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Dean Koontz Books in Order
Below is the complete list of Dean Koontz books in order of publication. This is the recommended reading sequence for the series.
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Odd Thomas Series
- Odd Thomas (2003)
Buy on Amazon - Forever Odd (2005)
Buy on Amazon - Brother Odd (2006)
Buy on Amazon - Odd Hours (2008)
Buy on Amazon - Odd Interlude (2012)
Buy on Amazon - Odd Apocalypse (2012)
Buy on Amazon - Deeply Odd (2013)
Buy on Amazon - You Are Destined To Be Together Forever (2014)
Buy on Amazon - Saint Odd (2015)
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Odd Thomas Graphic Novels Series
- In Odd We Trust (2008)
Buy on Amazon - Odd Is on Our Side (2010)
Buy on Amazon - House of Odd (2012)
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Jane Hawk Series
- The Silent Corner (2017)
Buy on Amazon - The Whispering Room (2017)
Buy on Amazon - The Crooked Staircase (2018)
Buy on Amazon - The Forbidden Door (2018)
Buy on Amazon - The Night Window (2019)
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Jane Hawk Short Stories/Novellas Series
- The Bone Farm (2018)
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Black Bat Mystery Series
as Brian Coffey
- Blood Risk (1973)
Buy on Amazon - Surrounded (1974)
Buy on Amazon - The Wall of Masks (1975)
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Moonlight Bay Series
- Fear Nothing (1998)
Buy on Amazon - Seize the Night (1998)
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Santas Twin Series
- Santa’s Twin (1995)
Buy on Amazon - Robot Santa: The Further Adventures of Santa’s Twin (2004)
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Nameless Series
- In the Heart of the Fire (2019)
Buy on Amazon - Photographing the Dead (2019)
Buy on Amazon - The Praying Mantis Bride (2019)
Buy on Amazon - Red Rain (2019)
Buy on Amazon - The Mercy of Snakes (2019)
Buy on Amazon - Memories of Tomorrow (2019)
Buy on Amazon - The Lost Soul of the City (2021)
Buy on Amazon - Gentle Is the Angel of Death (2021)
Buy on Amazon - Kaleidoscope (2021)
Buy on Amazon - Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not (2021)
Buy on Amazon - Corkscrew (2021)
Buy on Amazon - Zero In (2021)
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What the Night Knows Series
- What the Night Knows (2010)
Buy on Amazon - Darkness Under the Sun (2010)
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Innocence Series
- Wilderness (2013)
Buy on Amazon - Innocence (2013)
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Ashley Bell Series
- Last Light (2015)
Buy on Amazon - Final Hour (2015)
Buy on Amazon - Ashley Bell (2015)
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The City Series
- The City (2014)
Buy on Amazon - The Neighbor (2014)
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Trixie Koontz Series
- Life Is Good: Lessons in Joyful Living (2004)
Buy on Amazon - Christmas Is Good: Trixie’s Guide to a Happy Holiday (2005)
Buy on Amazon - Bliss to You: Trixie’s Guide to a Happy Life (2008)
Buy on Amazon - A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog (2009)
Buy on Amazon - I, Trixie, Who is Dog (2009)
Buy on Amazon - Trixie and Jinx (2010)
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77 Shadow Street Series
- The Moonlit Mind (2011)
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Frankenstein Series
- Prodigal Son (2005)
(With Kevin J. Anderson)
Buy on Amazon - City of Night (2005)
(With Ed Gorman)
Buy on Amazon - Dead and Alive (2009)
Buy on Amazon - Lost Souls (2009)
Buy on Amazon - The Dead Town (2011)
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Standalone Novels Series
- Star Quest / Doom of the Green Planet (1968)
Buy on Amazon - The Fall of the Dream Machine / The Star Ventures (1969)
Buy on Amazon - Fear That Man / Toyman (1969)
Buy on Amazon - Dark Symphony (1970)
Buy on Amazon - Hell’s Gate (1970)
Buy on Amazon - Dark of the Woods / Soft Come the Dragons (1970)
Buy on Amazon - Beastchild (1970)
Buy on Amazon - Anti-Man (1970)
Buy on Amazon - The Crimson Witch (1971)
Buy on Amazon - Demon Child (1971)
(As: Deanna Dwyer)
Buy on Amazon - Legacy of Terror (1971)
(As: Deanna Dwyer)
Buy on Amazon - Warlock (1972)
