Order of Douglas Preston Books
Douglas Preston is an American author who typically writes alongside Lincoln Child. Together they have written numerous techno-thriller and horror novels, including the Pendergast series, the Gideon Crew series and other standalone novels. He also writes non-fiction books.
Douglas Preston’s first novel to be published was Jennie. His first novel writing with Lincoln Child was Relic, published in 1995. The novel was which was made into a major motion picture that was well received. Below is the order of all of when Douglas Preston’s books were originally released:
Publication Order of Pendergast Books
(with Lincoln Child)
| Relic | (1995) |    |
| Reliquary | (1997) | |
| The Cabinet of Curiosities | (2001) | |
| Still Life with Crows | (2003) | |
| Brimstone | (2004) | |
| Dance of Death | (2005) | |
| The Book of the Dead | (2006) | |
| The Wheel of Darkness | (2007) | |
| Cemetery Dance | (2009) | |
| Fever Dream | (2010) | |
| Cold Vengeance | (2011) | |
| Extraction | (2012) | |
| Two Graves | (2012) | |
| White Fire | (2013) | |
| Blue Labyrinth | (2014) | |
| Crimson Shore | (2015) | |
| The Obsidian Chamber | (2016) | |
| City of Endless Night | (2018) | |
| Verses for the Dead | (2018) | |
| The Strange Case of Monsieur Bertin | (2019) | |
| Crooked River | (2020) | |
| Bloodless | (2021) | |
| The Cabinet of Dr. Leng | (2023) | |
| The Strange Case of Monsieur Bertin is short story from the Preston/Child website. | ||
Publication Order of Wyman Ford Books
| Tyrannosaur Canyon | (2005) | |
| Blasphemy | (2007) | |
| Impact | (2009) | |
| The Kraken Project | (2014) | |
Publication Order of Gideon Crew Books
(with Lincoln Child)
| Gideon's Sword | (2011) | |
| Gideon's Corpse | (2012) | |
| The Lost Island | (2014) | |
| Beyond the Ice Limit | (2016) | |
| The Pharaoh Key | (2018) | |
Publication Order of Nora Kelly Books
(with Lincoln Child)
| Thunderhead | (1999) | |
| Old Bones | (2019) | |
| The Scorpion's Tail | (2021) | |
| Diablo Mesa | (2022) | |
| Dead Mountain | (2023) | |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Jennie | (1994) | |
| Mount Dragon | (1996) | |
| Riptide | (1998) | |
| The Ice Limit | (2000) | |
| The Codex | (2003) | |
| Extinction | (2024) | |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Dinosaurs in the Attic | (1986) | |
| Cities of Gold | (1992) | |
| Talking to the Ground | (1995) | |
| The Monster of Florence | (2006) | |
| The Forgotten Killer: Rudy Guede and the Murder of Meredith Kercher | (2014) | |
| The Lost City of the Monkey God | (2017) | |
Publication Order of Mysterious Profiles Books
| Elvis Cole and Joe Pike | (2022) | |
| Jack Taylor | (2022) | |
| Jack Reacher | (2022) | |
| Charlie Parker | (2022) | |
| Hieronymus Bosch | (2022) | |
| Lincoln Rhyme | (2022) | |
| Alex Delaware | (2022) | |
| Tess Monaghan | (2022) | |
| Charlie Resnick | (2022) | |
| Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus | (2022) | |
| Inspector Morse | (2022) | |
| Dismas Hardy | (2022) | |
| Bob Lee Swagger | (2022) | |
| Aloysius X. L. Pendergast | (2022) | |
| Lou Boldt | (2022) | |
| Spenser | (2022) | |
| Charlotte and Thomas Pitt | (2022) | |
| John Rebus | (2022) | |
| Mallory | (2022) | |
| Jane Whitefield | (2022) | |
| Ian Rutledge: A Mysterious Profile | (2022) | |
| Amos Walker | (2022) | |
| Precious Ramotswe | (2022) | |
| Maisie Dobbs | (2022) | |
| The Lincoln Lawyer | (2022) | |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| FaceOff | (2014) | |
| Gaslighted: Slappy the Ventriloquist Dummy vs. Aloysius Pendergast | (2014) | |
| Fourteen Days: An Unauthorized Gathering | (2024) | |
Note: The Pendergast series, Gideon Crew series and the novels Mount Dragon, Riptide, Thunderhead and The Ice Limit were written with Lincoln Child.
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Do you want to know about short stories? I’ve found a book written by the team of Preston & Child entitled ‘Gone Fishing’ and features Lt. D’Agosta (no Pendergast).
“Originally published in THRILLER (2006), edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author James Patterson.”
Is there going to be a follow up of “Crimson Shore”???
The sequel to Crimson Shore is The Obsidian Chamber.
I think this is a very helpful website…glad I found it!!
What readers want is a printable book list. Sans all the other stuff. Plain book list in chrono order. Is this too much to ask?
I just copy and paste on Word and delete what I don’t want.