Michael Bracken

Michael Bracken

Upcoming Michael Bracken Books

No Upcoming Books. Click the '+ Follow' button to register an account, and we will notify you when they have new books coming out.

Coyote Run (a short story) (Chop Shop Crime, #8) was the most recently released book by Michael Bracken, on February 1st, 2025.

Book Notification is an Amazon Associate and eBay Partner. If you click on a book title it will take you to Amazon or your default book store where you can read more about the book or purchase it. We earn money from qualifying purchases.
Click to get new book alerts by Michael Bracken sent straight to your email.

Michael Bracken Stats: The most read book by Michael Bracken on Book Notification is Blindsided, a Novella. The second most read book is Disposable Women, a Novella.

Below is a complete list of Michael Bracken books in publication and chronological order, broken down by series.

List of Men In Love and Lust in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
All-American Male
2023
Go

List of Standalone Novels in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top standalone books are All White Girls, Psi Cops, and Deadly Campaign.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Deadly Campaign
1994
Go
2
Psi Cops
2000
Go
3
All White Girls
2001
Go
4
Just in Time for Love
2001
Go
5
Canvas Bleeding
2002
Go
6
Private Dicks and Disco Balls
2024
Go

List of Short Stories/Novellas in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top short stories and novellas are Blindsided, Disposable Women, and In the Town of Dreams Unborn and Memories Dying.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
In the Town of Dreams Unborn and Memories Dying
2000
Go
2
Unbridled Love: A Romance With Horse Sense
2010
Go
3
Glass Houses
2010
Go
4
Dreams Unborn
2010
Go
5
Lesser of Two Evils
2010
Go
6
Pick
2010
Go
7
Memories Dying
2011
Go
8
Chalkers
2011
Go
9
One Knight with the Swordsmith's Daughter
2017
Go
10
The Princess and the Swineherd
2017
Go
11
Closing Cases
2019
Go
12
Fissile Material
2019
Go
13
Bouquet of Love
2020
Go
14
Firm Foundation
2020
Go
15
Pink Vibrator
2020
Go
16
Cyan
2020
Go
17
Snow Job
2020
Go
18
Under the Big Top
2020
Go
19
The Shaft
2020
Go
20
Old MacDonald Had a Farm
2020
Go
21
Goth Girl
2020
Go
22
8
Disposable Women
2021
Go
23
7
Blindsided (With: James A. Hearn)
2021
Go
24
Little Spring
2022
Go

List of Short Story Collections in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top short story collections are Bad Girls, Tequila Sunrise, and Yesterday in Blood and Bone.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Bad Girls
2000
Go
2
Tequila Sunrise
2000
Go
3
Yesterday in Blood and Bone
2005
Go
4
Sex, Violence & Half A Million Dollars
2011
Go
5
Microchick
2011
Go

List of Guns + Tacos Books in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top Guns + Tacos books are Tacos de Cazuela con Smith & Wesson, A Gyro and a Glock, and Sopa and a Streetsweeper.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Tacos de Cazuela con Smith & Wesson (By: Gary Phillips)
2019
Go
2
Three Brisket Tacos and a Sig Sauer
2019
Go
3
A Gyro and a Glock ( By: Frank Zafiro)
2019
Go
4
Three Chalupas, Rice, Soda…and a Kimber .45 (By: Trey R. Barker)
2019
Go
5
Some Churros and El Burro (By: William Dylan Powell)
2019
Go
6
A Beretta, Burritos and Bears (By: James A. Hearn)
2019
Go
7
Burritos & Bullets (By: Eric Beetner)
2020
Go
8
Jalapeño Poppers and a Flare Gun (With: Trey R. Barker)
2020
Go
9
Four Shrimp Tacos and a Walther P38 (By: Alec Cizak)
2020
Go
10
A Taco, A T-Bird, A Beretta and One Furious Night (By: Ann Aptaker)
2020
Go
11
Sopa and a Streetsweeper (By: Ryan Sayles)
2020
Go
12
Two More Tacos, a Beretta .32, and a Pink Butterfly (By: Dave Zeltserman)
2021
Go
13
Two Tamales, One Tokarev, and a Lifetime of Broken Promises (By: Stacy Woodson)
2021
Go
14
Chimichangas and a Couple of Glocks (By: David H. Hendrickson)
2021
Go
15
Refried Beans and a Snub-Nosed .44 (By: Hugh Lessig)
2021
Go
16
Two Steak Taco Combos and a Pair of Sig Sauers (By: Neil S. Plakcy)
2021
Go
17
A Smith & Wesson with a Side of Chorizo (By: Andrew Welsh-Huggins)
2021
Go
18
Two Tofu Tacos, a Taurus TX22, a Taycan, and a Ton of Trouble (By: Alan Orloff)
2022
Go
19
Two Black Bean and Shrimp Quesadillas, and a Pink Ruger LCP (By: Joseph S. Walker)
2022
Go
20
A Handful of Chicles and a Custom Nine (By: C.W. Blackwell)
2022
Go
21
Two Shrimp Tacos and a .22 Ruger (By: Adam Meyer)
2022
Go
22
Nachos, a Stun Gun, and a Wedding Ring (By: Karen E. Olson)
2022
Go
23
No Food, No Drink, Just the Gun (By: Trey R. Barker)
2022
Go
Show All Books in this Series

