Akashic Noir Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| San Francisco Noir |
2002 |
Buy |
| Seattle Noir |
2003 |
Buy |
| Bronx Noir |
2003 |
Buy |
| Brooklyn Noir |
2004 |
Buy |
| Hasidic Noir |
2004 |
Buy |
| Brooklyn Noir 2 |
2005 |
Buy |
| Chicago Noir |
2005 |
Buy |
| Dublin Noir |
2005 |
Buy |
| Manhattan Noir |
2006 |
Buy |
| Miami Noir |
2006 |
Buy |
| D.C. Noir |
2006 |
Buy |
| Baltimore Noir |
2006 |
Buy |
| Twin Cities Noir |
2006 |
Buy |
| London Noir |
2006 |
Buy |
| New Orleans Noir |
2007 |
Buy |
| Los Angeles Noir |
2007 |
Buy |
| Wall Street Noir |
2007 |
Buy |
| Havana Noir |
2007 |
Buy |
| Detroit Noir |
2007 |
Buy |
| Queens Noir |
2008 |
Buy |
| Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But the Truth |
2008 |
Buy |
| Toronto Noir |
2008 |
Buy |
| Las Vegas Noir |
2008 |
Buy |
| Trinidad Noir |
2008 |
Buy |
| D.C. Noir 2 |
2008 |
Buy |
| Manhattan Noir 2 |
2008 |
Buy |
| Paris Noir |
2008 |
Buy |
| Istanbul Noir |
2008 |
Buy |
| Boston Noir |
2009 |
Buy |
| Rome Noir |
2009 |
Buy |
| San Francisco Noir 2 |
2009 |
Buy |
| Portland Noir |
2009 |
Buy |
| Delhi Noir |
2009 |
Buy |
| Phoenix Noir |
2009 |
Buy |
| Los Angeles Noir 2 |
2010 |
Buy |
| Mexico City Noir |
2010 |
Buy |
| Richmond Noir |
2010 |
Buy |
| Orange County Noir |
2010 |
Buy |
| Indian Country Noir |
2010 |
Buy |
| Moscow Noir |
2010 |
Buy |
| Lone Star Noir |
2010 |
Buy |
| Philadelphia Noir |
2010 |
Buy |
| Haiti Noir |
2010 |
Buy |
| Copenhagen Noir |
2010 |
Buy |
| Pittsburgh Noir |
2011 |
Buy |
| San Diego Noir |
2011 |
Buy |
| Barcelona Noir |
2011 |
Buy |
| Cape Cod Noir |
2011 |
Buy |
| New Jersey Noir |
2011 |
Buy |
| Staten Island Noir |
2012 |
Buy |
| Mumbai Noir |
2012 |
Buy |
| Long Island Noir |
2012 |
Buy |
| Venice Noir |
2012 |
Buy |
| Kingston Noir |
2012 |
Buy |
| St. Petersburg Noir |
2012 |
Buy |
| Kansas City Noir |
2012 |
Buy |
| Boston Noir 2 |
2012 |
Buy |
| USA Noir |
2013 |
Buy |
| Manila Noir |
2013 |
Buy |
| Buffalo Noir |
2013 |
Buy |
| Dallas Noir |
2013 |
Buy |
| Haiti Noir 2 |
2013 |
Buy |
| Singapore Noir |
2014 |
Buy |
| Prison Noir |
2014 |
Buy |
| Tel Aviv Noir |
2014 |
Buy |
| Tehran Noir |
2014 |
Buy |
| Belfast Noir |
2014 |
Buy |
| Helsinki Noir |
2014 |
Buy |
| Rio Noir |
2014 |
Buy |
| Providence Noir |
2015 |
Buy |
| Chicago Noir: The Classics |
2015 |
Buy |
| Memphis Noir |
2015 |
Buy |
| Zagreb Noir |
2015 |
Buy |
| Marseille Noir |
2015 |
Buy |
| Beirut Noir |
2015 |
Buy |
| New Orleans Noir: The Classics |
2016 |
Buy |
| Stockholm Noir |
2016 |
Buy |
| Brussels Noir |
2016 |
Buy |
| Mississippi Noir |
2016 |
Buy |
| St. Louis Noir |
2016 |
Buy |
| Prague Noir |
2016 |
Buy |
| San Juan Noir |
2016 |
Buy |
| Oakland Noir |
2017 |
Buy |
| Trinidad Noir: The Classics |
2017 |
Buy |
| Atlanta Noir |
2017 |
Buy |
| New Haven Noir |
2017 |
Buy |
| Montana Noir |
2017 |
Buy |
| Buenos Aires Noir |
2017 |
Buy |
| Montreal Noir |
2017 |
