Order of Donald E. Westlake Books

Donald E. Westlake (1933-2008) was an American novelist renowned for his comic capers, though he also made significant contributions to various genres, including general crime fiction and science fiction. He wrote under numerous pseudonyms, with Richard Stark being the most recognized. Other names he used include Alan Marshall, Andrew Shaw, Edwin West, John B. Allan, Don Holliday, Tucker Coe, Samuel Holt, and Judson Jack Carmichael, among others. His notable series feature characters like Dortmunder, Parker, Grofield, and Mitchell Tobin. Westlake was an exceptionally prolific writer, with his first novel, Backstage Love, published in 1959. By the time his last (at least for now) novel was released in 2012, he had authored over 100 books. Below is a chronological list of all of Donald E. Westlake’s works in order of publication.

Donald E. Westlake became a published novelist in 1959 with the novel Backstage Love. Below is a list of Donald E. Westlake's books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Parker Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Payback / Point Blank / The Hunter	(1962)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Steel Hit / The Man With The Getaway Face	(1963)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Outfit	(1963)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Mourner	(1963)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Score / Killtown	(1963)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Jugger	(1965)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Seventh / The Split	(1966)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Handle / Run Lethal	(1966)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Rare Coin Score	(1967)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Green Eagle Score	(1967)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Black Ice Score	(1968)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Sour Lemon Score	(1969)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Slayground	(1971)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Deadly Edge	(1971)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Plunder Squad	(1972)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Butcher's Moon	(1974)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Comeback	(1997)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Backflash	(1998)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Flashfire / Parker	(2000)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Firebreak	(2001)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Breakout	(2002)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Nobody Runs Forever	(2004)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Ask The Parrot	(2006)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Dirty Money	(2008)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Phil Crawford Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Backstage Love	(1959)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
What Girls Will Do	(1962)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Mitch Tobin Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Kinds of Love, Kinds of Death	(1966)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Murder Among Children	(1967)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Wax Apple	(1970)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Jade In Aries	(1970)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Don't Lie To Me	(1972)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Alan Grofield Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Damsel	(1967)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Dame	(1969)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Blackbird	(1969)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Lemons Never Lie	(1971)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Dortmunder Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Hot Rock	(1970)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Bank Shot	(1972)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Jimmy The Kid	(1974)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Nobody's Perfect	(1977)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Why Me?	(1983)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Good Behavior	(1985)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Drowned Hopes	(1990)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Don't Ask	(1993)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
What's The Worst That Could Happen?	(1996)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Bad News	(2001)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Road To Ruin	(2004)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Thieves' Dozen	(2004)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Watch Your Back!	(2005)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
What's So Funny?	(2007)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Get Real	(2009)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Sam Holt Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
One Of Us Is Wrong	(1986)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
I Know A Trick Worth Two Of That	(1986)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
What I Tell You Three Times Is False	(1987)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Fourth Dimension Is Death	(1989)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Sara & Jack Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Trust Me On This	(1988)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Baby, Would I Lie?	(1994)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Standalone Novels Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Sally	(1959)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Man Hungry	(1959)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
All My Lovers	(1959)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
SO WILLING.	(1960)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
All about Annette	(1960)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Virgin's Summer	(1960)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Wife Next Door	(1960)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Mercenaries/The Cutie	(1960)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Passion's Playthings	(1961)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Call Me Sinner	(1961)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Campus Doll	(1961)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Brother and Sister	(1961)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Killing Time	(1961)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Young and Innocent	(1961)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
361	(1962)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Strange affair.	(1962)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Killy	(1963)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Campus Lovers	(1963)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Pity Him Afterwards	(1964)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Fugitive Pigeon	(1965)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Busy Body	(1966)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Spy in the Ointment	(1966)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
God Save the Mark	(1967)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Anarchaos	(1967)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Philip	(1967)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Who stole Sassi Manoon?	(1968)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Up Your Banners	(1969)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Somebody Owes Me Money	(1969)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Adios Scheherazade	(1970)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Comfort Station	(1970)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Ex Officio	(1970)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
I Gave at the Office	(1971)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Cops and Robbers	(1972)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Gangway! (With: Brian Garfield)	(1973)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Help, I Am Being Held Prisoner	(1974)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Brothers Keepers	(1975)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Two Much	(1975)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Dancing Aztecs	(1976)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Castle in the Air	(1980)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Kahawa	(1981)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Likely Story	(1984)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
High Adventure	(1985)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Humans	(1992)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Smoke	(1995)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Ax	(1997)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Hook	(2000)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Scared Stiff	(2001)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Put a Lid on It	(2002)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Money for Nothing	(2003)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Memory / The Actor	(2010)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Comedy is Finished	(2012)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Forever and a Death	(2017)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Call Me a Cab	(2022)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Too Many Crooks	(1989)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Short Story Collections Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Curious Facts Preceding My Execution	(1968)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Enough	(1978)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Transylvania Station (With: Abby Westlake)	(1987)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Tomorrow's Crimes	(1989)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Good Story and Other Stories	(1999)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Meteor Strike	(2012)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Double Feature	(2020)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Getaway Car	(2014)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Transgressions Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Transgressions (With: Stephen King,Lawrence Block,Anne Perry,Jeffery Deaver,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain,Bonnie Jeanne Perry,Joyce Carol Oates,Walter Mosley,John Farris)	(2005)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Transgressions, Vol. 2 (By: Stephen King,Lawrence Block,Ed McBain,John Farris)	(2006)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Transgressions, Vol. 3 (With: Anne Perry,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain,John Farris)	(2006)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Transgressions, Vol. 4 (By: Anne Perry,Sharyn McCrumb,Ed McBain)	(2006)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Parker Graphic Novels Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Hunter	(2009)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Outfit	(2010)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Man with the Getaway Face	(2010)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Richard Stark’s Parker: The Martini Edition	(2011)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Score	(2012)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Slayground	(2013)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Anthologies Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Simply The Best Mysteries, Edgar Award Winners And Front Runners	(1970)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow...	(1974)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Tales to Send Chills Down Your Spine	(1979)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Alfred Hitchcock's A Choice of Evils	(1983)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Fifty Best Mysteries	(1993)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Murderous Schemes	(1996)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Plot Thickens	(1997)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology: Celebrating 25 Years	(2001)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Transgressions	(2005)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Brooklyn Noir 2	(2005)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Price of Desire	(2005)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Transgressions, Vol. 3	(2006)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

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