Author · updated 2026
Joe R. Lansdale Books in Order
Every Joe R. Lansdale book in publication order — 134 in total, spanning 1981–2021.
Publication Order of The Drive-In Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Drive-In | 1988 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  The Drive-In II: Not Just One of Them Sequels | 1989 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | The Drive-In 3: The Bus Tour | 2005 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Hap and Leonard Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Savage Season | 1990 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  Mucho Mojo | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 |  The Two-Bear Mambo | 1995 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 |  Bad Chili | 1997 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 |  Rumble Tumble | 1998 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 |  Captains Outrageous | 2001 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 |  Vanilla Ride | 2009 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 |  Devil Red | 2010 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 |  Hyenas | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 |  Dead Aim | 2012 | Amazon US UK |
| 11 |  Honky Tonk Samurai | 2015 | Amazon US UK |
| 12 | Briar Patch Boogie | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 13 |  Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 14 |  Coco Butternut | 2017 | Amazon US UK |
| 15 |  Rusty Puppy | 2017 | Amazon US UK |
| 16 | Cold Cotton | 2017 | Amazon US UK |
| 17 |  Jackrabbit Smile | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
| 18 |  The Elephant of Surprise | 2019 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Hap & Leonard Collections
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Veil's Visit | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  Hap and Leonard | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 |  Hap and Leonard: Blood and Lemonade | 2017 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Joe Lansdales Batman Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Batman, Captured by the Engines | 1991 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  Terror on the High Skies | 1992 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Lost Lansdale Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Waltz of Shadows | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  Something Lumber This Way Comes, Or, the House from Space | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 |  Blood Dance | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Ned the Seal Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Zeppelins West | 2001 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  Flaming London | 2005 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 |  Flaming Zeppelins | 2010 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 |  The Sky Done Ripped | 2019 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Author's Choice Monthly Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Stories by Mama Lansdales Youngest Boy | 1991 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Dead in the West Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Dead in the West | 1986 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Jonah Hex Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Two Gun Mojo | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  Shadows West | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Act of Love | 1981 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  Texas Night Riders | 1983 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 |  The Magic Wagon | 1986 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 |  The Nightrunners | 1987 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 |  Cold in July | 1989 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 |  The Boar | 1998 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 |  Freezer Burn | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 |  The Bottoms | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 |  The Big Blow | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 |  Bubba Ho-Tep | 2002 | Amazon US UK |
| 11 |  A Fine Dark Line | 2003 | Amazon US UK |
| 12 |  Sunset and Sawdust | 2003 | Amazon US UK |
| 13 |  Lost Echoes | 2005 | Amazon US UK |
| 14 |  Leather Maiden | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
| 15 |  All the Earth, Thrown to the Sky | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
| 16 |  Edge of Dark Water | 2012 | Amazon US UK |
| 17 |  The Thicket | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 18 | Deadman's Crossing | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 19 |  I Tell You It's Love | 2014 | Amazon US UK |
| 20 |  Paradise Sky | 2015 | Amazon US UK |
| 21 |  Fender Lizards | 2015 | Amazon US UK |
| 22 |  Hell's Bounty | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 23 | M.I.A. Hunter | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 24 |  Bubba and the Cosmic Blood-Suckers | 2017 | Amazon US UK |
| 25 | Man With Two Lives | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
| 26 |  Driving to Geronimo's Grave | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
| 27 |  More Better Deals | 2020 | Amazon US UK |
| 28 |  Jane Goes North | 2020 | Amazon US UK |
| 29 |  Fishing for Dinosaurs and Other Stories | 2020 | Amazon US UK |
| 30 |  Moon Lake | 2021 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Tight Little Stitches on a Dead Man's Back | 1992 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  Tight Little Stitches In A Dead Man's Back | 1992 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | Bullets and Fire | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | Incident On and Off a Mountain Road | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | The Steel Valentine | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 |  Steel Valentine | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 | Christmas with the Dead | 2012 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 |  Hot in December | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 | A Bone Dead Sadness | 2014 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 |  Black Hat Jack | 2014 | Amazon US UK |
