Order of Lincoln Child Books

Lincoln Child is an American author who is the writing partner of Douglas Preston. Preston and Child have written many different novels together, which are techno-thriller and horror novels – mostly notably the Pendergast series. Before starting as a novelist, he worked as an editor at St. Martin’s Press.

Lincoln Child’s first book, Relic, was a huge success that really kickstarted his career. The book was adapted into a film in 1997. Below is the order of when all of Lincoln Child’s novels were originally released:

Publication Order of Pendergast Books

(with Douglas Preston)

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 Dr. Jeremy Logan Books

Deep Storm	(2007)
Terminal Freeze	(2008)
The Third Gate	(2012)
The Forgotten Room	(2015)
Full Wolf Moon	(2017)
Chrysalis	(2022)

Publication Order of Gideon Crew Books

(with Douglas Preston)

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 Douglas Preston)

Thunderhead	(1999)
Old Bones	(2019)
The Scorpion's Tail	(2021)
Diablo Mesa	(2022)
Dead Mountain	(2023)

Publication Order of Tales of the Dark Books

Tales of the Dark (With: Bram Stoker,Charlotte Perkins Gilman)	(1987)
Tales of the Dark 2 (By: )	(1987)
Tales of the Dark 3	(1988)

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Mount Dragon (With: Douglas Preston)	(1996)
Riptide (With: Douglas Preston)	(1998)
Death Match	(2000)
The Ice Limit (With: Douglas Preston)	(2000)
Utopia / Lethal Velocity	(2002)

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

Gone Fishing

(2017)

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Dark Company	(1984)
Dark Banquet	(1985)

Publication Order of Anthologies

Tales of the Dark	(1987)
FaceOff	(2014)
Gaslighted: Slappy the Ventriloquist Dummy vs. Aloysius Pendergast	(2014)

Note: The Pendergast and Gideon Crew series as well as the standalone novels Mount Dragon, Riptide, Thunderhead and The Ice Limit were written with Douglas Preston. Utopia was re-published as Lethal Velocity.

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One Response to “Order of Lincoln Child Books”

1. Disgruntled52: 5 years ago

   Do you want to know about short stories? I’ve found a book written by the tag 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.”

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