Connie Willis Reading Order

53 books (1981–2023)

Start with The Berkley Showcase: Vol. 4, the first of 53 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	The Berkley Showcase: Vol. 4 1981Buy 🇺🇸
2	Isaac Asimov's Wonders of the World 1982Buy 🇺🇸
3	Chrysalis 10 1983Buy 🇺🇸
4	Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own 1983Buy 🇺🇸
5	Nebula Awards 18 1983Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12 1983Buy 🇺🇸
7	Berserker Base 1985Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Sixth Omni Book of Science Fiction 1985Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection 1985Buy 🇺🇸
10	Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, October 1986 1986Buy 🇺🇸
11	Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! 1989Buy 🇺🇸
12	Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July 1989 1989Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection 1989Buy 🇺🇸
14	Alien Sex 1990Buy 🇺🇸
15	Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories 1990Buy 🇺🇸
16	Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, December 1990 1990Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection 1990Buy 🇺🇸
18	Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Mid-December 1991 1991Buy 🇺🇸
19	Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1992 1992Buy 🇺🇸
20	Christmas Stars 1992Buy 🇺🇸
21	Asimov\'s Science Fiction Magazine, September 1993 1993Buy 🇺🇸
22	The New Hugo Winners, Vol. 3 1994Buy 🇺🇸
23	Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1996 1996Buy 🇺🇸
24	Cybersex 1996Buy 🇺🇸
25	Isaac Asimov's Vampires 1996Buy 🇺🇸
26	The Williamson Effect 1996Buy 🇺🇸
27	War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches 1996Buy 🇺🇸
28	Time Machines 1997Buy 🇺🇸
29	Wild Women 1997Buy 🇺🇸
30	Year's Best SF 2 1997Buy 🇺🇸
31	Bangs & Whimpers 1999Buy 🇺🇸
32	Nebula Awards 33 1999Buy 🇺🇸
33	Isaac Asimov's Mother's Day 2000Buy 🇺🇸
34	A Woman's Liberation 2001Buy 🇺🇸
35	The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women 2001Buy 🇺🇸
36	The Mammoth Book Of Science Fiction 2002Buy 🇺🇸
37	New Skies: An Anthology of Today's Science Fiction 2003Buy 🇺🇸
38	The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels 2005Buy 🇺🇸
39	Space Cadets 2006Buy 🇺🇸
40	This Is My Funniest 2006Buy 🇺🇸
41	Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: 30th Anniversary Anthology 2007Buy 🇺🇸
42	The Secret History of Science Fiction 2009Buy 🇺🇸
43	Enter a Future: Fantastic Tales from Asimov's Science Fiction 2010Buy 🇺🇸
44	Like Water for Quarks 2011Buy 🇺🇸
45	Season of Wonder 2012Buy 🇺🇸
46	Hauntings 2013Buy 🇺🇸
47	Telling Tales: The Clarion West 30th Anniversary Anthology 2013Buy 🇺🇸
48	The Time Traveler's Almanac 2013Buy 🇺🇸
49	Futuredaze 2: Reprise 2014Buy 🇺🇸
50	Rogues 2014Buy 🇺🇸
51	Ad Astra 2015Buy 🇺🇸
52	Lightspeed Magazine, February 2017 2017Buy 🇺🇸
53	Robots Through the Ages 2023Buy 🇺🇸

16 books (1972–1987)

Start with The Best Science Fiction of the Year 1, the first of 16 books in the Best Science Fiction of the Year series.

#	Title
1	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 1 1972Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 2 1973Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 3 1974Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 4 1975Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 5 1976Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 6 1977Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 7 1978Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 8 1979Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 9 1980Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 10 1981Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 11 1982Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12 1983Buy 🇺🇸
13	Best Science Fiction of the Year 13 1984Buy 🇺🇸
14	Best Science Fiction of the Year 14 1984Buy 🇺🇸
15	Best Science Fiction of the Year 15 1986Buy 🇺🇸
16	Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year 16 1987Buy 🇺🇸

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(With: 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!(With: 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 🇺🇸

1 book (2002–2002)

#	Title
1	Roswell, Vegas, and Area 51 2002Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2010–2010)

Start with All Clear and read in order.

#	Title
1	All Clear 2010Buy 🇺🇸
2	Blackout 2010Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1984–1998)

Start with Fire Watch and read in order.

#	Title
1	Fire Watch 1984Buy 🇺🇸
2	Doomsday Book 1992Buy 🇺🇸
3	To Say Nothing of the Dog 1998Buy 🇺🇸

19 books (1979–2020)

Start with Daisy in the Sun, the first of 19 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	Daisy in the Sun 1979Buy 🇺🇸
2	Chance 1986Buy 🇺🇸
3	Spice Pogrom (in Asimov's) 1986Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Last of the Winnebagos (in Asimov's) 1988Buy 🇺🇸
5	At the Rialto (in Nebula Awards 25) 1989Buy 🇺🇸
6	Time Out (in Asimov's) 1989Buy 🇺🇸
7	Cibola (in Asimov's) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
8	In the Late Cretaceous (in Asimov's) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
9	Even the Queen (in Asimov's) 1992Buy 🇺🇸
10	Death on the Nile (in The Best of Connie Willis) 1993Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Soul Selects Her Own Society (in Asimov's) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
12	Just Like the Ones We Used to Know 2003Buy 🇺🇸
13	Inside Job 2005Buy 🇺🇸
14	All Seated on the Ground 2007Buy 🇺🇸
15	D.A. 2007Buy 🇺🇸
16	All About Emily 2011Buy 🇺🇸
17	I Met a Traveller in an Antique Land 2018Buy 🇺🇸
18	Jack 2020Buy 🇺🇸
19	Take a Look at the Five and Ten 2020Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (1993–2018)

Start with Impossible Things, the first of 6 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Impossible Things 1993Buy 🇺🇸
2	Miracle and Other Christmas Stories 1999Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Winds of Marble Arch 2007Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Best of Connie Willis 2013Buy 🇺🇸
5	A Lot Like Christmas 2017Buy 🇺🇸
6	Terra Incognita 2018Buy 🇺🇸

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(By: Stephen Baxter,John Shirley,Adam-Troy Castro,Lawrence Watt-Evans,Adam Roberts,Susan Sizemore,Mark W. Tiedemann,Jacqueline Carey,Vox Day,Cory Doctorow,A.M. Dellamonica,Glenn Yeffeth,Selina Rosen,Amy Berner,Maria Alexander,Marguerite Krause,Bruce Bethke,Don DeBrandt,Marie-Catherine Caillava,Mike Byrne) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
13	The War of the Worlds 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 🇺🇸

10 books (1982–2023)

Start with Water Witch(With: Cynthia Felice), the first of 10 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Water Witch(With: Cynthia Felice) 1982Buy 🇺🇸
2	Lincoln's Dreams 1987Buy 🇺🇸
3	Light Raid(With: Cynthia Felice) 1989Buy 🇺🇸
4	Remake 1994Buy 🇺🇸
5	Uncharted Territory 1994Buy 🇺🇸
6	Bellwether 1996Buy 🇺🇸
7	Promised Land(With: Cynthia Felice) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
8	Passage 2001Buy 🇺🇸
9	Crosstalk 2016Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Road to Roswell 2023Buy 🇺🇸