Adam Roberts Reading Order

25 books (1998–2023)

Start with Murder on Route 66, the first of 25 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Murder on Route 66 1998Buy 🇺🇸
2	Infinities 2002Buy 🇺🇸
3	Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection 2003Buy 🇺🇸
4	Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology 2006Buy 🇺🇸
5	Year's Best SF 11 2006Buy 🇺🇸
6	Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition 2007Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF 2009Buy 🇺🇸
8	Catastrophia 2010Buy 🇺🇸
9	Fables from the Fountain 2011Buy 🇺🇸
10	Pandemonium: Stories of the Smoke 2012Buy 🇺🇸
11	Best New SF 26 2013Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Time Traveler's Almanac 2013Buy 🇺🇸
13	Irregularity 2014Buy 🇺🇸
14	Noir 2014Buy 🇺🇸
15	Paradox: Stories Inspired by the Fermi Paradox 2014Buy 🇺🇸
16	Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder 2014Buy 🇺🇸
17	Solaris Rising 3 2014Buy 🇺🇸
18	Crises and Conflicts 2016Buy 🇺🇸
19	Shoreline of Infinity 8½: Edinburgh International Book Festival Special Edition 2017Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF Volume 3 2017Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2017 2017Buy 🇺🇸
22	The Best of British Fantasy 2018 2019Buy 🇺🇸
23	We'll Never Have Paris 2019Buy 🇺🇸
24	No More Heroes 2021Buy 🇺🇸
25	Reports from the Deep End 2023Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2003–2004)

Start with The Soddit and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Soddit 2003Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Sellamillion 2004Buy 🇺🇸

12 books (2012–2016)

Start with Cold Grey Stones / Colder Greyer Stones(By: Tanith Lee), the first of 12 books in the Imaginings series.

#	Title
1	Cold Grey Stones / Colder Greyer Stones(By: Tanith Lee) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	Last and First Contacts(By: Stephen Baxter) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
3	Objects in Dreams(By: Lisa Tuttle) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
4	Stories from the Northern Road(By: Tony Ballantyne) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
5	Feast and Famine(By: Adrian Tchaikovsky) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
6	Microcosmos(By: Nina Allan) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
7	Twember(By: Steve Rasnic Tem) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
8	Strange Visitors(By: Eric Brown) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
9	Saint Rebor 2015Buy 🇺🇸
10	Sleeps With Angels(By: Dave Hutchinson) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Light Warden(By: Liz Williams) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
12	Mementoes(By: Keith Brooke) 2016Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2005–2020)

Start with The History of Science Fiction, the first of 6 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	The History of Science Fiction 2005Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Riddles of the Hobbit 2013Buy 🇺🇸
3	Get Started in: Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy 2014Buy 🇺🇸
4	Landor's Cleanness: A Study of Walter Savage Landor 2014Buy 🇺🇸
5	Sibilant Fricative: Essays and Reviews 2014Buy 🇺🇸
6	It's the End of the World: But What Are We Really Afraid Of? 2020Buy 🇺🇸

49 books (2009–2024)

Start with The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction(With: Andrew Butler,Mark Bould,Sherryl Vint), the first of 49 books in the Routledge Literature Companions series.

9 books (2002–2024)

Start with Park Polar, the first of 9 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	Park Polar 2002Buy 🇺🇸
2	Jupiter Magnified 2003Buy 🇺🇸
3	Anticopernicus 2011Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Lake Boy 2018Buy 🇺🇸
5	Wodwo Vergil 2018Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Man Who Would Be Kling 2019Buy 🇺🇸
7	Stealing For The Sky 2022Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Midas Rain 2023Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Swoon 2024Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2004–2015)

Start with Swiftly: Stories That Never Were and Might Never Be and read in order.

#	Title
1	Swiftly: Stories That Never Were and Might Never Be 2004Buy 🇺🇸
2	Adam Robots 2013Buy 🇺🇸
3	Rave and Let Die: The SF and Fantasy of 2014 2015Buy 🇺🇸

38 books (2003–2015)

Start with Seven Seasons of Buffy(By: Scott Westerfeld,Charlaine Harris,Chelsea Quinn Yarbro,Kevin Andrew Murphy,Christie Golden,Sherrilyn Kenyon,Nancy Holder,Lawrence Watt-Evans,David Brin,Jacqueline Lichtenberg,Jean Lorrah,Laura Resnick,Sarah Zettel,Nancy Kilpatrick,Michelle West,Glenn Yeffeth,Margaret L. Carter,Peg Aloi,Marguerite Krause,Jennifer Crusie,Carla Montgomery), the first of 38 books in the Smart Pop series.

