Harlan Coben Books in Order (Myron Bolitar and Standalone novels)

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Born January 4, 162 in Newark, New Jersey, Harlan Coben is an American writer of mystery novels and thrillers. He realized in his senior year at college he wanted to be a writer and Play Dead was published in 1990. Thirty years later, his books are published in 45 languages around the world and are often turned into a movie or a TV Shows, since 2006 where it all began with the French adaptation of Tell No One – this book was his first stand-alone thriller since the creation of the Myron Bolitar series in 1995.

How to read Harlan Coben’s Books in Order?

You’ll find all of Harlan Coben’s novels here, series and stand-alone.

Read The Myron Bolitar Series in Order

Myron Bolitar is an ex-basketball player. He currently works as a sports agent, being also the owner of MB SportReps, an agency representing sports stars and celebrities. Myron Bolitar is a good agent, and that’s why he ended up becoming an accidental detective – with the help of his best friend, Windsor Horne Lockwood III (aka Win), the owner of Lock-Horne Investments & Securities. You can find our guide to the Myron Bolitar series.

1. Deal Breaker (1995)
2. Drop Shot (1996)
3. Fade Away (1996)
4. Back Spin (1997)
5. One False Move (1998)
6. The Final Detail (1999)
7. Darkest Fear (2000)
8. Promise Me (2006)
9. Long Lost (2009)
10. Live Wire (2011)
11. Home (2016)

Also, there’s a short story called ‘The Rise and Fall of Super D’. You can find it in another Coben novel, The Innocent. Published after Darkest Fear.

The Spin-off

A novel featuring Myron’s best friend and sidekick, the wealthy and mysterious Windsor “Win” Horne Lockwood III.

• Win (2021) – Over twenty years ago, heiress Patricia Lockwood was abducted during a robbery of her family’s estate, then locked inside an isolated cabin for months. Patricia escaped, but so did her captors, and the items stolen from her family were never recovered. Until Now. On New York’s Upper West Side, a recluse is found murdered in his penthouse apartment, alongside two objects of note: a stolen Vermeer painting and a leather suitcase bearing the initials WHL3. For the first time in years, the authorities have a lead not only on Patricia’s kidnapping but also on another FBI cold case – with the suitcase and painting both pointing them towards one man.

Read The Mickey Bolitar Series in Order

You can find a full-reading order for the Myron Bolitar spin-off series here.

This is about Myron’s 15-year-old nephew, Mickey Bolitar. Also, Myron appeared in all three books. You can read them between ‘Live Wire’ and ‘Home’.

1. Shelter (2011)
2. Seconds Away (2012)
3. Found (2014)

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Read The Wilde Series in Order

1. The Boy from the Woods (2020) – No one seems to take Naomi Pine’s disappearance seriously, not even her father — with one exception. Hester Crimstein, a television criminal attorney, knows through her grandson that Naomi was relentlessly bullied at school. Hester asks Wilde — with whom she shares a tragic connection — to use his unique skills to help find Naomi. Wilde can’t ignore an outcast in trouble, but in order to find Naomi he must venture back into the community where he has never fit in, a place where the powerful are protected even when they harbor secrets that could destroy the lives of millions . . . secrets that Wilde must uncover before it’s too late.
2. The Match (2022) – After months away, Wilde has returned to the Ramapo Mountains in the wake of a failed bid at domesticity that confirms what he’s known all along: He belongs on his own, free from the comforts and constraints of modern life. Suddenly, a DNA match on an online ancestry database brings Wilde closer to his past than he’s ever dreamed, and finally gives Wilde the opening he needs to track down his father. But meeting the man brings up more questions than answers. So Wilde reaches out to his last, most desperate lead, a second cousin who disappears as quickly as he resurfaces, having experienced an epic fall from grace that can only be described as a waking nightmare.

