Order of Donald E. Westlake Books
Donald E. Westlake (1933-2008) was an American novelist who was best known for comic capers, but he also contributed to genres including more general crime fiction, science fiction and lots more. He wrote under many different pseudonyms, including Richard Stark (his best-known pen name), Alan Marshall, Andrew Shaw, Edwin West, John B. Allan, Don Holliday, Tucker Coe, Samuel Holt, Judson Jack Carmichael and several others. His series include Dortmunder, Parker, Grofield, Mitchell Tobin and others.
Westlake was an extremely prolific author. His first novel was Backstage Love in 1959. By the time, his final (thus far?) novel was published in 2012, he had written over 100 novels. Below is a list of all of Donald E. Westlake’s books in order of publication and in chronological order:
Publication Order of Phil Crawford Books
| Backstage Love | (1959) |    |
| What Girls Will Do | (1962) | |
Publication Order of Parker Books
(as Richard Stark)
| Payback / Point Blank / The Hunter | (1962) | |
| The Steel Hit / The Man With The Getaway Face | (1963) | |
| The Outfit | (1963) | |
| The Mourner | (1963) | |
| The Score / Killtown | (1963) | |
| The Jugger | (1965) | |
| The Seventh / The Split | (1966) | |
| The Handle / Run Lethal | (1966) | |
| The Rare Coin Score | (1967) | |
| The Green Eagle Score | (1967) | |
| The Black Ice Score | (1968) | |
| The Sour Lemon Score | (1969) | |
| Slayground | (1971) | |
| Deadly Edge | (1971) | |
| Plunder Squad | (1972) | |
| Butcher's Moon | (1974) | |
| Comeback | (1997) | |
| Backflash | (1998) | |
| Flashfire / Parker | (2000) | |
| Firebreak | (2001) | |
| Breakout | (2002) | |
| Nobody Runs Forever | (2004) | |
| Ask The Parrot | (2006) | |
| Dirty Money | (2008) | |
Publication Order of Mitch Tobin Books
| Kinds Of Love, Kinds Of Death | (1966) | |
| Murder Among Children | (1967) | |
| Wax Apple | (1970) | |
| A Jade In Aries | (1970) | |
| Don't Lie To Me | (1972) | |
Publication Order of Alan Grofield Books
(as Richard Stark)
| The Damsel | (1967) | |
| The Dame | (1969) | |
| The Blackbird | (1969) | |
| Lemons Never Lie | (1971) | |
Publication Order of Dortmunder Books
| The Hot Rock | (1970) | |
| Bank Shot | (1972) | |
| Jimmy The Kid | (1974) | |
| Nobody's Perfect | (1977) | |
| Why Me? | (1983) | |
| Good Behavior | (1985) | |
| Drowned Hopes | (1990) | |
| Don't Ask | (1993) | |
| What's The Worst That Could Happen? | (1996) | |
| Bad News | (2001) | |
| The Road To Ruin | (2004) | |
| Watch Your Back! | (2005) | |
| What's So Funny? | (2007) | |
| Get Real | (2009) | |
Publication Order of Sam Holt Books
| One Of Us Is Wrong | (1986) | |
| I Know A Trick Worth Two Of That | (1986) | |
| What I Tell You Three Times Is False | (1987) | |
| The Fourth Dimension Is Death | (1989) | |
Publication Order of Sara & Jack Books
| Trust Me On This | (1988) | |
| Baby, Would I Lie? | (1994) | |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Sally | (1959) | |
| Man Hungry | (1959) | |
| All My Lovers | (1959) | |
| SO WILLING. | (1960) | |
| All about Annette | (1960) | |
| Virgin's Summer | (1960) | |
| The Wife Next Door | (1960) | |
| The Mercenaries/The Cutie | (1960) | |
| Passion's Playthings | (1961) | |
| Call Me Sinner | (1961) | |
| Campus Doll | (1961) | |
| Brother and Sister | (1961) | |
| Killing Time | (1961) | |
| Young and Innocent | (1961) | |
| 361 | (1962) | |
| Strange affair. | (1962) | |
| Killy | (1963) | |
| Campus Lovers | (1963) | |
| Pity Him Afterwards | (1964) | |
| The Fugitive Pigeon | (1965) | |
| The Busy Body | (1966) | |
| Spy in the Ointment | (1966) | |
| God Save the Mark | (1967) | |
| Anarchaos | (1967) | |
| Philip | (1967) | |
| Who stole Sassi Manoon? | (1968) | |
| Up Your Banners | (1969) | |
| Somebody Owes Me Money | (1969) | |
| Adios Scheherazade | (1970) | |
| Comfort Station | (1970) | |
| Ex Officio | (1970) | |
| I Gave at the Office | (1971) | |
| Cops and Robbers | (1972) | |
| Gangway! | (1973) | |
| Help, I Am Being Held Prisoner | (1974) | |
| Brothers Keepers | (1975) | |
| Two Much | (1975) | |
| Dancing Aztecs | (1976) | |
