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Books in Order: 11 titles

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  • The new powerhouse team of Douglas Preston & Aletheia Preston are joining together to "enter the world" of the New York Times bestselling Extinction. One of the holiest relics in Christendom, inexplicably defaced... A paranoid old prosp...



  • With Extinction, #1 New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston has written a page-turning thriller in the Michael Crichton mode that explores the possible and unintended dangers of the very real efforts to resurrect the woolly mammoth and othe...



  • The active resistance to the Chinese invasion of Tibet coalesced into a guerrilla army of freedom fighters, the Chushi Gangdruk. In the 1950s, China's Red Army and communist cadres systematically slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Tibetans in Amdo ...




  • NASA is building a probe to be splashed down in the Kraken Mare, the largest sea on Saturn's great moon, Titan. It is one of the most promising habitats for extraterrestrial life in the solar system, but the surface is unpredictable and dangerous, re...



  • Wyman Ford is tapped for a secret expedition to Cambodia... to locate the source of strangely beautiful gemstones that do not appear to be of this world. A brilliant meteor lights up the Maine coast... and two young women borrow a boat and set out...



  • Read the true story that inspired the hit Netflix series​! In the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt and Erik Larson, the author of the #1 NYT bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey God presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in ...



  • DEEP IN AN ARIZONA MOUNTAIN, the world's largest supercollider is poised to probe the Big Bang itself. Some people think this experiment will unlock the mysteries of the universe. Some think it will create a mini black hole that will destroy the eart...



  • A moon rock missing for thirty years... Five buckets of blood-soaked sand found in a New Mexico canyon... A scientist with ambition enough to kill... A monk who will redeem the world... A dark agency with a deadly mission... The greatest scienti...






  • "Greetings from the dead," declares Maxwell Broadbent on the videotape he left behind after his mysterious disappearance. A notorious treasure hunter and tomb robber, Broadbent accumulated over a half a billion dollars' worth of priceless art, gems, ...



  • Douglas Preston's Jennie, based on the real story of the chimpanzee who inspired Curious George, is the celebrated novel that was made into the award-winning Disney television film The Jennie Project. Translated into many languages, Jennie became a w...


Books Written with a Co-Author


Douglas Preston; Lincoln Child
Relic (Feb-1995)
Mount Dragon (Feb-1996)
Reliquary (May-1997)
Riptide (Jul-1998)
Thunderhead (Jul-1999)
The Ice Limit (Jul-2001)
The Cabinet of Curiosities (Jun-2002)
Still Life With Crows (Jul-2003)
Brimstone (Aug-2004)
Dance of Death (Jun-2005)
Gone Fishing (Jun-2006)
The Book of the Dead (Jun-2006)
The Wheel of Darkness (Jan-2007)
Cemetery Dance (May-2009)
Fever Dream (May-2010)
Gideon's Sword (Mar-2011)
Cold Vengeance (Aug-2011)
Gideon's Corpse (Jan-2012)
Extraction (Oct-2012)
Two Graves (Dec-2012)
White Fire (Nov-2013)
The Lost Island (Aug-2014)
Blue Labyrinth (Nov-2014)
Crimson Shore (Nov-2015)
Beyond the Ice Limit (May-2016)
The Obsidian Chamber (Oct-2016)
City of Endless Night (Jan-2018)
The Pharaoh Key (Jun-2018)
Verses for the Dead (Dec-2018)
Old Bones (Aug-2019)
Crooked River (Feb-2020)
The Scorpion's Tail (Jan-2021)
Bloodless (Aug-2021)
Diablo Mesa (Feb-2022)
The Cabinet of Dr. Leng (Jan-2023)
Dead Mountain (Aug-2023)
Angel of Vengeance (Aug-2024)
Badlands (Jun-2025)
Pendergast: The Beginning (Feb-2026)
Dead Man's Journey (Jan-2027)

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Douglas Preston has published 11 books.

Douglas Preston does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Paradox, was published in April 2026.

The first book by Douglas Preston, Jennie, was published in October 1994.

Yes. Douglas Preston has 2 series.