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Joe Pickett Books in Order

by C. J. BoxMystery, Thriller & Suspense

26 books so far (book 27 is due February 23, 2027). They run from Open Season (2002) to The Crossroads (2026). Rated 4.7 across 114,053 listener reviews.

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The Missing

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Reading order

  1. Open Season

    Book 1 2002 4.4 (10.3k)

    Joe Pickett is the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, a town where nearly everyone hunts and the game warden—especially one like Joe who won't take bribes or look the other way—is far from popular.

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  2. Savage Run

    Book 2 2003 4.6 (6.4k)

    An Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and Barry Award winner, C. J. Box delivers the second pulse-pounding installment in his critically acclaimed series.

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  3. Winterkill

    Book 3 2003 4.7 (5.5k)

    In the third adventure in C. J. Box’s engrossing series, Joe Pickett finds himself at the center of a confrontation between a special investigative team and a group of government-hating survivalists camped out on federal land.

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  4. Trophy Hunt

    Book 4 2004 4.6 (5k)

    It's an idyllic late-summer day in Saddlestring, Wyoming, and game warden Joe Pickett is fly-fishing with his two daughters when he stumbles upon the mutilated body of a moose.

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  5. Out of Range

    Book 5 2009 4.7 (4.4k)

    C. J. Box's best-selling Joe Pickett novels have earned him a spot on every serious suspense fan's shortlist of favorites.

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  6. In Plain Sight

    Book 6 2006 4.7 (4.1k)

    C. J. Box has won a host of awards, including the Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and Barry. In Plain Sight sees game warden Joe Pickett's life take a turn for the worse after millionaire Opal Scarlett goes missing.

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  7. Free Fire

    Book 7 2010 4.6 (4.8k)

    Best-selling author C. J. Box—an Anthony and Macavity Award winner—earned starred reviews from both Publishers Weekly and Booklist for this exceptional mystery.

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  8. Blood Trail

    Book 8 2008 4.7 (4k)

    Critically acclaimed, award-winning author C. J. Box's Joe Pickett mysteries are a mainstay on the best seller lists. Former game warden Pickett is now a special agent reporting directly to the governor.

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  9. Below Zero

    Book 9 2009 4.7 (3.6k)

    New York Times best-selling author C. J. Box's Below Zero is the 10th novel featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett. The telephone calls from her stepdaughter April send chills down the spine of Joe's daughter Sherry.

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  10. Nowhere to Run

    Book 10 2010 4.7 (3.8k)

    Joe Pickett's in his last week as the temporary game warden in the town of Baggs, Wyoming, but there have been strange things going on in the mountains, and his conscience won't let him leave without checking them out: reports of camps…

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  11. Cold Wind

    Book 11 2011 4.7 (4.4k)

    When Earl Alden is found dead, dangling from a wind turbine, it's his wife, Missy, who is arrested. Unfortunately for game warden Joe Pickett, Missy is his mother-in- law, a woman he dislikes heartily, and now he doesn't know what to do -…

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  12. Force of Nature

    Book 12 2012 4.7 (4.3k)

    New York Times best-selling author C. J. Box delivers a novel starring Joe Pickett’s sidekick: fan favorite Nate Romanowski.

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  13. Breaking Point: A Joe Pickett Novel

    Book 13 2013 4.7 (4.2k)

    The recipient of Edgar, Anthony, and Macavity Awards, New York Times best-selling author C. J. Box has won almost every honor in his field.

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  14. Stone Cold

    Book 14 2014 4.7 (4.2k)

    Everything about the man is a mystery: The massive ranch in the remote Black Hills of Wyoming that nobody ever visits, the women who live with him, the secret philanthropies, the private airstrip, the sudden disappearances.

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  15. Endangered

    Book 15 2015 4.7 (5.2k)

    New York Times - best-selling writer C. J. Box returns with a thrilling new novel featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett. She was gone.

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  16. Off the Grid

    Book 16 2016 4.7 (4.9k)

    New York Times best-selling author C. J. Box returns with a suspenseful new Joe Pickett novel. Nate Romanowski is off the grid, recuperating from wounds and trying to deal with past crimes, when he is suddenly surrounded by a small team of…

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  17. Vicious Circle

    Book 17 2017 4.7 (4.4k)

    The plane circled in the dark. Joe Pickett could just make out down below a figure in the snow and timber, and then three other figures closing in. There was nothing he could do about it. And Joe knew that he might be their next target.

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  18. The Disappeared

    Book 18 2018 4.7 (5.2k)

    Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett has two cases to contend with, both of them lethal, in the electrifying new novel from the number-one New York Times best-selling author.

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  19. Wolf Pack

    Book 19 2019 4.7 (5.4k)

    Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett encounters bad behavior on his own turf - only to have the FBI and the DOJ ask him to stand down - in the thrilling new novel from number-one New York Times best-selling author C. J. Box....

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  20. Long Range

    Book 20 2020 4.8 (4.7k)

    When Joe Pickett is asked to join the rescue efforts for the victim of a startling grizzly attack, he reluctantly leaves his district behind.

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  21. Dark Sky

    Book 21 2021 4.7 (4.5k)

    Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett must guide a Silicon Valley CEO on a hunting trip—but soon learns that he himself may be the hunted—in the thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box.

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  22. Shadows Reel

    Book 22 2022 4.6 (3.7k)

    Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett and his wife, Marybeth, make separate discoveries that put the Pickett family in a pair of killers’ crosshairs in this thrilling new novel in the bestselling series.

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  23. Storm Watch

    Book 23 2023 4.6 (1.8k)

    Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett investigates a mysterious death at a secret remote high-tech facility in this riveting new novel from #1 New York Times bestseller CJ Box.

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  24. Three-Inch Teeth

    Book 24 2024 4.7 (2.5k)

    Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett faces two different kinds of raging beasts—one animal, one human—in this riveting new novel from #1 New York Times bestseller C. J. Box.

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  25. Battle Mountain

    Book 25 2025 by C.J. Box 4.7 (2.2k)

    Outlaw falconer Nate Romanowski is off the grid and out for revenge in this riveting new novel from #1 New York Times bestseller C. J. Box.

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  26. The Crossroads

    Book 26 2026 by C.J. Box 4.7 (713)

    Game warden Joe Pickett fights for his life as his daughters try to uncover who shot him and left him for dead in this riveting new novel from #1 New York Times bestseller C. J. Box.

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  27. The Missing

    Book 27 Out February 23, 2027 by C.J. Box

    Box owns the modern American frontier." --Jack Carr, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Cry Havoc "Raining here, but I've got a cup of hot tea and a Joe Pickett novel, so who has it better than me?" --Stephen King Wyoming game warden…

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About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for Joe Pickett is also the best order to read them in. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.

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