Reading order

Repairman Jack reading order

F. Paul Wilson

  1. The Tomb1984
  2. Legacies1998
  3. Conspiracies1999
  4. All the Rage2000
  5. Hosts2001
  6. The Haunted Air2002
  7. Gateways2003
  8. Crisscross2004
  9. Infernal2005
  10. Harbingers2006
  11. Bloodline2007
7.67.6 / 10
50 ratings
Score
11 volumes
Volumes
1984–2007
Published
about 75 h
Reading time
Completed
Status

Quick answer

The Tomb
Start withThe Tomb1984 · Volume 1 of 11

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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.

  1. BreakMaus · Art Spiegelman · 295 pp. · score 9.05 h, by December 3, 2026. A short book from another shelf, so you come back to the series hungry.
  2. Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.82 h, by December 26, 2026. A short book from another shelf, so you come back to the series hungry.
  3. Short breakThe Emperor's Soul · Brandon Sanderson · 96 pp. · score 8.82 h, by January 19, 2027. A short book from another shelf, so you come back to the series hungry.
  4. Short breakOn Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century · Timothy Snyder · 128 pp. · score 8.42 h, by February 12, 2027. A short book from another shelf, so you come back to the series hungry.
  5. The end of the series
    March 2, 2027
In one goFebruary 9, 2027about 3 months
In stages, with breaksMarch 2, 2027about 4 months · +12 h of other books

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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

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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.

More series by F. Paul Wilson

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