Alex Rider Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Stormbreaker | 2000 | Buy |
| Point Blank | 2001 | Buy |
| Skeleton Key | 2002 | Buy |
| Eagle Strike | 2003 | Buy |
| Scorpia | 2004 | Buy |
| Ark Angel | 2005 | Buy |
| Snakehead | 2007 | Buy |
| Crocodile Tears | 2009 | Buy |
| Scorpia Rising | 2011 | Buy |
| Russian Roulette | 2013 | Buy |
| Never Say Die | 2017 | Buy |
| Nightshade | 2020 | Buy |
| Nightshade Revenge | 2024 | Buy |
Power of Five Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Raven’s Gate | 2005 | Buy |
| Evil Star | 2006 | Buy |
| Nightrise | 2007 | Buy |
| Necropolis | 2008 | Buy |
| Oblivion | 2012 | Buy |
Detective Hawthorne Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Word Is Murder | 2018 | Buy |
| The Sentence Is Death | 2019 | Buy |
| A Line to Kill | 2021 | Buy |
| The Twist of a Knife | 2022 | Buy |
| Close to Death | 2024 | Buy |
Anthony Horowitz has published over 40 novels across children’s fiction, young adult thrillers, and adult mysteries. He began writing for television in the 1980s, creating Foyle’s War and writing for Midsomer Murders and Poirot. His first major book series, The Power of Five, reimagined supernatural horror for younger readers.
Alex Rider made Horowitz famous with a broader audience. The series, about a teenage spy recruited by MI6, began with Stormbreaker in 2000 and has sold over 20 million copies worldwide. Horowitz drew from the spy fiction tradition of Ian Fleming while keeping the stories accessible to younger readers. The series was adapted into a film (2006) and an Amazon television series (2020).
The Ian Fleming estate chose Horowitz to write two authorized James Bond novels: Trigger Mortis (2015) and Forever and a Day (2018). He also wrote two authorized Sherlock Holmes novels for the Arthur Conan Doyle estate.
His Detective Hawthorne series inserts a fictionalized version of Horowitz as the narrator alongside a prickly detective. The books play with the author-character relationship in ways that recall classic mystery fiction while telling contemporary murder stories.