Arthur C. Clarke Reading Order

3 books (2003–2007)

Start with Time's Eye and read in order.

#	Title
1	Time's Eye 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Sunstorm 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Firstborn 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

52 books (1955–2019)

Start with Star Science Fiction Stories 3, the first of 50 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Star Science Fiction Stories 3 1955Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Galaxy Science Fiction, September 1958 1958Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Great Tales of Action and Adventure 1958Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	50 Short Science Fiction Tales 1963Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Novelets of Science Fiction 1963Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Bedside Playboy 1963Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Worlds to Come: New Science Fiction Adventures 1967Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Futures Unlimited 1969Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Tales of Time and Space 1969Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Alpha 3 1972Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Futurists 1972Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Galaxy Science Fiction - October 1973 1973Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Other Dimensions 1974Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow... 1974Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Aliens: 3 Novellas 1977Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	The Best of British SF 1 1977Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	The Best of British SF 2 1977Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	They Came from Outer Space: 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales That Became Major Motion Pictures 1979Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels 1980Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction / Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century 1980Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Three: Nebula Winners 1965-1969 1981Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Science Fiction A to Z 1982Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Space Odyssey 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Fourth Planet from the Sun 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	Great Science Fiction Stories by the World's Greatest Scientists 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	Battlefields Beyond Tomorrow 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	Science Fiction Stories 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	Drabble II: Double Century 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	Christmas Stars 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	The Ultimate Alien 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	Bangs & Whimpers 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	The Young Oxford Book of Aliens 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	Explorers 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	The Hard SF Renaissance 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
36	The Colours of Infinity: The Beauty, The Power and the Sense of Fractals 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
37	Galileo's Children 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
38	The World Turned Upside Down 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
39	Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
40	Liftport - The Space Elevator: Opening Space to Everyone 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
41	From the Pen of Paul: The Fantastic Images of Frank R. Paul 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
42	The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
43	The End of the World: Stories of the Apocalypse 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
44	The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
45	Bug-Eyed Monsters & Bimbos 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
46	In Space No One Can Hear You Scream 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
47	The Sixth Science Fiction Megapack 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
48	The Baen Big Book of Monsters 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
49	The Madness of Cthulhu 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
50	The Ninth Science Fiction Megapack 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
51	Grave Predictions 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
52	Infinite Stars 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1956–1964)

Start with The Coast of the Coral and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Coast of the Coral 1956Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Reefs of Taprobane 1956Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Treasure of the Great Reef 1964Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

19 books (1980–2001)

Start with Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction(By: Isaac Asimov,Tanith Lee,Phyllis Eisenstein,Gene Wolfe,Barry B. Longyear,John M. Ford,Arnie Bateman,Alan Dean Foster,Martin Gardner,Randall Garrett,Rob Chilson,Ted Reynolds,George Scithers,Richard S. McEnroe,Jeff Duntemann,R.N. Bracewell,K.W. MacAnn,G. Richard Bozarth), the first of 19 books in the Isaac Asimov's Anthology series.

#	Title
1	Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction(By: Isaac Asimov,Tanith Lee,Phyllis Eisenstein,Gene Wolfe,Barry B. Longyear,John M. Ford,Arnie Bateman,Alan Dean Foster,Martin Gardner,Randall Garrett,Rob Chilson,Ted Reynolds,George Scithers,Richard S. McEnroe,Jeff Duntemann,R.N. Bracewell,K.W. MacAnn,G. Richard Bozarth) 1980Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far(By: Isaac Asimov,Frederik Pohl,Carter Scholz,Barry B. Longyear,John M. Ford,Jack Williamson,Darrell Schweitzer,John Brunner,Juleen Brantingham,Martin Gardner,Richard Wilson,Milton A. Rothman,Elizabeth Anne Hull,Sharon Webb,Somtow Sucharitkul,Lee Weinstein,Ted Reynolds,George Scithers,F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre,William Tuning,Francis E. Izzo,Paul David Novitski,Lee Russell,Seth S. Horowitz,Tol E. Rant,S. Dale,Julie Flores,Tony Sarowitz) 1981Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own(By: Connie Willis,Ursula K. Le Guin,Pat Cadigan,Joan D. Vinge,Tanith Lee,Pamela Sargent,Lee Killough,Mary Gentle,Mildred Downey Broxon,Shawna McCarthy,Sharon Webb,Leigh Kennedy,Stephanie A. Smith,Cherie Wilkerson,Julie Stevens,Sydney J. Van Scyoc,Cyn Mason,P.A. Kagan,P.J. MacQuarrie,Janet O. Jeppson,Beverly Grant,Hope Athearn) 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Isaac Asimov's Fantasy!(By: Connie Willis,George R.R. Martin,Ron Goulart,John Kessel,George Alec Effinger,Robert Thurston,Tanith Lee,Lucius Shepard,Scott Baker,Lillian Carl,Juleen Brantingham,Lee Killough,Ian McDowell,Daphne Castell,Sharon N. Farber,Richard Kearns,Shawna McCarthy,Leigh Kennedy,Gregg Keizer,Kristi Olesen) 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Isaac Asimov's Aliens(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Isaac Asimov's Robots(By: Isaac Asimov,Rob Chilson) 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite(By: Isaac Asimov,John M. Ford) 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Isaac Asimov's War(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Isaac Asimov's Ghosts(By: Isaac Asimov,Terry Bisson) 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Isaac Asimov's Christmas(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Isaac Asimov's Camelot(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois,Eleanor Arnason) 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Isaac Asimov's Detectives(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Isaac Asimov's Solar System(By: Gardner Dozois) 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Isaac Asimov's Werewolves(By: Isaac Asimov,Suzy McKee Charnas,Gardner Dozois) 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Isaac Asimov's Utopias(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Isaac Asimov's Father Day(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Isaac Asimov's Halloween(By: Isaac Asimov) 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