Buy |
| Berlin Noir |
2018 |
Buy |
| São Paulo Noir |
2018 |
Buy |
| Santa Cruz Noir |
2018 |
Buy |
| Lagos Noir |
2018 |
Buy |
| Marrakech Noir |
2018 |
Buy |
| Baghdad Noir |
2018 |
Buy |
| Vancouver Noir |
2018 |
Buy |
| Sydney Noir |
2018 |
Buy |
| Hong Kong Noir |
2018 |
Buy |
| Amsterdam Noir |
2019 |
Buy |
| Milwaukee Noir |
2019 |
Buy |
| Houston Noir |
2019 |
Buy |
| Nairobi Noir |
2020 |
Buy |
| Columbus Noir |
2020 |
Buy |
| Santa Fe Noir |
2020 |
Buy |
| Alabama Noir |
2020 |
Buy |
| Berkeley Noir |
2020 |
Buy |
| Addis Ababa Noir |
2020 |
Buy |
| Tampa Bay Noir |
2020 |
Buy |
| Miami Noir: The Classics |
2020 |
Buy |
| Accra Noir |
2020 |
Buy |
| Belgrade Noir |
2020 |
Buy |
| Palm Springs Noir |
2021 |
Buy |
| Paris Noir: The Suburbs |
2022 |
Buy |
| Denver Noir |
2022 |
Buy |
| South Central Noir |
2022 |
Buy |
| Cleveland Noir |
2023 |
Buy |
| East Jerusalem Noir |
2023 |
Buy |
| West Jerusalem Noir |
2023 |
Buy |
| Honolulu Noir |
2024 |
Buy |
| Sacramento Noir |
2025 |
Buy |
| Hamburg Noir |
2025 |
Buy |
Anthologies#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| A Detroit Anthology |
2014 |
Buy |
| I Know What’s Best for You |
2022 |
Buy |
Belt City Anthologies Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Cleveland Anthology |
2014 |
Buy |
| A Detroit Anthology |
2014 |
Buy |
| Car Bombs to Cookie Tables: The Youngstown Anthology |
2015 |
Buy |
| The Pittsburgh Anthology |
2015 |
Buy |
| Right Here, Right Now: The Buffalo Anthology |
2016 |
Buy |
| The Akron Anthology |
2016 |
Buy |
| Rust Belt Chicago: An Anthology |
2017 |
Buy |
| Love in the Tubes: A Romantic Comedy |
2019 |
Buy |
| The Milwaukee Anthology |
2019 |
Buy |
| Under Purple Skies |
2019 |
Buy |
| The St. Louis Anthology |
2019 |
Buy |
| The Louisville Anthology |
2020 |
Buy |
| The Gary Anthology |
2020 |
Buy |
| The Dayton Anthology |
2021 |
Buy |
| The Indianapolis Anthology |
2021 |
Buy |
Made in Michigan Writers Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Blue-Tail Fly |
2006 |
Buy |
| Broken Symmetry |
2006 |
Buy |
| The Women Were Leaving the Men |
2007 |
Buy |
| After-Music |
2008 |
Buy |
| Wide Awake in Someone Else’s Dream |
2008 |
Buy |
| Trespassing |
2008 |
Buy |
| The Lost Tiki Palaces of Detroit |
2009 |
Buy |
| If the World Becomes So Bright |
2009 |
Buy |
| American Salvage |
2009 |
Buy |
| By Cold Water |
2009 |
Buy |
| As If We Were Prey |
2010 |
Buy |
| Birth of a Notion; Or, the Half Ain’t Never Been Told |
2010 |
Buy |
| Voices of the Lost and Found |
2010 |
Buy |
| An American Map |
2010 |
Buy |
| In Which Brief Stories Are Told |
2011 |
Buy |
| At The Bureau of Divine Music |
2011 |
Buy |
| Love/Imperfect |
2011 |
Buy |
| The Light Between |
2012 |
Buy |
| To Embroider the Ground with Prayer |
2012 |
Buy |
| The World of a Few Minutes Ago |
2012 |
Buy |
| Allegiance |
2012 |
Buy |
| Booker T & Them |
2012 |
Buy |
| Practicing to Walk Like a Heron |
