Reading order
Joe Pitt Casebooks reading order
1- 7.67.6 / 1053 ratings
- Score
- 5 volumes
- Volumes
- 2005–2009
- Published
- about 25 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
- Crime & mystery
- Genre
Quick answer
Publication order
5 volumes2005–2009Completed
- Charlie Huston’s five hardboiled vampire novels set in Manhattan, where people infected with the Vyrus live in hiding and the island is carved up between rival clans.
- Joe Pitt, a rogue vampire who belongs to none of them, takes dirty jobs to pay for the blood he needs.
- In Already Dead, the first and the one with enough ratings, he hunts a missing rich girl while zombies, a different infection, turn up on the streets.
- Violent, profane and fast; the story is finished.
- Read in order.
A plan for the whole series
5 volumes, 1,370 pages, about 25 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 5 weeks.
Stages
2 stages, with 1 short book from outside the series between them. You finish around December 11, 2026, 9 days later than in one go.
- Stage 120 habout 4 weeksby November 24, 2026
- BreakMaus · Art Spiegelman · 295 pp. · score 9.0
- Stage 26 h7 daysby December 11, 2026
- The end of the series
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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 →
Every volume in order
Order checked by hand · Order and years: Wikidata (CC0). Spotted an error? Tell us. · Data updated October 29, 2026
Frequently asked questions
Which Joe Pitt Casebooks book is the longest?
“My Dead Body” is the longest at 302 pages; the shortest is “Half the Blood of Brooklyn” with 256 pages.