Harry Harrison Reading Order

48 books (1965–2025)

Start with Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January 1965, the first of 48 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January 1965 1965Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Eighth Galaxy Reader 1965Buy 🇺🇸
3	Nebula Award Stories #2 1966Buy 🇺🇸
4	Analog Science Fiction And Fact, March 1967 1967Buy 🇺🇸
5	Apeman, Spaceman 1968Buy 🇺🇸
6	Backdrop of Stars 1968Buy 🇺🇸
7	Farewell, Fantastic Venus / All About Venus 1968Buy 🇺🇸
8	SF: Author's Choice 1968Buy 🇺🇸
9	Analog 6 1969Buy 🇺🇸
10	Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, March 1969 1969Buy 🇺🇸
11	Blast Off 1969Buy 🇺🇸
12	Four for the Future 1969Buy 🇺🇸
13	Worlds of If, February 1969 1969Buy 🇺🇸
14	Nova 1 1970Buy 🇺🇸
15	SF Authors' Choice 2 1970Buy 🇺🇸
16	Science Against Man 1970Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Year 2000 1970Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 3 1970Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Light Fantastic 1971Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Astounding Analog Reader 1972Buy 🇺🇸
21	A Science Fiction Reader 1973Buy 🇺🇸
22	Best From Fantasy And Science Fiction: 18th Series 1973Buy 🇺🇸
23	SF Authors' Choice 3 1973Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Astounding-Analog Reader, Book Two 1973Buy 🇺🇸
25	The John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology / Astounding 1973Buy 🇺🇸
26	The Year's Best Science Fiction 1973Buy 🇺🇸
27	Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology 1974Buy 🇺🇸
28	SF: Authors' Choice 4 1974Buy 🇺🇸
29	Wondermakers 2 1974Buy 🇺🇸
30	Antigrav 1975Buy 🇺🇸
31	Decade: The 1940's 1975Buy 🇺🇸
32	Hell's Cartographers 1975Buy 🇺🇸
33	Decade: The 1950s 1976Buy 🇺🇸
34	Decade: The 1960s 1977Buy 🇺🇸
35	Study War No More 1977Buy 🇺🇸
36	Weekend Book of Science Fiction 1981Buy 🇺🇸
37	Tales from the Planet Earth 1986Buy 🇺🇸
38	Tales From the Forbidden Planet 1987Buy 🇺🇸
39	The Drabble Project 1988Buy 🇺🇸
40	The Monster Book of Monsters 1988Buy 🇺🇸
41	There Won't Be War 1991Buy 🇺🇸
42	100 Astounding Little Alien Stories 1996Buy 🇺🇸
43	The Young Oxford Book of Aliens 1999Buy 🇺🇸
44	Beyond the Moons of Fomalhaut 2010Buy 🇺🇸
45	Favorite Science Fiction Stories, Volume 2 2010Buy 🇺🇸
46	The Fourth Science Fiction Megapack 2012Buy 🇺🇸
47	The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume X 2018Buy 🇺🇸
48	Epic Sci-Fi Odyssey 2025Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (1969–1976)

Start with Best SF: 1968 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 2, the first of 6 books in the Best SF Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Best SF: 1968 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 2 1969Buy 🇺🇸
2	Best SF: 1969 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 3 1970Buy 🇺🇸
3	Best SF: 1970 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 4 1971Buy 🇺🇸
4	Best SF: 1971 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 5 1972Buy 🇺🇸
5	Best SF: 1973 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 7 1973Buy 🇺🇸
6	Best SF: 1975 / The Year's Best Science Fiction 9 1976Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (1965–1992)

Start with Bill, the Galactic Hero, the first of 7 books in the Bill, The Galactic Hero series.

#	Title
1	Bill, the Galactic Hero 1965Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Planet of the Robot Slaves 1989Buy 🇺🇸
3	On the Planet of Bottled Brains(With: Robert Sheckley) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
4	On the Planet of Tasteless Pleasure(With: David Bischoff) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
5	On the Planet of Zombie Vampires(With: Jack C. Haldeman II) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Planet of the Hippies from Hell / On the Planet of Ten Thousand Bars(With: David Bischoff) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Final Incoherent Adventure!(With: David Harris) 1992Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1962–1981)

Start with Planet of the Damned / A Sense of Obligation and read in order.

#	Title
1	Planet of the Damned / A Sense of Obligation 1962Buy 🇺🇸
2	Planet of No Return 1981Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1960–1968)

Start with Deathworld and read in order.

