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Holmes for the Holidays Books in Order
560
Books
1999
First Book
2022
Latest Book
24
Years
Below you'll find the complete list of Holmes for the Holidays books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: March 2026
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What order should I read the Holmes for the Holidays series? Start with "More Holmes for the Holidays" (1999) and follow publication order through all 560 books.
The complete Holmes for the Holidays reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
1
More Holmes for the Holidays
1999
2
Political Science Fiction
1974
3
Introductory Psychology Through Science Fiction
1974
4
The New Awareness
1975
5
Science Fiction Contemporary Mythology
1978
6
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories
1978
7
Science Fiction of the Fifties
1979
8
Neglected Visions
1979
9
The Great SF Stories 1
1979
10
Dawn of Time
1979
11
Car Sinister
1979
12
The Science Fictional Solar System
1979
13
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Treasury
1980
14
The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels
1980
15
The Seven Deadly Sins of Science Fiction
1980
16
The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction / Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century
1980
17
Space Mail
1980
18
The Great Science Fiction Series
1980
19
Thinking Machines
1981
20
Space Mail Vol. II
1981
21
Wild Inventions
1981
22
The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural
1981
23
Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Science Fiction of the 19th Century
1981
24
Masters of Fantasy
1981
25
100 Malicious Little Mysteries
1981
26
Great Tales of Mystery and Suspense
1981
27
A Treasury of Modern Fantasy
1981
28
First Voyages
1981
29
The Giant Book Of Horror Stories
1981
30
Catastrophes!
1981
31
The Future I
1981
32
Travels Through Time
1981
33
The Seven Cardinal Virtues of Science Fiction
1981
34
Fantastic Creatures
1981
35
Arbor House Celebrity Book of Horror Stories
1982
36
The Last Man on Earth
1982
37
The Arbor House Celebrity Book of the Greatest Stories Ever Told
1982
38
The Arbor House Treasury of Mystery and Suspense
1982
39
Flying Saucers
1982
40
Tantalizing Locked Room Mysteries
1982
41
The Science Fictional Dinosaur
1982
42
Hollywood Unreel
1982
43
Tomorrow's TV
1982
44
Dragon Tales
1982
45
The Big Apple Mysteries
1982
46
Science Fiction A to Z
1982
47
Computer Crimes and Capers
1983
48
Those Amazing Electronic Thinking Machines!
1983
49
Mercenaries of Tomorrow
1983
50
Show Business is Murder
1983
51
The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces
1983
52
Cults
1983
53
Hallucination Orbit
1983
54
Starships
1983
55
Creations - the Quest for Origins in Story and Science
1983
56
Machines That Think
1983
57
Creations: The Quest For Origins In Story And Science
1983
58
The Science Fiction Weight Loss Book
1983
59
Caught in the Organ Draft
1983
60
The End of the World
1983
61
13 Horrors of Halloween
1983
62
The Fantasy Hall of Fame
1983
63
Great Fantasy
1983
64
Intergalactic Empires
1983
65
Touring Nam
1984
66
Sherlock Holmes Through Time and Space
1984
67
Murder on the Menu
1984
68
Young Mutants
1984
69
Baker's Dozen
1984
70
Mutants
1984
71
The Western Hall of Fame
1984
72
The Outlaws
1984
73
The Reel West
1984
74
13 Short Mystery Novels
1984
75
The Mystery Hall of Fame
1984
76
100 Great Fantasy Short Short Stories
1984
77
The Lawmen
1984
78
Election Day 2084
1984
79
Young Extraterrestrials
1984
80
Machines That Kill
1984
81
Women Sleuths
1985
82
The Cowboys
1985
83
The Arbor House Treasury of Great Western Stories
1985
84
The Warriors
1985
85
The Second Reel West
1985
86
Murder in the First Reel
1985
87
Police Procedurals
1985
88
The Ethnic Detectives
1985
89
Young Monsters
1985
90
Great Science Fiction Stories by the World's Greatest Scientists
1985
91
The Time Travellers
1985
92
Treasury Of World War II Stories
1985
93
Hitchcock in Prime Time
1985
94
Amazing Stories
1985
95
Beyond Armageddon
1985
96
Terrorists of Tomorrow
1985
97
Great Tales of Science Fiction
1986
98
Time Wars
1986
99
Uncollected Stars
1986
100
The Best of the New Wave
1986
101
Amazing Stories, Visions of Other Worlds
1986
102
Barbarians
1986
103
The Cattlemen
1986
104
The Railroaders
1986
105
Hitler Victorious
1986
106
Body Armor
1986
107
Dragons & Dreams
1986
108
The Steamboaters
1986
109
101 Science Fiction Stories
1986
110
The Third Reel West
1986
111
Mystery in the Mainstream
