Arthur C. Clarke Reading Order

3 books (2003–2007)

Start with Time's Eye and read in order.

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

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

3 books (1956–1964)

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

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

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 🇺🇸
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 🇺🇸
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 🇺🇸
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 🇺🇸
5	Isaac Asimov's Aliens(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
6	Isaac Asimov's Robots(By: Isaac Asimov,Rob Chilson) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
7	Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite(By: Isaac Asimov,John M. Ford) 1993Buy 🇺🇸
8	Isaac Asimov's War(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1993Buy 🇺🇸
9	Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
10	Isaac Asimov's Ghosts(By: Isaac Asimov,Terry Bisson) 1995Buy 🇺🇸
11	Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1995Buy 🇺🇸
12	Isaac Asimov's Christmas(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
13	Isaac Asimov's Camelot(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois,Eleanor Arnason) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
14	Isaac Asimov's Detectives(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
15	Isaac Asimov's Solar System(By: Gardner Dozois) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
16	Isaac Asimov's Werewolves(By: Isaac Asimov,Suzy McKee Charnas,Gardner Dozois) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
17	Isaac Asimov's Utopias(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
18	Isaac Asimov's Father Day(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
19	Isaac Asimov's Halloween(By: Isaac Asimov) 2001Buy 🇺🇸

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

16 books (1950–2020)

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

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

7 books (1973–2000)

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

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

2 books (1946–1955)

Start with Rescue Party and read in order.

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

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

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 🇺🇸
2	2010: Odyssey Two 1982Buy 🇺🇸
3	2061: Odyssey Three 1987Buy 🇺🇸
4	3001: The Final Odyssey 1997Buy 🇺🇸

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