#	Title
1	Seven Seasons of Buffy(By: Scott Westerfeld,Charlaine Harris,Chelsea Quinn Yarbro,Kevin Andrew Murphy,Christie Golden,Sherrilyn Kenyon,Nancy Holder,Lawrence Watt-Evans,David Brin,Jacqueline Lichtenberg,Jean Lorrah,Laura Resnick,Sarah Zettel,Nancy Kilpatrick,Michelle West,Glenn Yeffeth,Margaret L. Carter,Peg Aloi,Marguerite Krause,Jennifer Crusie,Carla Montgomery) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
2	Taking the Red Pill(By: Glenn Yeffeth) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
3	Five Seasons of Angel(By: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro,Peter S. Beagle,Laura Anne Gilman,Sherrilyn Kenyon,Nancy Holder,Jacqueline Lichtenberg,Jean Lorrah,Josepha Sherman,Laura Resnick,Candace Havens,Glenn Yeffeth,Michelle Sagara,Steven Harper,Amy Berner,Marguerite Krause,Abbie Bernstein,Jennifer Crusie,Don DeBrandt,K. Stoddard Hayes,Joy Davidson,Don Kerns) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
4	Stepping through the Stargate(By: P.N. Elrod,Roxanne Conrad) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
5	Alias Assumed(By: Tracy S. Morris) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
6	Farscape Forever! Sex, Drugs and Killer Muppets(By: Glenn Yeffeth) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
7	Finding Serenity(By: Robert Brian Taylor) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
8	Flirting With Pride And Prejudice(By: Glenn Yeffeth,Jennifer Crusie) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
9	King Kong Is Back! An Unauthorized Look at One Humongous Ape!(By: David Brin) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
10	Navigating the Golden Compass(By: Glenn Yeffeth) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
11	Revisiting Narnia(By: Shanna Caughey) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Anthology at the End of the Universe 2005Buy 🇺🇸
13	The War of the Worlds(By: Connie Willis,Mercedes Lackey,H.G. Wells,Mike Resnick,Stephen Baxter,Lawrence Watt-Evans) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
14	Totally Charmed(By: Maggie Shayne,Rebecca York,Jody Lynn Nye,Evelyn Vaughn,Tanya Huff,Vera Nazarian,Jennifer Crusie) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
15	Boarding the Enterprise(By: Robert J. Sawyer,David Gerrold) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
16	Getting Lost(By: Orson Scott Card) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
17	Investigating CSI(By: Leah Wilson,Donn Cortez) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
18	So Say We All(By: Peter B. Lloyd,Richard Hatch) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Battle for Azeroth(By: Jody Lynn Nye,Justina Robson,Doranna Durgin,Bill Fawcett,Mel White,James John Bell,James M. Ward,Scott Cuthbertson,Nancy Berman,Jerry Jackson,Chris McCubbin,Maressa Hecht Orzack,Nancy Durgin) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Man from Krypton(By: Glenn Yeffeth) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Unauthorized X-Men(By: Leah Wilson,Len Wein) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
22	This Is Chick-Lit(By: Lauren Baratz-Logsted) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
23	Welcome to Wisteria Lane(By: Leah Wilson) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
24	Coffee at Luke's(By: Leah Wilson,Jennifer Crusie) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
25	Grey's Anatomy 101(By: Leah Wilson) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
26	Halo Effect(By: Glenn Yeffeth,Jennifer Thomason) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
27	House Unauthorized(By: Leah Wilson) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
28	Neptune Noir(By: Rob Thomas) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
29	Perfectly Plum(By: Leah Wilson) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
30	Serenity Found(By: Orson Scott Card,Jacob Clifton,Michael Marano,Jane Espenson,Natalie Haynes,Nathan Fillion) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
31	Webslinger(By: Leah Wilson,Gerry Conway) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
32	Batman Unauthorized(By: Leah Wilson) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
33	Secrets of the Dragon Riders(By: James A. Owen) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
34	In the Hunt(By: Leah Wilson) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
35	James Bond in the 21st Century(By: Leah Wilson,Glenn Yeffeth) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
36	A Taste of True Blood(By: Leah Wilson) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
37	Ardeur(By: Laurell K. Hamilton) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
38	You Do Not Talk About Fight Club(By: Chuck Palahniuk,Read Mercer Schuchardt) 2015Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2011–2013)

