Akashic Noir books in order

Reading order

The Akashic Noir series is one of the longest-running anthology series in crime fiction, published by Akashic Books. Each volume focuses on a different city or region and features original noir and crime stories by various authors. The series launched with Brooklyn Noir in 2004 and has since covered locations from San Francisco to Baghdad, São Paulo to Nairobi, publishing over 120 volumes.

Each anthology is edited by a different writer, typically one with connections to the featured location. The stories are set in specific neighborhoods within each city, giving readers a street-level view of places around the world through the lens of crime fiction. Stuart M. Kaminsky contributed to volumes in this series, though the anthologies feature work by hundreds of different crime fiction authors.