Hugh Howey Reading Order

22 books (2012–2020)

Start with The End: Visions of Apocalypse, the first of 22 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	The End: Visions of Apocalypse 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 35, April 2013 2013Buy 🇺🇸
3	Love and Other Distractions 2013Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy #82-84 2013Buy 🇺🇸
5	Dead Man's Hand 2014Buy 🇺🇸
6	From the Indie Side 2014Buy 🇺🇸
7	Futuredaze 2: Reprise 2014Buy 🇺🇸
8	Robot Uprisings 2014Buy 🇺🇸
9	Stories on the Go: 101 Very Short Stories by 101 Authors 2014Buy 🇺🇸
10	The End is Nigh 2014Buy 🇺🇸
11	The End is Now 2014Buy 🇺🇸
12	Lightspeed Magazine, December 2015 2015Buy 🇺🇸
13	Love Hurts 2015Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Alien Chronicles 2015Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Alien Chronicles 2015Buy 🇺🇸
16	The End Has Come 2015Buy 🇺🇸
17	Visions of the Future 2015Buy 🇺🇸
18	Lightspeed Magazine, May 2016 2016Buy 🇺🇸
19	A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers 2019Buy 🇺🇸
20	Burn the Ashes 2020Buy 🇺🇸
21	Ignorance Is Strength 2020Buy 🇺🇸
22	Or Else the Light 2020Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (2015–2015)

Start with Bounty, the first of 5 books in the Beacon 23 (Kindle Singles) series.

4 books (2009–2010)

Start with Molly Fyde and the Parsona Rescue, the first of 4 books in the Bern Saga series.

#	Title
1	Molly Fyde and the Parsona Rescue 2009Buy 🇺🇸
2	Molly Fyde and the Blood of Billions 2010Buy 🇺🇸
3	Molly Fyde and the Fight for Peace 2010Buy 🇺🇸
4	Molly Fyde and the Land of Light 2010Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2014–2023)

Start with Misty: The Proud Cloud, the first of 4 books in the Children's series.

#	Title
1	Misty: The Proud Cloud 2014Buy 🇺🇸
2	Misty the Proud Cloud 2023Buy 🇺🇸
3	Ten 'Lil Cannibals 2023Buy 🇺🇸
4	Wanda Jane Rainer Monster Tamer 2023Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2023–2023)

Start with Death to Anyone Who Reads This and read in order.

1 book (2013–2013)

1 book (2022–2022)

5 books (2013–2014)

Start with Out of No Man's Land, the first of 5 books in the Sand series.

#	Title
1	Out of No Man's Land 2013Buy 🇺🇸
2	Return to Danvar 2013Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Belt of the Buried Gods 2013Buy 🇺🇸
4	Thunder Due East 2013Buy 🇺🇸
5	A Rap Upon Heaven's Gate 2014Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2011–2015)

Start with The Plagiarist, the first of 6 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	The Plagiarist 2011Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Walk Up Nameless Ridge 2012Buy 🇺🇸
3	Glitch 2014Buy 🇺🇸
4	Promises of London 2014Buy 🇺🇸
5	Second Suicide 2014Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Box 2015Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2017–2017)

#	Title
1	Machine Learning 2017Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (2010–2015)

Start with Half Way Home, the first of 5 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Half Way Home 2010Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Hurricane 2011Buy 🇺🇸
3	I, Zombie 2012Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Shell Collector 2014Buy 🇺🇸
5	Beacon 23 2015Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2020–2020)

Start with Burn the Ashes and read in order.

22 books (2015–2023)

Start with Alt.History 101(By: Samuel Peralta,Ann Christy,Sam Best), the first of 22 books in the The Future Chronicles series.

2 books (2014–2022)

Start with Sand and read in order.

#	Title
1	Sand 2014Buy 🇺🇸
2	Across the Sand 2022Buy 🇺🇸

8 books (2015–2016)

Start with Consciousness and Subconsciousness, the first of 8 books in the Wayfinding Non-Fiction series.

3 books (2011–2013)

Start with Wool and read in order.

#	Title
1	Wool 2011Buy 🇺🇸
2	Dust 2013Buy 🇺🇸
3	Shift 2013Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2013–2014)

Start with The Bell Curse(By: Kevin G. Summers), the first of 6 books in the World Of Kurt Vonnegut series.

#	Title
1	The Bell Curse(By: Kevin G. Summers) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
2	The World of Kurt Vonnegut(By: Reed Farrel Coleman) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
3	As Much Protein as an Egg(By: Seth Harwood) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
4	Children's Crusade(By: Peter Cawdron) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
5	Newt and Zinka's Wild, Wild Week OR How the K.G.B. Got Ice-Nine(By: Seth Harwood) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
6	Peace in Amber 2014Buy 🇺🇸