| 11 | Hoodoo Harry | 2017 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  By Bizarre Hands | 1989 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with the Dead Folks | 1991 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | Bestsellers Guaranteed | 1993 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 |  Writer of the Purple Rage | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | Electric Gumbo | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 |  A Fist Full of Stories | 1996 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 |  The Good, the Bad and the Indifferent | 1997 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 |  Private Eye Action as You Like It | 1998 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 |  High Cotton | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 |  The Long Ones | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 11 |  For a Few Stories More | 2002 | Amazon US UK |
| 12 |  Bumper Crop | 2004 | Amazon US UK |
| 13 |  Mad Dog Summer | 2004 | Amazon US UK |
| 14 |  The King and Other Stories | 2005 | Amazon US UK |
| 15 |  The God of the Razor | 2007 | Amazon US UK |
| 16 |  Deadman's Road | 2007 | Amazon US UK |
| 17 |  The Shadows, Kith and Kin | 2007 | Amazon US UK |
| 18 |  Unchained And Unhinged | 2009 | Amazon US UK |
| 19 |  Sanctified and Chicken-Fried | 2009 | Amazon US UK |
| 20 |  The Best of Joe R. Lansdale | 2010 | Amazon US UK |
| 21 | Written With a Razor - Short Stories and a Screenplay | 2012 | Amazon US UK |
| 22 |  Trapped in the Saturday Matinee | 2012 | Amazon US UK |
| 23 |  Bleeding Shadows | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 24 | The Tall Grass and Other Stories | 2014 | Amazon US UK |
| 25 | Terror Is Our Business | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
| 26 | Driving to Geronimo's Grave and Other Stories | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Graphic Novels
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Drive-In | 1988 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  The Lone Ranger and Tonto | 1995 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 |  Atomic Chili | 1997 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 |  Red Range | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 |  Lansdale And Truman's Dead Folks | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 |  Conan And The Songs Of The Dead | 2007 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 |  Pigeons From Hell | 2009 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 |  Robert Bloch's Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper | 2010 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 |  H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror | 2012 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 |  Hell's Bounty | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 11 |  The Steam Man | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 12 |  Dead on the Bones | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of 30 Days of Night Graphic Novel Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  30 Days of Night: Night, Again | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 30 Days of Night: Night, Again | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
Chronological Order of 30 Days of Night Graphic Novel Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Prisoner 489 | 2014 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Black Labyrinth Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  In Waders From Mars | 2012 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Picture Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Book of Cthulhu | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of The Book of Cthulhu Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Razored Saddles | 1989 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  The Horror Hall of Fame | 1991 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 |  Dark at Heart | 1992 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 |  Weird Business | 1995 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 |  Retro Pulp Tales | 2006 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 |  Son of Retro Pulp Tales | 2009 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 |  Down These Strange Streets | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 |  Crucified Dreams | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 |  The Urban Fantasy Anthology | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 | The Book of Cthulhu | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
| 11 |  Old Mars | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 12 |  Horror Anthology 2016 | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 13 | The Highway Kind | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
Every title by year All 134, oldest to newest
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Act of Love | 1981 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Texas Night Riders | 1983 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | Dead in the West | 1986 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | The Magic Wagon | 1986 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | The Nightrunners | 1987 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 | The Drive-In | 1988 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 | The Drive-In | 1988 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 | The Drive-In II: Not Just One of Them Sequels | 1989 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 | Cold in July | 1989 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 | By Bizarre Hands | 1989 | Amazon US UK |
| 11 | Razored Saddles | 1989 | Amazon US UK |
| 12 | Savage Season | 1990 | Amazon US UK |
| 13 | Batman, Captured by the Engines | 1991 | Amazon US UK |
| 14 | Stories by Mama Lansdales Youngest Boy | 1991 | Amazon US UK |
| 15 | On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with the Dead Folks | 1991 | Amazon US UK |
| 16 | The Horror Hall of Fame | 1991 | Amazon US UK |
| 17 | Terror on the High Skies | 1992 | Amazon US UK |
| 18 | Tight Little Stitches on a Dead Man's Back | 1992 | Amazon US UK |
| 19 | Tight Little Stitches In A Dead Man's Back | 1992 | Amazon US UK |
| 20 | Dark at Heart | 1992 | Amazon US UK |
| 21 | Bestsellers Guaranteed | 1993 | Amazon US UK |
| 22 | Mucho Mojo | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 23 | Two Gun Mojo | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 24 | Writer of the Purple Rage | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 25 | Electric Gumbo | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 26 | The Two-Bear Mambo | 1995 | Amazon US UK |
| 27 | The Lone Ranger and Tonto | 1995 | Amazon US UK |
| 28 | Weird Business | 1995 | Amazon US UK |
| 29 | A Fist Full of Stories | 1996 | Amazon US UK |
| 30 | Bad Chili | 1997 | Amazon US UK |
| 31 | The Good, the Bad and the Indifferent | 1997 | Amazon US UK |
| 32 | Atomic Chili | 1997 | Amazon US UK |