1986
112
101 Mystery Stories
1986
113
Worlds of If
1986
114
Strange Maine
1986
115
Extraterrestrials
1986
116
The Twelve Frights of Christmas
1986
117
The Wild Years 1946-1955
1987
118
Great Short Stories of 20th Century
1987
119
The Horse Soldiers
1987
120
Jewish Lists
1987
121
Suspicious Characters
1987
122
Manhattan Mysteries
1987
123
The Wonder Years 1926-1935
1987
124
Vamps
1987
125
Rod Serling's Night Gallery Reader
1987
126
Supertanks
1987
127
In the Ring
1987
128
The War Years 1936-1945
1987
129
Murder in Japan: Japanese Stories of Crime and Detection
1987
130
Young Witches and Warlocks
1987
131
Robert Adams' Book of Alternate Worlds
1987
132
Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century
1987
133
House Shudders
1987
134
The Adventures of Henry Turnbuckle
1987
135
Battlefields Beyond Tomorrow
1987
136
Women Write Murder
1987
137
Murder and Mystery in Boston
1987
138
The Gunfighters
1987
139
Encounters
1988
140
A Treasury of American Horror Stories
1988
141
Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Crime Stories of the 19th Century
1988
142
Lady on the Case
1988
143
Masterpieces of Mystery and Suspense
1988
144
Cloak and Dagger
1988
145
The Great SF Stories 17
1988
146
Homicidal Acts
1988
147
Criminal Elements
1988
148
Spaceships & Spells
1988
149
14 Vicious Valentines
1988
150
Cinemonsters
1988
151
Barbarians 2
1988
152
Hunger for Horror
1988
153
Spacefighters
1988
154
Space Wars
1988
155
Weird Tales
1988
156
The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats
1988
157
Nuclear War
1988
158
On The Diamond
1988
159
Robert Adams' Book of Soldiers
1988
160
Mississippi River Tales
1988
161
Pirate Ghosts
1988
162
Ghosts
1988
163
Jack the Ripper / Red Jack
1988
164
The Best Western Stories of Loren D. Estleman
1989
165
Death on Television
1989
166
The Further Adventures of Batman
1989
167
East Coast Ghosts
1989
168
Phantoms
1989
169
Friends, Robots, Countrymen
1989
170
The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories
1989
171
Stalkers
1989
172
The Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year, 1989
1989
173
The New Hugo Winners, 1983-1985
1989
174
Mammoth Book of World War II Stories
1989
175
One That Got Away
1989
176
Worlds Imagined
1989
177
Purr-Fect Crime
1989
178
The Californians
1989
179
Tales of the Occult
1989
180
Space Gladiators
1989
181
The Best Fantasy Stories of the Year, 1988
1989
182
Hound Dunnit
1989
183
Felonious Assaults
1989
184
Things That Go Bump in the Night
1989
185
Foundation's Friends
1989
186
Visions of Fantasy
1989
187
Murder Off the Rack
1989
188
Deadly Doings
1989
189
The Best Science Fiction of 1987
1989
190
Space Infantry
1989
191
Senior Sleuths
1989
192
Dick Tracy: The Secret Files
1990
193
Urban Horrors
1990
194
The Great SF Stories 22
1990
195
The Further Adventures of The Joker
1990
196
Phantom Regiments
1990
197
The Northwesterners
1990
198
Crime and Crime Again
1990
199
Cosmic Critiques
1990
200
Mummy Stories
1990
201
The Best Horror Stories of the Year, 1989
1990
202
Under the Gun
1990
203
Western Ghosts
1990
204
The Best Fantasy Stories of the Year, 1989
1990
205
Rivals of Weird Tales
1990
206
Devil Worshipers
1990
207
Loaded for Bear
1990
208
The New Edgar Winners
1990
209
The Northerners
1990
210
Best of the West 2
1990
211
Space Dreadnoughts
1990
212
Cults of Horror
1990
213
New England Ghosts
1990
214
Best of the West III
1990
215
P.I. Files
1990
216
Lovecraft's Legacy
1990
217
Synod of Sleuths
1990
218
Christmas Out West
1990
219
Christmas Stalkings
1991
220
Robot Warriors
1991
221
Index to Crime and Mystery Anthologies
1991
222
Solved
1991
223
Catfantastic II
1991
224
A Treasury of Civil War Stories
1991
225
The Montanans
1991
226
In the Big Country
1991
227
The Horror Hall of Fame
1991
228
Hollywood Ghosts
1991
229
Back from the Dead
1991
230
The Fantastic Adventures of Robin Hood
1991
231
The Great SF Stories 23
1991
232
Cat Crimes 1
1991
233
Sacred Visions
1991
234
Famous Fantastic Mysteries
1991
235
The Bradbury Chronicles
1991
236
After the King
1991
237
Invitation to Murder
1991
238
Best Horror Value Collection, Volume 2
1991
239
New Stories from the Twilight Zone / New Twilight Zone
1991
240
The Tom Clancy Companion
1992
241
A Taste for Blood
1992
242
Dracula: Prince of Darkness
1992
243
Women on the Edge
1992
244
The Great SF Stories 24
1992
245
Murasaki
1992
246
In The Shadow Of The King
1992
247
The Dean Koontz Companion
1992
248
Hard-Boiled Detectives
1992
249
Alternate Americas
1992
250
Combat!
