Order of Lawrence Block Books
Lawrence Block is an American novelist of crime fiction. Block is a very prolific author, best known for his series featuring private investigator Matthew Scudder and one featuring Bernie Rhodenbarr among other series. He has also published novels under the pen names Chip Harrison, Paul Kavanagh, Lee Duncan, Sheldon Lord and others. Most of his novels are set in New York City.
Lawrence Block made his literary debut in 1958 with the novel Carla. Below is a list of Lawrence Block’s books in order of when they were originally released (and in chronological order):
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Publication Order of Bernie Rhodenbarr Books
| Burglars Can't Be Choosers | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Burglar in the Closet | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Like a Thief in the Night | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Burglar Takes a Cat | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Burglar in the Library | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Burglar in the Rye | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Burglar Who Dropped in on Elvis | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Burglar on the Prowl | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Burglar Who Smelled Smoke | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Bad Night for Burglars | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Burglar in Short Order | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Burglar Who Met Fredric Brown | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Chip Harrison Books
| No Score | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Chip Harrison Scores Again | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Make Out with Murder | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Topless Tulip Caper | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| As Dark as Christmas Gets | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Death of the Mallory Queen | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Chronological Order of Chip Harrison Books
| No Score | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Chip Harrison Scores Again | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Make Out with Murder | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Topless Tulip Caper | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Death of the Mallory Queen | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| As Dark as Christmas Gets | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Evan Tanner Books
| The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep | (1966) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Canceled Czech | (1966) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tanner's Twelve Swingers | (1967) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Here Comes a Hero / Tanner's Virgin | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Scoreless Thai / Two for Tanner | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tanner's Tiger | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Me Tanner, You Jane | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tanner on Ice | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Jill Emerson Books
(as Jill Emerson)
| A Madwoman's Diary / Sensuous | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Getting Off | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Trouble with Eden | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Shadows | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Enough of Sorrow | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Threesome | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Warm and Willing | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Thirty | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of John Keller Books
| Hit Man | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hit List | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hit Parade | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hit and Run | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Keller in Dallas | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hit Me | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Keller's Adjustment | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Keller on the Spot | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Keller's Therapy | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Keller's Horoscope | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Keller's Fedora | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Keller's Homecoming | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Keller's Designated Hitter | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Keller the Dogkiller | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Keller in Des Moines | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Quotidian Keller | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Keller on Horseback | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Kit Tolliver Books
| If You Can't Stand the Heat | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Rude Awakening | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| You Can Call Me Lucky | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Clean Slate | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Waitress Wanted | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Jilling | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Conjugal Rites | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| One Kind Favor I Ask of You | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Don't Get in the Car | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fun with Brady and Angelica | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Zeroing In | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Unfinished Business | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Lou Largo Books
(with William Ard)
| Babe in the Woods | (1960) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Manhattan Noir Books
| Manhattan Noir | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Manhattan Noir 2: The Classics | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Matthew Scudder Books
Publication Order of Murderous Christmas Stories Books
| Murder under the Christmas Tree: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Murder on Christmas Eve | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Very Murderous Christmas: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
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Publication Order of Paul Kavanagh Books
(as Paul Kavanagh)
| Such Men are Dangerous | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Triumph of Evil | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Not Comin' Home to You | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Seven Deadly Sins Books
| Speaking of Lust: Stories of Forbidden Desire | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Speaking of Greed: Stories of Envious Desire | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Speaking of Wrath | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Transgressions Books
| Transgressions | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Transgressions, Vol. 2 | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| Like a Lamb to Slaughter | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Sometimes They Bite | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Some Days You Get the Bear | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| By the Dawn's Early Light: And Other Stories | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Collected Mystery Stories | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Enough Rope | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Crazy Years | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Catch and Release | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Defender of the Innocent: The Casebook of Martin Ehrengraf | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Resume Speed and Other Stories | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| From Sea to Stormy Sea | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Playing Games | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Plays
| How Far | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| The Wife-Swap Report | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| 3 is Not a Crowd | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Sex and the Stewardess | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Sex Therapists | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Different Strokes | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Total Sexuality | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Writing the Novel from Plot to Print to Pixel | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Telling Lies for Fun & Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Write for Your Life | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Spider, Spin Me A Web: A Handbook for Fiction Writers | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| After Hours: Conversations With Lawrence Block | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Gangsters, Swindlers, Killers, and Thieves: The Lives and Crimes of Fifty American Villains | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Step by Step: A Pedestrian Memoir | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Liar's Bible | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Liar's Companion | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Male Hustler | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Wide Open | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Doing It! - Going Beyond the Sexual Revolution | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Come Fly With Us | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Beyond Group Sex | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Crime of Our Lives | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Afterthoughts: Version 2.0 | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Matthew Scudder Short Story Collections
