all books through No. 25 (The Dark Hours)
Michael Connelly: Renée Ballard
1. The Late Show
2. Dark Sacred Night
3. The Night Fire
4. The Dark Hours
Michael Connelly: Mickey Haller
– read all books through No. 6 (The Law of Innocence)
Michael Connelly: Jack McEvoy
1. The Poet
2. The Scarecrow
3. Fair Warning
Robin Cook: Dr. Marissa Blumenthal
1. Outbreak
Patricia Cornwell: Kay Scarpetta
1. Postmortem
9. Point of Origin
John Connolly: Charlie Parker
1. Every Dead Thing
Deborah Crombie: Duncan Kincaid & Gemma Jones
1. A Share in Death
5. Dreaming of the Bones6.
Kissed a Sad Goodbye9.
Now May You Weep
Len Deighton: Bernard Samson
1. Berlin Game
James D. Doss: Charlie Moon
1. The Shaman Sings
3. The Shaman’s Bones
5. The Night Visitor
6. Grandmother Spider
7. White Shell Woman
Martin Edwards: Lake District Mysteries
1. The Coffin Trail
Edwardson: Erik Winter
1. Death Angels
3. Frozen Tracks
Joy Ellis: D.I. Nikki Galena
– read all books through No. 14 (Graves on the Fens)
Joy Ellis: D.I. Rowan Jackman / D.S. Marie Evans
– read all books through No. 9 (Solace House)
Joy Ellis: Matt Ballard
– read all books through No. 5 (Trick of the Night)
Kate Ellis: D.S. Wesley Peterson
1. The Merchant’s House2.
The Armada Boy
Chris Ewan: Good Thief’s Guides
1. The Good Thief’s Guide to Amsterdam
2. The Good Thief’s Guide to Paris
Ian Fleming: James Bond
1. Casino Royale
6. Dr. No
7. Goldfinger
13. The Man With the Golden Gun
15.1 Quantum of Solace
Jessica Fletcher / Donald Bain: Murder, She Wrote
1. Gin and Daggers
2. Manhattans and Murder
24. Margaritas and Murder
Karin Fossum: Inspector Sejer
1. Eva’s Eye
3. He Who Fears the Wolf
Tana French: Dublin Murder Squad
1. In the Woods
3. Faithful Place
Alan Furst: Night Soldiers
1. Night Soldiers
Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling): Cormoran Strike
– read all books through No. 4 (Lethal White)
Elizabeth George: Inspector Lynley
– read all books through No. 16 (This Body of Death), except books 12 (A Place of Hiding) and 14 (What Came Before He Shot Her). Abandoned thereafter.
Bartholomew Gill: Peter McGarr
1. The Death of an Irish Politician (aka Mc Garr And The Politician’s Wife)
15. The Death of an Irish Sinner
Sue Grafton: Kinsey Millhone
1. “A” Is for Alibi2.
“B” Is for Burglar3.
“C” Is for Corpse
Peter Grainger: D.S. Smith
1. An Accidental Death2.
But for the Grace
J.M. Gregson: Lambert & Hook
1. Murder at the Nineteenth
Elly Griffiths: Ruth Galloway
1. The Crossing Places
Martha Grimes: Richard Jury
– read all books through No. 21 (Dust). Abandoned thereafter.
