Cory Doctorow Reading Order

36 books (1998–2025)

Start with Tesseracts 7, the first of 36 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Tesseracts 7 1998Buy 🇺🇸
2	Asimov's Science Fiction, June 1999 1999Buy 🇺🇸
3	Starlight 3 2001Buy 🇺🇸
4	Tesseracts 8 2002Buy 🇺🇸
5	New Voices In Science Fiction 2003Buy 🇺🇸
6	Open Space: New Canadian Fantastic Fiction 2003Buy 🇺🇸
7	Witpunk 2003Buy 🇺🇸
8	ReVisions 2004Buy 🇺🇸
9	Future Washington 2005Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction 2006Buy 🇺🇸
11	Year's Best SF 11 2006Buy 🇺🇸
12	Rewired 2007Buy 🇺🇸
13	Tesseracts Eleven: Amazing Canadian Speculative Fiction 2007Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection 2007Buy 🇺🇸
15	Fast Forward 2 2008Buy 🇺🇸
16	Unplugged 2009Buy 🇺🇸
17	Alien Contact 2011Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 5 2011Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Chronicles of Harris Burdick 2011Buy 🇺🇸
20	Imaginarium 2012 2012Buy 🇺🇸
21	Robots: The Recent A.I. 2012Buy 🇺🇸
22	After the End 2013Buy 🇺🇸
23	Future Games 2013Buy 🇺🇸
24	Imaginarium 2013 2013Buy 🇺🇸
25	Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2013 Edition 2013Buy 🇺🇸
26	Super Stories of Heroes and Villains 2013Buy 🇺🇸
27	Hieroglyph 2014Buy 🇺🇸
28	Robot Uprisings 2014Buy 🇺🇸
29	Imaginarium 3 2015Buy 🇺🇸
30	Press Start to Play 2015Buy 🇺🇸
31	Watchlist 2015Buy 🇺🇸
32	Astro Noise 2016Buy 🇺🇸
33	Imaginarium 4 2016Buy 🇺🇸
34	Escape Pod 2020Buy 🇺🇸
35	Make Shift 2021Buy 🇺🇸
36	The Year's Best Science Fiction on Earth 3 2025Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2008–2014)

Start with Cory Doctorow's Futuristic Tales Of The Here And Now(With: Dara Naraghi) and read in order.

#	Title
1	Cory Doctorow's Futuristic Tales Of The Here And Now(With: Dara Naraghi) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
2	In Real Life(With: Jen Wang) 2014Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2010–2019)

Start with Koko Be Good(By: Jen Wang), the first of 4 books in the Jen Wang Graphic Novels series.

#	Title
1	Koko Be Good(By: Jen Wang) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
2	In Real Life 2014Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Prince and the Dressmaker(By: Jen Wang) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
4	Stargazing(By: Jen Wang) 2019Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (2008–2024)

Start with Little Brother, the first of 7 books in the Little Brother series.

#	Title
1	Little Brother 2008Buy 🇺🇸
2	Homeland 2013Buy 🇺🇸
3	Lawful Interception 2013Buy 🇺🇸
4	Attack Surface 2020Buy 🇺🇸
5	Force Multiplier 2020Buy 🇺🇸
6	Spill 2024Buy 🇺🇸
7	Vigilant 2024Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2023–2025)

Start with Red Team Blues and read in order.

#	Title
1	Red Team Blues 2023Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Bezzle 2024Buy 🇺🇸
3	Picks and Shovels 2025Buy 🇺🇸

10 books (2000–2025)

Start with The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Science Fiction, the first of 10 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Science Fiction 2000Buy 🇺🇸
2	Essential Blogging 2002Buy 🇺🇸
3	Content 2008Buy 🇺🇸
4	Ebooks 2010Buy 🇺🇸
5	Context 2011Buy 🇺🇸
6	All Complex Ecosystems Have Parasites 2014Buy 🇺🇸
7	Information Doesn't Want to Be Free 2014Buy 🇺🇸
8	Chokepoint Capitalism(With: Rebecca Giblin) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Internet Con 2023Buy 🇺🇸
10	Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It 2025Buy 🇺🇸

32 books (1984–2026)

Start with The Presidential Papers(By: John H. Kessel), the first of 32 books in the Outspoken Authors series.

