Elizabeth Bear Reading Order

72 books (2004–2022)

Start with All Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories, the first of 72 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	All Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories 2004Buy 🇺🇸
2	Best New Paranormal Romance 2006Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection 2006Buy 🇺🇸
4	Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection 2006Buy 🇺🇸
5	Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2007 2007Buy 🇺🇸
6	Fast Forward 1: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge 2007Buy 🇺🇸
7	Rewired 2007Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Best of Jim Baen's Universe 2007Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection 2007Buy 🇺🇸
10	Fast Ships, Black Sails 2008Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 21 2008Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 22 2008Buy 🇺🇸
13	The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 2 2008Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2009 2008Buy 🇺🇸
15	Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2009 2009Buy 🇺🇸
16	Starship Vectors 2010Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition 2010Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2 2010Buy 🇺🇸
19	We, Robots 2010Buy 🇺🇸
20	Blood and Other Cravings: Original Stories of Vampires and Vampirism by Today's Greatest Writers of Dark Fiction 2011Buy 🇺🇸
21	New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird 2011Buy 🇺🇸
22	Supernatural Noir 2011Buy 🇺🇸
23	The Book of Cthulhu 2011Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Recent Weird 2011Buy 🇺🇸
25	Whedonistas 2011Buy 🇺🇸
26	Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire 2012Buy 🇺🇸
27	Robots: The Recent A.I. 2012Buy 🇺🇸
28	Rock On: The Greatest Hits of Science Fiction & Fantasy 2012Buy 🇺🇸
29	The Book of Cthulhu II 2012Buy 🇺🇸
30	The Modern Fae's Guide to Surviving Humanity 2012Buy 🇺🇸
31	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection 2012Buy 🇺🇸
32	Aliens: Recent Encounters 2013Buy 🇺🇸
33	Best New SF 26 2013Buy 🇺🇸
34	In Space No One Can Hear You Scream 2013Buy 🇺🇸
35	Queen Victoria's Book of Spell 2013Buy 🇺🇸
36	Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2012 Edition 2013Buy 🇺🇸
37	The Book of Apex: Volume 4 2013Buy 🇺🇸
38	The Time Traveler's Almanac 2013Buy 🇺🇸
39	The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2013 2013Buy 🇺🇸
40	The Year's Top Short SF Novels 3 2013Buy 🇺🇸
41	Year's Best SF 18 2013Buy 🇺🇸
42	Dead Man's Hand 2014Buy 🇺🇸
43	Hieroglyph 2014Buy 🇺🇸
44	Lovecraft's Monsters 2014Buy 🇺🇸
45	The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Nine 2014Buy 🇺🇸
46	The End is Now 2014Buy 🇺🇸
47	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition 2014Buy 🇺🇸
48	Time Travel: Recent Trips 2014Buy 🇺🇸
49	Upgraded 2014Buy 🇺🇸
50	Ad Astra 2015Buy 🇺🇸
51	Blood Sisters 2015Buy 🇺🇸
52	Mermaids and Other Mysteries of the Deep 2015Buy 🇺🇸
53	New Cthulhu 2: More Recent Weird 2015Buy 🇺🇸
54	The End Has Come 2015Buy 🇺🇸
55	The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 7 2015Buy 🇺🇸
56	Warrior Women 2015Buy 🇺🇸
57	Ex Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries, and Lore 2017Buy 🇺🇸
58	Infinity Wars 2017Buy 🇺🇸
59	New York Fantastic: Fantasy Stories from the City that Never Sleeps 2017Buy 🇺🇸
60	Chiral Mad 4 2018Buy 🇺🇸
61	The Book Of Swords: Part 2 2018Buy 🇺🇸
62	The Book of Magic: A Collection of Stories 2018Buy 🇺🇸
63	Current Futures 2019Buy 🇺🇸
64	Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 105, February 2019 2019Buy 🇺🇸
65	The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Thirteen 2019Buy 🇺🇸
66	The Best of Uncanny 2019Buy 🇺🇸
67	The Long List Anthology Volume 5 2019Buy 🇺🇸
68	The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories 2019Buy 🇺🇸
69	Edited By 2020Buy 🇺🇸
70	The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 4 2020Buy 🇺🇸
71	Some of the Best of Tor.com 2021 2022Buy 🇺🇸
72	The Long List Anthology Volume 8 2022Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2010–2013)

Start with Bone and Jewel Creatures and read in order.

#	Title
1	Bone and Jewel Creatures 2010Buy 🇺🇸
2	Book of Iron 2013Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2012–2014)

Start with Range of Ghosts and read in order.

#	Title
1	Range of Ghosts 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	Shattered Pillars 2013Buy 🇺🇸
3	Steles of the Sky 2014Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2007–2015)

Start with A Companion to Wolves and read in order.

#	Title
1	A Companion to Wolves 2007Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Tempering of Men 2011Buy 🇺🇸
3	An Apprentice to Elves 2015Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2007–2011)

Start with Dust / Pinion and read in order.