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Read Harlan Coben’s Standalone Novels

• Play Dead (1990) – No sooner had supermodel Laura Ayers and Celtics star David Baskin said “I do” than tragedy struck. While honeymooning on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, David went out for a swim-and never returned. Now widowed and grieving, Laura’s search for the truth will draw her into a web of lies and deception.
• Miracle Cure (1991) – In a clinic on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, a doctor has dedicated his life to eradicating a divisive and devastating disease. One by one, his patients are getting well. One by one, they’re being targeted by a serial killer. And now Michael Silverman– New York’s hottest basketball star– has been diagnosed with the disease. There’s only one cure, but many ways to die…
• Tell No One (2000) – For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. The night his wife was taken. The last night he saw her alive. Then, a message appears on his computer, a phrase only he and his dead wife know. Suddenly Beck is taunted with the impossible-that somewhere, somehow, his wife is alive… and he’s been warned to tell no one.

• Gone for Good (2002) – Eleven years ago, Julie Miller was found brutally strangled in the basement of her house in the township of Livingston, New Jersey. On that day, Will’s brother, Ken Klein, became the subject of an international manhunt accused of the crime. He has not been seen since. Will has tried to get on with his life in the intervening years. He has a girlfriend, Sheila, and a job working with the homeless. But when his mother reveals on her deathbed that Ken is still alive, Sheila disappears and he finds that she is wanted for a savage double murder, his life falls apart…
• No Second Chance (2003) – Shot twice by an unseen assailant, Dr. Marc Seidman lies in a hospital bed. His wife has been killed. His six-month-old daughter has vanished. But just when his world seems forever shattered, the ransom note arrives. With no one to trust, and mired in a deepening quicksand of deception and deadly secrets, Marc clings to one unwavering vow: bring home his daughter, at any cost.
• Just One Look (2004) – A seemingly innocuous photograph that is at least twenty years old turns Grace Lawson’s peaceful suburban life upside down. Her husband, Jack mysteriously vanishes with the photograph, some people arrive looking for him, and unanswered questions threaten her marriage and everything she knows, forcing her to confront the dark secrets of the past.

• The Innocent (2005) – One night, Matt Hunter innocently tried to break up a fight-and ended up a killer. Now, nine years later, he’s an ex-con who takes nothing for granted. His wife, Olivia, is pregnant, and the two of them are closing on their dream house. But all it will take is one shocking, inexplicable call from Olivia’s cell phone to shatter Matt’s life a second time…
• The Woods (2007) – Paul Copeland, a New Jersey county prosecutor, is still grieving the loss of his sister from twenty years ago-the night she walked into the woods, never to be seen again. But now, a homicide victim is found with evidence linking him to the disappearance. The victim could be the boy who vanished along with Paul’s sister. And, as hope rises that his sister could still be alive, dangerous secrets from his family’s past threaten to tear apart everything Paul has been trying to hold together.
• Hold Tight (2008) – Mike and Tia Baye decide to spy on their sixteen-year-old son Adam, who has become increasingly moody and withdrawn since the suicide of his best friend. The software they install on his computer shows them every Web site visited, every e-mail sent or received, every instant message. And each keystroke draws them deeper and deeper into a maze of mayhem and violence that could destroy them all.

• Caught (2010) – Reporter Wendy Tynes is making a name for herself, bringing down sexual offenders on nationally televised sting operations. But when social worker Dan Mercer walks into her trap, Wendy gets thrown into a story more complicated than she could ever imagine.
• Stay Close (2012) – Megan is a suburban soccer mom who once upon a time walked on the wild side. Ray used to be a talented documentary photographer, but now finds himself in a dead-end job posing as a paparazzo. Broome is a detective who can’t let go of a cold case. Three people living lives they never wanted are hiding secrets that even those closest to them would never suspect. And as each confronts the dark side of the American dream, they will discover the hard truth that the line between one kind of life and another can be as whisper-thin as a heartbeat.
• Six Years (2013) – Six years have passed since Jake Fisher watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry another man, Todd. But six years haven’t come close to extinguishing his feelings, and when Jake comes across Todd’s orbituary, he gets the glimpse of Todd’s wife he’s hoping for…but she is not Natalie. As Jake searches for the truth, his picture-perfect memories of Natalie begin to unravel. And soon, Jake’s search for the woman who broke his heart puts his very life at risk as he uncovers the secrets and lies that love can hide.

