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Standalone Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Standalone books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: March 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Standalone series? Start with "Carla" (1958) and follow publication order through all 67 books.
The complete Standalone reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
Carla
1958
Into the Night (With: Cornell Woolrich)
1959
69 Barrow Street
1959
Campus Tramp
1959
Candy
1960
A Girl Called Honey
1960
Kept
1960
A Strange Kind of Love
1960
The Adulterers
1960
Grifter's Game / Mona / Sweet Slow Death
1961
A Diet of Treacle
1961
Cinderella Sims
1961
Killing Castro
1961
Coward's Kiss / Death Pulls a Doublecross
1961
$20 Lust / Cinderella Sims
1961
The Twisted Ones
1961
Borderline
1962
The Case of the Pornographic Photos / Markham / You Could Call it Murder
1962
Strange Embrace
1962
Sin Hellcat
1962
Lucky at Cards
1964
The Girl with the Long Green Heart
1965
Deadly Honeymoon
1967
After the First Death
1969
The Specialists
1969
Ronald Rabbit is a Dirty Old Man
1971
A Week as Andrea Benstock
1975
Ariel
1979
Code of Arms (With: Harold King)
1981
Random Walk
1988
The Lost Cases of Ed London
2001
Small Town
2002
Community of Women
2010
The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes
2015
Passport to Peril (With: Anne Campbell Clark)
2016
Sinner Man
2016
April North / High School Sex Club
2019
Dead Girl Blues
2020
Collecting Ackermans
1979
A Chance to Get Even
2011
Dolly's Trash & Treasures
2011
Welcome to the Real World
2011
Who Knows Where It Goes
2011
Scenarios
2011
Headaches and Bad Dreams
2011
Sweet Little Hands
2011
You Don't Even Feel It
2011
In For a Penny
2011
Three in the Side Pocket
2011
Like a Bone in the Throat
2011
Nothing Short of Highway Robbery
2013
The Ehrengraf Fandango
2014
I Know How to Pick 'Em
2014
Autumn at the Automat
2016
Resume Speed
2016
Like a Lamb to Slaughter
1984
Sometimes They Bite
1984
Some Days You Get the Bear
1993
By the Dawn's Early Light: And Other Stories
1994
The Collected Mystery Stories
1999
Enough Rope
2002
The Crazy Years
2004
Catch and Release
2011
Defender of the Innocent: The Casebook of Martin Ehrengraf
2014
Resume Speed and Other Stories
2018
From Sea to Stormy Sea
2019
How Far
2011
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