Reading order
Repairman Jack reading order
- The Tomb1984
- Legacies1998
- Conspiracies1999
- All the Rage2000
- Hosts2001
- The Haunted Air2002
- Gateways2003
- Crisscross2004
- Infernal2005
- Harbingers2006
- Bloodline2007
- 7.67.6 / 1050 ratings
- Score
- 11 volumes
- Volumes
- 1984–2007
- Published
- about 75 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
- Horror
- Genre
Quick answer

Publication order
11 volumes1984–2007Completed
- F. Paul Wilson’s thrillers about Jack, a New York “fixer” who lives entirely off the grid, with no surname on record, no tax number and cash only, and solves problems the police cannot or will not touch.
- The Tomb, the first and the one with enough ratings, mixes his ordinary jobs with something far older, and from Legacies on the cases keep brushing against the cosmic war of Wilson’s Adversary Cycle until the two series meet in Nightworld.
- Pulpy, funny and violent.
- Read in order.
A plan for the whole series
11 volumes, 4,225 pages, about 75 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 3 months.
Stages
5 stages, with 4 short books from outside the series between them. You finish around March 2, 2027, 21 days later than in one go.
- Stage 119 habout 4 weeksby November 24, 2026
- BreakMaus · Art Spiegelman · 295 pp. · score 9.0
- Stage 214 h19 daysby December 22, 2026
- Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.8
- Stage 316 h21 daysby January 16, 2027
- Short breakThe Emperor's Soul · Brandon Sanderson · 96 pp. · score 8.8
- Stage 415 h20 daysby February 8, 2027
- Short breakOn Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century · Timothy Snyder · 128 pp. · score 8.4
- Stage 514 h18 daysby March 2, 2027
- 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 Repairman Jack book is the longest?
“The Haunted Air” is the longest at 480 pages; the shortest is “Conspiracies” with 317 pages.
What should I read after Repairman Jack?
Other series by F. Paul Wilson: The Adversary Cycle.