6 books (1964–1981)

Start with Machines(By: Robert O'Brien), the first of 6 books in the Life Science Library series.

#	Title
1	Machines(By: Robert O'Brien) 1964Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Man And Space 1964Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Body(By: Alan E. Nourse) 1964Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Ships(By: Robert O'Brien) 1965Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Weather(By: Robert O'Brien,Philip D. Thompson) 1965Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Engineer(By: Time-Life Books,C.C. Furnas,Joe McCarthy) 1981Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

16 books (1950–2020)

Start with Interplanetary Flight, the first of 16 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	Interplanetary Flight 1950Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Exploration of Space 1951Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Boy Beneath the Sea 1958Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Voice Across The Sea 1958Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Profiles of the Future 1962Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Voices from the Sky 1966Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Promise of Space 1968Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Into Space(With: Robert Silverberg) 1971Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Beyond Jupiter: The Worlds of Tomorrow 1972Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	The View from Serendip 1977Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	1984: Spring - A Choice of Futures 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Astounding Days 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	How the World Was One 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds! 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	From Narnia To Space Odyssey(With: C.S. Lewis) 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	The Exploration of the Moon 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

7 books (1973–2000)

Start with Rendezvous with Rama, the first of 7 books in the Rama series.

#	Title
1	Rendezvous with Rama 1973Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Rama II(With: Gentry Lee) 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Garden of Rama(With: Gentry Lee) 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Rama Revealed(With: Gentry Lee) 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Bright Messengers(By: Gentry Lee) 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Double Full Moon Night(By: Gentry Lee) 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Tranquility Wars(By: Gentry Lee) 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (1946–1955)

Start with Rescue Party and read in order.

#	Title
1	Rescue Party 1946Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Star / Star of Bethlehem 1955Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

14 books (1938–2004)

Start with The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke, the first of 14 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke 1938Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Sentinel 1951Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Across the Sea of Stars 1953Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Reach for Tomorrow 1956Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Tales From The White Hart 1957Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Tales of Ten Worlds 1962Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Nine Billion Names of God 1967Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Expedition to Earth 1968Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Lion Of Comarre 1968Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Of Time and Stars 1972Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Wind From The Sun 1972Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	A Meeting With Medusa 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Tales from Planet Earth 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	The Shining Ones 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

4 books (1968–1997)

Start with 2001: A Space Odyssey, the first of 4 books in the Space Odyssey series.

#	Title
1	2001: A Space Odyssey 1968Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	2010: Odyssey Two 1982Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	2061: Odyssey Three 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	3001: The Final Odyssey 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

26 books (1948–2008)

Start with Against the Fall of Night, the first of 26 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Against the Fall of Night 1948Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Prelude to Space 1950Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Sands of Mars 1951Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Islands in the Sky 1952Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Childhood's End 1953Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Earthlight 1955Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	City and the Stars 1956Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Deep Range 1957Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Other Side of the Sky 1958Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	A Fall of Moondust 1961Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Dolphin Island 1963Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Glide Path 1963Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	The Lost Worlds Of 2001 1971Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Report on Planet Three 1972Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Imperial Earth 1975Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	The Fountains of Paradise 1979Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	July 20, 2019 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	The Songs of Distant Earth 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Cradle(With: Gentry Lee) 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Beyond the Fall of Night(With: Gregory Benford) 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	The Ghost from the Grand Banks 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	The Hammer of God 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Richter 10(With: Mike McQuay) 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	The Trigger 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	The Light of Other Days(With: Stephen Baxter) 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	The Last Theorem(With: Frederik Pohl) 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (2014–2015)

Start with The Madness of Cthulhu(With: Robert Silverberg,Harry Turtledove,John Shirley,S.T. Joshi,Caitlín R. Kiernan) and read in order.