| Castle in the Air | (1980) | |
| Kahawa | (1981) | |
| A Likely Story | (1984) | |
| High Adventure | (1985) | |
| Humans | (1992) | |
| Smoke | (1995) | |
| The Ax | (1997) | |
| The Hook | (2000) | |
| The Scared Stiff | (2001) | |
| Put a Lid on It | (2002) | |
| Money for Nothing | (2003) | |
| Memory | (2010) | |
| The Comedy is Finished | (2012) | |
| Forever and a Death | (2017) | |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| Curious Facts Preceding My Execution | (1968) | |
| Enough | (1977) | |
| Tomorrow's Crimes | (1989) | |
| A Good Story and Other Stories | (1999) | |
| Meteor Strike | (2012) | |
| Double Feature | (2020) | |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| The Getaway Car | (2014) | |
Publication Order of Alfred Hitchcock Presents Books
(with Robert Arthur,with Ellis Peters, Dorothy L Sayers, Robert Bloch, , , Shirley Jackson, , , Ray Bradbury, , Richard Matheson, , , F. Scott Fitzgerald, Michael Gilbert, Roald Dahl, , , , , , , , Carter Dickson, , , , Julian May, , , , , , , , , , , , , , James Francis Dwyer, as Richard Stark, Margot Bennett)
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Go Bump in the Night | (1940) | |
| Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV | (1957) | |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents 13 More Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV | (1957) | |
| 12 Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV | (1957) | |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents Stories for Late at Night | (1961) | |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents: More Stories for Late at Night [Unabridged] | (1962) | |
| Alfred Hitchcock's A Hangman's Dozen | (1962) | |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories My Mother Never Told Me | (1963) | |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories Not for the Nervous | (1965) | |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Month Of Mystery | (1970) | |
| Down by the Old Blood Stream | (1971) | |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Master's Choice. | (1979) | |
| Stories That Go Bump In The Night: V. 1 | (1982) | |
Publication Order of Fearless Jones Books
(with Janet Evanovich, Lawrence Block, Linda Fairstein, Nelson DeMille, Mary Higgins Clark, Carol Higgins Clark, Nancy Pickard, Walter Mosley, Edna Buchanan, Ann Rule)
| The Plot Thickens | (1997) | |
| Fearless Jones | (2001) | |
| Fear Itself | (2003) | |
| Fear of the Dark | (2006) | |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Tales to Send Chills Down Your Spine | (1979) | |
| The Plot Thickens | (1997) | |
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Notes: Backstage Love was also published as Apprentice Virgin. All the Girls Were Willing is also known as What Girls Will Do. The Mercenaries‘ alternate titles include The Smashers (UK) and The Cutie (Westlake’s preferred title). The Hunter‘s alternate titles include Point Blank and Payback. The Score‘s UK title was Killtown. The Man with the Getaway Face was published in the UK as Steel Hit. The Seventh was later published as The Split. The Handle was published in the United Kingdom as Run Lethal. Ex Officio was also published as Power Play. The Hook was published in the UK as Corkscrew.
The Parker and Grofield series were written under the pen name of Richard Stark. The Sam Holt books were written under the pseudonym of Samuel Holt. The Mitchell Tobin books were published under the nom de plume of Tucker Coe. The Phil Crawford novels and most of Westlake’s work from 1959-1961 (except for The Mercenaries) were published under the name of Alan Marshall. Ex Officio was published under the pen name of Timothy J. Culver. The Scared Stiff was published under the pen name Judson Jack Carmichael. Comfort Station was published using the pseudonym J. Morgan Cunningham. Anarchaos was published under the pen name of Curt Clark.
A Girl Called Honey and So Willing were co-authored by Lawrence Block (under the pen names of Alan Marshall & Sheldon Lord). Gangway! was co-authored by Brian Garfield.
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