#	Title
1	The Presidential Papers(By: John H. Kessel) 1984Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Human Front(By: Ken MacLeod) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
3	Lucky Strike(By: Kim Stanley Robinson) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Left Left Behind(By: Terry Bisson,Eleanor Arnason) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
5	Mammoths of the Great Plains(By: Eleanor Arnason) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Underbelly(By: Gary Phillips,Eleanor Arnason) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
7	Modem Times 2.0(By: Michael Moorcock,Eleanor Arnason) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow(With: Eleanor Arnason) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Wild Girls(By: Ursula K. Le Guin,Eleanor Arnason) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
10	Report from Planet Midnight(By: Nalo Hopkinson,Eleanor Arnason) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
11	Surfing the Gnarl(By: Rudy Rucker) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
12	New Taboos(By: John Shirley) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
13	Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials(By: Eleanor Arnason,Paul Krassner) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Science of Herself(By: Karen Joy Fowler,Eleanor Arnason) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
15	Raising Hell(By: Norman Spinrad,Eleanor Arnason) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
16	Gypsy(By: Carter Scholz,Eleanor Arnason) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
17	My Life, My Body(By: Marge Piercy) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
18	Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be(By: Joe R. Lansdale,Eleanor Arnason) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
19	Fire.(By: Elizabeth Hand,Eleanor Arnason) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
20	Totalitopia(By: John Crowley) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Atheist in the Attic(By: Samuel R. Delany,Eleanor Arnason) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
22	Thoreau's Microscope(By: Michael Blumlein,Eleanor Arnason) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
23	A City Made of Words(By: Paul Park) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
24	Talk Like a Man(By: Nisi Shawl) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
25	The Beatrix Gates(By: Rachel Pollack) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
26	Big Girl(By: Meg Elison) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
27	Planetbreaker’s Son(By: Nick Mamatas) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
28	Utopias of the Third Kind(By: Vandana Singh) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
29	Night Shift(By: Eileen Gunn) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
30	The Collapsing Frontier(By: Jonathan Lethem) 2024Buy 🇺🇸
31	Not What I Intended(By: Nancy Kress) 2025Buy 🇺🇸
32	She is Here(By: Nicola Griffith) 2026Buy 🇺🇸

12 books (2005–2023)

Start with I, Robot, the first of 12 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	I, Robot 2005Buy 🇺🇸
2	When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth 2006Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away 2008Buy 🇺🇸
4	True Names(With: Benjamin Rosenbaum) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
5	Chicken Little 2011Buy 🇺🇸
6	After the Siege 2015Buy 🇺🇸
7	Anda's Game 2015Buy 🇺🇸
8	Car Wars 2016Buy 🇺🇸
9	Party Discipline 2017Buy 🇺🇸
10	Unauthorized Bread / Wie man einen Toaster überlistet: Novelle 2019Buy 🇺🇸
11	Poesy the Monster Slayer 2020Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Canadian Miracle 2023Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (2000–2019)

Start with A Place So Foreign and Eight More, the first of 5 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	A Place So Foreign and Eight More 2000Buy 🇺🇸
2	Overclocked 2007Buy 🇺🇸
3	With a Little Help 2007Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow(With: Eleanor Arnason) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
5	Radicalized 2019Buy 🇺🇸

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 2005Buy 🇺🇸
13	The War of the Worlds(By: Connie Willis,Mercedes Lackey,H.G. Wells,Mike Resnick,Stephen Baxter,Lawrence Watt-Evans) 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 🇺🇸

9 books (2003–2023)

Start with Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, the first of 9 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom 2003Buy 🇺🇸
2	Eastern Standard Tribe 2004Buy 🇺🇸
3	Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town 2005Buy 🇺🇸
4	Makers 2009Buy 🇺🇸
5	For the Win 2010Buy 🇺🇸
6	Pirate Cinema 2012Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Rapture of the Nerds(With: Charles Stross) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
8	Walkaway 2017Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Lost Cause 2023Buy 🇺🇸

18 books (1996–2013)

Start with Year's Best SF, the first of 18 books in the Year's Best SF Anthology series.

#	Title
1	Year's Best SF 1996Buy 🇺🇸
2	Year's Best SF 2 1997Buy 🇺🇸
3	Year's Best SF 3 1998Buy 🇺🇸
4	Year's Best SF 4 1999Buy 🇺🇸
5	Year's Best SF 5 2000Buy 🇺🇸
6	Year's Best SF 6 2001Buy 🇺🇸
7	Year's Best SF 7 2002Buy 🇺🇸
8	Year's Best SF 8 2003Buy 🇺🇸
9	Year's Best SF 9 2004Buy 🇺🇸
10	Year's Best SF 10 2005Buy 🇺🇸
11	Year's Best SF 11 2006Buy 🇺🇸
12	Year's Best SF 12 2007Buy 🇺🇸
13	Year's Best SF 13 2008Buy 🇺🇸
14	Year's Best SF 14 2009Buy 🇺🇸
15	Year's Best SF 15 2010Buy 🇺🇸
16	Year's Best SF 16 2011Buy 🇺🇸
17	Year's Best SF 17 2012Buy 🇺🇸
18	Year's Best SF 18 2013Buy 🇺🇸