Order of Elmore Leonard Books

Elmore Leonard is an American novelist and screenwriter, renowned for his early western novels, crime fiction, and suspense thrillers. Numerous adaptations of his works have been made into films, such as Mr. Majestyk, Get Shorty, Rum Punch (adapted as Jackie Brown), and Be Cool. Leonard has been writing since the early 1950s and continues to do so today. Below is a list of all his published books in the order of their original release.

Elmore Leonard became a published novelist in 1953 with the novel The Bounty Hunters. Below is a list of Elmore Leonard's books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Jack Ryan Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Big Bounce	(1969)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Unknown Man #89	(1977)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Frank Ryan Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Swag / Ryan's Rules	(1976)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Stick	(1982)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Chili Palmer Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Get Shorty	(1990)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Be Cool	(1999)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Raylan Givens Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Pronto	(1993)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Riding the Rap	(1995)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Fire in the Hole	(2001)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Raylan	(2011)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Raylan Goes to Detroit (By: Peter Leonard)	(2018)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Jack Foley Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Out Of Sight	(1996)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Road Dogs	(2009)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Carl Webster Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Hot Kid	(2005)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Up in Honey's Room	(2007)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Comfort to the Enemy and Other Carl Webster Stories	(2009)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Switch	(1978)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Rum Punch	(1992)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Elmore Leonard's Western Roundup Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Elmore Leonard's Western Roundup #1	(1998)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Elmore Leonard's Western Roundup #2	(1998)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Elmore Leonard's Western Roundup #3	(1998)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Standalone Novels Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Bounty Hunters	(1953)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Law at Randado	(1954)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Escape from Five Shadows	(1956)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Last Stand at Saber River	(1959)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Hombre	(1961)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Moonshine War	(1969)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Valdez Is Coming	(1970)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Forty Lashes Less One	(1972)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
52 Pick Up	(1974)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Mr Majestyk	(1974)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Hunted	(1977)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Gunsights	(1979)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Gold Coast	(1980)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit	(1980)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Split Images	(1981)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Cat Chaser	(1982)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
LaBrava	(1983)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Glitz	(1985)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Bandits	(1987)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Touch	(1987)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Freaky Deaky	(1988)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Killshot	(1989)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Maximum Bob	(1991)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Cuba Libre	(1998)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Pagan Babies	(2000)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Tishomingo Blues	(2002)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Mr. Paradise	(2004)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Coyote's in the House	(2004)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Djibouti	(2010)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Trespassers	(2013)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Confession	(2013)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Short Story Collections Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories	(1953)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Tonto Woman and Other Western Stories	(1975)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Dutch Treat	(1985)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
When the Women Come Out to Dance	(2001)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard	(2004)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Complete Western Stories	(2004)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Moment of Vengeance and Other Stories	(2006)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Blood Money and Other Stories	(2006)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Trail of the Apache and Other Stories	(2007)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Charlie Martz and Other Stories	(2015)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Notebooks	(1990)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing	(2006)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Anthologies Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Western Roundup	(1961)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Florida Stories	(1993)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
New Trails: Twenty-Three Original Stories	(1994)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Murder For Love	(1996)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories	(1996)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Naked Came the Manatee	(1997)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Western Movies	(1997)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Best American Mystery Stories 1997	(1997)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Murder On The Railways	(2003)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Best American Mystery Stories 2003	(2003)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Mysterious Writers: The Many Facets of Mystery Writing	(2010)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Long Night	(2014)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Best American Mystery Stories 2016	(2016)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Miami Noir	(2020)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

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