Charles De Lint Reading Order

59 books (1986–2018)

Start with Borderland, the first of 59 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Borderland 1986Buy 🇺🇸
2	Dragons & Dreams 1986Buy 🇺🇸
3	Demons & Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Horror 1 1988Buy 🇺🇸
4	First Annual Collection 1988Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection 1989Buy 🇺🇸
6	Third Annual Collection 1989Buy 🇺🇸
7	Drabble II: Double Century 1990Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Best Fantasy Stories of the Year, 1989 1990Buy 🇺🇸
9	Cafe Purgatorium 1991Buy 🇺🇸
10	Fourth Annual Collection 1991Buy 🇺🇸
11	Life on the Border 1991Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fourth Annual Collection 1991Buy 🇺🇸
13	Asimov's Science Fiction, Mid-December 1992 1992Buy 🇺🇸
14	Fifth Annual Collection 1992Buy 🇺🇸
15	A Wizard's Dozen 1993Buy 🇺🇸
16	Christmas Forever 1993Buy 🇺🇸
17	Snow White, Blood Red 1993Buy 🇺🇸
18	Temporary Walls 1993Buy 🇺🇸
19	Love in Vein 1994Buy 🇺🇸
20	Northern Stars 1994Buy 🇺🇸
21	Seventh Annual Collection 1994Buy 🇺🇸
22	Excalibur 1995Buy 🇺🇸
23	Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Tenth Annual Collection 1996Buy 🇺🇸
24	Eleventh Annual Collection 1998Buy 🇺🇸
25	The Crow: Shattered Lives and Broken Dreams 1998Buy 🇺🇸
26	What If...? 1998Buy 🇺🇸
27	Black Heart, Ivory Bones 2000Buy 🇺🇸
28	Mr. Simonelli or the Fairy Widower 2000Buy 🇺🇸
29	Fourteenth Annual Collection 2001Buy 🇺🇸
30	Meditations on Middle-Earth 2001Buy 🇺🇸
31	Tails of Wonder and Imagination 2001Buy 🇺🇸
32	Fifteenth Annual Collection 2002Buy 🇺🇸
33	Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores 2002Buy 🇺🇸
34	The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest 2002Buy 🇺🇸
35	New Magics 2004Buy 🇺🇸
36	The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm 2004Buy 🇺🇸
37	Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection 2004Buy 🇺🇸
38	Firebirds Rising 2005Buy 🇺🇸
39	Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2005 2005Buy 🇺🇸
40	Dreams and Visions 2006Buy 🇺🇸
41	Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection 2006Buy 🇺🇸
42	The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales 2007Buy 🇺🇸
43	TwentiethAnnual Collection 2007Buy 🇺🇸
44	Ravens in the Library 2009Buy 🇺🇸
45	Curse of the Full Moon: A Werewolf Anthology 2010Buy 🇺🇸
46	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May/June 2010 2010Buy 🇺🇸
47	Happily Ever After 2011Buy 🇺🇸
48	The Mammoth Book of Angels and Demons 2011Buy 🇺🇸
49	Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August 2012 2012Buy 🇺🇸
50	Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2012 2012Buy 🇺🇸
51	Obsession: Tales of Irresistible Desire 2012Buy 🇺🇸
52	Protectors: Stories to Benefit PROTECT 2012Buy 🇺🇸
53	Rock On: The Greatest Hits of Science Fiction & Fantasy 2012Buy 🇺🇸
54	Season of Wonder 2012Buy 🇺🇸
55	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition 2012Buy 🇺🇸
56	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction November/December 2013 2013Buy 🇺🇸
57	Woman: An Anthology 2014Buy 🇺🇸
58	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May/June 2016 2016Buy 🇺🇸
59	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction July/August 2018 2018Buy 🇺🇸

13 books (1989–1991)

Start with Daily Voices(By: Lisa Goldstein), the first of 13 books in the Author's Choice Monthly series.

#	Title
1	Daily Voices(By: Lisa Goldstein) 1989Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Old Funny Stuff(By: George Alec Effinger) 1989Buy 🇺🇸
3	Heroines(By: James Patrick Kelly) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
4	Neon Twilight(By: Edward Bryant) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
5	Peripheral Vision(By: Karen Joy Fowler) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
6	Swatting at the Cosmos(By: James K. Morrow) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
7	Tales from a Vanished Country(By: Elizabeth Lynn) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
8	True Minds(By: Spider Robinson) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
9	Hedgework & Guessery 1991Buy 🇺🇸
10	It's Been Fun(By: Esther M. Friesner) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
11	Nine Hard Questions About the Nature of the Universe(By: Lewis Shiner) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
12	Stories by Mama Lansdales Youngest Boy(By: Joe R. Lansdale) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
13	Unthreatened by the Morning Light(By: Karl Edward Wagner) 1991Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1994–1994)

Start with Something Rich and Strange(By: Patricia A. McKillip,Brian Froud) and read in order.