Martha Grimes: Emma Graham
1. Hotel Paradise
John Grisham: Jake Brigance
1. A Time to Kill
Carolyn Haines: Sarah Booth Delaney
1. Them Bones
25. Bones of Holly
Denise Hamilton: Eve Diamond
1. The Jasmine Trade
4. Savage Garden
Mary Higgins Clark: Alvirah and Willy
1. Weep No More, My Lady
3. All Through the Night
Arnaldur Indriðason: Reykjavik Murder Mysteries
1. Sons of Dust
5. Voices
Michael Innes: Sir John Appleby
1. Death at the President’s Lodging
6. There Came Both Mist and Snow
J.A. Jance: Joanna Brady
1. Desert Heat
Graeme Kent: Sister Conchita & Sergeant Ben Kella
1. Devil-Devil
2. One Blood
John Le Carré: George Smiley
1. Call for the Dead
2. A Murder of Quality
3. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
4. The Looking Glass War
5. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
7. Smiley’s People
Elizabeth Lemarchand: Pollard & Toye
1. Death of an Old Girl
Donna Leon: Commissario Guido Brunetti
1. Death at La Fenice
Elmore Leonard: Chili Palmer
1. Get Shorty
Attica Locke: Highway 59
1. Bluebird, Bluebird
Kylie Logan: Jazz Ramsay
1. The Scent of Murder
Peter Lovesey: Peter Diamond
1. The Last Detective
Henning Mankell: Wallander
– read all books through No. 8 (Firewall)
Henning Mankell: Linda Wallander
1. Before the Frost
Peter May: Lewis Trilogy
1. The Blackhouse
2. The Lewis Man
3.5 Coffin Road
Sharyn McCrumb: Ballad Novels
1. If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O
3. She Walks These Hills
5. The Ballad of Frankie Silver
9. The Ballad of Tom Dooley
12. The Unquiet Grave
Val McDermid: Karen Pirie
– read all books through No. 6 (Still Life)
Val McDermid: Carol Jordan / Tony Hill
1. The Mermaids Singing
2. The Wire in the Blood
5. Beneath the Bleeding
9. Splinter the Silence
Val McDermid: Kate Brannigan
1. Dead Beat
Michael McGarrity: Kevin Kerney
1. Tularosa
William McIlvanney: D.I. Jack Laidlaw
1. Laidlaw
Dervla McTiernan: Cormac Reilly
0.5 The Sisters
0.7 The Roommate
1. The Ruin
John Mortimer: Rumpole
– read all books except for No. 14 (Rumpole and the Reign of Terror)
Patricia Moyes: Inspector Henry Tibbett
1. Dead Men Don’t Ski
2. The Sunken Sailor
Mukoma wa Ngugi: Ishmael & O
1. Nairobi Heat
Marcia Muller: Sharon McCone
1. Edwin of the Iron Shoes2.
Ask the Cards a Question3.
The Cheshire Cat’s Eye
Barbara Nadel: Inspector Ikmen
1. Belshazzar’s Daughter
17. Land of the Blind
Barbara Neely: Blanche White
1. Blanche on the Lam
Jo Nesbø: Harry Hole
1. The Bat
7. The Snowman
Gil North: Sergeant Cluff
1. Sergeant Cluff Stands Firm
Richard Osman: The Thursday Murder Club
1. The Thursday Murder Club2.
The Man Who Died Twice
Sara Paretsky: V.I. Warshawski
1. Indemnity Only2.
Deadlock
3. Killing Orders
4. Bitter Medicine
5. Blood Shot (aka Toxic Shock)
7. Guardian Angel
8. Tunnel Vision
10. Total Recall
Robert B. Parker: Spenser
1. The Godwulf Manuscript
21. Walking Shadow
22. Thin Air
24 Small Vices
27. Hugger Mugger
42. Silent Night
Iain Pears: Jonathan Argyll
1. The Raphael Affair
5. Giotto’s Hand
George Pelecanos: Derek Strange / Terry Quinn
– read all books through No. 4 (Hard Revolution)
George Pelecanos: D.C. Quartet
1. The Big Blowdown
4. Shame the Devil
Otto Penzler (ed.), Various Authors: Sports Mystery Anthologies
1. Murderers’ Row
2. Murder at the Foul Line
2. Murder Is My Racquet
4. Murder at the Racetrack
Akif Pirinçci: Felidae
1. Felidae
Ian Rankin: Inspector Rebus
– read all books through No. 24 (A Heart Full of Headstones)
Ian Rankin: Malcolm Fox
1. The Complaints
2. The Impossible Dead
Dolores Redondo: Trilogía del Baztán
1. El guardián invisible
Kathy Reichs: Temperance Brennan
1. Déjà Dead
5. Grave Secrets
Ruth Rendell: Inspector Wexford
1. From Doon With Death
10. A Sleeping Life
15. Kissing the Gunner’s Daughter
16. Simisola
19. The Babes in the Wood
21. Not in the Flesh
22. The Monster in the Box
24. No Man’s Nightingale
Marcie R. Rendon: Cash Blackbear
1. Murder on the Red River2.
Girl Gone Missing
Stella Rimington: Liz Carlyle
– read all books through No. 3 (Illegal Action)
