Joseph Finder Books in Order
Joseph Finder has written 19 books, published between 1983 and 2025. The first book is Red Carpet (1983) and the newest is The Oligarch's Daughter (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 19
- Published
- 1983–2025
- Confirmed
- 19 of 19 titles
- Pages on record
- 6,497 in 15 of 19 books
- Reading time
- 108–162 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 6,497 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 15 of 19 titles with a page count on record.
Thrillers are the core of Joseph Finder's catalogue. Finder is American, born October 6, 1958. Paranoia, Company Man, Killer Instinct and Power Play sit in the list next to the Nick Heller thriller series. Two novels reached the screen: High Crimes, with Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman in the cast, and Paranoia, filmed in 2013 with Liam Hemsworth, Gary Oldman and Harrison Ford. The site lists 19 books, from Red Carpet (1983) and The Moscow Club (1991) to The Oligarch's Daughter (2025). Boston, corporate culture and missing persons appear among the subjects.
Finder has a background in intelligence research, which he draws on for his thriller novels.
How many Joseph Finder books are there?
Joseph Finder has 19 books, released between 1983 and 2025. 4 of them belong to the Nick Heller series.
Joseph Finder Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 19 Joseph Finder 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.
- 119833724/4
- 219915404/4
- 319935124/4
- 419965163/4
- 519983964/4
- 620034484/4
- 720055784/4
- 820064164/4
- 920074164/4
- 1020093884/4
- 112011–4/4
- 1220113904/4
- 1320143904/4
- 1420153764/4
- 1520163864/4
- 1620173734/4
- 172019–4/4
- 182020–4/4
- 192025–4/4
Joseph Finder series and characters in order
The character linked below has its own reading-order page.
- Nick Heller books in order 6 books
Joseph Finder books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. A group whose heading is a link has its own reading-order page; the other groups have no page of their own on this site.
Joseph Finder Standalone Novels
13 books13 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Nick Heller books in order
4 books by Joseph Finder- 1. Vanished
- 2. Buried Secrets
- 3. Guilty Minds
- 4. House on Fire
Joseph Finder Non-Fiction
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Nick Heller Short Stories/Novellas
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Joseph Finder Books in Chronological Order
By publication date, the Joseph Finder books run from Red Carpet (1983) to The Oligarch's Daughter (2025), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Joseph Finder in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.
Do you have to read Joseph Finder books in order?
You only need to read Joseph Finder books in order within the Nick Heller series, which holds 4 of the 19 Joseph Finder books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Joseph Finder
Start with Vanished (2009), the first Nick Heller book. The earliest catalogued title overall is Red Carpet (1983).
What is the newest Joseph Finder book?
The Oligarch's Daughter (2025) is the newest Joseph Finder book released so far.
Is there a new Joseph Finder book coming?
No next Joseph Finder book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Joseph Finder at a glance
- Still publishing
- Joseph Finder published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Joseph Finder books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 6,497 pages across the 15 of 19 books with a recorded length, a median of 396 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Joseph Finder books, 7 of 19, were published in the 2010s.
- Corroboration
- 18 of the 19 titles appear in all four independent book listings, and every one of them in at least three.
What the Joseph Finder books are about
14 of the 19 Joseph Finder 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 6 of 14. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Thrillers 6 of 14 books
- Boston (Mass.) 3 of 14 books
- Suspense 3 of 14 books
- Businessmen 2 of 14 books
- Corporate culture 2 of 14 books
- Corporations 2 of 14 books
- Massachusetts 2 of 14 books
- Missing persons 2 of 14 books
- Mystery & detective 2 of 14 books
- Single fathers 2 of 14 books
- Success in business 2 of 14 books