1992
251
Third Annual Best Fantasy Stories of the Year
1992
252
The Great SF Stories 25
1992
253
Weird Vampire Tales
1992
254
Christmas Bestiary
1992
255
Aladdin
1992
256
100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories
1993
257
Confederacy of the Dead
1993
258
Christmas Ghosts
1993
259
A Newbery Halloween
1993
260
Sci-Fi Private Eye
1993
261
Lighthouse Horrors
1993
262
Journeys to the Twilight Zone
1993
263
Murder British Style
1993
264
The Further Adventures of Wonder Woman
1993
265
Crimes of Passion
1993
266
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream...Nightmare
1993
267
Third Annual Best Horror Stories of the Year
1993
268
Third Annual Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year
1993
269
Tales Of Riverworld
1993
270
The Mists from Beyond
1993
271
Santa Clues
1993
272
100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories
1993
273
Frankenstein
1993
274
Betcha Can't Read Just One
1993
275
100 Wild Little Weird Tales
1994
276
Feline and Famous
1994
277
Commando Brigade 3000
1994
278
100 Creepy Little Creature Stories
1994
279
Nebula Award-Winning Novellas
1994
280
Phobias
1994
281
By Any Other Fame
1994
282
Murder for Father
1994
283
Animal Brigade 3000
1994
284
Catfantastic III
1994
285
Great Tales of the West
1994
286
Grails
1994
287
Xanadu
1994
288
The New Hugo Winners, Vol. 3
1994
289
More Dixie Ghosts
1994
290
Murder for Mother
1994
291
100 Crooked Little Crime Stories
1994
292
Alien Pregnant by Elvis
1994
293
Weird Tales from Shakespeare
1994
294
Royal Crimes
1994
295
Women of the Night
1994
296
Deals with the Devil
1994
297
Great Tales of Horror and the Supernatural
1994
298
Love in Vein
1994
299
A Decade of Classic Crime
1994
300
Great Stories of the American West
1994
301
Return to the Twilight Zone
1994
302
Great Writers and Kids Write Spooky Stories
1995
303
Cat Crimes for the Holidays
1995
304
Sherlock Holmes in Orbit
1995
305
100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories
1995
306
100 Wicked Little Witch Stories
1995
307
Sisters of the Night
1995
308
Murder Most Delicious
1995
309
A Newbery Zoo
1995
310
The Secret Prophecies Of Nostradamus
1995
311
Torture Trek and Eleven Other Action-Packed Stories of the Wild West
1995
312
Vampire Detectives
1995
313
Between Time and Terror
1995
314
Cat Crimes Takes a Vacation
1995
315
Heaven Sent
1995
316
Excalibur
1995
317
Warriors of Blood and Dreams
1995
318
Tales of the Batman
1995
319
The Book of Kings
1995
320
More Phobias
1995
321
Ancient Enchantresses
1995
322
New Legends
1995
323
The Haunted House of Original Stories
1995
324
Adventures In The Twilight Zone
1995
325
Desire Burn
1995
326
Celebrity Vampires
1995
327
Forbidden Acts
1995
328
Immortal Unicorn
1995
329
Woman On The Beat
1995
330
The Giant Book of Science Fiction Stories
1995
331
Wheel of Fortune
1995
332
Blood Muse
1995
333
David Copperfield's Tales of the Impossible
1995
334
Rivals of Dracula
1996
335
Warrior Enchantresses
1996
336
David Copperfield's Beyond Imagination
1996
337
Night Screams
1996
338
Return to Avalon
1996
339
A Century of Horror 1970-1979
1996
340
Dinosaurs
1996
341
100 Astounding Little Alien Stories
1996
342
The Mammoth Book of Short Spy Novels
1996
343
It Came from the Drive-In
1996
344
Great Stories of the American West 2
1996
345
Castle Fantastic
1996
346
Sisters in Fantasy 2
1996
347
Monster Brigade 3000
1996
348
The Way It Wasn't
1996
349
The Time of the Vampires
1996
350
Phantoms of the Night
1996
351
The Shimmering Door
1996
352
White House Horrors
1996
353
Supernatural Sleuths
1996
