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Painted Turtle Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Painted Turtle books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: April 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Painted Turtle series? Start with "Amos Walker's Detroit" (2007) and follow publication order through all 56 books.
The complete Painted Turtle reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order

Amos Walker's Detroit
2007

Travelin' Man (By: Gary Graff)
2009

Techno Rebels (By: Dan Sicko)
2010

MC5 Sonically Speaking (By: Brett Callwood)
2010

Reimagining Detroit (By: John Gallagher)
2010

The Stooges Head On (By: Alice Cooper,Brett Callwood)
2011

Revolution Detroit (By: John Gallagher)
2013

Images from the Arsenal of Democracy (By: Charles K. Hyde)
2014

The Art of Memory (By: Thomas R. Dilley)
2014

Great Lakes Island Escapes (By: Maureen Dunphy)
2016

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra (By: Laurie Lanzen Harris,Paul Ganson)
2016

Saving Arcadia (By: Heather Shumaker,Jordan Wannemacher)
2017

Greetings from Detroit (By: Dan Austin)
2017

Brewed in Michigan (By: William Rapai)
2017

Building the Modern World (By: Michael H. Hodges)
2018

The Faygo Book (By: Joe Grimm)
2018

The Queen Next Door (By: Linda Solomon)
2019

Northern Harvest (By: Emita Brady Hill)
2020

Mean Streets
1986

Matter of Crime
1987

The Black Moon
1989

The New Frontier
1989

City Sleuths and Tough Guys
1989

100 Great Detectives, Or, the Detective Directory
1991

Invitation to Murder
1991

Deadly Allies
1992

Dark Crimes 2
1993

Deadly Allies II
1994

New Trails: Twenty-Three Original Stories
1994

First Cases, Volume 1
1996

How the West Was Read, Volume 2
1996

The Night Awakens
1998

The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1999

The Best of the American West II
1999

The Best American Mystery Stories 1999
1999

American West
2000

The Shamus Game
2000

The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1
2000

The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology: Celebrating 25 Years
2001

A Century of Great Western Stories
2001

Murder, My Dear Watson
2002

A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime
2003

Lost Trails
2007

At the Scene of the Crime
2008

Sherlock Holmes in America
2009

Ghost Towns
2010

The Best American Mystery Stories 2011
2011

Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe
2011

In Pursuit of Spenser
2012

Detroit Is Our Beat
2015

Bob Seger's House and Other Stories
2016

Silent Night, Deadly Night
2016

The Moores Are Missing & The Housewife
2017

Murder, They Wrote: Five Bibliomysteries by Edgar Award-Winning Authors
2018

The Misadventures of Nero Wolfe
2020

Hobnail and Other Frontier Stories
2020
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