Quick Answer (TL;DR) Read the Slough House world in publication order if you’re new:Slow Horses → Dead Lions → The List (novella) → Real Tigers → Spook Street → London Rules → The Drop (novella) → Joe Country → The Catch (novella) → The Last Dead Letter (novella) → Slough House → Bad Actors →…
Quick Answer (TL;DR) If you’re new to E. Lockhart’s twisty, summer-on-a-private-island universe, read We Were Liars first, then the prequel Family of Liars, and—when it arrives—We Fell Apart. This order preserves the core mystery, keeps the most powerful reveal intact, and then deepens the mythology with the Sinclair family’s earlier sins and a new, interconnected…
Quick Answer (TL;DR) Read the publication order, which also doubles as the in-universe order for all main novels: That path preserves character arcs (Carl, Assad, Rose, Gordon), Department Q’s evolving mandate, and the long fuse threads that pay off in books 7–10. Introduction The appeal of Department Q is simple and diabolically effective: a grumpy,…
Quick Answer (TL;DR) Read the series in this order (it’s both publication and in-universe):Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (2023) → Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man) (2025).Book 1 runs 352 pages (audio 10h42m); Book 2 runs 336 pages (audio 10h36m). The first book is a USA Today bestseller and swept multiple…
Quick Answer (TL;DR) Read the duet in this order (it’s both publication and in-universe): Little White Lies (2018) → Deadly Little Scandals (2019). U.S. trade paperback specs list 416 pages for Book 1 and 352 pages for Book 2; audiobook runtimes land at ~9h54m and ~8h57m, respectively. Age guidance is 12–18 depending on retailer/publisher listings.…
Quick Answer (TL;DR) Read the duology in this order (it’s both the publication and in-universe sequence): The Cheerleaders (2018) → The Champions (2024). Book 1 is Monica’s cold-case reckoning; Book 2 returns to Sunnybrook eleven years later with new protagonist Hadley and a deadly mystery around the Tigers football team. Age guidance is 14+, hardcovers…
Quick Answer (TL;DR) If you want A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder in Chronological Order, read Kill Joy (prequel novella) first, then the main trilogy: A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder → Good Girl, Bad Blood → As Good as Dead. That’s also the publication order—so you’re safe following either, but starting with the prequel…
Quick Answer (TL;DR) If you’re new to Alex Cross, start with Along Came a Spider and then read straight through publication order. That order is already the in-universe order for almost the entire saga (with one historical outlier, Alex Cross’s Trial, set decades earlier). After you finish the mainline novels, dip into the two bite-size…
Quick Answer (TL;DR) Age & content guidance: This is dark romance for 18+. Heavy trigger warnings apply (see Quick Facts). Introduction On the surface, this duet is a heady cocktail of gothic mansions, coded letters, masked strangers, and a predator-prey tension that never quite lets you breathe. Underneath, it’s a darker animal: a romance that…
The Villains Books in Chronological Order are a masterclass in moral ambiguity, power struggles, and the fine line between hero and villain. Written by #1 New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab, this dark and intelligent series asks: What if getting superpowers didn’t make you a hero? Through razor-sharp prose and a narrative that…