#	Title
1	Something Rich and Strange(By: Patricia A. McKillip,Brian Froud) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Wild Wood(With: Brian Froud) 1994Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1985–1990)

Start with The Harp of the Grey Rose and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Harp of the Grey Rose 1985Buy 🇺🇸
2	Ghosts of Wind and Shadow 1990Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2005–2005)

#	Title
1	This Moment 2005Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (1990–1997)

Start with Letters from Atlantis(By: Robert Silverberg), the first of 6 books in the Dragonflight series.

#	Title
1	Letters from Atlantis(By: Robert Silverberg) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Dreaming Place 1990Buy 🇺🇸
3	Dragon's Plunder(By: Brad Strickland) 1992Buy 🇺🇸
4	Wishing Season(By: Esther M. Friesner) 1993Buy 🇺🇸
5	Born of Elven Blood(By: Kevin J. Anderson,John Gregory Betancourt) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
6	Monet's Ghost(By: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro) 1997Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1987–1990)

Start with Jack, the Giant Killer and read in order.

#	Title
1	Jack, the Giant Killer 1987Buy 🇺🇸
2	Drink Down the Moon 1990Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2022–2025)

Start with Juniper Wiles and the Ghost Girls and read in order.

5 books (1984–1992)

Start with Moonheart, the first of 5 books in the Moonheart series.

#	Title
1	Moonheart 1984Buy 🇺🇸
2	Ascian in Rose 1987Buy 🇺🇸
3	Westlin Wind 1989Buy 🇺🇸
4	Ghostwood 1990Buy 🇺🇸
5	Spiritwalk 1992Buy 🇺🇸

27 books (1990–2022)

Start with The Dreaming Place, the first of 27 books in the Newford series.

#	Title
1	The Dreaming Place 1990Buy 🇺🇸
2	Paperjack 1991Buy 🇺🇸
3	Dreams Underfoot 1993Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Wishing Well 1993Buy 🇺🇸
5	Memory and Dream 1994Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Ivory and the Horn 1995Buy 🇺🇸
7	Trader 1997Buy 🇺🇸
8	Moonlight and Vines 1998Buy 🇺🇸
9	Someplace to Be Flying 1998Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Bone Woman 1999Buy 🇺🇸
11	Forests of the Heart 2000Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Onion Girl 2001Buy 🇺🇸
13	Seven Wild Sisters(By: Charles Vess) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
14	Tapping the Dream Tree(By: Charles Vess) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
15	Spirits in the Wires 2003Buy 🇺🇸
16	Medicine Road(By: Charles Vess) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Blue Girl 2004Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Hour Before Dawn 2005Buy 🇺🇸
19	Widdershins 2006Buy 🇺🇸
20	Little Grrl Lost 2007Buy 🇺🇸
21	Promises to Keep 2007Buy 🇺🇸
22	Dingo 2008Buy 🇺🇸
23	Muse and Reverie 2009Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Cats of Tanglewood Forest 2013Buy 🇺🇸
25	Newford Stories: Crow Girls 2015Buy 🇺🇸
26	Juniper Wiles 2021Buy 🇺🇸
27	Juniper Wiles and the Ghost Girls 2022Buy 🇺🇸

9 books (1988–2017)

Start with Philip José Farmer's The Dungeon(By: Richard A. Lupoff), the first of 9 books in the Philip Jose Farmer's The Dungeon series.

#	Title
1	Philip José Farmer's The Dungeon(By: Richard A. Lupoff) 1988Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Black Tower(By: Richard A. Lupoff) 1988Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Lake of Fire(By: Robin Wayne Bailey) 1989Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Valley of Thunder 1989Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Final Battle(By: Richard A. Lupoff) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Hidden City 1990Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Dungeon(By: Philip Jose Farmer) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Dark Abyss(By: Bruce Coville) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
9	Philip José Farmer's The Dungeon Vol. 6, The Final Battle(By: Richard A. Lupoff) 2017Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2003–2003)

#	Title
1	A Circle of Cats 2003Buy 🇺🇸

24 books (1989–2019)

