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Joe Ide Books in Order

Joe Ide has written 7 books, published between 2016 and 2023. The first book is IQ (2016) and the newest is Fixit (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
7
Published
2016–2023
Confirmed
1 of 7 titles
Total pages
2,326 across 7 books
Reading time
39–58 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,326 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute.

See all 7 books in order Printable Joe Ide checklist

Joe Ide is an American crime fiction writer of Japanese descent, born around 1958, with 7 books in the catalogue. IQ (2016) opens the list, followed by Righteous (2017), Wrecked (2018), Hi Five (2020), Smoke (2021), The Goodbye Coast (2022) and Fixit (2023). IQ is the series on record, and Philip Marlowe appears among the characters. Subjects include private investigators, Los Angeles, missing persons, brothers and African American mystery fiction. No new Ide title has appeared since 2023.

How many Joe Ide books are there?

Joe Ide has 7 books, released between 2016 and 2023. 6 of them belong to the IQ series.

Joe Ide Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 7 Joe Ide 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 IQ by Joe Ide, book 1 of the IQ series (2016)
  2. Cover of Wrecked by Joe Ide, book 3 of the IQ series (2018)
  3. Cover of Hi Five by Joe Ide, book 4 of the IQ series (2020)
  4. Cover of Smoke by Joe Ide, book 5 of the IQ series (2021)
  5. Cover of The Goodbye Coast by Joe Ide, book 12 of the Philip Marlowe series (2022)
  6. Cover of Fixit by Joe Ide, book 6 of the IQ series (2023)
  1. 1
    IQIQ #12016 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2016352
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  2. 2
    RighteousIQ #22017 · 330 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2017330
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  3. 3
    WreckedIQ #32018 · 343 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2018343
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  4. 4
    Hi FiveIQ #42020 · 341 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2020341
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  5. 5
    SmokeIQ #52021 · 336 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2021336
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  6. 6
    The Goodbye CoastPhilip Marlowe #122022 · 304 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2022304
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  7. 7
    FixitIQ #62023 · 320 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2023320
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Joe Ide 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.

IQ in order

6 books
  1. 1. IQ
  2. 2. Righteous
  3. 3. Wrecked
  4. 4. Hi Five
  5. 5. Smoke
  6. 6. Fixit

Philip Marlowe in order

1 book
  1. 12. The Goodbye Coast

Do you have to read Joe Ide books in order?

You only need to read Joe Ide books in order within the IQ series, which holds 6 of the 7 Joe Ide books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Joe Ide

Start with IQ (2016), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Joe Ide book?

Fixit (2023) is the newest Joe Ide book released so far.

Is there a new Joe Ide book coming?

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

Joe Ide at a glance

Paused
No new Joe Ide title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
Release pace
Joe Ide books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
2,326 pages across all 7 books with a recorded length, a median of 336 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Joe Ide books, 4 of 7, were published in the 2020s.

What the Joe Ide books are about

4 of the 7 Joe Ide books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: private investigators is tagged on 4 of 4. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.