Buy on Amazon - Starblood (1972)
Buy on Amazon - The Flesh in the Furnace (1972)
Buy on Amazon - Children of the Storm (1972)
(As: Deanna Dwyer)
Buy on Amazon - Dance with the Devil (1972)
(As: Deanna Dwyer)
Buy on Amazon - The Dark of Summer (1972)
(As: Deanna Dwyer)
Buy on Amazon - A Darker Heritage (1972)
Buy on Amazon - Darkness in My Soul (1972)
Buy on Amazon - Time Thieves (1972)
Buy on Amazon - Chase (1972)
Buy on Amazon - Demon Seed (1973)
Buy on Amazon - Shattered (1973)
Buy on Amazon - A Werewolf Among Us (1973)
Buy on Amazon - The Haunted Earth (1973)
Buy on Amazon - Hanging on (1973)
Buy on Amazon - Strike Deep (1974)
Buy on Amazon - After the Last Race (1974)
Buy on Amazon - Nightmare Journey (1975)
Buy on Amazon - The Long Sleep (1975)
(As: John Hill)
Buy on Amazon - Invasion (1975)
(As: Aaron Wolfe)
Buy on Amazon - Dragonfly (1976)
Buy on Amazon - Night Chills (1976)
Buy on Amazon - Prison Of Ice (1976)
Buy on Amazon - Icebound (1976)
Buy on Amazon - The Vision (1977)
Buy on Amazon - The Face of Fear (1977)
Buy on Amazon - The Key to Midnight (1979)
Buy on Amazon - Whispers (1980)
Buy on Amazon - The Voice of the Night (1980)
Buy on Amazon - The Funhouse (1980)
(As: Owen West)
Buy on Amazon - The Eyes of Darkness (1981)
(As: Leigh Nichols)
Buy on Amazon - The Mask (1981)
(As: Owen West)
Buy on Amazon - The House of Thunder (1982)
Buy on Amazon - Phantoms (1983)
Buy on Amazon - The Servants of Twilight (1984)
Buy on Amazon - Darkfall / Darkness Comes (1984)
Buy on Amazon - Twilight Eyes (1984)
Buy on Amazon - The Door to December (1985)
Buy on Amazon - Strangers (1986)
Buy on Amazon - Watchers (1987)
Buy on Amazon - Shadowfires (1987)
(As: Leigh Nichols)
Buy on Amazon - Lightning (1988)
Buy on Amazon - Trapped (1989)
Buy on Amazon - Midnight (1989)
Buy on Amazon - The Bad Place (1990)
Buy on Amazon - Cold Fire (1991)
Buy on Amazon - Hideaway (1992)
Buy on Amazon - Mr. Murder (1993)
Buy on Amazon - Dragon Tears (1993)
Buy on Amazon - Winter Moon (1993)
Buy on Amazon - Dark Rivers of the Heart (1994)
Buy on Amazon - Intensity (1995)
Buy on Amazon - Tick Tock (1996)
Buy on Amazon - Sole Survivor (1997)
Buy on Amazon - False Memory (1999)
Buy on Amazon - From the Corner of His Eye (2000)
Buy on Amazon - One Door Away from Heaven (2001)
Buy on Amazon - Watchers & Mr Murder (2001)
Buy on Amazon - By the Light of the Moon (2002)
Buy on Amazon - The Face (2003)
Buy on Amazon - The Taking (2004)
Buy on Amazon - Life Expectancy (2004)
Buy on Amazon - Velocity (2005)
Buy on Amazon - The Husband (2006)
Buy on Amazon - The Darkest Evening of the Year (2007)
Buy on Amazon - The Good Guy (2007)
Buy on Amazon - Your Heart Belongs to Me (2008)
Buy on Amazon - Relentless (2009)
Buy on Amazon - Breathless (2009)
Buy on Amazon - Devoted (2020)
Buy on Amazon - Elsewhere (2020)
Buy on Amazon - The Other Emily (2021)
Buy on Amazon - Quicksilver (2022)
Buy on Amazon - The Big Dark Sky (2022)
Buy on Amazon - The House at the End of the World (2023)
Buy on Amazon - After Death (2023)
Buy on Amazon - The Bad Weather Friend (2024)
Buy on Amazon - The Forest of Lost Souls (2024)
Buy on Amazon - Going Home in the Dark (2025)
Buy on Amazon - The Friend of the Family (2026)
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Anthologies Series
- Strange Highways (1995)
Buy on Amazon - The Book Of Counted Sorrows (2003)
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Non-Fiction Series
- Writing Popular Fiction (1972)
Buy on Amazon - How to Write Best Selling Fiction (1981)
Buy on Amazon - Beautiful Death: The Art of the Cemetery (1996)
Buy on Amazon - Ask Anna (2014)
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Childrens Series
- Oddkins: A Fable for All Ages (1988)
Buy on Amazon - The Paper Doorway: Funny Verse and Nothing Worse (2001)
Buy on Amazon - Every Day’s a Holiday: Amusing Rhymes for Happy Times (2003)
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Short Stories/Novellas Series
- Ricochet Joe [Kindle in Motion] (2017)
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Short Story Collections Series
- Strange Highways and Other Stories (2022)
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Graphic Novels Series
with Keith Champagne
- Nevermore (2009)
(With Keith Champagne)