#	Title
1	Deathworld 1960Buy 🇺🇸
2	Deathworld II: The Ethical Engineer 1964Buy 🇺🇸
3	Deathworld 3 1968Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1984–1988)

Start with West of Eden and read in order.

#	Title
1	West of Eden 1984Buy 🇺🇸
2	Winter in Eden 1986Buy 🇺🇸
3	Return to Eden 1988Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1993–1996)

Start with The Hammer and the Cross and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Hammer and the Cross 1993Buy 🇺🇸
2	One King's Way 1994Buy 🇺🇸
3	King and Emperor(With: John Holm) 1996Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1977–2014)

Start with Great Balls of Fire and read in order.

#	Title
1	Great Balls of Fire 1977Buy 🇺🇸
2	Spacecraft In Fact and Fiction(With: Malcolm Edwards) 1979Buy 🇺🇸
3	Harry Harrison! Harry Harrison! 2014Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1971–1974)

Start with Nova One, the first of 4 books in the Nova series.

#	Title
1	Nova One 1971Buy 🇺🇸
2	Nova 2 1972Buy 🇺🇸
3	Nova 3 / The Outdated Man 1973Buy 🇺🇸
4	Nova IV(With: Robert Sheckley) 1974Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (1974–1974)

#	Title
1	SF: Authors' Choice 4 1974Buy 🇺🇸

8 books (1953–2010)

Start with The Web of the Worlds(With: Katherine MacLean), the first of 8 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	The Web of the Worlds(With: Katherine MacLean) 1953Buy 🇺🇸
2	Navy Day 1954Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Velvet Glove 1956Buy 🇺🇸
4	Arm of the Law 1958Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Repairman 1958Buy 🇺🇸
6	The K-Factor 1960Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Misplaced Battleship 1960Buy 🇺🇸
8	Toy Shop 2010Buy 🇺🇸

9 books (1962–2016)

Start with War with the Robots, the first of 9 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	War with the Robots 1962Buy 🇺🇸
2	Two Tales and Eight Tomorrows 1965Buy 🇺🇸
3	One Step from Earth 1970Buy 🇺🇸
4	Prime Number 1970Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Best of Harry Harrison 1977Buy 🇺🇸
6	Galactic Dreams 1995Buy 🇺🇸
7	50 in 50 2001Buy 🇺🇸
8	Toy Shop and Two Others 2009Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Idols of Wuld & Planet of the Damned(With: Milton Lesser) 2016Buy 🇺🇸

12 books (1961–2010)

Start with Stainless Steel Rat, the first of 12 books in the Stainless Steel Rat series.

#	Title
1	Stainless Steel Rat 1961Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge 1970Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Stainless Steel Rat Saves The World 1971Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You! 1978Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Stainless Steel Rat for President 1982Buy 🇺🇸
6	A Stainless Steel Rat is Born 1985Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted 1987Buy 🇺🇸
8	Stainless Steel Visions 1992Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues 1994Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell 1996Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus 1999Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Stainless Steel Rat Returns 2010Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (1985–1985)

#	Title
1	You Can Be the Stainless Steel Rat 1985Buy 🇺🇸

22 books (1965–1992)

Start with Plague from Space, the first of 22 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Plague from Space 1965Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Jupiter Plague 1965Buy 🇺🇸
3	Make Room! Make Room! 1966Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Technicolor Time Machine 1967Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Man from P.I.G. 1968Buy 🇺🇸
6	Captive Universe 1969Buy 🇺🇸
7	In Our Hands, the Stars / The Daleth Effect 1970Buy 🇺🇸
8	Spaceship Medic 1970Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Jupiter Legacy 1970Buy 🇺🇸
10	Stonehenge: Where Atlantis Died(With: Leon E. Stover) 1972Buy 🇺🇸
11	Tunnel Through the Deeps / A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah! 1972Buy 🇺🇸
12	Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers 1974Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Men from P.I.G. and R.O.B.O.T. 1974Buy 🇺🇸
14	The California Iceberg(With: James E. Barry) 1975Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Lifeship / Lifeboat(With: Gordon R. Dickson) 1975Buy 🇺🇸
16	Skyfall 1976Buy 🇺🇸
17	Mechanismo 1978Buy 🇺🇸
18	Planet Story 1979Buy 🇺🇸
19	The QEII is Missing 1980Buy 🇺🇸
20	Invasion: Earth 1982Buy 🇺🇸
21	A Rebel in Time 1983Buy 🇺🇸
22	The Turing Option(With: Marvin Minsky) 1992Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1998–2001)

Start with Stars and Stripes Forever and read in order.

#	Title
1	Stars and Stripes Forever 1998Buy 🇺🇸
2	Stars and Stripes in Peril 2000Buy 🇺🇸
3	Stars and Stripes Triumphant 2001Buy 🇺🇸

32 books (2006–2025)

Start with Weird Science Volume 1(With: Gardner F. Fox,Jack Kamen,Wallace Wood,Harvey Kurtzman,Al Feldstein), the first of 32 books in the The EC Archives series.

#	Title
1	Weird Science Volume 1(With: Gardner F. Fox,Jack Kamen,Wallace Wood,Harvey Kurtzman,Al Feldstein) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
2	Two-Fisted Tales Volume 1(By: Wallace Wood,Harvey Kurtzman,Jack Davis) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
3	Two-Fisted Tales, Vol. 2(By: Harvey Kurtzman) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
4	Weird Science, Vol. 2(By: Al Feldstein) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
5	Frontline Combat, Vol. 1(By: Harvey Kurtzman,Giorgio Cavazzano,Jerry DeFuccio,Wally Wood) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
6	The EC Archives: Crime SuspenStories, Vol. 1(By: Al Feldstein) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
7	The EC Archives: Weird Science, Vol. 3(By: Al Feldstein) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Vault of Horror Volume 3(By: Daniel Chabon,Al Feldstein,William M. Gaines,Jerry De Fuccio) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
9	Two-Fisted Tales Volume 3(By: Harvey Kurtzman) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
10	The EC Archives: The Haunt of Fear Volume 3(By: Al Feldstein) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Haunt of Fear Volume 4(By: Otto Binder,Al Feldstein,William M. Gaines) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
12	Panic Volume 2(By: Al Feldstein,William M. Gaines,Jack Mendelsohn) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Haunt of Fear Volume 5(By: Jack Davis,Otto Binder,Carl Wessler,William M. Gaines,Al Felstein) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
14	Weird Fantasy Volume 3(By: William M. Gaines) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
15	Frontline Combat Volume 2(By: Jack Davis,Alex Toth,Harvey Kurtzman) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
16	The EC Archives: Modern Love(By: Al Feldstein) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
17	The EC Archives: Piracy(By: Al Feldstein) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Vault of Horror Volume 5(By: Vivian Ng,Irene Koh,William M. Gaines) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
19	Psychoanalysis(By: Daniel Keyes,Robert Bernstein) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
20	The EC Archives: Impact(By: Al Feldstein) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
21	The EC Archives: Shock Illustrated(By: Al Feldstein) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
22	The EC Archives: War Against Crime Volume 2(By: Al Feldstein) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
23	Frontline Combat Volume 3(By: Jack Davis,Alex Toth,Harvey Kurtzman,Wally Wood) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
24	The EC Archives: MD(By: Al Feldstein) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
25	The EC Archives: Saddle Justice(By: Al Feldstein) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
26	Confessions Illustrated(By: Daniel Keyes) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
27	The EC Archives: Crime Illustrated(By: Al Feldstein) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
28	The EC Archives: Terror Illustrated(By: Al Feldstein) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
29	Tales from the Crypt Volume 3(By: Jack Davis,Jack Kamen,Al Feldstein,Graham Ingels,William Gaines) 2023Buy 🇺🇸
30	The EC Archives: Tales from the Crypt Volume 3(By: Al Feldstein) 2023Buy 🇺🇸
31	The EC Archives: The Haunt of Fear Volume 4(By: Al Feldstein) 2024Buy 🇺🇸
32	The EC Archives: Two-Fisted Tales Volume 3(By: Jack Davis,Reed Crandall,Harvey Kurtzman,Carlos Badilla,Wally Wood) 2025Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2016–2018)

Start with The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume VI(By: Robert Sheckley) and read in order.

3 books (1980–1981)

Start with Homeworld and read in order.

#	Title
1	Homeworld 1980Buy 🇺🇸
2	Starworld 1981Buy 🇺🇸
3	Wheelworld 1981Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1972–1974)

Start with Montezuma's Revenge and read in order.

#	Title
1	Montezuma's Revenge 1972Buy 🇺🇸
2	Queen Victoria's Revenge 1974Buy 🇺🇸