Peter Robinson: Inspector Alan Banks
1. Gallows View
10. In a Dry Season
11. Cold Is the Grave
14. Playing With Fire
17. Friend of the Devil
David Rosenfelt: Andy Carpenter
1. Open and Shut
20. Dachshund Through the Snow24.
Best in Snow
LJ Ross: DCI Ryan
1. Holy Island
S.J. Rozan: Lydia Chin / Bill Smith
1. China Trade
Lisa Scottoline: Rosato & Associates
1. Think Twice
5. Moment of Truth
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir: The Children’s House
1. The Legacy
Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö: Martin Beck
1. Roseanna
Julie Smith: Talba Wallis
1. Louisiana Hotshot
Dana Stabenow: Kate Shugak
1. A Cold Day for Murder
2. A Fatal Thaw3.
Dead in the Water
Cath Staincliffe: Blue Murder
1. Blue Murder
2. Hit and Run
Richard Stark: Parker
1. The Hunter
Peter Temple: Jack Irish
1. Bad Debts
2. Black Tide
Peter Temple: The Broken Shore
1. The Broken Shore
Ben Tomasson: Frederik Forsberg
1. Forsberg und das verschwundene Mädchen
P.J. Tracy: Margaret Nolan
1. Deep into the Dark
Trevanian: Jonathan Hemlock
1. The Eiger Sanction
Trevanian & Don Winslow: Shibumi / Satori
1. Trevanian: Shibumi
Scott Turow: Kindle County
1. Presumed Innocent
Helene Tursten: Inspector Irene Huss
1. Detective Inspector Huss
2. Night Rounds
Series currently in abeyance.
Various Authors: Audible Originals: Bard – Jali – Skald
Skald (& Bard (= LitFic)) Abandoned thereafter.
Donald E. Westlake: John Dortmunder
1. The Hot Rock
Ulrich Wickert: Jacques Ricou
1. Der Richter aus Paris
R.D. Wingfield: D.I. Jack Frost
1. Frost at Christmas
6. A Killing Frost
HISTORICAL FICTION (INCL. HISTORICAL MYSTERIES)
David Ashton: McLevy (BBC Radio Drama)
1. Series 1 & 2
James Clavell: Asia Saga
1. Shōgun
5. Noble House
Barbara Cleverly: Joe Sandilands
1. The Last Kashmiri Rose
2. Ragtime in Simla
Max Allan Collins: Road to Perdition
1. Road to Perdition
Gary Corby: The Athenian Mysteries
1. The Pericles Commission
2. The Ionia Sanction
3. Sacred Games
Matthew Costello & Neil Richards: Mydworth Mysteries
1. A Shot in the Dark2.
A Little Night Murder3.
London Calling!
Lindsey Davis: Marcus Didius Falco
1. The Silver Pigs
Assia Djebar: Tétralogie Maghreb
1. L’amour, la fantasia
Paul Doherty: The Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan
1. The Nightingale Gallery
11. Bloodstone
Ruth Downie: Gaius Petreius Ruso
1. Medicus
David Downing: John Russell
1. Zoo Station
Alexandre Dumas: The Last Valois
1. La Reine Margot
Dorothy Dunnett: Lymond Chronicles
1. The Game of Kings
Martin Edwards: Rachel Savernake
1. Gallows Court
James Ellroy: L.A. Quartet
1. The Black Dahlia
3. L.A. Confidential
J.G. Farrell: Empire Trilogy
1. Troubles
Ken Follett: Kingsbridge
1. The Pillars of the Earth
2. World Without End
Jason Goodwin: Investigator Yashim Togalu
1. The Janissary Tree
Barbara Hambly: Benjamin January
1. A Free Man of Color
2. Fever Season
3. Graveyard Dust
Robert Harris: Cicero
1. Imperium
Antonia Hodgson: Tom Hawkins
1. The Devil in the Marshalsea
Tim Hodkinson: Sir Richard Savage
1. Lions of the Grail
M.M. Kaye: Death in …
1. Death in Kashmir
Dennis Lehane: Coughlin
1. The Given Day
David Liss: Benjamin Weaver
1. A Conspiracy of Paper
Peter Lovesey: Albert Edward, Prince of Wales
1. Bertie and the Tin Man
2. Bertie and the Seven Bodies
Sharon Maas: Winnie Cox
0.5. The Small Fortune of Dorothea Q.
1. The Secret Life of Winnie Cox
Hilary Mantel: Thomas Cromwell
1. Wolf Hall
2. Bring Up the Bodies
Shirley McKay: Hew Cullen
1. Hue & Cry
The Medieval Murderers
– read all books through No. 8 (The First Murder), plus No. 10 (The Deadliest Sin)
* * * * *
Series Associated with The Medieval Murderers:
