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):
Publication Order of Bernie Rhodenbarr Books
| Burglars Can't Be Choosers | (1977) |    |
| The Burglar in the Closet | (1978) | |
| The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling | (1979) | |
| The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza | (1980) | |
| The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian | (1983) | |
| Like a Thief in the Night | (1983) | |
| The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams | (1994) | |
| The Burglar Takes a Cat | (1994) | |
| The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart | (1995) | |
| The Burglar in the Library | (1997) | |
| The Burglar in the Rye | (1998) | |
| The Burglar Who Dropped in on Elvis | (1999) | |
| The Burglar on the Prowl | (2001) | |
| The Burglar Who Smelled Smoke | (2011) | |
| A Bad Night for Burglars | (2011) | |
| The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons | (2013) | |
| The Burglar in Short Order | (2020) | |
| The Burglar Who Met Fredric Brown | (2022) | |
Publication Order of Chip Harrison Books
| No Score | (1970) | |
| Chip Harrison Scores Again | (1971) | |
| Make Out with Murder | (1974) | |
| The Topless Tulip Caper | (1975) | |
| As Dark as Christmas Gets | (2011) | |
Publication Order of Evan Tanner Books
| The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep | (1966) | |
| The Canceled Czech | (1966) | |
| Tanner's Twelve Swingers | (1967) | |
| Here Comes a Hero / Tanner's Virgin | (1968) | |
| The Scoreless Thai / Two for Tanner | (1968) | |
| Tanner's Tiger | (1968) | |
| Me Tanner, You Jane | (1986) | |
| Tanner on Ice | (1998) | |
Publication Order of Jill Emerson Books
(as Jill Emerson)
| A Madwoman's Diary / Sensuous | (1972) | |
| Getting Off | (2011) | |
| The Trouble with Eden | (2016) | |
| Shadows | (2016) | |
| Enough of Sorrow | (2016) | |
| Threesome | (2016) | |
| Warm and Willing | (2016) | |
| Thirty | (2016) | |
Publication Order of John Keller Books
| Hit Man | (1998) | |
| Hit List | (2000) | |
| Hit Parade | (2006) | |
| Hit and Run | (2008) | |
| Keller in Dallas | (2009) | |
| Hit Me | (2012) | |
| Keller's Adjustment | (2012) | |
| Keller on the Spot | (2013) | |
| Keller's Therapy | (2013) | |
| Keller's Horoscope | (2013) | |
| Keller's Fedora | (2016) | |
| Keller's Homecoming | (2016) | |
| Keller's Designated Hitter | (2016) | |
| Keller the Dogkiller | (2016) | |
| Keller in Des Moines | (2016) | |
| Quotidian Keller | (2017) | |
Publication Order of Kit Tolliver Books
| If You Can't Stand the Heat | (2013) | |
| Rude Awakening | (2013) | |
| You Can Call Me Lucky | (2013) | |
| Clean Slate | (2013) | |
| Waitress Wanted | (2013) | |
| Jilling | (2013) | |
| Conjugal Rites | (2013) | |
| One Kind Favor I Ask of You | (2013) | |
| Don't Get in the Car | (2013) | |
| Fun with Brady and Angelica | (2013) | |
| Zeroing In | (2013) | |
| Unfinished Business | (2013) | |
Publication Order of Lou Largo Books
(with William Ard)
| Babe in the Woods | (1960) | |
Publication Order of Manhattan Noir Books
| Manhattan Noir | (2006) | |
| Manhattan Noir 2: The Classics | (2008) | |
Publication Order of Matthew Scudder Books
| The Sins of the Fathers | (1976) | |
| In the Midst of Death | (1976) | |
| Time to Murder and Create | (1977) | |
| A Stab in the Dark | (1981) | |
| Eight Million Ways to Die | (1982) | |
| When the Sacred Ginmill Closes | (1986) | |
| Out on the Cutting Edge | (1989) | |
| A Ticket to the Boneyard | (1990) | |
| A Dance at the Slaughterhouse | (1991) | |
| A Walk Among the Tombstones | (1992) | |
| The Devil Knows You're Dead | (1993) | |
| A Long Line of Dead Men | (1994) | |
| Even the Wicked | (1996) | |
| Out the Window | (1997) | |
| Everybody Dies | (1998) | |
| Hope to Die | (2001) | |
| A Moment of Wrong Thinking | (2002) | |
| All the Flowers are Dying | (2005) | |
| A Drop of the Hard Stuff | (2011) | |
| Let's Get Lost | (2011) | |
| A Candle for the Bag Lady | (2012) | |
| A Time to Scatter Stones | (2018) | |
Publication Order of Murderous Christmas Stories Books
| Murder under the Christmas Tree: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season | (2016) | |
| Murder on Christmas Eve | (2017) | |
| A Very Murderous Christmas: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season | (2018) | |
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Publication Order of Paul Kavanagh Books
