Order of Benjamin January Books
Benjamin January is the protagonist in a series of historical mystery novels by American author Barbara Hambly. Benjamin January is a mixed race man who has freed from slavery when he was a child by his mother’s love. He lived in France for a time, where he trained as a surgeon, but can’t get much work in the field due to his skin-colour. Now he lives in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he works as a piano player. The series is set in the early part of the 19th century, prior to the Civil War.
Barbara Hambly began her Benjamin January series in 1997 with the novel A Free Man of Color. The series is currently ongoing. Below is a list of Barbara Hambly’s Benjamin January books in order of when they were originally released (which is the same as their chronological order):
Publication Order of Benjamin January Books
A Free Man of Color | (1997) | |
Fever Season | (1998) | |
Graveyard Dust | (1999) | |
Sold Down the River | (2000) | |
Die Upon a Kiss | (2001) | |
Wet Grave | (2002) | |
Days of the Dead | (2003) | |
Dead Water | (2004) | |
Dead and Buried | (2010) | |
The Shirt On His Back | (2011) | |
Ran Away | (2011) | |
Good Man Friday | (2013) | |
Crimson Angel | (2014) | |
Hagar | (2015) | |
Libre | (2015) | |
There Shall Your Heart Be Also | (2015) | |
A Time For Every Purpose Under Heaven | (2015) | |
Death on the Moon | (2016) | |
Drinking Gourd | (2016) | |
Murder in July | (2017) | |
Cold Bayou | (2018) | |
Lady of Perdition | (2019) | |
House of the Patriarch | (2020) | |
Death and Hard Cider | (2022) | |
The Nubian’s Curse | (2024) |