Simon Beaufort: Geoffrey Mappestone
1. Murder in the Holy City
6. Deadly Inheritance
Susanna Gregory: Matthew Bartholomew
1. A Plague on Both Your Houses
2. An Unholy Alliance
3. A Bone of Contention
9. A Killer in Winter
Susanna Gregory: Thomas Chaloner
1. A Conspiracy of Violence
Philip Gooden: Nick Revill
1. Sleep of Death
Bernard Knight: Crowner John
1. Crowner’s Crusade
Michael Jecks: Knights Templar
1. The Last Templar
6. The Leper’s Return
12. The Sticklepath Strangler
14. The Mad Monk of Gidleigh
15. The Templar’s Penance
17. The Tolls of Death
18. The Chapel of Bones19.
The Butcher of St. Peter’s
22. The Malice of Unnatural Death
Ian Morson: William Falconer
1. Falconer’s Crusade
6. Falconer and the Ritual of Death
* * * * *
Karen B. Menuhin: Heathcliff Lennox
1. Murder at Melrose Court
2. The Black Cat Murders3.
The Curse of Braeburn Castle
Walter Mosley: Easy Rawlins
– read all books through No. 3 (White Butterfly)
Abir Mukherjee: Wyndham & Banerjee
1. A Rising Man
Emmuska Orczy: The Scarlet Pimpernel
1. The Scarlet Pimpernel
2. I Will Repay
3. The Elusive Pimpernel
4. El Dorado
6. The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel
11. Mam’zelle Guillotine
Robin Paige: Victorian Mysteries
1. Death at Bishop’s Keep
7. Death at Epsom Downs
Jean-François Parot: Nicolas Le Floch
1. L’énigme des Blancs-Manteaux
Sharon Kay Penman: Plantagenets
1. When Christ and His Saints Slept
2. Time and Chance
Sharon Kay Penman: Justin de Quincy
1. The Queen’s Man
Andrea Penrose: Wrexford & Sloane
1. Murder on Black Swan Lane
2. Murder at Half Moon Gate
5. Murder at the Royal Botanic Gardens
Arturo Pérez-Reverte: Captain Alatriste
1. Captain Alatriste
Anne Perry: Charlotte and Thomas Pitt
1. The Cater Street Hangman
21. The Whitechapel Conspiracy
Anne Perry: William Monk
1. The Face of a Stranger
2. A Dangerous Mourning
3. Defend and Betray
Anne Perry: Christmas Novellas
– read all books through No. 11 (A Christmas Hope)
Elizabeth Peters: Amelia Peabody
1. Crocodile on the Sandbank
2. The Curse of the Pharaohs3.
The Mummy Case
Jean Plaidy: Plantagenet Saga
1. The Plantagenet Prelude
7. Hammer of the Scots
Jean Plaidy: Tudor Saga
1.To Hold the Crown
5. Murder Most Royal
Candace Robb: Owen Archer
1. The Apothecary Rose
2. The Lady Chapel3.
The Nun’s Tale
5. The Riddle of St. Leonard’s
6. A Gift of Sanctuary
Candace Robb: Margaret Kerr
1. A Trust Betrayed
Priscilla Royal: Eleanor, Prioress of Tyndal
1. Wine of Violence
2. Tyrant of the Mind3.
Sorrow Without End4.
Justice for the Damned
Jed Rubenfeld: Sigmund Freud
1. The Interpretation of Murder
C.J. Sansom: Matthew Shardlake
– read all books through No. 7 (Tombland)
Neal Stephenson: Baroque Cycle
1. Quicksilver
Jane Thynne: Clara Vine
1. Black Roses
Rose Tremain: Merivel
1. Restoration
Peter Tremayne: Sister Fidelma
1. Absolution by Murder2.
Shroud for the Archbishop
Various Authors: Canongate Myths
1. Karen Armstrong: A Short History of Myth
2. Margaret Atwood: The Penelopiad
15. A.S. Byatt: Ragnarok
Kate Westbrook: The Moneypenny Diaries
1. Guardian Angel
Samantha Wilcoxson: Plantagenet Embers
– read all books through No. 3 (Queen of Martyrs)
COZY MYSTERIES
Ellie Alexander: Sloan Krause
1. Death on Tap
Donna Andrews: Meg Langslow
1. Murder with Peacocks2.
Murder with Puffins
10. Six Geese A-Slaying
16. Duck the Halls
18. The Nightingale Before Christmas
19. Lord of the Wings
24: Lark! The Herald Angels Sing
26. Owl Be Home for Christmas
28. The Gift of the Magpie30.
The Twelve Jays of Christmas32.
