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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. 15 (The Beckoning Lady), plus assorted short stories
Eric Ambler: Charles Latimer
1. The Mask of Dimitrios
George Bellairs: Inspector Littlejohn
1. Littlejohn on Leave
3. Death of a Busybody
E.C. Bentley: Philip Trent
1. Trent’s Last 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
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
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
Christianna Brand: Inspector Charlesworth
1. Death in High Heels
4. Death of Jezebel
5. Fog of Doubt
Phyllis Bottome: Mark Chalmers
1. The Lifeline
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
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
Raymond Chandler: Philip Marlowe
1. The Big Sleep
2. Farewell, My Lovely
3. The High Window
6. The Long Goodbye
Edmund Crispin: Gervase Fen
1. The Case of the Gilded Fly
3. The Moving Toyshop
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
Francis Duncan: Mordecai Tremaine
1. They’ll Never Find Out
2. Murder for Christmas
Brian Flynn: Anthony Bathurst
1. The Billiard-Room Mystery
4. The Murders Near Mapleton
R. Austin Freeman: Dr. Thorndyke
1. The Red Thumb Mark
3. The Eye of Osiris
Michael Gilbert: Henry Bohun
1. Smallbone Deceased
Michael Gilbert: Inspector Hazelrigg
1. Close Quarters
4. Smallbone Deceased
Anna Katharine Green: Violet Strange
1. The Golden Slipper
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 Death3.
Suicide Excepted
4. Tragedy at Law
Patricia Highsmith: Tom Ripley
1. The Talented Mr. Ripley
2. Ripley Under Ground
E.W. Hornung: Raffles
1. Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman
Mary Kelly: Inspector Brett Nightingale
1. A Cold Coming
3. The Christmas Egg
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
Gaston Leroux: Joseph Rouletabille
1. Le mystère de la chambre jaune
E.C.R. Lorac: Robert MacDonald
1. The Murder on the Burrows
13. Bats in the Belfry
26. Murder by Matchlight
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)
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
Mary Roberts Rinehart: Nurse Hilda Adams
1. Miss Pinkerton
2. Locked Doors
Georges Simenon: Maigret
1. Pietr le Letton
6. Le chien jaune
11. La Guinguette à deux sous
30. La première enquête de Maigret
38. Maigret et la Grande Perche
44. Maigret à l’école
52. Les Scrupules de Maigret
68 Maigret hésite
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’
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
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
SILVER AGE & CONTEMPORARY CRIME & MYSTERY
Nevada Barr: Anna Pigeon
1. Track of the Cat
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
Andrea Camilleri: Inspector Montalbano
1. The Shape of Water
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
Michael Connelly: Harry Bosch
– read all books through No. 24 (The Night Fire)
Michael Connelly: Renée Ballard
1. The Late Show
2. Dark Sacred Night
3. The Night Fire
Michael Connelly: Mickey Haller
– read all books through No. 6 (The Goods of Guilt)
Michael Connelly: Jack McEvoy
1. Jack McEvoy
2. The Scarecrow
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 Bones
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
Åke Edwardson: Erik Winter
1. Death Angels
3. Frozen Tracks
Joy Ellis: D.I. Rowan Jackman / D.S. Marie Evans
– read all books through No. 7 (They Disappeared)
Joy Ellis: Matt Ballard
1. Beware the Past
2. Five Bloody Hearts
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
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
Peter Grainger: D.S. Smith
1. An Accidental Death
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
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
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
Donna Leon: Commissario Guido Brunetti
1. Death at La Fenice
Elmore Leonard: Chili Palmer
1. Get Shorty
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. 5 (Broken Ground)
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
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
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
Sara Paretsky: V.I. Warshawski
1. Indemnity Only
4. Bitter Medicine
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
Akif Pirinçci: Felidae
1. Felidae
Ian Rankin: Inspector Rebus
– read all books through No. 23 (A Song for the Dark Times)
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
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
Lisa Scottoline: Rosato & Associates
1. Think Twice
5. Moment of Truth
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir: The Children’s House
1. The Legacy
Richard Stark: Parker
1. The Hunter
Peter Temple: Jack Irish
1. Bad Debts
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.
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
Paul Doherty: The Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan
1. The Nightingale Gallery
11. Bloodstone
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
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
Robert Harris: Cicero
1. Imperium
Antonia Hodgson: Tom Hawkins
1. The Devil in the Marshalsea
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
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. 6 (The Sacred Stone) plus books 8 (The First Murder) and 10 (The Deadliest Sin)
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Series Associated with The Medieval Murderers:
Simon Beaufort: Geoffrey Mappestone
1. Murder in the Holy City
Susanna Gregory: Matthew Bartholomew
1. A Plague on Both Your Houses
2. An Unholy Alliance
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
17. The Tolls of Death
22. The Malice of Unnatural Death
Ian Morson: William Falconer
1. Falconer’s Crusade
6. Falconer and the Ritual of Death
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Walter Mosley: Easy Rawlins
– read all books through No. 3 (White Butterfly)
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
Sharon Kay Penman: Justin de Quincy
1. The Queen’s Man
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
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
5. The Riddle of St. Leonard’s
6. A Gift of Sanctuary
Priscilla Royal: Eleanor, Prioress of Tyndal
1. Wine of Violence
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
Various Authors: Canongate Myths
1. Karen Armstrong: A Short History of Myth
2. Margaret Atwood: The Penelopiad
Kate Westbrook: The Moneypenny Diaries
1. Guardian Angel
Samantha Wilcoxson: Plantagenet Embers
– read all books through No. 3 (Queen of Martyrs)
COZY MYSTERIES
Donna Andrews: Meg Langslow
1. Murder with Peacocks
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 Magpie
Lesley Cookman: Libby Sarjeant
1. Murder in Steeple Martin
3. Murder in Midwinter
14. Murder out of Tune
Joanne Fluke: Hannah Swensen
1. Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder
9.5. Candy Cane Murder
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
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. 8 (Guards! Guards!), plus:
12. Witches Abroad
14. Lords and Ladies
15. Men at Arms
19. Feet of Clay
20. Hogfather
23. Carpe Jugulum
31. Monstrous Regiment
Terry Pratchett: The Science of Discworld
1. The Science of Discworld
Mary Stewart: Merlin Trilogy
1. The Crystal Cave
2. The Hollow Hills
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
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
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
4. Margaret Atwood: Hag-Seed
Olivia Manning: Fortunes of War / The Balkan Trilogy
1. The Great Fortune
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
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
Robert Louis Stevenson: David Balfour
1. Kidnapped
Angela Thirkell: Barsetshire
1. High Rising
Anthony Trollope: Barchester Chronicles
1. The Warden
2. Barchester Towers
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
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
HISTORY & (AUTO)BIOGRAPHY
Patrick Leigh Fermor: On Foot to Constantinople
1. A Time of Gifts
2. Between the Woods and the Water
Nick Hornby: Stuff I’ve Been Reading
1. The Polysyllabic Spree
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
Lioness at Large 