Reading order

Dean Koontz's Frankenstein reading order

Dean Koontz

Prodigal Son2005
City of Night2005
Dead and Alive2009
Lost Souls2010
The Dead Town2011

7.57.5 / 10
90 ratings
Score: 5 volumes
Volumes: 2005–2011
Published: about 40 h
Reading time: Completed
Status: Horror
Genre

Quick answer

Start withProdigal Son2005 · Volume 1 of 5

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Publication order

5 volumes2005–2011Completed

Dean Koontz’s modern reimagining of Frankenstein: Victor never died and now lives in New Orleans as the wealthy Victor Helios, secretly building a race of perfect, soulless people to replace humanity, while his first creation, Deucalion, scarred and wiser, teams up with two homicide detectives to stop him.
The first two books were co-written with Kevin J. Anderson and Ed Gorman.
Pulpy and fast; ratings are modest.
Read in order.

A plan for the whole series

5 volumes, 2,155 pages, about 40 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 8 weeks.

Per day: 45 min

Stages

3 stages, with 2 short books from outside the series between them. You finish around December 28, 2026, 7 days later than in one go.

1
Stage 117 habout 3 weeksby November 21, 2026
- 1. Prodigal Son2005 · 469 pages · 9 h
- 2. City of Night2005 · 455 pages · 8 h
Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.82 h, by November 25, 2026. A short book from another shelf, so you come back to the series hungry.
2
Stage 214 h19 daysby December 14, 2026
- 3. Dead and Alive2009 · 352 pages · 6 h
- 4. Lost Souls2010 · ≈ 431 pages · 8 h
Short breakThe Emperor's Soul · Brandon Sanderson · 96 pp. · score 8.82 h, by December 17, 2026. A short book from another shelf, so you come back to the series hungry.
3
Stage 38 h11 daysby December 28, 2026
- 5. The Dead Town2011 · 448 pages · 8 h
The end of the series
December 28, 2026

In one goDecember 21, 2026about 8 weeks

In stages, with breaksDecember 28, 2026about 9 weeks · +4 h of other books

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≈ next to a page count: a volume with no page count in our data is counted at this series’s average.

How this plan is calculated

The plan comes from the pages and ratings of each volume: we split the series into stages of about three weeks’ reading, size each break to the stage before it, and read the chance of finishing from how many readers rate the last volume compared with the first. How we work out the plan →