Eric Garcia Books in Order

Eric Garcia has written 8 books, published between 1999 and 2014. The first book is Anonymous Rex (1999) and the newest is City: The Mind in the Machine, Volume 1 (2014). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
8
Published
1999–2014
Pages on record
532 in 2 of 8 books

Eric Garcia, born in 1972, is an American writer and screenwriter. Matchstick Men (2002) was filmed by Ridley Scott with Nicolas Cage in the lead, and the Anonymous Rex series reached the SciFi Channel in a 2004 adaptation. Garcia wrote the 2010 film Repo Men with Garrett Lerner, drawing on the novel The Repossession Mambo (2009), and created the non-linear Netflix heist series Kaleidoscope as its showrunner. Eight catalogued books run from Anonymous Rex (1999) to City: The Mind in the Machine, Volume 1 (2014), among them Casual Rex (2001), Cassandra French's Finishing School for Boys, Hot and Sweaty Rex (both 2004) and The Materialist (2007).

How many Eric Garcia books are there?

Eric Garcia has 8 books, released between 1999 and 2014. 3 of them belong to the Anonymous Rex series.

Eric Garcia Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 8 Eric Garcia 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. 1
    Anonymous RexAnonymous Rex #11999 · confirmed 1/4
    1999
  2. 2
    Casual RexAnonymous Rex #22001 · confirmed 1/4
    2001
  3. 3
    Matchstick Men2002 · 228 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2002228
  4. 4
    Cassandra French's Finishing School for Boys2004 · 304 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004304
  5. 5
    Hot and Sweaty RexAnonymous Rex #32004 · confirmed 1/4
    2004
  6. 6
    The Materialist2007 · confirmed 1/4
    2007
  7. 7
    The Repossession Mambo2009 · confirmed 1/4
    2009
  8. 82014

Eric Garcia 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.

Anonymous Rex in order

3 books
  1. 1. Anonymous Rex
  2. 2. Casual Rex
  3. 3. Hot and Sweaty Rex

Standalone books

5 books

5 Eric Garcia titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Eric Garcia books in order?

You only need to read Eric Garcia books in order within the Anonymous Rex series, which holds 3 of the 8 Eric Garcia books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Eric Garcia

Start with Anonymous Rex (1999), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Eric Garcia book?

City: The Mind in the Machine, Volume 1 (2014) is the newest Eric Garcia book released so far.

Is there a new Eric Garcia book coming?

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

Eric Garcia at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Eric Garcia title on record dates from 2014, 12 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Eric Garcia books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
532 pages across the 2 of 8 books with a recorded length, a median of 266 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Eric Garcia books, 6 of 8, were published in the 2000s.

What the Eric Garcia books are about

4 of the 8 Eric Garcia 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.