Start with Berlin, the first of 24 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	Berlin 1989Buy 🇺🇸
2	Timeskip 1989Buy 🇺🇸
3	Death Leaves an Echo 1991Buy 🇺🇸
4	Pity the Monsters 1991Buy 🇺🇸
5	Bridges 1992Buy 🇺🇸
6	Merlin Dreams In The Mondream Wood 1992Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Conjure Man 1992Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Moon Is Drowning While I Sleep 1993Buy 🇺🇸
9	Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night 1995Buy 🇺🇸
10	China Doll 1998Buy 🇺🇸
11	Old Man Crow 2007Buy 🇺🇸
12	Yellow Dog 2008Buy 🇺🇸
13	And the Rafters Were Ringing 2010Buy 🇺🇸
14	Companions to the Moon 2012Buy 🇺🇸
15	Crow Roads 2012Buy 🇺🇸
16	Dharma 2012Buy 🇺🇸
17	Dog Boys 2012Buy 🇺🇸
18	Jack in the Green 2012Buy 🇺🇸
19	That was Radio Clash 2012Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Butter Spirit's Tithe 2012Buy 🇺🇸
21	Riding Shotgun 2015Buy 🇺🇸
22	Somewhere in My Mind There Is a Painting Box 2016Buy 🇺🇸
23	Barrio Girls 2019Buy 🇺🇸
24	Horsepower & Medicine 2019Buy 🇺🇸

8 books (2000–2010)

Start with Triskell Tales, the first of 8 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Triskell Tales 2000Buy 🇺🇸
2	Waifs and Strays 2002Buy 🇺🇸
3	A Handful of Coppers 2003Buy 🇺🇸
4	Quicksilver & Shadow 2005Buy 🇺🇸
5	Triskell Tales 2 2006Buy 🇺🇸
6	What the Mouse Found and Other Stories 2008Buy 🇺🇸
7	Woods and Waters Wild 2008Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Very Best of Charles de Lint 2010Buy 🇺🇸

20 books (1984–2017)

Start with The Riddle of the Wren, the first of 20 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	The Riddle of the Wren 1984Buy 🇺🇸
2	Mulengro 1985Buy 🇺🇸
3	Yarrow 1986Buy 🇺🇸
4	Greenmantle 1988Buy 🇺🇸
5	Wolf Moon 1988Buy 🇺🇸
6	Svaha 1989Buy 🇺🇸
7	Angel of Darkness(As: Samuel Key) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
8	Our Lady of the Harbour 1991Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Little Country 1991Buy 🇺🇸
10	Uncle Dobbin's Parrot Fair 1991Buy 🇺🇸
11	From a Whisper to a Scream(As: Samuel Key) 1992Buy 🇺🇸
12	Into the Green 1993Buy 🇺🇸
13	I'll Be Watching You(As: Samuel Key) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Buffalo Man 1999Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Road to Lisdoonvarna 2001Buy 🇺🇸
16	Eyes Like Leaves 2009Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Mystery of Grace 2009Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Painted Boy 2010Buy 🇺🇸
19	Jodi and the Witch of Bodbury 2014Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Wind in His Heart 2017Buy 🇺🇸

15 books (2010–2024)

Start with The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition, the first of 15 books in the The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror series.

#	Title
1	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition 2010Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition 2011Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition 2012Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition 2013Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition 2014Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2015 Edition 2015Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2016 Edition 2016Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2017 Edition 2017Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2018 Edition 2018Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2019 Edition 2020Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 1 2020Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 2 2021Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, Volume 3 2022Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 4 2023Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 5 2024Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2012–2014)

Start with Under My Skin and read in order.

#	Title
1	Under My Skin 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	Over My Head 2013Buy 🇺🇸
3	Out of This World 2014Buy 🇺🇸

9 books (2001–2009)

Start with Year's Best Fantasy, the first of 9 books in the Year's Best Fantasy series.

#	Title
1	Year's Best Fantasy 2001Buy 🇺🇸
2	Year's Best Fantasy 2 2002Buy 🇺🇸
3	Year's Best Fantasy 3 2003Buy 🇺🇸
4	Year's Best Fantasy 4 2004Buy 🇺🇸
5	Year's Best Fantasy 5 2005Buy 🇺🇸
6	Year's Best Fantasy 6 2006Buy 🇺🇸
7	Year's Best Fantasy 7 2007Buy 🇺🇸
8	Year's Best Fantasy 8 2008Buy 🇺🇸
9	Year's Best Fantasy 9 2009Buy 🇺🇸