Akashic Noir Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
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| 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 |
Collections#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The White Man in the Tree and Other Stories |
2000 |
Buy |
| Edible Stories |
2010 |
Buy |
| City Beasts |
2015 |
Buy |
Jewish Lives Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Medallions |
1946 |
Buy |
| Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt |
2010 |
Buy |
| Moses Mendelssohn |
2010 |
Buy |
| Emma Goldman |
2011 |
Buy |
| Hank Greenberg |
2011 |
Buy |
| Solomon |
2011 |
Buy |
| Leon Trotsky |
2011 |
Buy |
| Franz Kafka |
2012 |
Buy |
| Walther Rathenau |
2012 |
Buy |
| Moshe Dayan |
2012 |
Buy |
| Jacob |
2012 |
Buy |
| Bernard Berenson |
2013 |
Buy |
| Primo Levi |
2013 |
Buy |
| Becoming Freud |
2014 |
Buy |
| Lillian Hellman |
2014 |
Buy |
| Rav Kook |
2014 |
Buy |
| Jabotinsky |
2014 |
Buy |
| David |
2014 |
Buy |
| Leonard Bernstein |
2014 |
Buy |
| Ben-Gurion |
2014 |
Buy |
| Mark Rothko |
2015 |
Buy |
| Einstein |
2015 |
Buy |
| Léon Blum |
2015 |
Buy |
| Peggy Guggenheim |
2015 |
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| Proust |
2015 |
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| Groucho Marx |
2016 |
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| Disraeli |
2016 |
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| Barbra Streisand |
2016 |
Buy |
| Louis D. Brandeis |
2016 |
Buy |
| Moses |
2016 |
Buy |
| Warner Bros |
2017 |
Buy |
| Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films |
2017 |
Buy |
| Hayim Nahman Bialik |
2017 |
Buy |
| Yitzhak Rabin |
2017 |
Buy |
| Rabbi Akiva |
2017 |
Buy |
| Julius Rosenwald |
2017 |
Buy |
| Harvey Milk |
2018 |
Buy |
| Gershom Scholem |
2018 |
Buy |
| Menasseh ben Israel |
2018 |
Buy |
| Jerome Robbins |
2018 |
Buy |
| Ben Hecht |
2019 |
Buy |
| Martin Buber |
2019 |
Buy |
| Alfred Stieglitz |
2019 |
Buy |
| Karl Marx |
2019 |
Buy |
| Irving Berlin |
2019 |
Buy |
| Theodor Herzl |
2020 |
Buy |
| Houdini |
2020 |
Buy |
| Stan Lee |
2020 |
Buy |
| Stanley Kubrick |
2020 |
Buy |
| Heinrich Heine |
2020 |
Buy |
| Bugsy Siegel |
2021 |
Buy |
| Man Ray |
2021 |
Buy |
| Judah Benjamin |
2021 |
Buy |
| Abraham Joshua Heschel |
2021 |
Buy |
| Admiral Hyman Rickover |
2022 |
Buy |
| Becoming Elijah |
2022 |
Buy |
| Ruth |
2022 |
Buy |
| Sidney Reilly |
2022 |
Buy |
| Arthur Miller |
2022 |
Buy |
| Mel Brooks |
2023 |
Buy |
| Maimonides |
2023 |
Buy |
| Elie Wiesel |
2023 |
Buy |
| Amos Oz |
2023 |
Buy |
| Henrietta Szold |
2024 |
Buy |
Non-Fiction#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| A Continent of Islands |
1992 |
Buy |
| A Chosen Few |
1994 |
Buy |
| Cod |
1997 |
Buy |
| The Last Fish Tale |
1998 |
Buy |
| The Basque History of the World |
1999 |
Buy |
| Choice Cuts |
2002 |
Buy |
| Salt |
2002 |
Buy |
| 1968 |
2003 |
Buy |
| Nonviolence |
2006 |
Buy |
| The Eastern Stars |
2010 |
Buy |
| What? Are These the 20 Most Important Questions in Human History or Is This a Game of 20 Questions? |
2011 |
Buy |
| Birdseye |
2012 |
Buy |
| Ready for a Brand New Beat |
2013 |
Buy |
| International Night |
2014 |
Buy |
| Frozen in Time |
2014 |
Buy |
| Paper |
2016 |
Buy |
| Havana |
2017 |
Buy |
| Milk! |
2018 |
Buy |
| Bugs In Danger |
2019 |
Buy |
| Salmon |
2020 |
Buy |
| The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing |
2021 |
Buy |
| The Importance of Not Being Ernest |
2022 |
Buy |
| Big Lies: From Socrates to Social Media |
2022 |
Buy |
| The Core of an Onion |
2023 |
Buy |
| The Boston Way |
2025 |
Buy |
Picture Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Cod’s Tale |
1997 |
Buy |
| The Girl Who Swam to Euskadi |
2005 |
Buy |
| The Story of Salt |
2006 |
Buy |
| World Without Fish |
2011 |
Buy |
Standalone Novels#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Big Oyster |
2005 |
Buy |
| Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue |
2005 |
Buy |
| Battle Fatigue |
2011 |
Buy |
| Cheesecake |
2025 |
Buy |
The Food of a Younger Land Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food |
2009 |
Buy |
| The Food of a Younger Land: The South Eats |
2009 |
Buy |
| The Food of a Younger Land: The Far West Eats |
2009 |
Buy |
| The Food of a Younger Land: The Middle West Eats |
2009 |
Buy |
| The Food of a Younger Land: The Southwest Eats |
2009 |
Buy |
| The Food of a Younger Land: The Northeast Eats |
2009 |
Buy |
Mark Kurlansky is an American journalist, author, and food writer born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1948. He studied at Butler University and worked as a foreign correspondent for the Miami Herald, Philadelphia Inquirer, and International Herald Tribune before turning to book-length non-fiction. His approach takes a single subject and traces its influence across centuries of human history.
Cod (1997) was his breakout book, winning a James Beard Award for its account of how one fish shaped economies, wars, and exploration. Salt (2002) applied the same method to the mineral that has driven trade routes and revolutions. His output spans history, food writing, children’s books, fiction, and short story collections. He has also contributed to the Akashic Noir anthology series and the Yale University Press Jewish Lives biography series.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has Mark Kurlansky written?
Mark Kurlansky has published around 40 books of his own, spanning non-fiction, fiction, children’s books, and short story collections. His author page also includes entries from multi-author series he has contributed to, such as the Akashic Noir and Jewish Lives series.
What was Mark Kurlansky's first book?
Mark Kurlansky’s first book is A Continent of Islands, published in 1992.
What are Mark Kurlansky's most famous books?
Mark Kurlansky’s best-known works include Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World (1997), which won the James Beard Award, and Salt: A World History (2002), a New York Times bestseller. Other popular titles include 1968: The Year That Rocked the World, Paper: Paging Through History, and Milk! A 10,000-Year Food Fracas.