• Missing You (2014) – Surfing an online dating site, NYPD detective Kat Donovan feels her whole world explode. Staring back at her is her ex-fiancé, the man who shattered her heart-and whom she hasn’t seen in eighteen years. But when Kat reaches out to the man in the profile, an unspeakable conspiracy comes to light. As Kat begins to investigate, her feelings are challenged about everyone she’s ever loved-even her father, whose cruel murder so long ago has never been fully explained.
• The Stranger (2015) – Adam Price has a lot to lose: a comfortable marriage to a beautiful woman, two wonderful sons, and all the trappings of the American Dream: a big house, a good job, a seemingly perfect life. When he learns a devastating secret about his wife, Corinne, he confronts her, and the mirage of perfection disappears as if it never existed at all. Soon Adam finds himself tangled in something far darker than even Corinne’s deception, and realizes that if he doesn’t make exactly the right moves, the conspiracy he’s stumbled into will not only ruin lives-it will end them.
• Fool Me Once (2016) – Former special ops pilot Maya, home from the war, sees an unthinkable image captured by her nanny came while she is at work: her two-year-old daughter playing with Maya’s husband, Joe-who was brutally murdered two weeks earlier. The provocative question at the heart of the mystery: Can you believe everything you see with your own eyes, even when you desperately want to? To find the answer, Maya must finally come to terms with deep secrets and deceit in her own past before she can face the unbelievable truth about her husband-and herself.

• Don’t Let Go (2017) – Suburban New Jersey Detective Napoleon “Nap” Dumas hasn’t been the same since senior year of high school, when his twin brother Leo and Leo’s girlfriend Diana were found dead on the railroad tracks-and Maura, the girl Nap considered the love of his life, broke up with him and disappeared without explanation. When Maura’s fingerprints turn up in the rental car of a suspected murderer, Nap embarks on a quest for answers that only leads to more questions…
• Run Away (2019) – Your daughter is addicted to drugs and to an abusive boyfriend. And she’s made it clear that she doesn’t want to be found. Then, by chance, you see her playing guitar in Central Park. You approach her, beg her to come home. She runs. And you do the only thing a parent can do: you follow her into a dark and dangerous world you never knew existed. Before you know it, both your family and your life are on the line. And in order to protect your daughter from the evils of that world, you must face them head-on.
• I Will Find You (2023) – David Burroughs was once a devoted father to his three-year-old son Matthew, living a dream life–until one fateful night when David woke suddenly to discover Matthew had been murdered while David was asleep just down the hall. Half a decade later, David’s been wrongly accused and convicted of the murder, left to serve out his time in a maximum-security prison. The world has moved on without him. Then Cheryl’s younger sister, Rachel, makes a surprise appearance during visiting hours bearing a strange photograph. It’s a vacation shot of a bustling amusement park a friend shared with her, and in the background, just barely in frame, is a boy bearing an eerie resemblance to David’s son. Even though it can’t be, David just knows: Matthew is still alive.

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Read Harlan Coben’s Other Works

• The Magical Fantastical Fridge – It’s family dinner night, and Walden would like to be anywhere other than the kitchen in the middle of chores. Suddenly his wish is granted: He is magically swooped into one of his own drawings on the fridge, and finds himself on a one-of-a-kind adventure…
• Opening Shots: More Great Mystery and Crime Writers Share Their First Published Stories – Anthology containing the short story “Entrapped” by Harlan Coben. Also available in Mystery Writers of America presents death do us part: new stories about love, lust, and murder, edited by Harlan Coben.

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