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Laird Barron Books in Order

Laird Barron has written 19 books, published between 2007 and 2025. The first book is The Imago Sequence (2007) and the newest is Agate Way (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
19
Published
2007–2025
Pages on record
2,960 in 11 of 19 books
Reading time
49–74 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,960 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 11 of 19 titles with a page count on record.

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Horror, noir and dark fantasy account for much of the writing of Laird Barron, an American author and poet born on 5 March 1970. Barron was managing editor of Melic Review, a now-defunct online literary magazine, and lives in Upstate New York. The catalogue lists 19 books from The Imago Sequence (2007) to Agate Way (2025), with short story collections, crime and missing persons among the subjects. Series are Isaiah Coleridge and the Nanashi Novellas. Other titles include The Croning (2012) and A Little Brown Book of Burials (2015).

How many Laird Barron books are there?

Laird Barron has 19 books, released between 2007 and 2025. 4 of them belong to the Isaiah Coleridge series.

Laird Barron Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 19 Laird Barron 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 Lagerstätte by Laird Barron (2008)
  2. Cover of The Light Is the Darkness by Laird Barron (2011)
  3. Cover of The Croning by Laird Barron (2012)
  4. Cover of X's For Eyes by Laird Barron (2015)
  5. Cover of Man with No Name by Laird Barron, book 1 of the Nanashi Novellas series (2016)
  6. Cover of Swift to Chase by Laird Barron (2016)
  7. Cover of Blood Standard by Laird Barron, book 1 of the Isaiah Coleridge series (2018)
  8. Cover of Black Mountain by Laird Barron, book 2 of the Isaiah Coleridge series (2019)
  9. Cover of Worse Angels by Laird Barron, book 3 of the Isaiah Coleridge series (2020)
  1. 1
    The Imago Sequence2007 · confirmed 1/4
    2007–
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  2. 2
    The Lagerstätte2008 · 416 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2008416
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  3. 3
    Strappado2009 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2009256
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  4. 4
    The Light Is the Darkness2011 · 216 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2011216
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  5. 5
    The Croning2012 · 245 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2012245
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  6. 6
    Hand of Glory2013 · 280 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2013280
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  7. 7
    A Little Brown Book of Burials2015 · confirmed 1/4
    2015–
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  8. 8
    Hallucigenia2015 · confirmed 1/4
    2015–
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  9. 9
    X's For Eyes2015 · 98 pages · confirmed 1/4
    201598
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  10. 10
    Man with No NameNanashi Novellas #12016 · 106 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016106
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  11. 11
    Swift to Chase2016 · 298 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016298
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  12. 12
    Blood StandardIsaiah Coleridge #12018 · 400 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2018400
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  13. 13
    Black MountainIsaiah Coleridge #22019 · 309 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019309
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  14. 14
    Worse AngelsIsaiah Coleridge #32020 · 336 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2020336
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  15. 15
    Joren FallsCome Join Us By The Fire II #42021 · confirmed 1/4
    2021–
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  16. 16
    The Wind Began to HowlIsaiah Coleridge #42023 · confirmed 1/4
    2023–
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  17. 17
    Conan: The Halls of Immortal DarknessHeroic Legends #52024 · confirmed 2/4
    2024–
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  18. 18
    Not a Speck of Light2024 · confirmed 1/4
    2024–
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  19. 19
    Agate Way2025 · confirmed 1/4
    2025–
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Laird Barron 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.

Isaiah Coleridge in order

4 books
  1. 1. Blood Standard
  2. 2. Black Mountain
  3. 3. Worse Angels
  4. 4. The Wind Began to Howl

Nanashi Novellas

1 book

1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Come Join Us By The Fire II in order

1 book
  1. 4. Joren Falls

Heroic Legends in order

1 book
  1. 5. Conan: The Halls of Immortal Darkness

Standalone books

12 books

12 Laird Barron titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Laird Barron books in order?

You only need to read Laird Barron books in order within the Isaiah Coleridge series, which holds 4 of the 19 Laird Barron books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Laird Barron

Start with The Imago Sequence (2007), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Laird Barron book?

Agate Way (2025) is the newest Laird Barron book released so far.

Is there a new Laird Barron book coming?

No next Laird Barron 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 Laird Barron has won

Wikidata records 5 awards and 24 nominations for Laird Barron. The most recent 12 are listed here. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction2024Won
  • Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection2013Wonfor The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and Other Stories
  • Shirley Jackson Award for Novella2010Wonfor Mysterium Tremendum
  • Shirley Jackson Award for Single-Author Collection2010Wonfor Occultation and Other Stories
  • Shirley Jackson Award for Single-Author Collection2007Wonfor The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
  • Locus Award for Best Collection2025Shortlistedfor Not a Speck of Light
  • Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection2024Shortlistedfor Not a Speck of Light
  • Locus Award for Best Collection2017Shortlistedfor Swift to Chase
  • Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection2016Shortlistedfor Swift to Chase
  • Locus Award for Best Anthology2015Shortlistedfor Year's Best Weird Fiction, Volume One
  • Locus Award for Best Novelette2014Shortlistedfor Jaws of Saturn
  • World Fantasy Award for Best Collection2014Shortlistedfor The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and Other Stories

Laird Barron at a glance

Still publishing
Laird Barron published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Laird Barron books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
2,960 pages across the 11 of 19 books with a recorded length, a median of 280 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Laird Barron books, 10 of 19, were published in the 2010s.

What the Laird Barron books are about

9 of the 19 Laird Barron books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: horror is tagged on 3 of 9. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.