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The Year of the Cat Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of The Year of the Cat 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 The Year of the Cat series? Start with "World's Great Mystery Stories" (1943) and follow publication order through all 47 books.
The complete The Year of the Cat reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
World's Great Mystery Stories
1943
Fifty Famous Detectives of Fiction
1948
Great Tales of Action and Adventure
1958
21 Great Stories
1969
Scottish Tales of Terror
1972
Sea Tales of Terror
1974
The 10th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories
1977
Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1979
Rivals of Sherlock Holmes 2
1979
The 14th Fontana Book Of Great Horror Stories
1981
65 Great Spine Chillers
1982
Tantalizing Locked Room Mysteries
1982
Mysterious Sea Stories
1987
English Country House Murders
1988
Tales of the Occult
1989
Hound Dunnit
1989
Great Law and Order Stories
1990
Great Tales of Crime and Detection
1992
Horse & Pony Stories
1992
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Volume Three
1992
Murder British Style
1993
Sea-Cursed
1994
Detection by Gaslight: 14 Victorian Detective Stories
1997
The Oxford Book of Detective Stories
2000
Crime Never Pays
2001
On Glorious Wings
2003
The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction
2004
H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural
2006
The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes
2007
Sherlock Holmes in America
2009
Stories to Get You Through the Night
2010
50 Classic Novellas
2011
London Stories
2013
A Short Story Anthology
2013
Togas and Tyrants: Collected Tales of Ancient Rome
2014
The Phantom Coach
2014
Sherlock: The Essential Arthur Conan Doyle Adventures
2015
The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories
2016
Holmes Away from Home: Adventures from the Great Hiatus
2016
Sherlock: The Essential Arthur Conan Doyle Adventures, Vol. 2
2017
Fireside Horror Stories About Mummies and Curses
2017
Flight or Fright
2018
Murder in Midsummer: Classic Mysteries for the Holidays
2019
The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 3
2019
Murder Takes a Holiday
2021
Scottish Stories
2023
The Edinburgh Mystery: And Other Tales of Scottish Crime
2023
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