List of P.I. Tales Double Feature Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Crimson Smile / The Path of Jackals: A P.I. Tales Double Feature (By: Michael Pool, Hunter Eden)
2021
Go
Show All Books in this Series

List of Chop Shop Crime Books in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top Chop Shop Crime books are The Cadillac Job, A Hunka Hunka Burning Rubber, and Run and Gun.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
The Cadillac Job (By: Stacy Woodson)
2024
Go
2
Run and Gun (By: Joseph S. Walker)
2024
Go
3
A Hunka Hunka Burning Rubber (By: Hugh Lessig)
2024
Go
4
Barracuda Backfire (By: Tom Milani)
2024
Go
5
Devil in the Rearview (By: Stephen D. Rogers)
2024
Go
6
Here Comes the Judge (By: James A. Hearn)
2024
Go
7
Slow Ride (By: Mark Thielman)
2025
Go
8
Coyote Run
2025
Go
9
Fast Cars and Dirty Diapers (By: Adam Meyer)
2025
Go
10
Loose Change from a Mini Cooper (By: Frank Zafiro)
2025
Go
11
Faster than a Speeding Bullitt Mustang (By: Chuck Brownman)
2025
Go
12
The Hellcat (By: William Dylan Powell)
2025
Go
Show All Books in this Series

List of Michael Bracken Anthologies in Publication Order

#ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Fedora
2001
Go
2
Hardbroiled
2003
Go
3
Fedora II
2003
Go
4
Small Crimes
2004
Go
5
Strange Bedfellows
2004
Go
6
Fedora III
2004
Go
7
Best Gay Romance 2010
2009
Go
8
Biker Boys: Gay Erotic Stories
2010
Go
9
Muscle Men
2010
Go
10
Boy Fun
2010
Go
11
Beautiful Boys: Gay Erotic Stories
2010
Go
12
Video Boys
2010
Go
13
Big Pulp Winter 2010: Ted Bundy's Beetle
2010
Go
14
I Like to Watch
2011
Go
15
Under the Desert Sky
2011
Go
16
When a Man Loves a Man
2011
Go
17
Brief Encounters
2011
Go
18
Stand By Your Man
2011
Go
19
Black Fire
2011
Go
20
Best of Both
2011
Go
21
Big Pulp Winter 2011: Interrogate My Heart Instead
2011
Go
22
Stud Poker
2012
Go
23
Cougars and Jackals: Experience Comes with Age
2012
Go
24
Cougar and Kitten
2012
Go
25
Boys in Bed
2012
Go
26
Restored to Love
2012
Go
27
Drill Me Sergeant: Military Erotica
2012
Go
28
Out of the Gutter 8
2012
Go
29
Best Gay Erotica 2013
2012
Go
30
Nasty Boys
2013
Go
31
Big Man on Campus
2013
Go
32
Bad Boys
2013
Go
33
High Octane Heroes
2013
Go
34
Ignite
2013
Go
35
Deadhead Miles
2013
Go
36
Cowboy Heat
2014
Go
37
Rookies
2014
Go
38
Haunted
2014
Go
39
And All Our Yesterdays
2015
Go
40
Shotgun Honey Presents: Locked and Loaded: Volume 3
2015
Go
41
Mystery Weekly Magazine: September 2015
2015
Go
42
Weird Menace Volume 2
2015
Go
43
Men in Love
2016
Go
44
Black Coffee
2016
Go
45
Mystery Weekly Magazine: July 2016
2016
Go
46
Mystery Weekly Magazine: Aug 2016
2016
Go
47
Big Pulp Annual 2016
2017
Go
48
Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea
2017
Go
49
Noir at the Salad Bar: Culinary Tales with a Bite
