Dan Simmons Reading Order

17 books (1985–2018)

Start with The Third Omni Book of Science Fiction, the first of 17 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	The Third Omni Book of Science Fiction 1985Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook 1 1988Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection 1989Buy 🇺🇸
4	Third Annual Collection 1989Buy 🇺🇸
5	Omni Best Science Fiction Two 1992Buy 🇺🇸
6	Still Dead 1992Buy 🇺🇸
7	Omni Visions Two 1994Buy 🇺🇸
8	Seventh Annual Collection 1994Buy 🇺🇸
9	Far Horizons 1999Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 15 2002Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Space Opera Renaissance 2006Buy 🇺🇸
12	Space Opera 2007Buy 🇺🇸
13	Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance 2009Buy 🇺🇸
14	Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror 2010Buy 🇺🇸
15	Freak Show 2014Buy 🇺🇸
16	Parallàxis: A twist in the mind 2014Buy 🇺🇸
17	Flight or Fright 2018Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2015–2015)

5 books (1989–1999)

Start with Hyperion, the first of 5 books in the Hyperion Cantos series.

#	Title
1	Hyperion 1989Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Fall of Hyperion 1990Buy 🇺🇸
3	Endymion 1996Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Rise of Endymion 1997Buy 🇺🇸
5	Orphans of the Helix 1999Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2003–2005)

Start with Ilium and read in order.

#	Title
1	Ilium 2003Buy 🇺🇸
2	Olympos 2005Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2001–2003)

Start with Hardcase and read in order.

#	Title
1	Hardcase 2001Buy 🇺🇸
2	Hard Freeze 2002Buy 🇺🇸
3	Hard as Nails 2003Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (1991–1991)

7 books (1988–2012)

Start with Metastasis, the first of 7 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	Metastasis 1988Buy 🇺🇸
2	Two Minutes Forty-Five Seconds 1988Buy 🇺🇸
3	Banished Dreams 1990Buy 🇺🇸
4	Entropy's Bed at Midnight 1990Buy 🇺🇸
5	This Year's Class Picture 1992Buy 🇺🇸
6	Death in Bangkok 1993Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Guiding Nose of Ulfant Banderoz 2012Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1990–2002)

Start with Prayers to Broken Stones, the first of 4 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Prayers to Broken Stones 1990Buy 🇺🇸
2	Summer Sketches 1992Buy 🇺🇸
3	Lovedeath 1993Buy 🇺🇸
4	Worlds Enough & Time 2002Buy 🇺🇸

14 books (1985–2020)

Start with Song of Kali, the first of 14 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Song of Kali 1985Buy 🇺🇸
2	Carrion Comfort 1989Buy 🇺🇸
3	Phases of Gravity 1989Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Hollow Man 1992Buy 🇺🇸
5	Fires of Eden 1994Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Crook Factory 1999Buy 🇺🇸
7	Darwin's Blade 2000Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Terror 2007Buy 🇺🇸
9	Muse of Fire 2008Buy 🇺🇸
10	Drood 2009Buy 🇺🇸
11	Black Hills 2010Buy 🇺🇸
12	Flashback 2011Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Abominable 2013Buy 🇺🇸
14	Omega Canyon 2020Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1991–2002)

Start with Summer of Night and read in order.

#	Title
1	Summer of Night 1991Buy 🇺🇸
2	Children of the Night 1992Buy 🇺🇸
3	A Winter Haunting 2002Buy 🇺🇸