Order of John Connolly Books

John Connolly is an Irish novelist of crime fiction novels, largely featuring private detective Charlie Parker. Connolly has also written several standalone novels – a few of which had been adapted to film – as well as some supernatural short stories. Connolly’s inspirations include James Lee Burke, Ed McBain and Ross Macdonald.

John Connolly first got published back in 1999 when he began the Charlie Parker series with Every Dead Thing. Since then, about a dozen Charlie Parker novels have been published. Below is a list of all of John Connolly’s novels in order of publication and chronological order:

Publication Order of Charlie Parker Books

Every Dead Thing	(1999)
Dark Hollow	(2000)
The Killing Kind	(2001)
The White Road	(2002)
The Black Angel	(2005)
The Unquiet	(2007)
The Reapers	(2008)
The Lovers	(2009)
The Whisperers	(2010)
The Burning Soul	(2011)
The Wrath of Angels	(2012)
The Wolf in Winter	(2014)
A Song of Shadows	(2015)
A Time of Torment	(2016)
A Game of Ghosts	(2017)
The Woman in the Woods	(2018)
A Book of Bones	(2019)
The Dirty South	(2020)

Publication Order of Charlie Parker Non-Fiction Novels

Parker: A Miscellany

(2016)

Publication Order of Nocturnes Books

Nocturnes	(2004)
Night Music	(2015)

Publication Order of Samuel Johnson vs. the Devil Books

The Gates	(2009)
The Infernals / Hell's Bells	(2011)
The Creeps	(2013)

Publication Order of Chronicles of the Invaders Books

Conquest	(2013)
Empire	(2014)
Dominion	(2016)

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Bad Men	(2003)
The Book of Lost Things	(2006)
Inherit the Dead	(2013)
He	(2017)

Publication Order of Anthologies

Like a Charm	(2004)
Dangerous Women	(2005)
From the Republic of Conscience	(2010)
Books to Die For	(2012)
Inherit the Dead	(2013)
Echoes of Sherlock Holmes	(2016)

Note: The Infernals was also published as Hell’s Bells. Inherit the Dead is a collaborative novel written with several other authors. The Chronicles of the Invaders series is co-authored by Jennifer Ridyard. Filthy Rich was written with James Patterson and Tim Malloy.

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