Akashic Noir books in order

Reading order

The Akashic Noir series is a massive anthology project published by Akashic Books, with each volume dedicated to a different city around the world. The series launched with San Francisco Noir in 2002 and Brooklyn Noir in 2004, and has since grown to over 120 entries covering cities on every inhabited continent. Barbara Parker contributed to the Miami Noir volume, which appeared in 2006.

Each volume is edited by a writer with deep ties to the featured city, and the contributing authors are typically locals who write about neighborhoods and street-level life with genuine familiarity. The result is a crime fiction series that doubles as a world tour. From Lagos to Stockholm to Buenos Aires, the books offer readers a look at how noir fiction works in wildly different cultural settings. The series has also revisited some cities with sequel volumes and “Classics” editions that reprint older crime stories set in the same locations.