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About Dean Koontz
Dean Koontz has spent decades writing suspense fiction that resists being boxed into a single shelf. He is usually described as a thriller writer, and that is broadly true, but his books have always moved freely among horror, science fiction, mystery, fantasy, satire, and psychological suspense. That hybrid quality is one of the reasons his bibliography can feel so distinctive. A Dean Koontz novel is often built like a thriller, but the emotional and imaginative range inside it is usually much wider. He writes about danger, certainly, but also about faith, grace, evil, innocence, absurdity, and the strange resilience of ordinary people when confronted by forces far larger than themselves.
Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Koontz graduated from Shippensburg State College and worked early on with the Appalachian Poverty Program before turning fully to writing. He has often spoken about a difficult childhood and an abusive father, and that background helps explain something central in his fiction: the repeated contrast between cruelty and kindness. For all the menace, grotesquerie, and conspiracy in his novels, they are rarely nihilistic. Koontz is deeply interested in goodness under pressure. His heroes are often damaged, isolated, or frightened, but they are also capable of loyalty, tenderness, humor, and moral courage. That balance is one of the clearest signatures across his work.
His bibliography is best understood in broad phases rather than as one neat progression. He began in science fiction and published under his own name as well as numerous pseudonyms, including K.R. Dwyer, Leigh Nichols, Brian Coffey, and Deanna Dwyer. That early period was prolific and sometimes deliberately flexible, with Koontz writing across genres and markets while developing the control and speed that later defined his bestselling career. The pseudonym-heavy years matter because they show how much of his eventual success rested on craft built over time rather than on one sudden breakthrough.
The larger commercial breakthrough came when he found the voice and tonal blend that readers now immediately recognize as “Dean Koontz”: suspense stories driven by momentum but shot through with weirdness, dread, heart, and sudden wonder. Books such as Whispers, Phantoms, Lightning, Midnight, The Bad Place, Hideaway, Intensity, and Watchers helped establish that identity. He became a writer whose premises could be wild but whose storytelling remained lucid and emotionally direct. Even at his most high-concept, he tends to keep one foot in ordinary human attachment: a marriage, a child, a dog, a friendship, a stranger who chooses decency.
That last point matters more than it may seem. Koontz’s fiction is full of dogs, and in his case that is not incidental decoration. Animals, especially golden retrievers, became part of both his public persona and his fictional worldview. They embody the loyalty and innocence that many of his novels place under threat but also defend fiercely. His attachment to dogs is not separate from his writing; it is part of the emotional grammar of it.
His bibliography is also best read in clusters. Some readers come to him through the standalones, which remain the backbone of his reputation. Others know him through recurring sequences such as Odd Thomas or the modern Jane Hawk books. Still others trace the early pseudonymous work to see how the later voice emerged. What ties all of it together is a strong authorial conviction that suspense should do more than frighten. It should reveal character, test belief, and uncover the thin line between the monstrous and the merciful.
Koontz’s shelf is enormous, but it holds together because the same sensibility runs through it. He writes fast-moving novels, yet they are rarely empty of soul. He likes menace, but not hopelessness. He likes dark forces, but also comic relief, companionship, and moments of genuine transcendence. That is the best way to understand Dean Koontz as a writer. Not just a master of suspense, but a novelist who turned popular thriller machinery into a vehicle for wonder, terror, and an unexpectedly stubborn faith in human goodness.
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