China Mieville Reading Order

20 books (1999–2021)

Start with Brit-pulp!, the first of 20 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Brit-pulp! 1999Buy 🇺🇸
2	Breaking Windows 2003Buy 🇺🇸
3	Cities 2003Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Children of Cthulhu 2003Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 14 2003Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases 2003Buy 🇺🇸
7	Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection 2003Buy 🇺🇸
8	Best New Horror 17 2006Buy 🇺🇸
9	Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection 2006Buy 🇺🇸
10	The New Weird 2008Buy 🇺🇸
11	Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters 2011Buy 🇺🇸
12	New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird 2011Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Recent Weird 2011Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities 2011Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Library Book 2012Buy 🇺🇸
16	Flotsam Fantastique: The Souvenir Book of World Fantasy Convention 2013 2013Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Bestiary 2015Buy 🇺🇸
18	2001: An Odyssey in Words 2018Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Outcast Hours 2019Buy 🇺🇸
20	Out of the Ruins: The Apocalyptic Anthology 2021Buy 🇺🇸

10 books (2011–2022)

Start with David Mitchell: Critical Essays(By: Sarah Dillon), the first of 10 books in the Contemporary Writers: Critical Essays series.

#	Title
1	David Mitchell: Critical Essays(By: Sarah Dillon) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
2	China Miéville: Critical Essays 2015Buy 🇺🇸
3	Maggie Gee: Critical Essays(By: Sarah Dillon) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
4	Adam Roberts: Critical Essays(By: Christos Callow Jr.) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
5	Rupert Thomson: Critical Essays(By: Iain Robinson,Rupert Thomson,John McAuliffe,Kaye Mitchell,Rebecca Pohl,Christopher Vardy,Robert Duggan,Rhona Gordon) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
6	Tom McCarthy: Critical Essays(By: Dennis Duncan) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
7	M. John Harrison: Critical Essays(By: M. John Harrison,Rob Latham,Mark Bould,James Machin,Paul Kincaid,Tim Etchells,Chris Pak,Nick Freeman,Fred Botting,Rhys Williams,Graham Fraser,Ryan Elliott,Christina Scholz,Vassili Christodoulou,Timothy Jarvis,Nicholas Prescott) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
8	Michel Faber: Critical Essays(By: Michel Faber,Rodge Glass,Tomasz Dobrogoszcz,Kate Wilkinson,Nicholas Prescott,Rebecca Langworthy,Kristin Lindfield-Ott,Jim MacPherson,Timothy C. Baker,Ian Blyth,Natalie O'Keeffe,Matt Foley,Oliver B. Langworthy) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
9	Nicola Barker: Critical Essays(By: Nicola Barker,Christopher Vardy,Berthold Schoene,Ben Masters,Daniel Marc Janes,Len Platt,Ginette Carpenter,Beccy Kennedy,Huw Marsh,Alice Bennett,Eleanor Byrne) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
10	Sarah Hall: Critical Essays(By: Alexander Beaumont,Elke D’hoker) 2022Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2012–2014)

Start with Dial H, Vol. 1 and read in order.

#	Title
1	Dial H, Vol. 1 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	Dial H, Vol. 2 2012Buy 🇺🇸
3	Dial H, Vol. 3:Fin 2014Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2000–2004)

Start with Perdido Street Station and read in order.

#	Title
1	Perdido Street Station 2000Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Scar 2002Buy 🇺🇸
3	Iron Council 2004Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2006–2022)

Start with Between Equal Rights, the first of 6 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	Between Equal Rights 2006Buy 🇺🇸
2	War With No End(With: Arundhati Roy) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
3	Red Planets 2009Buy 🇺🇸
4	London's Overthrow 2012Buy 🇺🇸
5	October 2017Buy 🇺🇸
6	A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto 2022Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2016–2016)

#	Title
1	The Worst Breakfast 2016Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2002–2010)

Start with The Tain, the first of 4 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	The Tain 2002Buy 🇺🇸
2	Reports of Certain Events in London 2004Buy 🇺🇸
3	Details 2005Buy 🇺🇸
4	'Tis the Season / Um Conto de Natal 2010Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2005–2009)

Start with Looking for Jake and read in order.

#	Title
1	Looking for Jake 2005Buy 🇺🇸
2	Three Moments of an Explosion 2009Buy 🇺🇸

10 books (1998–2026)

Start with King Rat, the first of 10 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	King Rat 1998Buy 🇺🇸
2	Un Lun Dun 2007Buy 🇺🇸
3	The City & the City 2009Buy 🇺🇸
4	Kraken 2010Buy 🇺🇸
5	Embassytown 2011Buy 🇺🇸
6	Railsea 2012Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Last Days of New Paris 2016Buy 🇺🇸
8	This Census-Taker 2016Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Book of Elsewhere(With: Keanu Reeves) 2024Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Rouse 2026Buy 🇺🇸

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 🇺🇸