| 33 | Rumble Tumble | 1998 | Amazon US UK |
| 34 | The Boar | 1998 | Amazon US UK |
| 35 | Private Eye Action as You Like It | 1998 | Amazon US UK |
| 36 | Veil's Visit | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
| 37 | Waltz of Shadows | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
| 38 | Something Lumber This Way Comes, Or, the House from Space | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
| 39 | Shadows West | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
| 40 | Freezer Burn | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
| 41 | Red Range | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
| 42 | Blood Dance | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 43 | The Bottoms | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 44 | The Big Blow | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 45 | High Cotton | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 46 | The Long Ones | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 47 | Lansdale And Truman's Dead Folks | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 48 | Captains Outrageous | 2001 | Amazon US UK |
| 49 | Zeppelins West | 2001 | Amazon US UK |
| 50 | Bubba Ho-Tep | 2002 | Amazon US UK |
| 51 | For a Few Stories More | 2002 | Amazon US UK |
| 52 | A Fine Dark Line | 2003 | Amazon US UK |
| 53 | Sunset and Sawdust | 2003 | Amazon US UK |
| 54 | Bumper Crop | 2004 | Amazon US UK |
| 55 | Mad Dog Summer | 2004 | Amazon US UK |
| 56 | The Drive-In 3: The Bus Tour | 2005 | Amazon US UK |
| 57 | Flaming London | 2005 | Amazon US UK |
| 58 | Lost Echoes | 2005 | Amazon US UK |
| 59 | The King and Other Stories | 2005 | Amazon US UK |
| 60 | Retro Pulp Tales | 2006 | Amazon US UK |
| 61 | The God of the Razor | 2007 | Amazon US UK |
| 62 | Deadman's Road | 2007 | Amazon US UK |
| 63 | The Shadows, Kith and Kin | 2007 | Amazon US UK |
| 64 | Conan And The Songs Of The Dead | 2007 | Amazon US UK |
| 65 | Leather Maiden | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
| 66 | Vanilla Ride | 2009 | Amazon US UK |
| 67 | Unchained And Unhinged | 2009 | Amazon US UK |
| 68 | Sanctified and Chicken-Fried | 2009 | Amazon US UK |
| 69 | Pigeons From Hell | 2009 | Amazon US UK |
| 70 | Son of Retro Pulp Tales | 2009 | Amazon US UK |
| 71 | Devil Red | 2010 | Amazon US UK |
| 72 | Flaming Zeppelins | 2010 | Amazon US UK |
| 73 | The Best of Joe R. Lansdale | 2010 | Amazon US UK |
| 74 | Robert Bloch's Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper | 2010 | Amazon US UK |
| 75 | Hyenas | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
| 76 | All the Earth, Thrown to the Sky | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
| 77 | Bullets and Fire | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
| 78 | Incident On and Off a Mountain Road | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
| 79 | The Steel Valentine | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
| 80 | Steel Valentine | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
| 81 | 30 Days of Night: Night, Again | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
| 82 | 30 Days of Night: Night, Again | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
| 83 | The Book of Cthulhu | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
| 84 | Down These Strange Streets | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
| 85 | Crucified Dreams | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
| 86 | The Urban Fantasy Anthology | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
| 87 | The Book of Cthulhu | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
| 88 | Dead Aim | 2012 | Amazon US UK |
| 89 | Edge of Dark Water | 2012 | Amazon US UK |
| 90 | Christmas with the Dead | 2012 | Amazon US UK |
| 91 | Written With a Razor - Short Stories and a Screenplay | 2012 | Amazon US UK |
| 92 | Trapped in the Saturday Matinee | 2012 | Amazon US UK |
| 93 | H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror | 2012 | Amazon US UK |
| 94 | In Waders From Mars | 2012 | Amazon US UK |
| 95 | The Thicket | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 96 | Deadman's Crossing | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 97 | Hot in December | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 98 | Bleeding Shadows | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 99 | Old Mars | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 100 | I Tell You It's Love | 2014 | Amazon US UK |
| 101 | A Bone Dead Sadness | 2014 | Amazon US UK |
| 102 | Black Hat Jack | 2014 | Amazon US UK |
| 103 | The Tall Grass and Other Stories | 2014 | Amazon US UK |
| 104 | Prisoner 489 | 2014 | Amazon US UK |
| 105 | Honky Tonk Samurai | 2015 | Amazon US UK |
| 106 | Paradise Sky | 2015 | Amazon US UK |
| 107 | Fender Lizards | 2015 | Amazon US UK |
| 108 | Briar Patch Boogie | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 109 | Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 110 | Hap and Leonard | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 111 | Hell's Bounty | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 112 | M.I.A. Hunter | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 113 | Hell's Bounty | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 114 | The Steam Man | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 115 | Dead on the Bones | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 116 | Horror Anthology 2016 | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 117 | The Highway Kind | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 118 | Coco Butternut | 2017 | Amazon US UK |
| 119 | Rusty Puppy | 2017 | Amazon US UK |
| 120 | Cold Cotton | 2017 | Amazon US UK |
| 121 | Hap and Leonard: Blood and Lemonade | 2017 | Amazon US UK |
| 122 | Bubba and the Cosmic Blood-Suckers | 2017 | Amazon US UK |
| 123 | Hoodoo Harry | 2017 | Amazon US UK |
| 124 | Jackrabbit Smile | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
| 125 | Man With Two Lives | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
| 126 | Driving to Geronimo's Grave | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
| 127 | Terror Is Our Business | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
| 128 | Driving to Geronimo's Grave and Other Stories | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
| 129 | The Elephant of Surprise | 2019 | Amazon US UK |
| 130 | The Sky Done Ripped | 2019 | Amazon US UK |
| 131 | More Better Deals | 2020 | Amazon US UK |
| 132 | Jane Goes North | 2020 | Amazon US UK |
| 133 | Fishing for Dinosaurs and Other Stories | 2020 | Amazon US UK |
| 134 | Moon Lake | 2021 | Amazon US UK |
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