Akashic Noir (Publication Order) is a 40-book series with 40 released primary works first released in 2003 with contributions by David Henry Sterry, Jill Eisenstadt, Shailly P. Agnihotri, K.J.A. Wishnia, Victoria Eng, Alan Gordon, Beverly Farley, Joe Guglielmelli, Glenville Lovell, Denis Hamill, Malachy McCourt, Maggie Estep, Mary Byrne, Tori Carrington, Megan Abbott, Liz Martínez, Lisa Allen-Agostini, Edward P. Jones, Ward Just, Jean Toomer, Roach Brown, Larry Neal, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, James Grady, Julian Mayfield, Marita Golden, Elizabeth Hand, Julian Mazor, Mustafa Ziyalan, Jessica J.J. Lutz, Marc Villard, Patrick Pécherot, Dominique Mainard, Chantal Pelletier, Didier Daeninckx, Jean-Bernard Pouy, Salim Bachi, Christophe Mercier, Jérôme Leroy, DOA, Laurent Martin, Hervé Prudon, Peter Maravelis, Karen Karbo, Bill Cameron, Ariel Gore, Floyd Skloot, Kimberly Warner-Cohen, Jonathan Selwood, Justin Hocking, Jess Walter, Monica Drake, Jamie S. Rich, Zoe Trope, Megan Kruse, Gigi Little, Dan DeWeese, Luciana Lopez, Chris A. Bolton, Patrick Millikin, Eugenio Aguirre, Eduardo Monteverde, Julia Rodríguez, Eduardo Antonia Parra, Bernardo Fernández "Bef", Óscar de la Borbolla, Rolo Díez, Victor Luiz González, F.G. Haghenbeck, Juan Hernández Luna, Myriam Laurini, Tom De Haven, Howard Owen, Tom Robbins, Laura Browder, Anne Thomas Soffee, Clint McCown, Clay McLeod Chapman, David L. Robbins, Dennis Danvers, Hermine Pinson, Brian Castleberry, Yazmina Beverly, X.C. Atkins, Meagan J. Saunders, Conrad Ashley Persons, Pir Rothenberg, Raymond Chandler, Joseph Hansen, William Campbell Gault, Jervey Tervalon, Yxta Maya Murray, Kate Braverman, Paul Cain, Leigh Brackett, James M. Cain, Chester Himes, Ross Macdonald, Naomi Hirahara, James Ellroy, Margaret Millar, Walter Mosley, Lawrence Maddox, Gerard Houarner, Richie Narvaez, Kimberly Roppolo, Leonard Schonberg, Melissa Yi, Mistina Bates, Jean Rae Baxter, Lawrence Block, David Cole, Reed Farrel Coleman, O'Neil De Noux, A.A. Hedge Coke, Joseph Bruchac, Anna Starobinets, Vyacheslav Kuritsyn, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Andrei Khusnutdinov, Alexander Anuchkin, Vladimir Tuchkov, Igor Zotov, Gleb Shulpyakov, Maxim Maximov, Irina Denezhkina, Sergei Samsonov, Dmitry Kosyrev, Alexei Evdokimov, Sergei Kuznetsov, James Crumley, Luis Alberto Urrea, Joe R. Lansdale, Milton T. Burton, Sarah Cortez, and Jessica Powers.