New to Dean Koontz books?
The first thing you need to know is that Koontz writes a lot.
2, 3, sometimes 4 books a year. Whew! Hard to keep up, let alone catch up!
I propose the following reading order.
Proposed Reading Order For Dean Koontz Books
- The Frankenstein Series
- then, The Odd Thomas Series
- then, The Jane Hawk Series
- then, work your way forward through his stand-alone novels starting at From the Corner of His Eye (2000) (feel free to skip the novella’s)
- then, if you are truly addicted, you can read his older stuff: stand-alone books, early series and novella’s
DEAN KOONTZ’S Frankenstein Series
- Prodigal Son (2005) [Amazon]
- City of Night (2005) [Amazon]
- Dead and Alive (2009) [Amazon]
- Lost Souls (2010) [Amazon]
- The Dead Town (2011) [Amazon]
DEAN KOONTZ’S Odd Thomas Series
- Odd Thomas (2003) [Amazon]
- Forever Odd (2005) [Amazon]
- Brother Odd (2006) [Amazon]
- Odd Hours (2008) [Amazon]
- Odd Interlude (2012) novella [Amazon]
- A three-part ebook. Published as a paperback in 2013
- Odd Apocalypse (2012) [Amazon]
- Deeply Odd (2013) [Amazon]
- Odd Thomas: You Are Destined to Be Together Forever (2014) novella [Amazon]
- Saint Odd (2015) [Amazon]
Dean Koontz’s Jane Hawk Series
- The Silent Corner (2017) [Amazon]
- The Whispering Room (2017) [Amazon]
- The Crooked Staircase (2018) [Amazon]
- The Forbidden Door (2018) [Amazon]
- The Night Window (2019) [Amazon]
- Devoted (2020) [Amazon]
- Elsewhere (2020) [Amazon]
DEAN KOONTZ’S Standalone Novels
- Star Quest (1968) [Amazon]
- Fear That Man (1969) [Amazon]
- The Fall of the Dream Machine (1969) [Amazon]
- The Dark Symphony (1969) [Amazon]
- Hell’s Gate (1970) [Amazon]
- Soft Come the Dragons (1970) [Amazon]
- collection
- Dark of the Woods (1970) [Amazon]
- Beastchild (1970) [Amazon]
- Anti-Man (1970) [Amazon]
- Demon Child (1971) [Amazon]
- The Crimson Witch (1971) [Amazon]
- Legacy of Terror (1971) [Amazon]
- as “Deanna Dwyer”
- Warlock (1972) [Amazon]
- Time Thieves (1972) [Amazon]
- Starblood (1972) [Amazon]
- The Flesh in the Furnace (1972) [Amazon]
- A Darkness in My Soul (1972) [Amazon]
- Chase (1972) [Amazon]
- as “K. R. Dwyer”
- Children of the Storm (1972) [Amazon]
- as “Deanna Dwyer”
- Dance with the Devil (1972) [Amazon]
- as “Deanna Dwyer”
- The Dark of Summer (1972) [Amazon]
- as “Deanna Dwyer”
- The Haunted Earth (1973) [Amazon]
- Demon Seed (1973) [Amazon]
- A Werewolf Among Us (1973) [Amazon]
- Shattered (1973) [Amazon]
- as “K. R. Dwyer”
- Hanging On (1973) [Amazon]
- Strike Deep (1974) [Amazon]
- as “Anthony North”
- After The Last Race (1974) [Amazon]
- Nightmare Journey (1975) [Amazon]
- The Long Sleep (1975) [Amazon]
- as “John Hill”
- Dragonfly (1975) [Amazon]
- as “K. R. Dwyer”
- Invasion (1975) [Amazon]
- as “Aaron Wolfe”
- Prison of Ice (1976) [Amazon]
- as “David Axton”
- Night Chills (1976) [Amazon]
- The Face of Fear (1977) [Amazon]
- as “Brian Coffey” and as “K. R. Dwyer”
- The Vision (1977) [Amazon]
- The Key to Midnight (1979) [Amazon]
- as “Leigh Nichols”
- The Funhouse (1980) [Amazon]
- as “Owen West”
- Whispers (1980) [Amazon]
- The Voice of the Night (1980) [Amazon]
- as “Brian Coffey”
- The Eyes of Darkness (1981) [Amazon]
- as “Leigh Nichols”
- The Mask (1981) [Amazon]
- as “Owen West”
- The House of Thunder (1982) [Amazon]
- as “Leigh Nichols”
- Phantoms (1983) [Amazon]
- Darkfall (1984) [Amazon]
- Twilight (1984) [Amazon]
- as “Leigh Nichols”
- Twilight Eyes (1985) [Amazon]
- The Door to December (1985) [Amazon]
- as “Richard Paige” also as by “Leigh Nichols”
- Strangers (1986) [Amazon]
- Watchers (1987) [Amazon]
- Shadow Fires (1987) [Amazon]
- as “Leigh Nichols”
- Lightning (1988) [Amazon]
- Oddkins: A Fable for All Ages (1988) [Amazon]
- Midnight (1989) [Amazon]
- The Bad Place (1991) [Amazon]
- Cold Fire (1992) [Amazon]
- Hideaway (1992) [Amazon]
- Dragon Tears (1993) [Amazon]
- Mr. Murder (1993) [Amazon]
- Winter Moon (1994) [Amazon]
- Dark Rivers of the Heart (1994) [Amazon]
- Icebound (1995) [Amazon]
- Strange Highways (1995) [Amazon]
- short stories
- Intensity (1995) [Amazon]
- Ticktock (1996) [Amazon]
- Sole Survivor (1997) [Amazon]
- False Memory (1999) [Amazon]
- From the Corner of His Eye (2000) [Amazon]
- One Door Away from Heaven (2001) [Amazon]
- By the Light of the Moon (2002) [Amazon]
- The Face (2003) [Amazon]
- The Taking (2004) [Amazon]
- Life Expectancy (2004) [Amazon]
- Velocity (2005) [Amazon]
- The Husband (2006) [Amazon]
- The Good Guy (2007) [Amazon]
- The Darkest Evening of the Year (2007) [Amazon]
- Your Heart Belongs to Me (2008) [Amazon]
- Relentless (2009) [Amazon]
- Breathless (2009) [Amazon]
- Darkness Under the Sun (2010) [Amazon]
- novella
- What the Night Knows (2010) [Amazon]
- The Moonlit Mind (2011) [Amazon]
- novella
- 77 Shadow Street (2011) [Amazon]
- Wilderness (2013) [Amazon]
- novella
- Innocence (2013) [Amazon]
- The Neighbor (2014) [Amazon]
- novella
- The City (2014) [Amazon]
- Last Light (2015) [Amazon]
- novella
- Final Hour (2015) [Amazon]
- novella
- Ashley Bell (2015) [Amazon]
- Ricochet Joe (2018) [Amazon]
- novella. a Kindle motion book which contains moving pictures and interactive parts