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 |
Non-Fiction#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Stories and Early Novels |
1933 |
Buy |
| The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler |
1976 |
Buy |
| Selected Letters |
1981 |
Buy |
| Later Novels and Other Writings |
1995 |
Buy |
| The World of Raymond Chandler |
2014 |
Buy |
Philip Marlowe Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Big Sleep |
1939 |
Buy |
| Farewell, My Lovely |
1940 |
Buy |
| The High Window |
1942 |
Buy |
| The Lady in the Lake |
1943 |
Buy |
| The Little Sister |
1949 |
Buy |
| The Long Goodbye |
1953 |
Buy |
| Playback |
1958 |
Buy |
| Poodle Springs |
1989 |
Buy |
| Perchance to Dream |
1991 |
Buy |
| The Black-Eyed Blonde / Marlowe |
2014 |
Buy |
| Only to Sleep |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Goodbye Coast |
2022 |
Buy |
| The Second Murderer |
2023 |
Buy |
Raymond Chandler Anthologies Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Hard-Boiled Detectives |
1953 |
Buy |
| The Mammoth Book of Private Eye Stories |
1988 |
Buy |
| Great Law and Order Stories |
1990 |
Buy |
| The Little Book of Horrors: Tiny Tales of Terror |
1992 |
Buy |
| Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories |
1996 |
N/A |
| The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories |
1996 |
Buy |
| The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 |
1999 |
Buy |
| The Oxford Book of Detective Stories |
2000 |
Buy |
| The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century |
2000 |
Buy |
| Writing Los Angeles |
2002 |
Buy |
| The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction |
2004 |
Buy |
| Pulp Fiction - The Dames |
2008 |
Buy |
| Books to Die For |
2012 |
Buy |
| Writers: Their Lives and Works |
2018 |
Buy |
| Los Angeles Noir 2 |
2010 |
Buy |
| The Movie Book |
2016 |
Buy |
Raymond Chandler Non-Fiction Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler |
1976 |
Buy |
| Selected Letters |
1981 |
Buy |
| The World of Raymond Chandler |
2014 |
Buy |
Raymond Chandler Philip Marlowe Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Big Sleep |
1939 |
Buy |
| Farewell, My Lovely |
1940 |
Buy |
| The High Window |
1942 |
Buy |
| The Lady in the Lake |
1943 |
Buy |
| The Little Sister |
1949 |
Buy |
| The Long Goodbye |
1953 |
Buy |
| Playback |
1958 |
Buy |
| Poodle Springs |
1989 |
Buy |
| Perchance to Dream |
1991 |
Buy |
| The Black-Eyed Blonde |
2014 |
Buy |
| Only to Sleep |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Goodbye Coast |
2022 |
Buy |
| The Second Murderer |
2023 |
Buy |
Raymond Chandler Screenplays Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Double Indemnity |
1944 |
Buy |
| The Blue Dahlia |
1976 |
Buy |
Screenplays Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Double Indemnity |
1944 |
Buy |
| The Blue Dahlia |
1976 |
Buy |
Short Stories/Novellas#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Curtain |
1936 |
Buy |
| Bay City Blues |
1938 |
Buy |
| The Bronze Door |
1939 |
N/A |
| Professor Bingo’s Snuff |
1951 |
Buy |
| English Summer |
1976 |
Buy |
| Goldfish |
1981 |
Buy |
| The Man Who Liked Dogs |
1996 |
Buy |
| I’ll Be Waiting |
2020 |
Buy |
Short Story Collections#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Five Murders |
1944 |
N/A |
| Five Sinister Characters |
1945 |
Buy |
| Red Wind |
1946 |
Buy |
| Spanish Blood |
1946 |
Buy |
| The Finger Man |
1947 |
Buy |
| The Simple Art of Murder |
1950 |
Buy |
| Trouble is My Business |
1950 |
Buy |
| Pickup on Noon Street |
1952 |
Buy |
| Smart-Aleck Kill |
1953 |
Buy |
| Pearls are a Nuisance |
1958 |
Buy |
| Killer in the Rain |
1964 |
Buy |
| The Smell of Fear |
1965 |
Buy |
Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) was an American-British author who defined the hard-boiled detective novel. His Philip Marlowe series, beginning with The Big Sleep in 1939, created a template for the cynical but principled private eye that has influenced crime fiction for decades. Chandler wrote seven Marlowe novels during his lifetime, from The Big Sleep through Playback (1958).
Beyond Marlowe, Chandler was a prolific short story writer, screenwriter (Double Indemnity, The Blue Dahlia), and essayist. His story collections like The Simple Art of Murder and Trouble is My Business gather his pulp fiction origins. After his death, other authors continued the Marlowe character, including Robert B. Parker (Poodle Springs) and Benjamin Black (The Black-Eyed Blonde).
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has Raymond Chandler written?
Raymond Chandler has written 195 books across ten series.
What was Raymond Chandler's first book?
Raymond Chandler’s first book is Stories and Early Novels, published in 1933.
What is Raymond Chandler best known for?
Raymond Chandler is best known for creating the private detective Philip Marlowe, who appeared in seven novels starting with The Big Sleep (1939). Chandler’s sharp, witty prose style defined the hard-boiled detective genre, and his novels have been adapted into numerous films.