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Slough House Books in Order

Slough House by Mick Herron contains 14 books, published between 2010 and 2025. The first book is Slow Horses (2010) and the newest is Clown Town (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
14
Published
2010–2025
Confirmed
13 of 14 titles
Pages on record
2,323 in 8 of 14 books
Reading time
39–58 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,323 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 8 of 14 titles with a page count on record.

See all 14 books in order Printable Slough House checklist

Slough House is Mick Herron's espionage series about the MI5 officers exiled to a run-down branch office after career-ending mistakes. Jackson Lamb runs the department, handing out paperwork until real operations pull the so-called slow horses back into the field. Herron writes the books with a streak of black comedy. Slow Horses (2010) opens a run of 14 titles that reaches Clown Town, novellas included, and the series is ongoing.

How many Slough House books are there?

Slough House has 14 books, released between 2010 and 2025.

Slough House Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 14 Slough House 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 Spook Street by Mick Herron, book 5 of the Slough House series (2017)
  2. Cover of London Rules by Mick Herron, book 6 of the Slough House series (2018)
  3. Cover of The Marylebone Drop / The Drop by Mick Herron, book 7 of the Slough House series (2018)
  4. Cover of The Catch by Mick Herron, book 9 of the Slough House series (2020)
  5. Cover of Bad Actors by Mick Herron, book 12 of the Slough House series (2022)
  1. 1
    Slow Horses2010 · 352 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2010352
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  2. 2
    Dead Lions2013 · 376 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2013376
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  3. 3
    The List2015 · confirmed 4/4
    2015–
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  4. 4
    Real Tigers2016 · 343 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2016343
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  5. 5
    Spook Street2017 · 310 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2017310
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  6. 6
    London Rules2018 · 326 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2018326
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  7. 7
    The Marylebone Drop / The Drop2018 · 128 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2018128
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  8. 8
    Joe Country2019 · 360 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2019360
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  9. 9
    The Catch2020 · 128 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2020128
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  10. 10
    The Last Dead Letter2020 · confirmed 2/4
    2020–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  11. 11
    Slough House2021 · confirmed 4/4
    2021–
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  12. 12
    Bad Actors2022 · confirmed 4/4
    2022–
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  13. 13
    Standing by the Wall2022 · confirmed 4/4
    2022–
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  14. 14
    Clown Town2025 · confirmed 4/4
    2025–
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Slough House Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the Slough House books run from Slow Horses (2010) to Clown Town (2025), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Slough House in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Do you have to read Slough House books in order?

You should read the Slough House books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Slough House book also stands alone.

What order should you read Slough House books in?

Read them in publication order, starting with Slow Horses (2010), the earliest published title. After it come Dead Lions (2013), The List (2015), Real Tigers (2016) and Spook Street (2017); the numbered table above continues from there.

What is the newest Slough House book?

Clown Town (2025) is the newest Slough House book released so far.

Is there a new Slough House book coming?

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

Slough House at a glance

Still running
Slough House is still running, with a title published as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Slough House books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
2,323 pages across the 8 of 14 books with a recorded length, a median of 334 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Slough House books, 8 of 14, were published in the 2010s.
Corroboration
13 of the 14 titles appear in all four independent book listings.

What the Slough House books are about

8 of the 14 Slough House books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: suspense is tagged on 7 of 8. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

More books by Mick Herron

The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.

Other series by Mick Herron

The series linked below has its own reading-order page.