Easy Rawlins books in order
Easy Rawlins is a series of 5 books by Walter Mosley: 1,335 pages, about 24 hours of reading. Shown in the numbered order.
- 5
- books
- 1,335
- pages
- 24 hours
- to read them all
- 49 days
- at 30 minutes a day
Devil in a Blue Dress 4.0 h 2 
A Red Death 5.1 h 3 
White Butterfly 5.4 h 4 
Black Betty 6.3 h 6 
Gone Fishin' 3.7 h Bar height shows length.
Not listed here yet: book 5.
The books
- 1
Devil in a Blue Dress 1990 4.0 h
Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins has few illusions about the world--at least not about the world of a young black veteran in the late 1940s in Southern California.
- 2
A Red Death 1991 5.1 h
It's 1953 in Red-baiting, blacklisting Los Angeles, a moral tar pit ready to swallow Easy Rawlins.
- 3
White Butterfly 1992 5.4 h
The police don't show up on Easy Rawlins's doorstep until the third girl dies.
- 4
Black Betty 1994 6.3 h
- 6
Gone Fishin' 1997 3.7 h
In the beginning...there was Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins and Raymond "Mouse" Alexander -- two young men setting out in life, hitting the road in a "borrowed" '36 Ford headed for…
How much is left
| After book 1, Devil in a Blue Dress | about 20 hours left |
| After book 2, A Red Death | about 15 hours left |
| After book 3, White Butterfly | about 10 hours left |
| After book 4, Black Betty | about 4 hours left |
Reading the whole series
About 24 hours 29 minutes
All 5 books listed here, 1,335 pages. Estimated at 250 words a minute.
49 days (about 7 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.