Greg Bear Reading Order

24 books (1975–2016)

Start with Tomorrow: New Worlds of Science Fiction, the first of 21 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Tomorrow: New Worlds of Science Fiction 1975Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Dragons of Light 1980Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The First Omni Book of Science Fiction 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Mirrorshades 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Mississippi Review 47 / 48 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Third Annual Collection 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Murasaki 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Omni Visions Two 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Ascent of Wonder 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	New Legends 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Hackers 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Paragons 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	New Skies: An Anthology of Today's Science Fiction 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Year's Best SF 11 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Engineering Infinity 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Like Water for Quarks 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Telling Tales: The Clarion West 30th Anniversary Anthology 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Multiverse 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Future Visions 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	The Madness of Cthulhu: Volume Two 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Visions of the Future 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Grave Predictions 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (2014–2016)

Start with War Dogs and read in order.

#	Title
1	War Dogs 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Killing Titan 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Take Back the Sky 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (1999–2002)

Start with Darwin's Radio and read in order.

#	Title
1	Darwin's Radio 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Darwin's Children 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1984–1994)

Start with Eon and read in order.

#	Title
1	Eon 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Eternity 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Legacy 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (1987–1992)

Start with The Forge of God and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Forge of God 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Anvil of Stars 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (2011–2013)

Start with Cryptum and read in order.

#	Title
1	Cryptum 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Primordium 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Silentium 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

10 books (1993–2014)

Start with Classic Jurassic Park(By: Walter Simonson), the first of 10 books in the Jurassic Park Graphic Novels series.

#	Title
1	Classic Jurassic Park(By: Walter Simonson) 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Amazon Adventure(By: Steve Englehart) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Raptor's Revenge(By: Walter Simonson) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Devils in the Desert(By: John Byrne) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Dangerous Games 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Return to Jurassic Park Part Two(By: Keith Giffen,Tom Bierbaum,Mary Bierbaum,Renee Witterstaetter) 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Return to Jurassic Park(By: Steve Englehart) 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Aftershocks!(By: Steve Englehart) 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Raptors Attack!(By: Steve Englehart) 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	The Lost World(By: Claude St. Aubin,Don McGregor,Jeff Butler) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (2007–2009)

Start with Quantico and read in order.

#	Title
1	Quantico 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Mariposa 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

4 books (1990–1997)

Start with Heads, the first of 4 books in the Queen of Angels series.

#	Title
1	Heads 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Queen of Angels 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Moving Mars 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Slant 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1997–2000)

Start with Foundation's Fear(By: Gregory Benford) and read in order.

#	Title
1	Foundation's Fear(By: Gregory Benford) 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Foundation and Chaos 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Foundation's Triumph(By: David Brin) 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1982–1992)

Start with Petra and read in order.

#	Title
1	Petra 1982Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Hardfought 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Sisters 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

11 books (1983–2016)

Start with The Venging, the first of 11 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	The Venging 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Wind from a Burning Woman 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Bear's Fantasies 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Early Harvest 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Sleepside 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Tangents 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Collected Stories of Greg Bear 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Women in Deep Time 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Beyond the Farthest Suns 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Far Thoughts and Pale Gods 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Just Over the Horizon 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1984–1984)

Start with Infinity Concerto and read in order.

#	Title
1	Infinity Concerto 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Songs of Earth and Power 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Serpent Mage 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

13 books (1953–2019)

Start with Hegira, the first of 13 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Hegira 1953Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Psychlone 1979Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Beyond Heaven's River 1980Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Strength of Stones 1981Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Lost Souls 1982Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Blood Music 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Country Of The Mind 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Dinosaur Summer 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Dead Lines 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Vitals 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	City at the End of Time 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Hull Zero Three 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	The Unfinished Land 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

62 books (1982–2013)

Start with The Abode of Life(By: Lee Correy), the first of 61 books in the Star Trek: TOS series.