Start with Solaris Rising and read in order.

#	Title
1	Solaris Rising 2011Buy 🇺🇸
2	Solaris Rising 1.5 2012Buy 🇺🇸
3	Solaris Rising 2(By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch,Paul Cornell,Liz Williams,James Lovegrove,Robert Reed,Eugie Foster,Nancy Kress,Nick Harkaway,Norman Spinrad,Vandana Singh,Kim Lakin-Smith,Ian Whates,Paul Cornell, Jr.,Kay Kenyon,Adrian Tchaikovsky,Martin Sketchley,Allan Steele) 2013Buy 🇺🇸

26 books (2000–2024)

Start with Salt, the first of 26 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Salt 2000Buy 🇺🇸
2	On 2001Buy 🇺🇸
3	Stone 2002Buy 🇺🇸
4	Polystom: Two Universes in One Reality 2003Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Snow 2004Buy 🇺🇸
6	Gradisil 2006Buy 🇺🇸
7	Land of the Headless 2007Buy 🇺🇸
8	Splinter 2007Buy 🇺🇸
9	Swiftly 2008Buy 🇺🇸
10	I Am Scrooge: A Zombie Story for Christmas(With: Zom Leech) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
11	Yellow Blue Tibia 2009Buy 🇺🇸
12	New Model Army 2010Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo 2010Buy 🇺🇸
14	By Light Alone 2011Buy 🇺🇸
15	Jack Glass 2012Buy 🇺🇸
16	Bête 2014Buy 🇺🇸
17	Twenty Trillion Leagues Under The Sea 2014Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Thing Itself 2015Buy 🇺🇸
19	Bethany 2016Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Compelled 2020Buy 🇺🇸
21	Middlemarch: Epigraphs and Mirrors 2021Buy 🇺🇸
22	Purgatory Mount 2021Buy 🇺🇸
23	The This 2022Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate 2023Buy 🇺🇸
25	High 2024Buy 🇺🇸
26	Lake of Darkness 2024Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2018–2023)

Start with Shelter(By: Dave Hutchinson) and read in order.

#	Title
1	Shelter(By: Dave Hutchinson) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
2	Haven 2022Buy 🇺🇸
3	Sanctuary(By: Dave Hutchinson) 2023Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2017–2018)

Start with The Real-Town Murders and read in order.

18 books (1996–2013)

Start with Year's Best SF, the first of 18 books in the Year's Best SF Anthology series.

#	Title
1	Year's Best SF 1996Buy 🇺🇸
2	Year's Best SF 2 1997Buy 🇺🇸
3	Year's Best SF 3 1998Buy 🇺🇸
4	Year's Best SF 4 1999Buy 🇺🇸
5	Year's Best SF 5 2000Buy 🇺🇸
6	Year's Best SF 6 2001Buy 🇺🇸
7	Year's Best SF 7 2002Buy 🇺🇸
8	Year's Best SF 8 2003Buy 🇺🇸
9	Year's Best SF 9 2004Buy 🇺🇸
10	Year's Best SF 10 2005Buy 🇺🇸
11	Year's Best SF 11 2006Buy 🇺🇸
12	Year's Best SF 12 2007Buy 🇺🇸
13	Year's Best SF 13 2008Buy 🇺🇸
14	Year's Best SF 14 2009Buy 🇺🇸
15	Year's Best SF 15 2010Buy 🇺🇸
16	Year's Best SF 16 2011Buy 🇺🇸
17	Year's Best SF 17 2012Buy 🇺🇸
18	Year's Best SF 18 2013Buy 🇺🇸