354
Future Net
1996
355
An Anthology of Angels
1996
356
Holmes for the Holidays
1996
357
Great Writers and Kids Write Mystery Stories
1996
358
The Giant Book of War Stories
1997
359
Giant Book of Short Crime Stories
1997
360
Vampires
1997
361
A Century of Fantasy, 1980-1989
1997
362
Love In Vein II
1997
363
Dragons
1997
364
100 Fiendish Little Frightmares
1997
365
Girls Night Out
1997
366
First Contact
1997
367
The Fatal Frontier
1997
368
American Pulp
1997
369
100 Sneaky Little Sleuth Stories
1997
370
A Century of Science Fiction, 1950-1959
1997
371
Death in Dixie
1997
372
Malice Domestic 6
1997
373
Love Kills
1997
374
Return of the Dinosaurs
1997
375
Legends of the Batman
1997
376
Adventures of the Batman
1997
377
UFOs
1997
378
Funny Bones: 15 New Tales of Murder and Mayhem
1997
379
The Giant Book of Private Eye Stories
1997
380
Haunted Houses
1997
381
The Fortune Teller
1997
382
Great Writers: Kids Write Mysteries
1997
383
Southern Blood
1997
384
Screamplays
1997
385
Elf Magic
1997
386
Best Horror Value Collection
1997
387
The New Hugo Winners, Volume IV, 1992-1994
1997
388
The Conspiracy Files
1998
389
Dangerous Vegetables
1998
390
100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment
1998
391
A Magic-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic
1998
392
The UFO Files
1998
393
Murder They Wrote II
1998
394
A Treasury of Cat Mysteries
1998
395
Blowout in Little Man Flats
1998
396
Olympus
1998
397
Never Shake A Family Tree
1998
398
The Fifth Grave
1998
399
Warrior Princesses
1998
400
Black Cats and Broken Mirrors
1998
401
Speaking of Murder
1998
402
Lord of the Fantastic
1998
403
The Big Book of Noir
1998
404
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1997
1998
405
Battle Magic
1998
406
Best Horror Stories of the Year, 1998
1998
407
Mob Magic
1998
408
The Greatest Western Stories of the 20th Century
1998
409
First to Fight
1999
410
Vampire Slayers
1999
411
100 Hilarious Little Howlers
1999
412
Till Death Do Us Part
1999
413
Future Crimes
1999
414
Cat Crimes Through Time
1999
415
Crime After Crime
1999
416
Speaking of murder vol 2
1999
417
A Dangerous Magic
1999
418
Twice Upon a Time
1999
419
Isaac Asimov Countdown 2000
1999
420
Starfall
1999
421
Catfantastic V
1999
422
Children of the Night
1999
423
Merlin
1999
424
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1999
425
Alien Abductions
1999
426
Past Lives, Present Tense
1999
427
Flights of Fantasy
1999
428
Mardi Gras Madness
2000
429
Civil War Fantastic
2000
430
Spell Fantastic
2000
431
Star Colonies
2000
432
Rapunzel's Revenge
2000
433
Far Frontiers
2000
434
Guardian Angels
2000
435
Guardsmen of Tomorrow
2000
436
The Mutant Files
2001
437
Death by Horoscope
2001
438
Best Science Fiction Value Collection II
2001
439
Dancing Tom and Other Selections by Newbery Authors
2001
440
Best Fantasy Value Collection, 3
2001
441
Adoniram and Other Selections by Newbery Authors
2001
442
Single White Vampire Seeks Same
2001
443
The Highest Hit and Other Selections
2001
444
Robert Silverberg Presents the Great Science Fiction Stories (1964)
2001
445
Villains Victorious
2001
446
Murder Most Romantic
2001
447
Oceans of Magic
2001
448
The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century
2001
449
Historical Hauntings
2001
450
The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century
2001
451
Pulp Masters
2001
452
Murder Most Feline
2001
453
The Wise Soldier of Sellebak
2001
454
For a Horse
2001
455
Lone Cowboy
2001
456
Christmas on the Prairie
2001
457
A Knife for Tomaso
2001
458
A Date Which Will Live Infamy?