2017
Go
50
Pulp Adventures #27
2017
Go
51
Weirdbook #38
2018
Go
52
Malice Domestic 13: Mystery Most Geographical
2018
Go
53
Pulp Modern: Volume Two, Issue Three
2018
Go
54
Tough: Crime Stories
2018
Go
55
Shhhh... Murder!
2018
Go
56
EconoClash Review #3: Quality Cheap Thrills
2018
Go
57
Pulp Literature Winter 2019: Issue 21
2018
Go
58
Tough 2: Crime Stories
2019
Go
59
Black Cat Mystery Magazine #4
2019
Go
60
Black Mask 2019 Yearbook
2019
Go
61
A Murder of Crows
2019
Go
62
The Eyes of Texas
2019
Go
63
Seascape: The Best New England Crime Stories 2019
2019
Go
64
10
Crime Travel
2019
Go
65
Guns + Tacos Vol. 1
2020
Go
66
Guns + Tacos Vol. 2
2020
Go
67
Mid-Century Murder
2020
Go
68
The Beat of Black Wings
2020
Go
69
6.3
The Misadventures of Nero Wolfe
2020
Go
70
The Digest Enthusiast, Book 12
2020
Go
71
Black Cat Mystery Magazine #6
2020
Go
72
Thriller Magazine
2020
Go
73
Hoosier Noir: Two
2020
Go
74
Peace, Love, and Crime: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of the '60s
2020
Go
75
Mickey Finn Vol. 1: 21st Century Noir
2020
Go
76
Guns + Tacos Vol. 3
2021
Go
77
Guns + Tacos Vol. 4
2021
Go
78
The Great Filling Station Holdup
2021
Go
79
Unnerving Magazine #15
2021
Go
80
Jukes & Tonks: Crime Fiction Inspired by Music in the Dark and Suspect Choices
2021
Go
81
Only the Good Die Young
2021
Go
82
Mystery Weekly Magazine: May 2021
2021
Go
83
Black Cat Mystery Magazine #10
2021
Go
84
Mickey Finn Vol. 2: 21st Century Noir
2021
Go
85
Mickey Finn Vol. 3: 21st Century Noir
2022
Go
86
Guns + Tacos Vol. 6
2022
Go
87
Guns + Tacos Vol. 5
2022
Go
88
Groovy Gumshoes: Private Eyes in the Psychedelic Sixties
2022
Go
89
Malice Domestic: Mystery Most Diabolical
2022
Go
90
Black Cat Weekly #50
2022
Go
91
Black Cat Mystery Magazine #12
2022
Go
92
Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #31
2023
Go
93
More Groovy Gumshoes: Private Eyes in the Psychedelic Sixties
2023
Go
94
Guns + Tacos Vol. 8
2023
Go
95
Weren't Another Other Way to Be
2023
Go
96
Mystery Magazine: June 2023
2023
Go
97
Mickey Finn Vol. 4: 21st Century Noir
2023
Go
98
Murder, Neat
2024
Go
99
Notorious in North Texas: Metroplex Mysteries Volume III
2024
Go
100
Mystery Magazine: July 2024
2024
Go
101
Scattered, Smothered, Covered & Chunked: Crime Fiction Inspired by Waffle House
2024
Go
102
Janie's Got a Gun: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of Aerosmith
2024
Go
103
Crimeucopia: Great Googly Moo!
2024
Go
104
Mickey Finn Vol. 5: 21st Century Noir
2024
Go
105
Sleuths Just Wanna Have Fun: Private Eyes in the Materialistic Eighties
2025
Go
Show All Anthologies
Click to get new book alerts by Michael Bracken sent straight to your email.

Michael Bracken

Michael Bracken was born in Canton, Ohio, .

