Jeff VanderMeer Reading Order

3 books (2001–2009)

Start with City of Saints and Madmen and read in order.

#	Title
1	City of Saints and Madmen 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Shriek 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Finch 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

46 books (1995–2023)

Start with Dark Terrors, the first of 40 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Dark Terrors 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 7 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Leviathan 2 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Infinity Plus One 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Dark Terrors 6 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Leviathan 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Breaking Windows 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 14 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Polyphony, Volume 5 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Best New Fantasy 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Booklife 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Brothers & Beasts 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	TwentiethAnnual Collection 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Best American Fantasy 2008 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Fast Ships, Black Sails 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Polluto 2: Apocalypses and Garden Furniture 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Steampunk 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	The New Weird 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2009 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Last Drink Bird Head 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	Happily Ever After 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	ODD? 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	Arc 1.2: Post Human Conditions 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	Circus: Fantasy Under the Big Top 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	Fungi 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	Steampunk III 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	The Mammoth Book of Steampunk 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	The Time Traveler's Almanac 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
36	Lightspeed Magazine, February 2014 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
37	Love Hurts 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
38	Sisters of the Revolution 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
39	Beyond the Woods: Fairy Tales Retold 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
40	The Big Book of Science Fiction 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
41	Mixed Up: Cocktail Recipes (and Flash Fiction) for the Discerning Drinker 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
42	Worlds Seen in Passing 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
43	The Big Book of Classic Fantasy 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
44	The Big Book of Modern Fantasy 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
45	Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
46	Grimdark Magazine, Issue #34 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (2017–2019)

Start with Borne and read in order.

#	Title
1	Borne 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Strange Bird 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Dead Astronauts 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

5 books (2007–2016)

Start with The Surgeon's Tale and Other Stories(With: Cat Rambo), the first of 5 books in the Cat Rambo Collections series.

#	Title
1	The Surgeon's Tale and Other Stories(With: Cat Rambo) 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight(By: Cat Rambo) 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Near + Far(By: Cat Rambo) 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Altered America(By: Cat Rambo) 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Neither Here Nor There(By: Cat Rambo) 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

16 books (2001–2025)

Start with The Fall of Reach(By: Eric Nylund), the first of 16 books in the Halo series.

#	Title
1	The Fall of Reach(By: Eric Nylund) 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	First Strike(By: Eric Nylund) 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Evolutions: Essential Tales of the Halo Universe(With: Fred Van Lente,Tobias Buckell,Karen Traviss,Eric Nylund,B.K. Evenson,Tessa Kum) 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Thursday War(By: Karen Traviss) 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Broken Circle(By: John Shirley) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Hunters in the Dark(By: Peter David) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Saint's Testimony(By: Frank O'Connor) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Shadow of Intent(By: Joseph Staten) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Fractures(By: Christie Golden,Brian Reed,Tobias Buckell,John Jackson Miller,James Swallow,Kelly Gay,Matt Forbeck,Troy Denning,Joseph Staten,Andrew Ceroni,Kevin Grace,Morgan Lockhart,Frank O'Connor) 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Legacy of Onyx(By: Matt Forbeck) 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Contact Harvest(By: Joseph Staten) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Shadows of Reach(By: Troy Denning) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	The Rubicon Protocol(By: Kelly Gay) 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Outcasts(By: Troy Denning) 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Epitaph(By: Kelly Gay) 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Edge of Dawn(By: Kelly Gay) 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2004–2004)

#	Title
1	Leviathan: Cities(By: Jay Lake,Forrest Aguirre,Ben Peek,Michael Cisco,K.J. Bishop,Stepan Chapman,Ursula Pflug,Allan Kausch,Tim Jarvis,Catherine Kasper,Darla Beasley) 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2020–2020)

#	Title
1	A Peculiar Peril 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

4 books (2010–2014)

Start with The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals: The Evil Monkey Dialogues(With: Ann VanderMeer) and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals(With: Ann VanderMeer) 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals: The Evil Monkey Dialogues(With: Ann VanderMeer) 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Steampunk User's Manual(With: S.J. Chambers) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

14 books (1987–2020)

Start with Predator(By: Paul Monette), the first of 13 books in the Predator series.

#	Title
1	Predator(By: Paul Monette) 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Predator 2(By: Simon Hawke) 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Concrete Jungle(By: James A. Moore,Nathan Archer) 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Concrete Jungle(By: Nathan Archer) 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Cold War(By: Nathan Archer) 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Big Game(By: Sandy Schofield) 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Forever Midnight(By: John Shirley) 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Flesh and Blood(By: Robert Greenberger,Michael Jan Friedman) 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	South China Sea 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Turnabout(By: Steve Perry) 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Incursion(By: Tim Lebbon) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	If It Bleeds(By: Jonathan Maberry,Jeremy Robinson,Kevin J. Anderson,Bryan Thomas Schmidt,Tim Lebbon,Andrew Mayne,Steve Perry,Mira Grant,Larry Correia,Dayton Ward) 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Hunters and Hunted Official Movie Prequel(By: James A. Moore) 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Stalking Shadows(By: James A. Moore,Mark Morris) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

11 books (1996–2022)

Start with Dradin, In Love, the first of 10 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	Dradin, In Love 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Hoegbotton Guide to the Early History of Ambergris By Duncan Shriek 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Transformation of Martin Lake 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Why Should I Cut Your Throat? 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Errata 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Balzac's War 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Greensleeves 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Komodo 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	This World Is Full of Monsters 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Bliss 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Wildlife 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

9 books (1996–2011)

Start with The Day Dali Died, the first of 7 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	The Book Of Lost Places 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Day Dali Died 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Secret Life 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Strange Tales of Secret Lives 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Surgeon's Tale and Other Stories(With: Cat Rambo) 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Third Bear 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Secret Lives 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Monstrous Creatures: Explorations of Fantasy Through Essays, Articles and Reviews 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Steampunk Bible: An Illustrated Guide to the World of Imaginary Airships, Corsets and Goggles, Mad Scientists, and Strange Literature(With: S.J. Chambers) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

5 books (2014–2027)

Start with Acceptance, the first of 4 books in the Southern Reach series.

#	Title
1	Acceptance 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Annihilation 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Authority 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Absolution 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Abdication 2027Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

4 books (2003–2021)

Start with Veniss Underground, the first of 4 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Veniss Underground 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Situation 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Three Quests of the Wizard Sarnod 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Hummingbird Salamander 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

4 books (2014–2014)

Start with Communiqués, the first of 4 books in the The Time Traveller's Almanac series.

#	Title
1	Communiqués 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Experiments 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Mazes & Traps 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Reactionaries 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible