Harlan Ellison Reading Order

96 books (1958–2022)

Start with The Big Countdown: Amazing Stories, December 1958, the first of 96 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	The Big Countdown: Amazing Stories, December 1958 1958Buy 🇺🇸
2	Dangerous Visions 1967Buy 🇺🇸
3	Dangerous Visions 3 1967Buy 🇺🇸
4	Partners in Wonder 1971Buy 🇺🇸
5	Again, Dangerous Visions 1972Buy 🇺🇸
6	Again, Dangerous Visions 2 1973Buy 🇺🇸
7	Galaxy Science Fiction - October 1973 1973Buy 🇺🇸
8	More Stories from the Hugo Winners, Vol. 2 1973Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 20th Series 1973Buy 🇺🇸
10	Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader 1973Buy 🇺🇸
11	Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction 1973Buy 🇺🇸
12	Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology 1974Buy 🇺🇸
13	Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow... 1974Buy 🇺🇸
14	Jack the Knife: Tales of Jack the Ripper 1975Buy 🇺🇸
15	Six Science Fiction Plays 1975Buy 🇺🇸
16	Weird Heroes Volume 2 1975Buy 🇺🇸
17	Andromeda 1 1976Buy 🇺🇸
18	Lone Star Universe 1976Buy 🇺🇸
19	Chrysalis 1 1977Buy 🇺🇸
20	Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy, November 1977 1977Buy 🇺🇸
21	Study War No More 1977Buy 🇺🇸
22	The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series V 1977Buy 🇺🇸
23	They Came from Outer Space: 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales That Became Major Motion Pictures 1979Buy 🇺🇸
24	Nebula Awards 13 1980Buy 🇺🇸
25	The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction / Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century 1980Buy 🇺🇸
26	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Three: Nebula Winners 1965-1969 1981Buy 🇺🇸
27	Great Fantasy 1983Buy 🇺🇸
28	Nebula Award Stories 3 1983Buy 🇺🇸
29	The First Omni Book of Science Fiction 1983Buy 🇺🇸
30	Great Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction 1985Buy 🇺🇸
31	Medea 1985Buy 🇺🇸
32	Twilight Zone Magazine, December 1985 1985Buy 🇺🇸
33	Kingdom of Fear: The World of Stephen King 1986Buy 🇺🇸
34	The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 12 1986Buy 🇺🇸
35	The Dark Void 1987Buy 🇺🇸
36	Volume I: The Color of Evil 1987Buy 🇺🇸
37	Demons & Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Horror 1 1988Buy 🇺🇸
38	First Annual Collection 1988Buy 🇺🇸
39	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1988 1988Buy 🇺🇸
40	The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats 1988Buy 🇺🇸
41	Hot Blood Tales of Erotic Horror 1989Buy 🇺🇸
42	Alien Sex 1990Buy 🇺🇸
43	Borderlands 1 1990Buy 🇺🇸
44	Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 1990 1990Buy 🇺🇸
45	Best New Horror 2 1991Buy 🇺🇸
46	Dante's Disciples 1991Buy 🇺🇸
47	Dark Destiny II: Proprietors of Fate 1991Buy 🇺🇸
48	The Horror Hall of Fame 1991Buy 🇺🇸
49	Murder Plus 1992Buy 🇺🇸
50	The Mammoth Book of Vampires 1992Buy 🇺🇸
51	The Giant Book of Best New Horror 1993Buy 🇺🇸
52	The Ultimate Undead 1993Buy 🇺🇸
53	Best New Horror 5 1994Buy 🇺🇸
54	Dark Destiny 1994Buy 🇺🇸
55	Seventh Annual Collection 1994Buy 🇺🇸
56	Ten Tales 1994Buy 🇺🇸
57	The King is Dead: Tales of Elvis Postmortem 1994Buy 🇺🇸
58	Best New Horror 6 1995Buy 🇺🇸
59	Cthulhu 2000 1995Buy 🇺🇸
60	Hanukkah Lights 1995Buy 🇺🇸
61	Dark Terrors 2 1996Buy 🇺🇸
62	The Outer Limits, Volume One 1996Buy 🇺🇸
63	Hollywood Fantasies: Ten Surreal Visions of Tinsel Town 1997Buy 🇺🇸
64	In the Shadow of the Gargoyle 1998Buy 🇺🇸
65	The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology 1999Buy 🇺🇸
66	The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10 1999Buy 🇺🇸
67	The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century 2000Buy 🇺🇸
68	A Century of Great Suspense Stories 2001Buy 🇺🇸
69	Fourteenth Annual Collection 2001Buy 🇺🇸
70	The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 2001 2001Buy 🇺🇸
71	Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores 2002Buy 🇺🇸
72	The Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine: Joe Haldeman and Others 2003Buy 🇺🇸
73	The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction 2006Buy 🇺🇸
74	Balm in Gilead - Salves from the Souk of Imagination 2007Buy 🇺🇸
75	Nebula Awards 41 (2007) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
76	Nebula Awards Showcase 2007 2007Buy 🇺🇸
77	Summer Chills 2007Buy 🇺🇸
78	The Living Dead 2008Buy 🇺🇸
79	Son of Retro Pulp Tales 2009Buy 🇺🇸
80	Curse of the Full Moon: A Werewolf Anthology 2010Buy 🇺🇸
81	The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction 2010Buy 🇺🇸
82	Crucified Dreams 2011Buy 🇺🇸
83	Lore: A Quaint and Curious Volume of Selected Stories 2011Buy 🇺🇸
84	Fantastic Stories of the Imagination 2012Buy 🇺🇸
85	Fear the Abyss 2012Buy 🇺🇸
86	Season of Wonder 2012Buy 🇺🇸
87	Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury 2012Buy 🇺🇸
88	Weasels Ripped My Flesh!: Two-Fisted Stories From Men's Adventure Magazines of the 1950s, '60s & '70s 2013Buy 🇺🇸
89	Again, Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word 2014Buy 🇺🇸
90	Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror 2014Buy 🇺🇸
91	Shadow Show: Stories In Celebration of Ray Bradbury 2015Buy 🇺🇸
92	Darker Terrors 7 2016Buy 🇺🇸
93	Silent Night, Deadly Night 2016Buy 🇺🇸
94	Science Fiction Gems, Volume 15, Milton Lessor and Others 2018Buy 🇺🇸
95	The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories 2019Buy 🇺🇸
96	Love, Death + Robots: The Official Anthology: Volumes 2 & 3 2022Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2014–2016)

Start with Batman '66 Vol. 1(By: Jeff Parker), the first of 6 books in the Batman '66 series.

#	Title
1	Batman '66 Vol. 1(By: Jeff Parker) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
2	Batman '66 Vol. 2(By: Jeff Parker) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
3	Batman '66 Vol. 4 2015Buy 🇺🇸
4	Batman '66, Vol. 3(By: Jeff Parker) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
5	Batman '66 Meets the Man From U.N.C.L.E.(By: Jeff Parker) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
6	Batman '66, Vol. 5(By: Ray Fawkes,Jeff Parker,Gabe Soria) 2016Buy 🇺🇸

8 books (2011–2019)

Start with Brain Movies, Volume 1, the first of 8 books in the Brain Movies series.

#	Title
1	Brain Movies, Volume 1 2011Buy 🇺🇸
2	Brain Movies, Volume 2 2011Buy 🇺🇸
3	Brain Movies, Volume 3 2013Buy 🇺🇸
4	Brain Movies, Volume 4 2013Buy 🇺🇸
5	Brain Movies, Volume 5 2013Buy 🇺🇸
6	Brain Movies, Volume 6 2013Buy 🇺🇸
7	Brain Movies, Volume 7 2019Buy 🇺🇸
8	Brain Movies, Volume 8 2019Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1995–2007)

Start with Dream Corridor Special, the first of 4 books in the Dream Corridor series.

#	Title
1	Dream Corridor Special 1995Buy 🇺🇸
2	Dream Corridor 1 1996Buy 🇺🇸
3	Dream Corridor Quarterly 1996Buy 🇺🇸
4	Dream Corridor 2(By: Gerard Jones) 2007Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2013–2013)

#	Title
1	Harlan Ellison's 7 Against Chaos 2013Buy 🇺🇸

25 books (2009–2025)

Start with The Avengers, Vol. 1(By: Jack Kirby,Don Heck,Stan Lee), the first of 25 books in the Marvel Masterworks: The Avengers series.

#	Title
1	The Avengers, Vol. 1(By: Jack Kirby,Don Heck,Stan Lee) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Avengers, Vol. 2(By: Jack Kirby,Don Heck,Dick Ayers,Stan Lee,Larry Lieber,Paul Laiken) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Avengers, Vol. 3(By: Jack Kirby,Don Heck,Stan Lee) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Avengers, Vol. 4(By: Roy Thomas,Don Heck,Stan Lee) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Avengers, Vol. 5(By: Roy Thomas,Don Heck,John Buscema,George Tuska) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Avengers, Vol. 6(By: Roy Thomas) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Avengers, Vol. 7(By: Barry Windsor-Smith) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Avengers, Vol. 8(By: Roy Thomas) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Avengers, Vol. 9 2009Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Avengers, Vol. 10(By: Roy Thomas,Neal Adams,Sal Buscema,John Buscema,Barry Windsor-Smith) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Avengers, Vol. 11(By: Roy Thomas,Steve Englehart) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Avengers, Vol. 12(By: John Romita Sr.,Steve Englehart,Sal Buscema,Bob Brown) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Avengers, Vol. 13(By: Roy Thomas,Steve Englehart,Bob Brown,Jim Starlin,Gerry Conway) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Avengers, Vol. 14(By: Roy Thomas,Don Heck,Steve Englehart,Sal Buscema,George Tuska,Dave Cockrum,Ron Wilson) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Avengers, Vol. 15(By: George Pérez,Don Heck,Steve Englehart,George Tuska,Keith Pollard,Tony Isabella) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Avengers, Vol. 16(By: Jack Kirby,George Pérez,Steve Englehart,Stan Lee,Sal Buscema,John Buscema,Gerry Conway,Jim Shooter) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Avengers, Vol. 17(By: Roger Stern,Jim Starlin,Jim Shooter) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Avengers, Vol. 18(By: George Pérez) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Avengers, Vol. 19(By: Carmine Infantino,John Byrne,Steven Grant,George Pérez,David Michelinie,John Fuller,Sal Buscema,Tom DeFalco,Roger Stern,Jim Shooter,Arvell Jones,Mark Gruenwald,Bob Layton,Ron Wilson) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Avengers, Vol. 20(By: David Michelinie,Bill Mantlo,Chris Claremont,Roger Stern,J.M. DeMatteis,Jim Shooter,Danny Fingeroth) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Avengers, Vol. 21(By: J.M. DeMatteis) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
22	The Avengers, Vol. 22(By: John Romita Sr.,Dan Green,John Byrne,Al Milgrom,Bill Mantlo,Sal Buscema,Roger Stern,Bob Budiansky,Jackson Guice) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
23	The Avengers,Vol. 23(By: Jack Kirby,Don Heck,Stan Lee) 2023Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Avengers, Vol. 24(By: Al Milgrom,Roger Stern,Bob Harras,Luke McDonnell,Bob Hall) 2024Buy 🇺🇸
25	The Avengers, Vol. 25(By: John Byrne,David Michelinie,John Buscema,Roger Stern,Bob Hall,Tom Palmer) 2025Buy 🇺🇸

9 books (1905–2020)

Start with The Thinking Machine, the first of 9 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	The Thinking Machine 1905Buy 🇺🇸
2	Memos From Purgatory 1961Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Glass Teat 1970Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Other Glass Teat 1975Buy 🇺🇸
5	Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed 1984Buy 🇺🇸
6	An Edge in My Voice 1985Buy 🇺🇸
7	Harlan Ellison's Watching 1988Buy 🇺🇸
8	Harlan 101 2011Buy 🇺🇸
9	Working Without a Net 2020Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1977–2012)

Start with The City on the Edge of Forever and read in order.

#	Title
1	The City on the Edge of Forever 1977Buy 🇺🇸
2	I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay 1987Buy 🇺🇸
3	None of the Above 2012Buy 🇺🇸

18 books (1965–2013)

Start with "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman, the first of 18 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman 1965Buy 🇺🇸
2	Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes 1967Buy 🇺🇸
3	A Boy and His Dog 1969Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Region Between 1970Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Deathbird 1973Buy 🇺🇸
6	Jeffty Is Five 1977Buy 🇺🇸
7	All the Lies That Are My Life 1980Buy 🇺🇸
8	Paladin of the Lost Hour (in Twilight Zone Magazine) 1985Buy 🇺🇸
9	Soft Monkey 1987Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Function of Dream Sleep 1988Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Function of Dream Sleep (in Asimov's) 1988Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks 1990Buy 🇺🇸
13	Chatting with Anubis 1995Buy 🇺🇸
14	From A to Z, in the Sarsaparilla Alphabet 2001Buy 🇺🇸
15	She's a Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother 2003Buy 🇺🇸
16	Run for the Stars 2006Buy 🇺🇸
17	Harlan Ellison's Movie 2010Buy 🇺🇸
18	Li'l Harlan and His Sidekick Carl the Comet in Danger Land 2013Buy 🇺🇸

44 books (1958–2024)

Start with The Deadly Streets, the first of 44 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	The Deadly Streets 1958Buy 🇺🇸
2	Getting in the Wind 1959Buy 🇺🇸
3	Sex Gang 1959Buy 🇺🇸
4	Children of the Streets / The Juvies 1961Buy 🇺🇸
5	Gentleman Junkie 1961Buy 🇺🇸
6	Ellison Wonderland 1962Buy 🇺🇸
7	Paingod and Other Delusions 1965Buy 🇺🇸
8	From the Land of Fear 1967Buy 🇺🇸
9	I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream 1967Buy 🇺🇸
10	Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled 1968Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World 1968Buy 🇺🇸
12	Over the Edge 1970Buy 🇺🇸
13	Alone Against Tomorrow 1972Buy 🇺🇸
14	All the Sounds of Fear 1973Buy 🇺🇸
15	Approaching Oblivion 1974Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Time of the Eye 1974Buy 🇺🇸
17	Deathbird Stories 1975Buy 🇺🇸
18	No Doors, No Windows 1975Buy 🇺🇸
19	Strange Wine 1978Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Illustrated Harlan Ellison 1978Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Fantasies of Harlan Ellison 1979Buy 🇺🇸
22	Shatterday 1980Buy 🇺🇸
23	Stalking the Nightmare 1982Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Essential Ellison 1985Buy 🇺🇸
25	Mefisto in Onyx 1987Buy 🇺🇸
26	Night and the Enemy 1987Buy 🇺🇸
27	Angry Candy 1988Buy 🇺🇸
28	Footsteps 1989Buy 🇺🇸
29	The Harlan Ellison Hornbook 1990Buy 🇺🇸
30	Spider Kiss / Stalking the Nightmare 1996Buy 🇺🇸
31	Slippage 1997Buy 🇺🇸
32	Troublemakers 2001Buy 🇺🇸
33	Dreams with Sharp Teeth 2009Buy 🇺🇸
34	The Phantom Chronicles, Volume 2 2009Buy 🇺🇸
35	Pulling a Train 2012Buy 🇺🇸
36	Rough Beasts 2012Buy 🇺🇸
37	Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word 2013Buy 🇺🇸
38	Again, Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word(With: Jason Davis) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
39	The Top of the Volcano 2014Buy 🇺🇸
40	Can & Can'tankerous 2015Buy 🇺🇸
41	Dimensions of Harlan Ellison 2019Buy 🇺🇸
42	The Ellison Treatment 2019Buy 🇺🇸
43	The Ephemeral Ellison 2019Buy 🇺🇸
44	Greatest Hits 2024Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (1958–1975)

Start with Web of the City, the first of 6 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Web of the City 1958Buy 🇺🇸
2	A Touch of Infinity 1959Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Man with 9 Lives 1959Buy 🇺🇸
4	Spider Kiss 1961Buy 🇺🇸
5	Doomsman 1972Buy 🇺🇸
6	Phoenix Without Ashes 1975Buy 🇺🇸

11 books (1967–1982)

Start with Amok Time(By: Theodore Sturgeon), the first of 11 books in the Star Trek Fotonovel series.

#	Title
1	Amok Time(By: Theodore Sturgeon) 1967Buy 🇺🇸
2	The City on the Edge of Forever 1977Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Trouble with Tribbles(By: David Gerrold) 1977Buy 🇺🇸
4	A Piece of the Action(By: Gene L. Coon,David P. Harmon) 1978Buy 🇺🇸
5	A Taste of Armageddon(By: Robert Hamner,Gene L. Coon) 1978Buy 🇺🇸
6	All Our Yesterdays(By: Jean Lissette Aroeste) 1978Buy 🇺🇸
7	Day of the Dove(By: Jerome Bixby) 1978Buy 🇺🇸
8	Metamorphosis(By: Gene L. Coon) 1978Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Galileo 7(By: Oliver Crawford,S. Bar-David) 1978Buy 🇺🇸
10	Star Trek: The Motion Picture(By: Alan Dean Foster,Harold Livingston,Richard J. Anobile) 1980Buy 🇺🇸
11	Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan(By: Richard J. Anobile) 1982Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1987–1991)

Start with Volume I: The Color of Evil and read in order.

#	Title
1	Volume I: The Color of Evil 1987Buy 🇺🇸
2	Volume II: The Medusa In The Shield 1990Buy 🇺🇸
3	Volume III:A Fabulous, Formless Darkness 1991Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1988–2019)

Start with Vic and Blood and read in order.

#	Title
1	Vic and Blood 1988Buy 🇺🇸
2	Blood's a Rover 2019Buy 🇺🇸