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Ken Bruen Books in Order

9 series including Bibliomysteries, Chronological Bibliomysteries and more

9 series 145 books Latest: Galway's Edge (2025)

Ken Bruen has written 145 books since 1992. The work is organised into 9 series; the longest is Bibliomysteries at 40 books. The most recent release we track is Galway's Edge (2025).

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1 Inspector Brant 2 Jack Taylor 3 Max and Angela Series with Jason Starr 4 Ken Bruen Other Novels 5 Ken Bruen Short Stories/Novellas 6 Ken Bruen Short Story Collections 7 Bibliomysteries 8 Chronological Bibliomysteries 9 Ken Bruen Anthologies

Reading Order

9 series · 145 books

Jack Taylor Series

0 of 19 read
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1 The Guards 2001 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 The Killing of the Tinkers 2002 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3 The Magdalen Martyrs 2003 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4 The Dramatist 2004 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
5 The Dead Room (Short Story) 2005 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
6 Priest 2006 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
7 Cross 2007 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
8 Sanctuary 2008 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
9 The Devil 2010 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
10 Headstone 2011 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
11 Purgatory 2013 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
12 Green Hell 2015 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
13 The Emerald Lie 2016 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
14 The Ghosts of Galway 2017 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
15 In the Galway Silence 2018 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
16 Galway Girl 2019 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
17 A Galway Epiphany 2020 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
18 Galway Confidential 2024 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
19 Galway's Edge 2025 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

Max and Angela Series with Jason Starr

0 of 4 read
✓ # Book Title Year Awards Buy
1 Bust 2006 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 Slide 2007 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3 The Max 2008 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4 Pimp 2016 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

Ken Bruen Other Novels

0 of 10 read
✓ # Book Title Year Awards Buy
1 Shades of Grace 1993 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 Her Last Call to Louis MacNeice (Short Story) 1997 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3 Rilke on Black 1997 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4 The Hackman Blues 1997 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
5 London Boulevard 2002 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
6 Dispatching Baudelaire 2004 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
7 American Skin 2006 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
8 Once Were Cops 2008 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
9 Tower ( With: Reed Farrel Coleman) 2009 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
10 Callous (Short Story) 2021 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

Ken Bruen Short Stories/Novellas

0 of 3 read
✓ # Book Title Year Awards Buy
1 Murder by the Book 2005 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 Time of the Green 2008 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3 Wednesday’s Child (Short Story) 2010 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

Ken Bruen Short Story Collections

0 of 4 read
✓ # Book Title Year Awards Buy
1 Funeral: Tales of Irish Morbidities 1992 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 Sherry and Other Stories (Short Story) 1994 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3 Time of Serena-May and Upon the Third Cross (Short Story) 1995 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4 A Fifth of Bruen: Early Fiction of Ken Bruen 2006 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

Bibliomysteries Series

0 of 40 read
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✓ # Book Title Year Awards Buy
1 The Book of Virtue 2012 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 Pronghorns of the Third Reich (Short Story) ( By: C.J. Box) 2012 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3 The Book Thing ( By: Laura Lippman) 2012 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4 The Book Case ( By: Nelson DeMille) 2012 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
5 An Acceptable Sacrifice ( By: Jeffery Deaver) 2012 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
6 Death Leaves a Bookmark (Short Story) ( By: William Link) 2012 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
7 The Final Testament (Short Story) ( By: Peter Blauner) 2013 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
8 Rides a Stranger (Short Story) ( By: David Bell) 2013 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
9 The Long Sonata of the Dead (Short Story) ( By: Andrew Taylor) 2013 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
10 The Book of Ghosts (Short Story) ( By: Reed Farrel Coleman) 2013 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
11 The Compendium of Srem (Short Story) ( By: F. Paul Wilson) 2014 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
12 What's in a Name? (Short Story) ( By: Thomas H. Cook) 2014 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
13 Remaindered (Short Story) ( By: Peter Lovesey) 2014 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
14 The Sequel (Short Story) ( By: R.L. Stine) 2014 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
15 The Gospel of Sheba (Short Story) ( By: Lyndsay Faye) 2014 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
16 Book Club (Short Story) ( By: Loren D. Estleman) 2014 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
17 The Nature of My Inheritance (Short Story) ( By: Bradford Morrow) 2014 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
18 It's in the Book (Short Story) ( By: Max Allan Collins, Mickey Spillane) 2014 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
19 The Scroll (Short Story) ( By: Anne Perry) 2014 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
20 The Book of the Lion (Short Story) ( By: Thomas Perry) 2015 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
21 The Little Men (Short Story) ( By: Megan Abbott) 2015 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
22 Condor in the Stacks (Short Story) ( By: James Grady) 2015 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
23 Mystery, Inc. (Short Story) ( By: Joyce Carol Oates) 2015 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
24 Every Seven Years (Short Story) ( By: Denise Mina) 2015 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
25 From the Queen (Short Story) ( By: Carolyn Hart) 2015 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
26 The Travelling Companion ( By: Ian Rankin) 2016 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
27 Citadel (Short Story) ( By: Stephen Hunter) 2016 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
28 Reconciliation Day (Short Story) ( By: Christopher Fowler) 2016 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
29 Dead Dames Don't Sing (Short Story) ( By: John Harvey) 2016 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
30 The Haze (Short Story) ( By: James W. Hall) 2016 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
31 Hoodoo Harry (Short Story) ( By: Joe R. Lansdale) 2017 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
32 The Pretty Little Box (Short Story) ( By: Charles Todd) 2018 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
33 Seven Years (Short Story) ( By: Peter Robinson) 2018 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
34 The Hemingway Valise ( By: Robert Olen Butler) 2018 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
35 The Last Honest Horse Thief ( By: Michael Koryta) 2018 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
36 The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository ( By: John Connolly) 2018 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
37 The Girl Who Did Say No (Short Story) ( By: David Handler) 2020 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
38 The Traitor (Short Story) ( By: Martin Edwards) 2022 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
39 The Dark Door ( By: Lisa Unger) 2022 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
40 The Honeymoon Trap (Short Story) ( By: Peter Swanson) 2022 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

