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Charles Ardai Books in Order

Charles Ardai has written 10 books, published between 1993 and 2025. The first book is Nobody Wins (1993) and the newest is Combustion (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
10
Published
1993–2025
Pages on record
672 in 3 of 10 books
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Photo of Charles Ardai, author of the Gun Honey series

Charles Ardai writes crime fiction and mysteries and co-founded Hard Case Crime, a line of pulp-style paperback crime novels that Ardai also edits. Outside publishing, Ardai was an early employee and later a managing director of D. E. Shaw & Co. and chaired Schrödinger, Inc. The catalogue lists 10 books from Nobody Wins (1993) to Combustion (2025), including Fifty-to-One (2008) and the Gun Honey series. Subject headings include novels in verse, publishers and publishing, the Mafia and Los Angeles.

How many Charles Ardai books are there?

Charles Ardai has 10 books, released between 1993 and 2025. 5 of them belong to the Gun Honey series.

Charles Ardai Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 10 Charles Ardai books in the order they were published, 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.

  1. Cover of The Good Neighbor Policy by Charles Ardai (2007)
  2. Cover of The Nice Guys by Charles Ardai (2016)
  1. 1
    Nobody Wins1993 · confirmed 2/4
    1993–
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  2. 2
    The Good Neighbor Policy2007 · 32 pages · confirmed 2/4
    200732
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  3. 3
    Fifty-to-One2008 · 320 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2008320
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  4. 4
    The Nice Guys2016 · 320 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2016320
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  5. 5
    Gun HoneyGun Honey #12022 · confirmed 2/4
    2022–
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  6. 6
    Blood for BloodGun Honey #22023 · confirmed 2/4
    2023–
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  7. 7
    Heat SeekerGun Honey #32024 · confirmed 2/4
    2024–
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  8. 8
    Death Comes Too Late2024 · confirmed 2/4
    2024–
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  9. 9
    Collision CourseGun Honey #42025 · confirmed 2/4
    2025–
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  10. 10
    CombustionGun Honey #52025 · confirmed 2/4
    2025–
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Charles Ardai 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.

Gun Honey in order

5 books
  1. 1. Gun Honey
  2. 2. Blood for Blood
  3. 3. Heat Seeker
  4. 4. Collision Course
  5. 5. Combustion

Standalone books

5 books

5 Charles Ardai titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Charles Ardai books in order?

You only need to read Charles Ardai books in order within the Gun Honey series, which holds 5 of the 10 Charles Ardai books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Charles Ardai

Start with Nobody Wins (1993), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Charles Ardai book?

Combustion (2025) is the newest Charles Ardai book released so far.

Is there a new Charles Ardai book coming?

No next Charles Ardai book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Awards Charles Ardai has won

Wikidata records 1 award for Charles Ardai. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Short Story2007Won

Charles Ardai at a glance

Still publishing
Charles Ardai published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Charles Ardai books have appeared about one every 4 years on average.
Length
672 pages across the 3 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 320 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Charles Ardai books, 6 of 10, were published in the 2020s.

What the Charles Ardai books are about

3 of the 10 Charles Ardai books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. No subject is tagged on more than one of them, so each one below describes a single book. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.