Rivers of London Books in Order

Ten novels, from Rivers of London (2011) to Stone and Sky (2025), plus five novellas: The Furthest Station, The October Man, What Abigail Did That Summer, Winter's Gifts and The Masquerades of Spring. There is also a run of canon graphic novels and the Tales from the Folly short story collection.

Publication order. Start with Rivers of London (Midnight Riot in the US) and read the novels straight through to Stone and Sky, slotting the novellas in at their publication positions if you want them. Nothing was published out of story order, so there is no clever alternative worth the bother.

Yes. The first novel was retitled Midnight Riot for the US market, which is why American lists appear to start with a different book. If you have read one you have read the other, and every later book keeps the same title on both sides of the Atlantic.

They are canon, co-written by Ben Aaronovitch, and most of them sit between Foxglove Summer and The Hanging Tree, covering among other things where Lesley is during that gap. The prose novels are written so you can follow everything without them, but the official timeline includes them, and Body Work is the place to start if you want them.

Mostly. The October Man and Winter's Gifts follow other narrators in other countries and touch the main story barely at all. The Masquerades of Spring is a 1920s prequel. The one to think twice about is What Abigail Did That Summer, which builds the version of Abigail the later novels rely on. The Furthest Station is skippable but a favourite.

The cases mostly resolve per book, but the series runs one long arc about the Faceless Man from Moon Over Soho to Lies Sleeping, and Broken Homes ends on a twist that later blurbs spoil freely. Jumping in mid-series works better here than in most series, but reading anything after Broken Homes first will cost you the best surprise.

No. Stone and Sky, published in July 2025, is the tenth novel and the current end of the line, and Ben Aaronovitch has continued alternating novels with novellas for years. No eleventh novel had a title or date as of August 2026.

A novella set in Trier, Germany, narrated by Tobias Winter of Germany's equivalent to the Folly, with Peter Grant nowhere in sight. It shares the world's rules and one or two references, nothing more. Read it if you enjoy the setting; skip it freely.

The Furthest Station. It is a novella-length, self-contained ghost story on the Metropolitan line that shows exactly what the series does in under two hours of reading. If it lands, go back to Rivers of London and read properly from the start.

The ten novels run around 4,000 pages together, roughly 65 hours of reading, and the novellas add perhaps eight more. On audio, with Kobna Holdbrook-Smith reading, the full run is comfortably over 100 hours, and many fans consider that the best version of the series.