2001
459
Little Sioux Girl And Other Selections By Newbery Authors
2001
460
The Further Adventures of Xena: Warrior Princess
2001
461
Past Imperfect
2001
462
Murder in Baker Street
2001
463
Sherlock Holmes in America
2001
464
Silicon Dreams
2001
465
Apprentice Fantastic
2002
466
Give Me Liberty
2002
467
The American Fantasy Tradition
2002
468
Oceans of Space
2002
469
Alternate Gettysburgs
2002
470
Murder Most Catholic
2002
471
Sol's Children
2002
472
Guns of the West
2002
473
Murder, My Dear Watson
2002
474
Lighthouse Hauntings
2002
475
Wondrous Beginnings
2003
476
Men Writing Science Fiction As Women
2003
477
Magical Beginnings
2003
478
Horrible Beginnings
2003
479
Future Wars
2003
480
Heroes in Training
2003
481
Stagecoach
2003
482
The Repentant
2003
483
Visions of Liberty
2004
484
The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century
2004
485
Space Stations
2004
486
Sirius
2004
487
Little Red Riding Hood in the Big Bad City
2004
488
Texas Rangers
2004
489
Mr. President, Private Eye
2004
490
Haunted Holidays
2004
491
In the Shadow of Evil
2005
492
Gateways
2005
493
The Adventure of the Missing Detective and 19 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories
2005
494
You Bet Your Planet
2005
495
Maiden, Matron, and Crone
2005
496
Magic Tails
2005
497
All Hell Breaking Loose
2005
498
Children of Magic
2006
499
Slipstreams
2006
500
The Ghosts in Baker Street
2006
501
Millennium 3001
2006
502
Back at the Track
2006
503
Freedom!
2006
504
The Widow of Slane and Six More of the Best Crime and Mystery Novellas of the Year
2006
505
Fantasy Gone Wrong
2006
506
The Deadly Bride and 19 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories
2006
507
Places to Be, People to Kill
2007
508
Time Twisters
2007
509
If I Were An Evil Overlord
2007
510
Future Weapons of War
2007
511
Nebula Awards Showcase 2007
2007
512
Lost Trails
2007
513
Pandora's Closet
2007
514
Burket's Oral Medicine
2007
515
Wizards, Inc.
2007
516
The Future We Wish We Had
2007
517
Wolf Woman Bay and 9 More of the Finest Crime and Mystery Novellas of the Year!
2007
518
Catopolis
2008
519
The Dimension Next Door
2008
520
50 Witch Stories
2008
521
50 Ghost Stories
2008
522
Hotter Than Hell
2008
523
Something Magic This Way Comes
2008
524
A Prisoner of Memory and 24 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories
2008
525
Future Americas
2008
526
Imaginary Friends
2008
527
Better Off Undead
2008
528
50 More Crime Stories
2008
529
Spells of the City
2009
530
Between the Dark and the Daylight
2009
531
Terribly Twisted Tales
2009
532
Classic Tales of Horror
2009
533
Zombie Raccoons & Killer Bunnies
2009
534
From Twilight Till Dawn
2009
535
A Girl's Guide to Guns and Monsters
2009
536
Full Moon City
2010
537
Law of the Gun
2010
538
Timeshares
2010
539
Ghost Towns
2010
540
The End of the World: Stories of the Apocalypse
2010
541
Masters of Horror and the Supernatural
2010
542
Love and Rockets
2010
543
Steampunk'd
2010
544
The Best Paranormal Crime Stories Ever Told
2010
545
Human for a Day
2011
546
Boondocks Fantasy
2011
547
Zombiesque
2011
548
On Dangerous Ground
2011
549
Hot and Steamy
2011
550
Love Is Strange
2011
551
Courts of the Fey
2011
552
50 More Witch Stories
2011
553
50 More Detective Stories
2012
554
Westward Weird
2012
555
Weird Tales Vampires
2012
556
The Interrogator and Other Criminally Good Fiction
2012
557
Ghouls, Ghosts, and Ninja Rats
2013
558
100 Tiny Tales of Terror
2014
559
50 More Ghost Stories
2020
560
The Wildside Press Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces
2022
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