| One Night Stands and Lost Weekends | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Night and the Music | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories Books
(with Joe R. Lansdale, Joyce Carol Oates, Megan Abbott, Duane Swierczynski, Andrew Vachss, Francine Prose, Jonathan Santlofer)
| L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Black DahliaWhite Rose | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Alfred Hitchcock's A Choice of Evils | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Eyes Have It | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Chapter and Hearse | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Second Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Perfect Murder | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1991 | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Monsters in Our Midst | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1992 | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dark Crimes 2 | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The New Mystery | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Fine Art of Murder: The Mystery Reader's Indispensable Companion | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The King is Dead: Tales of Elvis Postmortem | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1993 | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bad Behavior | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1996 | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Night Screams | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| First Cases, Volume 1 | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Win, Lose or Die | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Law and Order | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Plot Thickens | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| First Cases, Volume 2 | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Crimes of Passion | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mystery's Most Wanted | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hot Blood X | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best of the Best | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Murder on the Run | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1997 | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best American Mystery Stories 1998 | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Death Cruise: Crime Stories on the Open Seas | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Master's Choice: Mystery Stories by Today's Top Writers and the Masters Who Inspired Them | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1 | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Opening Shots: Great Mystery and Crime Writers Share Their First Published Stories | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2 | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best American Mystery Stories 2001 | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Opening Shots, Vol. II | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Pulp Masters | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mighty Johns | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Murder Most Merry | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Most Wanted | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3 | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Blood on Their Hands | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bronx Noir | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The World\\\'s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: 4 | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| High Stakes | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| In the Shadow of the Master | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Greatest Hits | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Transgressions | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Lesbian Pulp Fiction | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Brooklyn Noir 2 | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| These Guns for Hire | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Transgressions, Vol. 2 | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best American Mystery Stories 2007 | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Prisoner of Memory and 24 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Sounds Of Crime | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Dark End of the Street | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Indian Country Noir | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Masters of Noir, Volume One | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Shamus Winners | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Masters of Noir, Volume Three | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best American Mystery Stories 2011 | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Warriors 3 | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| In Pursuit of Spenser | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Psychos | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| USA Noir | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Weasels Ripped My Flesh!: Two-Fisted Stories From Men's Adventure Magazines of the 1950s, '60s & '70s | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Inherit the Dead | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dangerous Women | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Buffalo Noir | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Have a NYC 3: New York Short Stories | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dark City Lights: New York Stories (Have a NYC) | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mostly Murder | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| In Sunlight or In Shadow | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Gym Rat & Murder Club | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Alive in Shape and Color | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Florida Happens | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| At Home in the Dark | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Misadventures of Nero Wolfe | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Darkling Halls of Ivy | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Collectibles | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Jewish Noir II: Tales of Crime and Other Dark Deeds | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
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Notes: Babe in the Woods was co-authored by William Ard. Code of Arms was co-authored by Harold King. Into the Night was co-authored by Cornell Woolrich. Hellcats and Honeygirls was co-authored by Donald E. Westlake. The Burglar Who Smelled Smoke was co-authored by Lynne Wood Block. Terror’s Echo was co-authored by John Farris and Stephen King. The Perfect Murder was co-authored by Sarah Caudwell, Tony Hillerman and Jack Hitt.
Two for Tanner is also known as The Scoreless Thai. Here Comes a Hero was also published as Tanner’s Virgin.
The Chip Harrison books were written under the pseudonym Chip Harrison. Make Out with Murder was also published as Five Little Rich Girls.
Kept and A Girl Called Honey were written alongside Donald E. Westlake under the pseudonym of Sheldon Lord. The novels Carla, Candy, A Strange Kind of Love, April North and Community of Women were also written under Sheldon Lord. Sin Hellcat was co-authored by Donald E. Westlake using the pen name Andrew Shaw.
The novels Getting Off, Warm and Willing, Enough of Sorrow, Threesome, Sensuous, A Mad Woman’s Diary and The Trouble with Eden were written under the pen name of Jill Emerson. Thirty was also published as I Am Curious (Thirty) under the name Jill Emerson.
The novels Such Men Are Dangerous, The Triumph of Evil, Not Comin’ Home to You and A Week as Andre Benstock were written under the pen name of Paul Kavanagh.
The Case of the Pornographic Photos was also published as Markham and as You Could Call It Murder. Death Pulls a Doublecross was also released as Coward’s Kiss. Mona is alternately titled Sweet Slow Death and Grifter’s Game.
All non-fiction books published in 1974 and earlier as well as The Male Hustler were written under the pseudonym of John Warren Wells.
I have been a Lawrence Block fan since he was a regular contributor to Writer’s Digest Magazine.I especially love his burglar books.
One of my all time favorite authors – if you like free books and notifications of upcoming Sales you should sign up for his newsletter: ‘a blank email to lawbloc@gmail.com with Newsletter in the subject line will get the job done’. This is direct from his newsletter which I received this morning. His chatter is just part of the charm.