2013 |
Buy |
| Earth Again |
2013 |
Buy |
| Living Together |
2013 |
Buy |
| Making Callaloo in Detroit |
2014 |
Buy |
| Quality Snacks |
2014 |
Buy |
| Love, Sex, and 4-H |
2015 |
Buy |
| Know the Mother |
2016 |
Buy |
| Sharp Blue Search of Flame |
2016 |
Buy |
| I Want to Be Once |
2016 |
Buy |
| States of Motion |
2017 |
Buy |
| The Forgetting Tree |
2017 |
Buy |
| The Lake Michigan Mermaid |
2018 |
Buy |
| Field Recordings |
2018 |
Buy |
| Meet Behind Mars |
2018 |
Buy |
| Eden Springs |
2018 |
Buy |
| I Got To Keep Moving |
2018 |
Buy |
| Welcome to Replica Dodge |
2019 |
Buy |
| Ragged Anthem |
2019 |
Buy |
| Unblinking |
2019 |
Buy |
| The Desk on the Sea |
2019 |
Buy |
| Shades: Detroit Love Stories |
2019 |
Buy |
| Gut Botany |
2020 |
Buy |
| You’re in the Wrong Place |
2020 |
Buy |
| A Fine Canopy |
2020 |
Buy |
| You Are My Joy and Pain |
2020 |
Buy |
| How Other People Make Love |
2021 |
Buy |
| When the Heart Needs a Stunt Double |
2021 |
Buy |
| Gun/Shy |
2021 |
Buy |
| The Lake Huron Mermaid |
2024 |
Buy |
Short Stories/Novellas#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Nothing Special |
2022 |
Buy |
Standalone Novels#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Know the Mother |
2016 |
Buy |
Desiree Cooper is a Detroit-based author, journalist, and attorney whose writing career spans newspaper columns, flash fiction, and short stories. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in commentary during her years as a columnist for the Detroit Free Press. Her fiction debut, Know the Mother (2016), is a collection of flash fiction that examines the interior lives of women facing questions about race, motherhood, and personal freedom.
Beyond her solo work, Cooper has been involved with several large anthology projects. She contributed to the Akashic Noir series, which pairs cities around the world with original crime fiction from local writers. She also has ties to the Belt City Anthologies, a series of essay collections that document life in Rust Belt and Midwestern cities, and to the Made in Michigan Writers series published by Wayne State University Press. Her follow-up fiction work, Nothing Special (2022), continued her exploration of identity and belonging through short prose.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has Desiree Cooper written?
Desiree Cooper has written 191 books across six series.
What was Desiree Cooper's first book?
Desiree Cooper’s first book is San Francisco Noir, published in 2002.
What is Desiree Cooper best known for writing?
Cooper is best known for her debut fiction collection Know the Mother (2016), which won the Hopwood Award and was published by Wayne State University Press as part of the Made in Michigan Writers series. She is also a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist and has contributed to several multi-author anthology series including Akashic Noir and Belt City Anthologies.