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 | ||
| Murder at Christmas: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Murder on a Winter's Night | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Murder in the Falling Snow | (2022) | 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 | ||
| Transgressions, Vol. 3 | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Transgressions, Vol. 4 | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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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 |
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 |
| Hunting Buffalo With Bent Nails | (2019) | 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 The Men's Adventure Library Journal Books
| He-Men, Bag Men & Nymphos | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Cryptozoology Anthology | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| A Handful of Hell | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Barbarians on Bikes | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| I Watched Them Eat Me Alive | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Pollen's Women | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Cuba: Sugar, Sex, and Slaughter | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Pollen's Action | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Eva: Men's Adventure Supermodel | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Mort Kunstler | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| One Man Army | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Exotic Adventures of Robert Silverberg | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Maneaters | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| George Gross: Covered | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Naked and the Deadly | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Atomic Werewolves and Man-Eating Plants | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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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 | ||
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Publication Order of Anthologies
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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.