Bibliomysteries Series Chronological

0 of 40 read
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✓ # Book Title Year Awards Buy
1 The Book of Virtue 2012 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 Pronghorns of the Third Reich (Short Story) ( By: C.J. Box) 2012 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3 An Acceptable Sacrifice ( By: Jeffery Deaver) 2012 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4 Death Leaves a Bookmark (Short Story) ( By: William Link) 2012 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
5 The Book Thing ( By: Laura Lippman) 2012 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
6 The Book Case ( By: Nelson DeMille) 2012 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
7 The Book of Ghosts (Short Story) ( By: Reed Farrel Coleman) 2013 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
8 The Long Sonata of the Dead (Short Story) ( By: Andrew Taylor) 2013 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
9 The Final Testament (Short Story) ( By: Peter Blauner) 2013 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
10 Rides a Stranger (Short Story) ( By: David Bell) 2013 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
11 The Scroll (Short Story) ( By: Anne Perry) 2014 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
12 Book Club (Short Story) ( By: Loren D. Estleman) 2014 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
13 What's in a Name? (Short Story) ( By: Thomas H. Cook) 2014 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
14 It's in the Book (Short Story) ( By: Max Allan Collins, Mickey Spillane) 2014 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
15 The Nature of My Inheritance (Short Story) ( By: Bradford Morrow) 2014 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
16 Remaindered (Short Story) ( By: Peter Lovesey) 2014 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
17 The Compendium of Srem (Short Story) ( By: F. Paul Wilson) 2014 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
18 The Gospel of Sheba (Short Story) ( By: Lyndsay Faye) 2014 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
19 The Sequel (Short Story) ( By: R.L. Stine) 2014 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
20 The Book of the Lion (Short Story) ( By: Thomas Perry) 2015 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
21 The Little Men (Short Story) ( By: Megan Abbott) 2015 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
22 From the Queen (Short Story) ( By: Carolyn Hart) 2015 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
23 Every Seven Years (Short Story) ( By: Denise Mina) 2015 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
24 Condor in the Stacks (Short Story) ( By: James Grady) 2015 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
25 Mystery, Inc. (Short Story) ( By: Joyce Carol Oates) 2015 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
26 Citadel (Short Story) ( By: Stephen Hunter) 2016 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
27 The Travelling Companion ( By: Ian Rankin) 2016 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
28 The Haze (Short Story) ( By: James W. Hall) 2016 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
29 Dead Dames Don't Sing (Short Story) ( By: John Harvey) 2016 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
30 Reconciliation Day (Short Story) ( By: Christopher Fowler) 2016 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
31 Hoodoo Harry (Short Story) ( By: Joe R. Lansdale) 2017 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
32 Seven Years (Short Story) ( By: Peter Robinson) 2018 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
33 The Pretty Little Box (Short Story) ( By: Charles Todd) 2018 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
34 The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository ( By: John Connolly) 2018 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
35 The Hemingway Valise ( By: Robert Olen Butler) 2018 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
36 The Last Honest Horse Thief ( By: Michael Koryta) 2018 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
37 The Girl Who Did Say No (Short Story) ( By: David Handler) 2020 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
38 The Traitor (Short Story) ( By: Martin Edwards) 2022 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
39 The Dark Door ( By: Lisa Unger) 2022 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
40 The Honeymoon Trap (Short Story) ( By: Peter Swanson) 2022 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

Ken Bruen Anthologies

0 of 18 read
✓ # Book Title Year Awards Buy
1 Brooklyn Noir 2004 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 The Cocaine Chronicles 2005 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3 Dublin Noir 2005 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4 Damn Near Dead 2006 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
5 London Noir 2006 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
6 Killer Year: Stories to Die For... 2008 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
7 Once Upon a Crime: An Anthology of Murder, Mayhem and Suspense 2009 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
8 First Thrills 2010 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
9 Requiems for the Departed 2010 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
10 First Thrills: Volume 2 2011 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
11 D*CKED 2011 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
12 Uncommon Assassins 2012 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
13 Inherit the Dead 2013 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
14 Kwik Krimes 2013 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
15 Borderland Noir 2015 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
16 Silent Night, Deadly Night 2016 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
17 Invisible Blood 2019 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
18 Ink and Daggers 2023 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
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