Akashic Noir Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Brooklyn Noir |
2004 |
Buy |
| Trinidad Noir: The Classics |
2017 |
Buy |
| Chicago Noir |
2005 |
Buy |
| San Francisco Noir |
2002 |
Buy |
| Hasidic Noir |
2004 |
Buy |
| D.C. Noir |
2006 |
Buy |
| Brooklyn Noir 2 |
2005 |
Buy |
| Dublin Noir |
2005 |
Buy |
| Manhattan Noir |
2006 |
Buy |
| Baltimore Noir |
2006 |
Buy |
| London Noir |
2006 |
Buy |
| Miami Noir |
2006 |
Buy |
| New Orleans Noir |
2007 |
Buy |
| Los Angeles Noir |
2007 |
Buy |
| Twin Cities Noir |
2006 |
Buy |
| Wall Street Noir |
2007 |
Buy |
| Bronx Noir |
2003 |
Buy |
| Havana Noir |
2007 |
Buy |
| Detroit Noir |
2007 |
Buy |
| Queens Noir |
2008 |
Buy |
| Las Vegas Noir |
2008 |
Buy |
| Toronto Noir |
2008 |
Buy |
| Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But the Truth |
2008 |
Buy |
| Trinidad Noir |
2008 |
Buy |
| Chicago Noir: The Classics |
2015 |
Buy |
| Miami Noir: The Classics |
2020 |
Buy |
| Istanbul Noir |
2008 |
Buy |
| D.C. Noir 2 |
2008 |
Buy |
| Paris Noir |
2008 |
Buy |
| Manhattan Noir 2 |
2008 |
Buy |
| Rome Noir |
2009 |
Buy |
| San Francisco Noir 2: The Classics |
2009 |
N/A |
| Portland Noir |
2009 |
Buy |
| Seattle Noir |
2003 |
Buy |
| Delhi Noir |
2009 |
Buy |
| Boston Noir |
2009 |
Buy |
| San Francisco Noir 2 |
2009 |
Buy |
| Phoenix Noir |
2009 |
Buy |
| Mexico City Noir |
2010 |
Buy |
| Richmond Noir |
2010 |
Buy |
| Los Angeles Noir 2 |
2010 |
Buy |
| New Orleans Noir: The Classics |
2016 |
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 |
| Memphis Noir |
2015 |
Buy |
| Zagreb Noir |
2015 |
Buy |
| Marseille Noir |
2015 |
Buy |
| Beirut Noir |
2015 |
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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 50 Great Short Stories |
1952 |
Buy |
| The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart |
1992 |
Buy |
| Writing New York |
1998 |
Buy |
| Baseball: a Literary Anthology |
2002 |
Buy |
Collections#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| From Death to Morning |
1935 |
Buy |
| The Hills Beyond |
1941 |
Buy |
| A Stone, a Leaf, a Door |
1945 |
Buy |
| Short Novels of Thomas Wolfe |
1961 |
Buy |
| The Complete Short Stories Of Thomas Wolfe |
1987 |
Buy |
| Thomas Wolfe’s Civil War |
2004 |
Buy |
| Windows of the Heart |
2007 |
Buy |
| The Magical Campus |
2008 |
Buy |
Non-Fiction#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Story of a Novel |
1936 |
Buy |
| A Western Journal a Daily Log the Great Parks Trip |
1968 |
Buy |
| The Autobiography of an American Novelist |
1983 |
Buy |
| My Other Loneliness |
1983 |
Buy |
| The Letters of Thomas Wolfe |
1984 |
Buy |
| To Loot My Life Clean |
2000 |
Buy |
| The Face of a Nation 1939 |
2021 |
Buy |
Short Stories/Novellas#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Lost Boy |
1937 |
Buy |
| Mountains |
1970 |
Buy |
| Welcome to Our City |
1983 |
Buy |
| Mannerhouse |
1985 |
Buy |
| The Good Child’s River |
1991 |
Buy |
| The Starwick Episodes |
1994 |
Buy |
| The Party At Jack’s |
1995 |
Buy |
| The Four Lost Men: The Previously Unpublished Long Version |
2008 |
Buy |
Standalone Novels#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Look Homeward, Angel |
1929 |
Buy |
| Of Time and the River |
1935 |
Buy |
| The Web and the Rock |
1938 |
Buy |
| You Can’t Go Home Again |
1940 |
Buy |
| Good Child’s River |
1991 |
Buy |
| O Lost: A Story of the Buried Life |
2000 |
Buy |
| The Web and the Root |
2009 |
Buy |
Thomas Wolfe was born in 1900 in Asheville, North Carolina, and died young at 37 from complications following a bout of pneumonia. In that short span he produced four sprawling novels and a large body of short fiction, much of it published posthumously with the help of his editor Maxwell Perkins. His work had a demonstrable influence on writers including Jack Kerouac, Ray Bradbury, and Philip Roth.
His novels are deeply autobiographical. Look Homeward, Angel drew so directly from life in Asheville that its publication caused considerable upset among people who recognized themselves in its pages. Of Time and the River picks up Eugene Gant’s story at Harvard and in New York, covering Wolfe’s own experiences as a teacher and aspiring writer. The posthumous novels The Web and the Rock and You Can’t Go Home Again return to many of the same themes under a new protagonist, George Webber.
His connection to the Akashic Noir anthology series in this catalog reflects how widely his name appears in the publishing world as a shared author credit — the Akashic Noir series is a long-running anthology imprint, not fiction by Thomas Wolfe the novelist.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has Thomas Wolfe written?
Thomas Wolfe has written 156 books across six series.
What was Thomas Wolfe's first book?
Thomas Wolfe’s first book is Look Homeward, Angel, published in 1929.
What is Thomas Wolfe's most famous novel?
Look Homeward, Angel (1929) is his best-known work. It follows Eugene Gant, a thinly veiled self-portrait, growing up in a fictionalized Asheville, North Carolina. Of Time and the River (1935) continues Eugene’s story.