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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It can be surprisingly hard to find a long-running SFF series that’s actually finished, which is one reason reading The Expanse books in order is so appealing. While plenty of big-name science fiction and fantasy series are still ongoing, this one gives readers something better: a complete story from beginning to end.
That’s a big part of what makes The …
Looking for Red Rising books in order? Start with the main novels in publication order: Red Rising, Golden Son, Morning Star, Iron Gold, Dark Age, and Light Bringer. Red God is still TBA, and Pierce Brown has also released optional Red Rising universe material through the Sons of Ares comics and The Book …
Do you remember The Hunger Games craze? When everyone fought over the famous love triangle, and fans of the trilogy eagerly awaited the next film? Well, the fandom and craze is experiencing a resurgence, so it might be time to rewatch The Hunger Games movies in order.
The Hunger Games follows Katniss Everdeen, who voluntarily takes her younger sister’s place …
The Hunger Games ignited a dystopian trend within publishing and captivated a generation of readers. Whether you’re eager to read The Hunger Games books in order for the first or fifteenth time, it can still be confusing to know where to begin, especially if you’ve watched the movies first.
That’s partly because the original Hunger Games books are a trilogy, …
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 …
Looking for the best High Republic reading order? I’d start with release order, beginning with Light of the Jedi. That’s the cleanest way to follow this era because Star Wars: The High Republic unfolds across adult novels, young adult books, middle grade books, children’s books, audio dramas, scripts, and short-story collections.
This is my books-first High Republic guide. …
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 …