Dashing Through the Snowbirds
Lesley Cookman: Libby Sarjeant
1. Murder in Steeple Martin
3. Murder in Midwinter
14. Murder out of Tune
Matthew Costello & Neil Richards: Cherringham
1. Murder on Thames
2. Mystery at the Manor
3. Murder by Moonlight
4. Thick as Thieves
5. Last Train to London
6. The Curse of Mabb’s Farm
7. The Body in the Lake
8. Snowblind
9. Playing Dead
25. Secret Santa
Joanne Fluke: Hannah Swensen
1. Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder
9.5. Candy Cane Murder
Jacqueline Frost: Christmas Tree Farm
1. Twelve Slays of Christmas
Carolyn Haines: Sarah Booth Delaney
1. Them Bones
25. Bones of Holly
Lilian Jackson Braun: The Cat Who …
1. The Cat Who Could Read Backwards
16. The Cat Who Came to Breakfast
17. The Cat Who Blew the Whistle
18. The Cat Who Said Cheese
19. The Cat Who Tailed a Thief
Miranda James: Cat in the Stacks Mysteries
1. Murder Past Due
Charlotte MacLeod: Madoc and Janet Rhys
1. A Pint of Murder
2. Murder Goes Mumming
Helena Marchmont: Bunburry
1. Murder at the Mousetrap
2. A Murderous Ride
3. A Taste of Murder4.
Death of a Ladies’ Man
5. Drop Dead, Gorgeous
6. Murder in High Places7.
Sweet Revenge8.
Sheep Secrets9.
Deadlier Than Fiction
Peter Mayle: Sam Levitt
1. The Vintage Caper
FANTASY / SCIENCE FICTION / SUPERNATURAL
Douglas Adams: The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
1. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Jim Butcher: The Cinder Spires
1. The Aeronaut’s Windlass
Michael Crichton: Jurassic Park
1. Jurassic Park
Ian Doescher: William Shakespeare’s Star Wars
1. The Phantom Menace
4. Verily, a New Hope
Neil Gaiman: American Gods
1. American Gods
1.1 The Monarch of the Glen
Barbara Hambly: Winterlands
1. Dragonsbane
T. Kingfisher: The Saint of Steel
1. Paladin’s Grace
Abandoned thereafter.
Ellen Kushner: Riverside
1. Swordspoint
Ursula K. Le Guin: Earthsea Cycle
1. A Wizard of Earthsea
Scott Lynch: Gentleman Bastard
1. The Lies of Locke Lamora
Christopher Paolini: Inheritance Cycle
– read all books through No. 3 (Brisingr)
Terry Pratchett: Discworld
– read all books through No. 15 (Men at Arms), plus:
18. Maskerade
19. Feet of Clay
20. Hogfather
23. Carpe Jugulum
30. The Wee Free Men
31. Monstrous Regiment
32. A Hat Full of Sky35.
Wintersmith38.
I Shall Wear MidnightCompanion:
Mrs. Bradshaw’s Handbook
Terry Pratchett: The Science of Discworld
1. The Science of Discworld
John Scalzi: The Dispatcher
1. The Dispatcher
Mary Stewart: Merlin Trilogy
1. The Crystal Cave
2. The Hollow Hills
Michael J. Sullivan: Legends of the First Empire
1. Age of Myth
2. Age of Swords
3. Age of War
4. Age of Legend5.
Age of Death6.
Age of Empyre– Completed.
Michael J. Sullivan: Riyria Chronicles
1. The Crown Tower
1.5 The Viscount and the Witch
2.5 The Jester
2.6 Professional Integrity
Michael J. Sullivan: Riyria Revelations
1. / 2. Theft of Swords
1. The Crown Conspiracy
2. Avempartha3. / 4.
Rise of Empire 3.
Nyphron Rising 4.
The Emerald Storm5. / 6.
Heir of Novron 5.
Wintertide 6.
Percepliquis – Completed.
Judith Tarr: The Hound and the Falcon
1. The Isle of Glass
J.R.R. Tolkien: Middle-earth
1. The Silmarillion
2. The Hobbit
3. The Lord of the Rings
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
– Completed.
4. Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth
5. Tales of the Perilous Realm
Roverandom
Farmer Giles of Ham
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
Smith of Wootton Major
Leaf by Niggle – Completed.
The Lays of Beleriand
8. Tales of Middle-Earth
Beren and Lúthien
The Children of Húrin
The Fall of Gondolin – Completed.
Martha Wells: Murderbot Diaries
1. All Systems Red
Abandoned thereafter.