Michael Bracken is the author of 24 Short Stories/Novellas. The first short story published was In the Town of Dreams Unborn and Memories Dying, in 2000. The most recently published story was Little Spring which was released in 2022. There are no upcoming short stories.

Michael Bracken: Awards & Accolades

The following novels by Michael Bracken were nominated for these awards:

  • Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea: Anthony Award, Best Anthology / Collection (2018).
  • The Eyes of Texas: Anthony Award, Best Anthology / Collection (2020).
  • Crime Travel: Anthony Award, Best Anthology / Collection (2020).
  • The Beat of Black Wings: Anthony Award, Best Anthology / Collection (2021).
  • Disposable Women: Shamus Award, Best P.I. Short Story (2022).
  • Blindsided: Edgar Award, Best Short Story (2022).
  • Murder, Neat: Anthony Award, Best Anthology / Collection (2025).
  • Scattered, Smothered, Covered & Chunked: Crime Fiction Inspired by Waffle House: Anthony Award, Best Anthology / Collection (2025).

Related Authors

Fans of Michael Bracken also enjoy these authors:

  1. Stephen King, author of The Dark Tower Series.
  2. J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter Series.
  3. Harlan Coben, author of the Myron Bolitar Series.
  4. Michael Connelly, author of the Harry Bosch Series.
  5. Brad Thor, author of the Scot Harvath Series.

Michael Bracken: F.A.Q

Where was Michael Bracken Born?

Michael Bracken was born in Canton, Ohio, .

What was the first book Michael Bracken wrote?

The first book written by Michael Bracken was Deadly Campaign, published in 1994.

What was the most recent book Michael Bracken wrote?

Their most recently released work was Coyote Run (a short story) on February 1st, 2025.

What is the most popular book by Michael Bracken?

Based on the number of readers on Book Notification, the most popular Michael Bracken book is Blindsided. Here are their most popular books:
  1. Blindsided (7)
  2. Disposable Women (8)

Are there upcoming new books by Michael Bracken?

Michael Bracken does not have any upcoming books with a set publication date within the next few months at this time.

Click and we will notify you via e-mail when Michael Bracken next book gets announced.

How many books has Michael Bracken written?

Michael Bracken has written 39 books excluding contributions to anthologies. 1 book in the Men In Love and Lust, 6 Standalone Novels, 24 Short Stories/Novellas, 5 Short Story Collections, 2 books in the Guns + Tacos Series, 1 book in the Chop Shop Crime Series.

Have a Question?

Author Discussion

Subscribe
Notify of
guest

0 Comments
Newest
Oldest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments

Book Notification is an Amazon Associate. Book links to Amazon, eBay and other book stores are affiliate links, and we earn money from any qualifying purchases.

Welcome to Book Notification!

Are we missing any books or looking for an author that isn't on the site? Have any feedback or ideas that will enhance your experience? Contact us below.

To see what we are currently working on as well as some of our future plans, see our roadmap.
Quick Follow

Quickly follow any authors by searching their name in this box then clicking the +Follow button.

Monthly Contest
affiliate disclaimer

We are giving away 10 $25 USD gift cards. Every time you comment on an author page in the Author Discussion section at the bottom, you are entered into the sweepstakes. So get commenting! Winners announced in the next newsletter. Note: you must be a registered user of Book Notification. Click here to login or register.


Upcoming Books
May 19
Villain / Right Hand

Written by Natalie Zina Walschots

May 19
The Ballad of Falling Dragons

Written by Sarah A. Parker

May 19
Inferno

Written by Conn Iggulden

May 19
Dinghai Fusheng Records Vol. 3

Written by Fei Tian Ye Xiang

May 19
An Ordinary Sort of Evil

Written by Kelley Armstrong

Popular Authors:
Todays Most Followed Authors:
Navigation
All Authors
Awards
Book Clubs
Book News
Book Release Calendar
Reader’s Roulette
User Guide
About Us
Blog & Lists
Weekly Picks
Playlists
Quotes
Podcast
Care's Book Loot
Site Roadmap
Contact Us
Book Notification
Powered by  GDPR Cookie Compliance
Privacy Overview

This website uses a cookie so that you don't have to login on every visit. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs the function ofrecognising you when you return to our website and keeping you logged in.