#	Title
1	Dust / Pinion 2007Buy 🇺🇸
2	Chill / Sanction 2009Buy 🇺🇸
3	Grail / Cleave 2011Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2004–2005)

Start with Hammered and read in order.

#	Title
1	Hammered 2004Buy 🇺🇸
2	Scardown 2005Buy 🇺🇸
3	Worldwired 2005Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2015–2025)

Start with Karen Memory and read in order.

#	Title
1	Karen Memory 2015Buy 🇺🇸
2	Stone Mad 2018Buy 🇺🇸
3	Angel Maker 2025Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2017–2022)

Start with The Stone in the Skull and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Stone in the Skull 2017Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Red-Stained Wings 2019Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Origin of Storms 2022Buy 🇺🇸

8 books (2008–2016)

Start with METAtropolis(With: John Scalzi,Jay Lake,Tobias Buckell,Karl Schroeder), the first of 8 books in the METAtropolis series.

#	Title
1	METAtropolis(With: John Scalzi,Jay Lake,Tobias Buckell,Karl Schroeder) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
2	Cascadia(By: Ken Scholes) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
3	Green Space(By: Jay Lake) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
4	A Symmetry of Serpents and Doves(By: Ken Scholes) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
5	Byways(By: Tobias Buckell) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Wings We Dare Aspire(By: Ken Scholes) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
7	Stochasticity(By: Tobias Buckell) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
8	Tensegrity(By: Tobias Buckell) 2016Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (2007–2012)

Start with New Amsterdam, the first of 5 books in the New Amsterdam series.

#	Title
1	New Amsterdam 2007Buy 🇺🇸
2	Seven for a Secret 2009Buy 🇺🇸
3	The White City 2010Buy 🇺🇸
4	Ad Eternum 2012Buy 🇺🇸
5	Garrett Investigates 2012Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (2006–2014)

Start with Blood and Iron, the first of 5 books in the Promethean Age series.

#	Title
1	Blood and Iron 2006Buy 🇺🇸
2	Whiskey and Water 2007Buy 🇺🇸
3	Hell and Earth 2008Buy 🇺🇸
4	Ink and Steel 2008Buy 🇺🇸
5	One-Eyed Jack 2014Buy 🇺🇸

15 books (2011–2014)

Start with Shadow Unit 1, the first of 15 books in the Shadow Unit series.

14 books (2006–2021)

Start with The Chains That You Refuse, the first of 14 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	The Chains That You Refuse 2006Buy 🇺🇸
2	Tideline 2007Buy 🇺🇸
3	Boojum(With: Sarah Monette) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
4	Shoggoths in Bloom 2008Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Horrid Glory of Its Wings 2009Buy 🇺🇸
6	Destination: Future 2010Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Girl Who Sang Rose Madder 2010Buy 🇺🇸
8	And the Deep Blue Sea 2012Buy 🇺🇸
9	Faster Gun 2012Buy 🇺🇸
10	This Chance Planet 2014Buy 🇺🇸
11	We Have Always Died In The Castle 2018Buy 🇺🇸
12	Deriving Life 2019Buy 🇺🇸
13	On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera: A Tor.com Original 2020Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Red Mother 2021Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2008–2020)

Start with Shoggoths in Bloom and Other Stories and read in order.

#	Title
1	Shoggoths in Bloom and Other Stories 2008Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Best of Elizabeth Bear 2020Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2006–2018)

Start with Carnival and read in order.

#	Title
1	Carnival 2006Buy 🇺🇸
2	Undertow 2007Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Cobbler's Boy(With: Katherine Addison) 2018Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2012–2012)

1 book (2020–2020)

3 books (2008–2011)

Start with All the Windwracked Stars and read in order.

#	Title
1	All the Windwracked Stars 2008Buy 🇺🇸
2	By the Mountain Bound 2009Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Sea Thy Mistress 2011Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2025–2025)

8 books (2008–2017)

Start with The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 2, the first of 8 books in the The WisCon Chronicles series.

#	Title
1	The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 2 2008Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Wiscon Chronicles, Vol.3: Carnival of Feminist SF(By: Yoon Ha Lee) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
3	The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 4(By: Sylvia Kelso) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Wiscon Chronicles Volume 5(By: Nisi Shawl) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
5	The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 6: Futures of Feminism and Fandom(By: Alexis Lothian) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Wiscon Chronicles Vol 7: Shattering Ableist Narratives(By: JoSelle Vanderhooft) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
7	The WisCon Chronicles, Vol.9(By: Mary Anne Mohanraj) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
8	The WisCon Chronicles 11(By: Nisi Shawl,Jaymee Goh) 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 (2019–2025)

Start with Ancestral Night and read in order.

#	Title
1	Ancestral Night 2019Buy 🇺🇸
2	Machine 2020Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Folded Sky 2025Buy 🇺🇸

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 🇺🇸