Blake Crouch Books in Order
Blake Crouch has written 36 books, published between 2004 and 2022. The first book is Desert Places (2004) and the newest is Upgrade (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 36
- Published
- 2004–2022
- Confirmed
- 34 of 36 titles
- Pages on record
- 5,786 in 19 of 36 books
- Reading time
- 96–145 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 5,786 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 19 of 36 titles with a page count on record.
Blake Crouch, born William Blake Crouch on October 15, 1978, is an American author of Dark Matter, Recursion, Upgrade and the Wayward Pines Trilogy. Wayward Pines became a television series in 2015, and Dark Matter followed on television in 2024. The catalogue holds 36 books from Desert Places (2004) to Upgrade (2022). The Andrew Z. Thomas/Luther Kite and Letty Dobesh series appear alongside standalones and short fiction. J.A. Konrath shares the credit on 1 title. Subjects include psychological thrillers, serial murderers and missing persons.
How many Blake Crouch books are there?
Blake Crouch has 36 books, released between 2004 and 2022. They include 3 series and 2 titles listed outside any series.
Blake Crouch Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 36 Blake Crouch books in the order they were released, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 120042344/4
- 220052684/4
- 320095294/4
- 42009–3/4
- 52010–3/4
- 62010–3/4
- 72010–3/4
- 820103224/4
- 920102104/4
- 102010–3/4
- 112010–3/4
- 122010–3/4
- 13692010 · confirmed 1/42010–1/4
- 1420104304/4
- 1520112303/4
- 1620111683/4
- 1720112784/4
- 182011–4/4
- 1920112884/4
- 202011–3/4
- 212011–3/4
- 222011–4/4
- 232011–4/4
- 2420123074/4
- 2520122844/4
- 2620132704/4
- 2720132984/4
- 28Confidence Girl2013 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/420132241/4
- 2920142804/4
- 3020164964/4
- 312016–3/4
- 322019–3/4
- 3320193294/4
- 342019–3/4
- 352020–3/4
- 3620223414/4
Blake Crouch series in order
The series linked below has its own reading-order page.
- Wayward Pines books in order 3 books
Blake Crouch books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Blake Crouch Standalone Novels
8 books8 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Blake Crouch Short Stories/Novellas
8 books8 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels in order
5 books- 8. Serial Killers Uncut
- 10. Stirred
- 12. Rum Runner
- 16. Chaser
- 17. Old Fashioned
Andrew Z. Thomas/Luther Kite in order
4 booksSerial in order
2 books- 1. Serial
- 3. Killers Uncut
Blake Crouch Short Story
2 books2 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Letty Dobesh in order
1 bookForward in order
1 book- 2. Summer Frost
Standalone books
2 books2 Blake Crouch titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Blake Crouch books in order?
You only need to read Blake Crouch books in order within each series: the books listed here span 3 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
What order should you read Blake Crouch books in?
Read them in publication order, starting with Pines (2012), the first Wayward Pines book. The earliest catalogued title overall is Desert Places (2004).
What is the newest Blake Crouch book?
Upgrade (2022) is the newest Blake Crouch book released so far.
Is there a new Blake Crouch book coming?
No next Blake Crouch book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Blake Crouch at a glance
- Paused
- No new Blake Crouch title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
- Release pace
- Blake Crouch books have appeared more than one a year on average.
- Length
- 5,786 pages across the 19 of 36 books with a recorded length, a median of 284 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Blake Crouch books, 30 of 36, were published in the 2010s.
- Corroboration
- 19 of the 36 titles appear in all four independent book listings, and 34 in at least three.
What the Blake Crouch books are about
14 of the 36 Blake Crouch books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: thrillers is tagged on 8 of 14. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Thrillers 8 of 14 books
- Suspense 5 of 14 books
- United States 4 of 14 books
- Employees 2 of 14 books
- Murderers 2 of 14 books
- Mystery & detective 2 of 14 books
- Psychological fiction 2 of 14 books
- Serial murders 2 of 14 books