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Jay Bonansinga Books in Order

Jay Bonansinga has written 23 books, published between 1994 and 2023. The first book is The Black Mariah (1994) and the newest is The Shadow Society (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
23
Published
1994–2023
Pages on record
5,378 in 18 of 23 books
Reading time
90–134 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 5,378 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 18 of 23 titles with a page count on record.

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Jay Bonansinga is an American writer and director, with a short film, City of Men, and a feature, Stash, among the directing credits. Bonansinga co-wrote several novels based on The Walking Dead comics, The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor (2011) among them, and The Walking Dead: The Road to Woodbury followed in 2012. Both fiction and non-fiction sit in the wider body of work. The 23 books catalogued here run from The Black Mariah (1994) to The Shadow Society (2023), taking in Sick (1995), The Killer's Game (1997), The Sleep Police (2001) and Frozen (2005). Ulysses Grove, Stan Lee's The Devil's Quintet and Oswald Means are the series recorded, and the subjects cover suspense thrillers, horror, serial murderers, criminal profilers and the FBI.

How many Jay Bonansinga books are there?

Jay Bonansinga has 23 books, released between 1994 and 2023. They include 3 series and 14 titles listed outside any series.

Jay Bonansinga Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 23 Jay Bonansinga 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 Black Mariah by Jay Bonansinga (1994)
  2. Cover of Sick by Jay Bonansinga (1995)
  3. Cover of The Killer's Game by Jay Bonansinga (1997)
  4. Cover of Head Case by Jay Bonansinga (1998)
  5. Cover of Bloodhound by Jay Bonansinga (1999)
  6. Cover of Oblivion by Jay Bonansinga (2000)
  7. Cover of The Sleep Police by Jay Bonansinga (2001)
  8. Cover of Sinking of the Eastland by Jay Bonansinga (2004)
  9. Cover of Frozen by Jay Bonansinga, book 1 of the Ulysses Grove series (2005)
  10. Cover of Twisted by Jay Bonansinga, book 3 of the Ulysses Grove series (2006)
  11. Cover of Shattered by Jay Bonansinga, book 4 of the Ulysses Grove series (2007)
  12. Cover of Perfect Victim by Jay Bonansinga, book 5 of the Ulysses Grove series (2008)
  13. Cover of Pinkerton's War: The Civil War's Greatest Spy and the Birth of the U.S. Secret Service by Jay Bonansinga (2011)
  14. Cover of Self Storage by Jay Bonansinga (2016)
  15. Cover of The Armageddon Code by Jay Bonansinga, book 1 of the Stan Lee's The Devil's Quintet (2022)
  1. 1
    The Black Mariah1994 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1994352
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  2. 2
    Sick1995 · 327 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1995327
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  3. 3
    The Killer's Game1997 · 300 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1997300
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  4. 4
    Head Case1998 · 318 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1998318
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  5. 5
    Bloodhound1999 · 336 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1999336
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  6. 6
    Oblivion2000 · 340 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2000340
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  7. 7
    The Sleep Police2001 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2001288
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  8. 8
    Sinking of the Eastland2004 · 280 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004280
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  9. 9
    FrozenUlysses Grove #12005 · 304 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2005304
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  10. 10
    Frozen: The Author's CutUlysses Grove #22005 · 154 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2005154
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  11. 11
    TwistedUlysses Grove #32006 · 351 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2006351
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  12. 12
    ShatteredUlysses Grove #42007 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2007352
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  13. 13
    Perfect VictimUlysses Grove #52008 · 374 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2008374
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  14. 14
    Pinkerton's War: The Civil War's Greatest Spy and the Birth of the U.S. Secret Service2011 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2011272
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  15. 15
    The MiniaturistCemetery Dance Signature #42011 · confirmed 1/4
    2011–
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  16. 16
    A Novelist and a Zombie Walk Into a Bar: Translating The Walking Dead to Prose2012 · confirmed 1/4
    2012–
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  17. 17
    Blood Samples: Tales of Horror, Crime, and Dark Fantasy2013 · confirmed 1/4
    2013–
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  18. 18
    Hit Me!: Fighting the Las Vegas Mob by the Numbers2013 · 267 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2013267
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  19. 19
    Lucid2015 · 246 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015246
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  20. 20
    Self Storage2016 · 213 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016213
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  21. 21
    Saint OswaldOswald Means #12021 · confirmed 1/4
    2021–
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  22. 22
    The Armageddon CodeStan Lee's The Devil's Quintet #12022 · 304 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2022304
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  23. 23
    The Shadow SocietyStan Lee's The Devil's Quintet #22023 · confirmed 1/4
    2023–
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Jay Bonansinga 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.

Ulysses Grove in order

5 books
  1. 1. Frozen
  2. 2. Frozen: The Author's Cut
  3. 3. Twisted
  4. 4. Shattered
  5. 5. Perfect Victim

Stan Lee's The Devil's Quintet in order

2 books
  1. 1. The Armageddon Code
  2. 2. The Shadow Society

Oswald Means in order

1 book
  1. 1. Saint Oswald

Cemetery Dance Signature in order

1 book
  1. 4. The Miniaturist

Standalone books

14 books

14 Jay Bonansinga titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Jay Bonansinga books in order?

You only need to read Jay Bonansinga books in order within each series: the books listed here span 3 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Jay Bonansinga

Start with The Black Mariah (1994), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Jay Bonansinga book?

The Shadow Society (2023) is the newest Jay Bonansinga book released so far.

Is there a new Jay Bonansinga book coming?

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

Award nominations for Jay Bonansinga

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

Jay Bonansinga at a glance

Paused
No new Jay Bonansinga title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
Release pace
Jay Bonansinga books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
5,378 pages across the 18 of 23 books with a recorded length, a median of 304 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Jay Bonansinga books, 8 of 23, were published in the 2000s.

What the Jay Bonansinga books are about

15 of the 23 Jay Bonansinga books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: united states is tagged on 5 of 15. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.