(as Paul Kavanagh)
| Such Men are Dangerous | (1969) | |
| The Triumph of Evil | (1972) | |
| Not Comin' Home to You | (1974) | |
Publication Order of Seven Deadly Sins Books
| Speaking of Lust: Stories of Forbidden Desire | (2001) | |
| Speaking of Greed: Stories of Envious Desire | (2001) | |
| Speaking of Wrath | (2002) | |
Publication Order of Transgressions Books
(with Stephen King, Anne Perry, Ed McBain, Donald E Westlake, John Farris)
| Terror's Echo: Novellas from Transgressions | (2005) | |
| Transgressions | (2006) | |
| Transgressions, Vol. 2 | (2006) | |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Carla | (1958) | |
| Into the Night | (1959) | |
| 69 Barrow Street | (1959) | |
| Campus Tramp | (1959) | |
| Candy | (1960) | |
| A Girl Called Honey | (1960) | |
| Kept | (1960) | |
| A Strange Kind of Love | (1960) | |
| The Adulterers | (1960) | |
| Grifter's Game / Mona / Sweet Slow Death | (1961) | |
| A Diet of Treacle | (1961) | |
| Cinderella Sims | (1961) | |
| Killing Castro | (1961) | |
| Coward's Kiss / Death Pulls a Doublecross | (1961) | |
| $20 Lust / Cinderella Sims | (1961) | |
| The Twisted Ones | (1961) | |
| Borderline | (1962) | |
| The Case of the Pornographic Photos / Markham / You Could Call it Murder | (1962) | |
| Strange Embrace | (1962) | |
| Sin Hellcat | (1962) | |
| Lucky at Cards | (1964) | |
| The Girl with the Long Green Heart | (1965) | |
| Deadly Honeymoon | (1967) | |
| After the First Death | (1969) | |
| The Specialists | (1969) | |
| Ronald Rabbit is a Dirty Old Man | (1971) | |
| A Week as Andrea Benstock | (1975) | |
| Ariel | (1979) | |
| Code of Arms | (1981) | |
| Random Walk | (1988) | |
| The Lost Cases of Ed London | (2001) | |
| Small Town | (2002) | |
| Community of Women | (2010) | |
| The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes | (2015) | |
| Passport to Peril | (2016) | |
| Sinner Man | (2016) | |
| April North | (2019) | |
| Dead Girl Blues | (2020) | |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| Collecting Ackermans | (1979) | |
| By the Dawn's Early Light | (1984) | |
| The Merciful Angel of Death | (1993) | |
| A Chance to Get Even | (2011) | |
| Dolly's Trash & Treasures | (2011) | |
| Welcome to the Real World | (2011) | |
| Who Knows Where It Goes | (2011) | |
| Scenarios | (2011) | |
| Headaches and Bad Dreams | (2011) | |
| Sweet Little Hands | (2011) | |
| You Don't Even Feel It | (2011) | |
| In For a Penny | (2011) | |
| Three in the Side Pocket | (2011) | |
| Like a Bone in the Throat | (2011) | |
| Nothing Short of Highway Robbery | (2013) | |
| The Ehrengraf Fandango | (2014) | |
| I Know How to Pick 'Em | (2014) | |
| Autumn at the Automat | (2016) | |
| Resume Speed | (2016) | |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| Like a Lamb to Slaughter | (1984) | |
| Sometimes They Bite | (1984) | |
| Some Days You Get the Bear | (1993) | |
| By the Dawn's Early Light: And Other Stories | (1994) | |
| The Collected Mystery Stories | (1999) | |
| Enough Rope | (2002) | |
| The Crazy Years | (2004) | |
| Catch and Release | (2011) | |
| Defender of the Innocent: The Casebook of Martin Ehrengraf | (2014) | |
| Resume Speed and Other Stories | (2018) | |
| From Sea to Stormy Sea | (2019) | |
| Playing Games | (2023) | |
Publication Order of Plays
| How Far | (2011) | |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| The Wife-Swap Report | (1970) | |
| 3 is Not a Crowd | (1971) | |
| Sex and the Stewardess | (1972) | |
| The Sex Therapists | (1972) | |
| Different Strokes | (1974) | |
| Total Sexuality | (1974) | |
| Writing the Novel from Plot to Print to Pixel | (1979) | |
| Telling Lies for Fun & Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers | (1981) | |
| Write for Your Life | (1986) | |
| Spider, Spin Me A Web: A Handbook for Fiction Writers | (1988) | |
| After Hours: Conversations With Lawrence Block | (1995) | |
| Gangsters, Swindlers, Killers, and Thieves: The Lives and Crimes of Fifty American Villains | (2004) | |
| Step by Step: A Pedestrian Memoir | (2009) | |
| The Liar's Bible | (2011) | |
| The Liar's Companion | (2011) | |
| The Male Hustler | (2012) | |
| Wide Open | (2012) | |
| Doing It! - Going Beyond the Sexual Revolution | (2012) | |
| Come Fly With Us | (2012) | |
| Beyond Group Sex | (2012) | |
| The Crime of Our Lives | (2015) | |
| Afterthoughts: Version 2.0 | (2021) | |
