| Agent Pendergast Novels | Gideon Crew Novels |
| City of Endless Night | Beyond the Ice Limit |
| The Obsidian Chamber | The Lost Island |
| Crimson Shore | Gideon’s Corpse |
| Blue Labyrinth | Gideon’s Sword |
| White Fire | |
| Two Graves* | Other Novels |
| Cold Vengeance* | The Ice Limit |
| Fever Dream* | Thunderhead |
| Cemetery Dance | Riptide |
| The Wheel of Darkness | Mount Dragon |
| The Book of the Dead** | |
| Dance of Death** |
*The Helen Trilogy |
| Brimstone** |
**The Diogenes Trilogy |
| Still Life with Crows |
†Relic and Reliquary are |
| The Cabinet of Curiosities |
ideally read in sequence |
| Reliquary† | |
| Relic† |
| By Douglas Preston | By Lincoln Child |
| The Lost City of the Monkey God | Full Wolf Moon |
| The Kraken Project | The Forgotten Room |
| Impact | The Third Gate |
| The Monster of Florence | Terminal Freeze |
| (with Mario Spezi) | Deep Storm |
| Blasphemy | Death Match |
| Tyrannosaur Canyon | Lethal Velocity |
| The Codex | (formerly Utopia) |
| Ribbons of Time | Tales of the Dark 1–3 |
| The Royal Road | Dark Banquet |
| Talking to the Ground | Dark Company |
| Jennie | |
| Cities of Gold | |
| Dinosaurs in the Attic |