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 🇺🇸
2	Shriek 2006Buy 🇺🇸
3	Finch 2009Buy 🇺🇸

40 books (1995–2018)

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

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

3 books (2017–2019)

Start with Borne and read in order.

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

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 🇺🇸
2	Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight(By: Cat Rambo) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
3	Near + Far(By: Cat Rambo) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
4	Altered America(By: Cat Rambo) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
5	Neither Here Nor There(By: Cat Rambo) 2016Buy 🇺🇸

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

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 🇺🇸

1 book (2020–2020)

#	Title
1	A Peculiar Peril 2020Buy 🇺🇸

3 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: The Evil Monkey Dialogues(With: Ann VanderMeer) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
2	Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction 2013Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Steampunk User's Manual(With: S.J. Chambers) 2014Buy 🇺🇸

13 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 🇺🇸
2	Predator 2(By: Simon Hawke) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
3	Concrete Jungle(By: James A. Moore,Nathan Archer) 1995Buy 🇺🇸
4	Cold War(By: Nathan Archer) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
5	Big Game(By: Sandy Schofield) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
6	Forever Midnight(By: John Shirley) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
7	Flesh and Blood(By: Robert Greenberger,Michael Jan Friedman) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
8	South China Sea 2008Buy 🇺🇸
9	Turnabout(By: Steve Perry) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
10	Incursion(By: Tim Lebbon) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
11	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 🇺🇸
12	Hunters and Hunted Official Movie Prequel(By: James A. Moore) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
13	Stalking Shadows(By: James A. Moore,Mark Morris) 2020Buy 🇺🇸

10 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 🇺🇸
2	The Transformation of Martin Lake 1999Buy 🇺🇸
3	Why Should I Cut Your Throat? 2004Buy 🇺🇸
4	Errata 2010Buy 🇺🇸
5	Balzac's War 2011Buy 🇺🇸
6	Greensleeves 2011Buy 🇺🇸
7	Komodo 2014Buy 🇺🇸
8	This World Is Full of Monsters 2017Buy 🇺🇸
9	Bliss 2022Buy 🇺🇸
10	Wildlife 2022Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (2003–2011)

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

#	Title
1	The Day Dali Died 2003Buy 🇺🇸
2	Secret Life 2004Buy 🇺🇸
3	Strange Tales of Secret Lives 2007Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Surgeon's Tale and Other Stories(With: Cat Rambo) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Third Bear 2007Buy 🇺🇸
6	Monstrous Creatures: Explorations of Fantasy Through Essays, Articles and Reviews 2011Buy 🇺🇸
7	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 🇺🇸

4 books (2014–2024)

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

#	Title
1	Acceptance 2014Buy 🇺🇸
2	Annihilation 2014Buy 🇺🇸
3	Authority 2014Buy 🇺🇸
4	Absolution 2024Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2003–2021)

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

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

4 books (2014–2014)

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

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