Publication Order of Matthew Scudder Short Story Collections
| One Night Stands and Lost Weekends | (1999) | |
| The Night and the Music | (2011) | |
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) | |
| Black DahliaWhite Rose | (2011) | |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Alfred Hitchcock's A Choice of Evils | (1983) | |
| The Eyes Have It | (1984) | |
| Chapter and Hearse | (1985) | |
| The Second Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction | (1988) | |
| The Perfect Murder | (1991) | |
| The Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1991 | (1992) | |
| Monsters in Our Midst | (1993) | |
| The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1992 | (1993) | |
| Dark Crimes 2 | (1993) | |
| The New Mystery | (1993) | |
| The Fine Art of Murder: The Mystery Reader's Indispensable Companion | (1993) | |
| Murder on Trial | (1994) | |
| The King is Dead: Tales of Elvis Postmortem | (1994) | |
| The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1993 | (1994) | |
| Bad Behavior | (1995) | |
| The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1996 | (1995) | |
| Night Screams | (1996) | |
| First Cases, Volume 1 | (1996) | |
| Win, Lose or Die | (1996) | |
| The Plot Thickens | (1997) | |
| First Cases, Volume 2 | (1997) | |
| Crimes of Passion | (1997) | |
| Mystery's Most Wanted | (1997) | |
| Hot Blood X | (1998) | |
| The Best of the Best | (1998) | |
| Murder on the Run | (1998) | |
| The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1997 | (1998) | |
| The Best American Mystery Stories 1998 | (1998) | |
| Death Cruise: Crime Stories on the Open Seas | (1999) | |
| The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 | (1999) | |
| Master's Choice: Mystery Stories by Today's Top Writers and the Masters Who Inspired Them | (2000) | |
| The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century | (2000) | |
| The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1 | (2000) | |
| Opening Shots: Great Mystery and Crime Writers Share Their First Published Stories | (2000) | |
| The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2 | (2000) | |
| The Best American Mystery Stories 2001 | (2001) | |
| Opening Shots, Vol. II | (2001) | |
| Pulp Masters | (2001) | |
| Murder on the Ropes: Volume 1 | (2001) | |
| The Mighty Johns | (2002) | |
| Most Wanted | (2002) | |
| The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3 | (2002) | |
| Blood on Their Hands | (2003) | |
| Bronx Noir | (2003) | |
| The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 4 | (2003) | |
| High Stakes | (2003) | |
| In the Shadow of the Master | (2003) | |
| Greatest Hits | (2005) | |
| Transgressions | (2005) | |
| Lesbian Pulp Fiction | (2005) | |
| Brooklyn Noir 2: The Classics | (2005) | |
| These Guns for Hire | (2006) | |
| Transgressions, Vol. 2 | (2006) | |
| The Best American Mystery Stories 2007 | (2007) | |
| A Prisoner of Memory and 24 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories | (2008) | |
| L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories | (2010) | |
| The Sounds Of Crime | (2010) | |
| The Dark End of the Street | (2010) | |
| Indian Country Noir | (2010) | |
| Masters of Noir, Volume One | (2010) | |
| The Shamus Winners | (2010) | |
| Masters of Noir, Volume Three | (2010) | |
| The Best American Mystery Stories 2011 | (2011) | |
| Warriors 3 | (2011) | |
| In Pursuit of Spenser | (2012) | |
| Psychos | (2012) | |
| USA Noir | (2013) | |
| Weasels Ripped My Flesh!: Two-Fisted Stories From Men's Adventure Magazines of the 1950s, '60s & '70s | (2013) | |
| Inherit the Dead | (2013) | |
| Dangerous Women | (2013) | |
| Buffalo Noir | (2013) | |
| Have a NYC 3: New York Short Stories | (2014) | |
| Dark City Lights: New York Stories (Have a NYC) | (2015) | |
| Mostly Murder | (2016) | |
| In Sunlight or In Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper | (2016) | |
| Gym Rat & Murder Club | (2016) | |
| Alive in Shape and Color | (2017) | |
| Florida Happens | (2018) | |
| At Home in the Dark | (2019) | |
| The Misadventures of Nero Wolfe | (2020) | |
| The Darkling Halls of Ivy | (2020) | |
| Collectibles | (2021) | |
| Jewish Noir II: Tales of Crime and Other Dark Deeds | (2021) | |
If You Like Lawrence Block Books, You’ll Love…
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.
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