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Douglas Preston Books in Order

7 series including Pendergast Series with Lincoln Child, Nora Kelly Series with Lincoln Child and more

★ 7 NYT bestsellers 7 series 56 books Latest: Badlands (2025)

Douglas Preston has written 56 books since 1986. Douglas Preston's books make up 7 series, the largest of which — Pendergast Series with Lincoln Child — reaches 24 books. Badlands (2025) is the most recent addition we've catalogued.

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1 Pendergast Series with Lincoln Child 2 Wyman Ford 3 Gideon Crew Series with Lincoln Child 4 Nora Kelly Series with Lincoln Child 5 Douglas Preston Other Novels 6 Douglas Preston Non-Fiction Books 7 Douglas Preston Anthologies

New York Times Bestsellers

7 books

Douglas Preston has placed 7 books on the New York Times bestseller lists, spending a combined 32 weeks on the charts.

Cover of The Lost City of the Monkey God
The Lost City of the Monkey God
Douglas Preston Non-Fiction Books

11 weeks on the Times Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction list · peaked at #3 · debuted Jan 2017 · 16 weeks across 2 NYT lists

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Cover of Blasphemy
Blasphemy
Wyman Ford Series

4 weeks on the Times Hardcover Fiction list · peaked at #4 · debuted Jan 2008

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Bestseller chart data from BestsellerStats.net — explore Douglas Preston’s complete chart history, week by week.

Reading Order

7 series · 56 books

Pendergast Series with Lincoln Child

0 of 24 read
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✓ # Book Title Year Awards Buy
1 Relic 1995 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 Reliquary 1997 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3 The Cabinet of Curiosities 2001 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4 Still Life with Crows 2003 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
5 Brimstone 2004 🏆 Audie Award 2005Full award history → Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
6 Dance of Death 2005 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
7 The Book of the Dead 2006 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
8 The Wheel of Darkness 2007 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
9 Cemetery Dance 2009 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
10 Fever Dream 2010 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
11 Cold Vengeance 2011 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
12 Extraction 2012 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
13 Two Graves 2012 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
14 White Fire 2013 ITW Thriller Award 2014Full award history → Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
15 Blue Labyrinth 2014 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
16 Crimson Shore 2015 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
17 The Obsidian Chamber 2016 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
18 City of Endless Night 2018 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
19 Verses for the Dead 2018 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
20 The Strange Case of Monsieur Bertin (Short Story) 2019 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
21 Crooked River 2020 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
22 Bloodless 2021 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
23 The Cabinet of Dr. Leng 2023 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
24 Angel of Vengeance 2024 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

Wyman Ford Series

0 of 4 read
✓ # Book Title Year Awards Buy
1 Tyrannosaur Canyon 2005 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 Blasphemy 2007 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3 Impact 2009 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4 The Kraken Project 2014 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

Gideon Crew Series with Lincoln Child

0 of 5 read
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✓ # Book Title Year Awards Buy
1 Gideon's Sword 2011 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 Gideon's Corpse 2012 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3 The Lost Island 2014 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4 Beyond the Ice Limit 2016 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
5 The Pharaoh Key 2018 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

Nora Kelly Series with Lincoln Child

0 of 6 read
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✓ # Book Title Year Awards Buy
1 Thunderhead 1999 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 Old Bones 2019 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3 The Scorpion's Tail 2021 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4 Diablo Mesa 2022 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
5 Dead Mountain 2023 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
6 Badlands 2025 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

Douglas Preston Other Novels

0 of 6 read
✓ # Book Title Year Awards Buy
1 Jennie 1994 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 Mount Dragon ( With: Lincoln Child) 1996 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3 Riptide ( With: Lincoln Child) 1998 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4 The Ice Limit ( With: Lincoln Child) 2000 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
5 The Codex 2003 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
6 Extinction 2024 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

Douglas Preston Non-Fiction Books

0 of 7 read
✓ # Book Title Year Awards Buy
1 Dinosaurs in the Attic 1986 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 Cities of Gold 1992 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3 Talking to the Ground 1995 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4 The Monster of Florence 2006 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
5 The Forgotten Killer: Rudy Guede and the Murder of Meredith Kercher ( With: Steve Moore, John Douglas Marshall, Mark Olshaker) 2014 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
6 The Lost City of the Monkey God 2017 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
7 The Lost Tomb 2023 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

Douglas Preston Anthologies

0 of 4 read
✓ # Book Title Year Awards Buy
1 Gone Fishing and Other Stories 2012 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 FaceOff 2014 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3 Gaslighted: Slappy the Ventriloquist Dummy vs. Aloysius Pendergast 2014 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4 Fourteen Days: An Unauthorized Gathering 2024 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
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