#	Title
1	The Abode of Life(By: Lee Correy) 1982Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Prometheus Design(By: Sondra Marshak,Myrna Culbreath) 1982Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Black Fire(By: Sonni Cooper) 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Wounded Sky(By: Diane Duane) 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Triangle(By: Sondra Marshak,Myrna Culbreath) 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Web of the Romulans(By: Leonard Nimoy,M.S. Murdock) 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Corona 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Tears of the Singers(By: Melinda M. Snodgrass) 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Vulcan Academy Murders(By: Jean Lorrah) 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Dwellers in the Crucible(By: Margaret Wander Bonanno) 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Ishmael(By: Barbara Hambly) 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Killing Time(By: Della Van Hise) 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Pawns and Symbols(By: Majliss Larson) 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Shadow Lord(By: Laurence Yep) 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Uhura's Song(By: Janet Kagan) 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Bloodthirst(By: J.M. Dillard) 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Chain of Attack(By: Gene DeWeese) 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	The Final Nexus(By: Gene DeWeese) 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	The IDIC Epidemic(By: Jean Lorrah) 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	The Three-Minute Universe(By: Barbara Paul) 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Double, Double(By: Michael Jan Friedman) 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	The Lost Years(By: J.M. Dillard) 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Vulcan's Glory(By: D.C. Fontana) 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Home Is the Hunter(By: Dana Kramer-Rolls) 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	A Flag Full of Stars(By: Brad Ferguson) 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	Ghost-Walker(By: Barbara Hambly) 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	Renegade(By: Gene DeWeese) 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	The Rift(By: Peter David) 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	Death Count(By: L.A. Graf) 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	Faces of Fire(By: Michael Jan Friedman) 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	Ice Trap(By: L.A. Graf) 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	Sanctuary(By: John Vornholt) 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	From the Depths(By: Victor Milán) 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	Shell Game(By: Melissa Crandall) 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	The Great Starship Race(By: Diane Carey) 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
36	The Starship Trap(By: Mel Gilden) 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
37	Crossroad(By: Barbara Hambly) 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
38	Firestorm(By: L.A. Graf) 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
39	The Better Man(By: Howard Weinstein) 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
40	The Patrian Transgression(By: Simon Hawke) 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
41	Traitor Winds(By: L.A. Graf) 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
42	First Frontier(By: Diane Carey,James I. Kirkland) 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
43	Recovery(By: J.M. Dillard) 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
44	The Captain's Daughter(By: Peter David) 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
45	The Fearful Summons(By: Denny Martin Flinn) 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
46	The Joy Machine(By: Theodore Sturgeon,James Edwin Gunn) 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
47	The Joy Machine(By: Theodore Sturgeon,James Gunn) 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
48	The Rings of Tautee(By: Dean Wesley Smith) 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
49	Twilight's End(By: Jerry Oltion) 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
50	Mind Meld(By: John Vornholt) 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
51	Mudd in Your Eye(By: Jerry Oltion) 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
52	Assignment: Eternity(By: Greg Cox) 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
53	Across the Universe(By: Pamela Sargent) 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
54	Vulcan's Heart(By: Josepha Sherman,Susan Shwartz) 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
55	In the Name of Honor(By: Dayton Ward) 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
56	Ex Machina(By: Christopher L. Bennett) 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
57	Federation(By: Judith Reeves-Stevens) 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
58	Excelsior: Forged in Fire(By: Andy Mangels,Michael A. Martin) 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
59	The Disinherited(By: Peter David,Robert Greenberger,Michael Jan Friedman) 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
60	The Children of Kings(By: Dave Stern) 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
61	Cast No Shadow(By: James Swallow,Dayton Ward) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
62	Allegiance in Exile(By: David R. George III) 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

66 books (1978–2013)

Start with Splinter of the Mind's Eye(By: Alan Dean Foster), the first of 65 books in the Star Wars Legends series.