CLASSICS & LITFIC
Pearl S. Buck: House of Earth
1. The Good Earth
3. A House Divided
Canongate Myths
1. Karen Armstrong: A Short History of Myth
2. Margaret Atwood: The Penelopiad
17. A.S. Byatt: Ragnarok
James Fenimore Cooper: The Leatherstocking Tales
1. The Deerslayer
2. The Last of the Mohicans
Agatha Christie: The Mary Westmacott Books
1. Giant’s Bread
2. Unfinished Portrait
3. Absent in the Spring
4. The Rose and the Yew Tree
5. A Daughter’s a Daughter
6. The Burden
TsiTsi Dangarembga: Nervous Conditions
1. Nervous Conditions
Robertson Davies: Deptford Trilogy
1. Fifth Business
E.M. Delafield: Diary of a Provincial Lady
1. The Diary of a Provincial Lady
Charles Dickens: The Christmas Books
1. A Christmas Carol
2. The Chimes
Assia Djebar: Maghreb Tetralogy
1. L’amour, la fantasia
Alexandre Dumas (pere): D’Artagnan Romances
1. Les trois mousquetaires (The Three Musketeers)
Elizabeth Gaskell: Cranford Chronicles
1. Cranford
3. My Lady Ludlow
Günter Grass: Danzig-Trilogie
1. Die Blechtrommel
Giovanni Guareschi: Don Camillo
1. The Little World of Don Camillo
Joanne Harris: Chocolat
1. Chocolat
James Herriot: All Creatures Great and Small
1. All Creatures Great and Small
X Cat Stories
Hogarth Shakespeare
1. Jeanette Winterson: The Gap of Time
3. Anne Tyler: Vinegar Girl
4. Margaret Atwood: Hag-Seed
Olivia Manning: Fortunes of War / The Balkan Trilogy
1. The Great Fortune2.
The Spoilt City
Penguin Great Loves
1. Vergil: Doomed Love
2. Pierre Abélard and Héloïse d’Argenteuil: Forbidden Fruit: From the Letters
9. Leo Tolstoy: The Kreutzer Sonata
18. Anaïs Nin: Eros Unbound
Rafael Sabatini: Captain Blood
1. Captain Blood
Rafael Sabatini: Scaramouche
1. Scaramouche
Walter Scott: Waverley Novels
1. Waverley
4. Rob Roy
5. Ivanhoe
7. Kenilworth
Walter Scott: Tales of My Landlord
1. The Black Dwarf & Old Mortality
2. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
3.1 The Bride of Lammermoor
Joseph Sheridan le Fanu: In a Glass Darkly
1. Carmilla
D.E. Stevenson: Barbara Buncle
1. Miss Buncle’s Book
Robert Louis Stevenson: David Balfour
1. Kidnapped
Angela Thirkell: Barsetshire
1. High Rising
Anthony Trollope: The Barchester Chronicles
1. The Warden
2. Barchester Towers
3. Doctor Thorne
4. Framley Parsonage
5. The Small House at Allington
6. The Last Chronicle of Barset– Completed.
Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer
1. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
John Updike: Eastwick
1. The Witches of Eastwick
Jules Verne: Voyages Extraordinaires
1. Cinq semaines en ballon
6. Vingt mille lieux sous les mers
14 Michel Strogoff
Edith Wharton: Old New York
1. False Dawn
P.G. Wodehouse: Jeeves
1. My Man Jeeves
5. Thank you, Jeeves
7. The Code of the Woosters
12. Jeeves in the Offing
P.G. Wodehouse: Ukridge
1. Ukridge
Émile Zola: Les Rougon-Macquart
1. La Fortune des Rougon
9. Nana
Various Authors: Audible Originals: Bard – Jali – Skald
Bard (literary fiction) & Skald (= crime fiction)) Abandoned thereafter.
HISTORY – (AUTO)BIOGRAPHY – Other Nonfiction
Patrick Leigh Fermor: On Foot to Constantinople
– Completed.
The Great Courses
James Krasner: Sherlock Holmes: Beyond the Elementary
Jennifer Paxton: 1066: The Year That Changed Everything
Nick Hornby: Stuff I’ve Been Reading
1. The Polysyllabic Spree
John Mortimer: Autobiography
1. Clinging to the Wreckage
2. Murderers and Other Friends
Marcel Pagnol: Souvenirs d’enfance
1. La gloire de mon père
Liza Picard: Life of London
1. Elizabeth’s London
Dorothy L. Sayers: The Letters
1. 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
Jennifer Worth: Midwife Trilogy
1. Call the Midwife
