Science fiction series in order—space opera, dystopian leaners, time travel messes, and everything in between. If you’re trying to avoid reading book five first, start here.
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The Hunger Games ignited a dystopian trend within publishing and captivated a generation of readers. With a fifth Hunger Games movie, the prequel, coming out in November 2023, maybe you’re eager to read The Hunger Games books in order for the first or fifteenth time.
However, if you’ve watched the movies first, it might be confusing to know where to …
If you choose to read Frank Herbert’s Dune books in order, know that you are committing to thousands of pages of science fiction. However, you will not regret making this decision.
Anyone who has read Dune will agree that the first volume is one of the best science fiction novels of all time.
The Dune series is one of the …
If you’re like me, you squealed with joy when Disney announced their newest Star Wars Book series: The High Republic. That joy quickly turned into confusion as dozens of books were released in varying age brackets. So what is the best High Republic reading order?
That’s what we’re here to answer.
The Old Republic has always been my favorite Star …
If you’ve ever tried to read the Star Wars books in order, you’ve probably hit the same wall: there are a lot of titles, they jump across wildly different time periods, and it’s not always obvious how they line up with the events you know from the movies.
This guide is a straight chronological timeline of the entire Star …
In compiling a list of the best Kurt Vonnegut books, the best resource exists: A snapshot of what Vonnegut himself thought, which doesn’t hold back. That’s because in 1981, in the introduction to the short story collection Palm Sunday, Vonnegut ranked all of his works up until that point.
Of course, since he continued to write after that, it is …
The Kurt Vonnegut books have become part of many high school English curriculums. For that reason, one or two Vonnegut titles may immediately come to mind when you think of his books, but he wrote so much more throughout his lifetime.
Below you will find everything that Vonnegut wrote during his career from novels, nonfiction books, short stories, and more. …
By looking at the earliest iterations of traveling through time to the modern interpretations, we’ve collected the best time travel books. These best books vary from classic middle grade to contemporary romance. Each book defies a single timeline and a single defining genre.
The following books all feature time travel as a foundational element to …
One of the greatest joys of reading is diving into a world where everything is different. Whether you have an interest in technological advancements or are looking for an incredible adventure, there’s a book for you on our list of the best science fiction books.
You’ll find a mix of dystopia, fantasy, and historical fiction on …
Warhammer 40,000 has a ridiculous amount of fiction, and it is easy to start in the wrong place. This list cuts through the noise with the best Warhammer 40k books to read first, the ones that make the setting click fast without needing a spreadsheet.
These are official Warhammer stories published under Black Library, a Games Workshop division, spanning everything …
I just rewatched the Ender’s Game movie for the second time, and it did what it always does: it made me want to go back to the books. The problem is, when I started looking at the Enderverse again, I realized I couldn’t even remember the best way to read the Ender’s Game books in order.
Maybe you’re in the …