#	Title
1	Splinter of the Mind's Eye(By: Alan Dean Foster) 1978Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Han Solo Adventures(By: Brian Daley) 1979Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Adventures of Lando Calrissian(By: L. Neil Smith) 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Courtship of Princess Leia(By: Dave Wolverton) 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Crystal Star(By: Vonda N. McIntyre) 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Truce at Bakura(By: Kathy Tyers) 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Children of the Jedi(By: Barbara Hambly) 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Darksaber(By: Kevin J. Anderson) 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Hammertong: The Tale of the "Tonnika Sisters"(By: Timothy Zahn) 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Mist Encounter(By: Timothy Zahn) 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	We Don't Do Weddings(By: Kathy Tyers) 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	The New Rebellion(By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch) 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Planet of Twilight(By: Barbara Hambly) 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	I, Jedi(By: Michael A. Stackpole) 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	General Jar Jar(By: Lara Bergen) 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Obi-Wan's Bongo Adventure(By: Gail Herman) 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Podrace!(By: Lara Bergen) 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Star Wars: Episode I - Dangers of the Core(By: Jim Thomas) 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace(By: John Whitman) 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Cloak of Deception(By: James Luceno) 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Droid to the Rescue(By: Gail Herman) 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Meet the Jedi High Council(By: Laura Dower) 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Rogue Planet 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Save Naboo!(By: Gail Herman) 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	Sith Attack(By: Lara Bergen) 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	Star Wars: Episode I - Anakin's Pit Droid(By: Justine Korman Fontes) 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	Darth Maul Shadow Hunter(By: Michael Reaves) 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	The Approaching Storm(By: Alan Dean Foster) 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	A Forest Apart(By: Troy Denning) 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	Shatterpoint(By: Matthew Woodring Stover) 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	Tatooine Ghost(By: Troy Denning) 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	The Ruins of Dantooine(By: Voronica Whitney-Robinson,W. Haden Blackman) 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	Fool's Bargain(By: Timothy Zahn) 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	Jedi Trial(By: David Sherman,Dan Cragg) 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	Survivor's Quest(By: Timothy Zahn) 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
36	The Cestus Deception(By: Steven Barnes) 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
37	The Hive(By: Steven Barnes) 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
38	Yoda: Dark Rendezvous(By: Sean Stewart) 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
39	Labyrinth of Evil(By: James Luceno) 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
40	Star Wars: Labyrinth of Evil(By: James Luceno) 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
41	The Cestus Deception(By: Steven Barnes) 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
42	Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader(By: James Luceno) 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
43	Outbound Flight(By: Timothy Zahn) 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
44	Allegiance(By: Timothy Zahn) 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
45	Death Star(By: Steve Perry,Michael Reaves) 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
46	Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor(By: Matthew Woodring Stover) 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
47	Millennium Falcon(By: James Luceno) 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
48	Death Troopers(By: Joe Schreiber) 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
49	Crosscurrent(By: Paul S. Kemp) 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
50	Red Harvest(By: Joe Schreiber) 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
51	Choices of One(By: Timothy Zahn) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
52	Judge's Call(By: Timothy Zahn) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
53	Knight Errant(By: John Jackson Miller) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
54	Riptide(By: Paul S. Kemp) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
55	Shadow Games(By: Michael Reaves,Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
56	Shadows of the Empire(By: Steve Perry) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
57	Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire(By: Steve Perry) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
58	Darth Plagueis(By: James Luceno) 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
59	Lost Tribe of the Sith(By: John Jackson Miller) 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
60	Maul: Lockdown(By: Joe Schreiber) 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
61	Scourge(By: Jeff Grubb) 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
62	Winner Lose All(By: Timothy Zahn) 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
63	Crucible(By: Troy Denning) 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
64	Into the Void: Dawn of the Jedi(By: Tim Lebbon) 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
65	Kenobi(By: John Jackson Miller) 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
66	Scoundrels(By: Timothy Zahn) 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (2014–2015)

Start with The Madness of Cthulhu(By: Robert Silverberg,Harry Turtledove,Arthur C. Clarke,John Shirley,S.T. Joshi,Caitlín R. Kiernan) and read in order.

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