Jim C. Hines Reading Order

20 books (2001–2026)

Start with The Book of All Flesh, the first of 20 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	The Book of All Flesh 2001Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Book of More Flesh 2002Buy 🇺🇸
3	Modern Magic 2005Buy 🇺🇸
4	Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Badguy 2007Buy 🇺🇸
5	Prime Codex 2007Buy 🇺🇸
6	Magic in the Mirrorstone 2008Buy 🇺🇸
7	Misspelled 2008Buy 🇺🇸
8	Time in a Bottle, Volume 1 2010Buy 🇺🇸
9	Happily Ever After 2011Buy 🇺🇸
10	When the Hero Comes Home 2011Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Modern Fae's Guide to Surviving Humanity 2012Buy 🇺🇸
12	When the Villain Comes Home 2012Buy 🇺🇸
13	Clarkesworld: Year Three 2013Buy 🇺🇸
14	Unidentified Funny Objects 2 2013Buy 🇺🇸
15	Speculative Fiction 2013 2014Buy 🇺🇸
16	Unidentified Funny Objects 3 2014Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Death of All Things 2017Buy 🇺🇸
18	Unidentified Funny Objects 6 2017Buy 🇺🇸
19	Robots vs. Fairies 2018Buy 🇺🇸
20	Uncanny Magazine Issue 69: March/April 2026 2026Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2015–2015)

#	Title
1	Fable 2015Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2017–2022)

Start with Terminal Alliance and read in order.

#	Title
1	Terminal Alliance 2017Buy 🇺🇸
2	Terminal Uprising 2019Buy 🇺🇸
3	Terminal Peace 2022Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2004–2011)

Start with Goblin Quest, the first of 4 books in the Jig the Goblin series.

#	Title
1	Goblin Quest 2004Buy 🇺🇸
2	Goblin Hero 2007Buy 🇺🇸
3	Goblin War 2008Buy 🇺🇸
4	Goblin Tales 2011Buy 🇺🇸

41 books (1985–2025)

Start with L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 1, the first of 41 books in the L. Ron Hubbard Presents: Writers of the Future series.

#	Title
1	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 1 1985Buy 🇺🇸
2	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 2 1986Buy 🇺🇸
3	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 3 1987Buy 🇺🇸
4	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 4 1988Buy 🇺🇸
5	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 5 1989Buy 🇺🇸
6	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 6 1990Buy 🇺🇸
7	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 7 1991Buy 🇺🇸
8	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 8 1992Buy 🇺🇸
9	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future9 1993Buy 🇺🇸
10	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 10 1994Buy 🇺🇸
11	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 11 1995Buy 🇺🇸
12	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 12 1996Buy 🇺🇸
13	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 13 1997Buy 🇺🇸
14	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 14 1998Buy 🇺🇸
15	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 15 1999Buy 🇺🇸
16	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 16 2000Buy 🇺🇸
17	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 17 2001Buy 🇺🇸
18	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 18 2002Buy 🇺🇸
19	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 19 2002Buy 🇺🇸
20	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 20 2004Buy 🇺🇸
21	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 21 2005Buy 🇺🇸
22	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 22 2006Buy 🇺🇸
23	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 23 2007Buy 🇺🇸
24	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 24 2008Buy 🇺🇸
25	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 25 2009Buy 🇺🇸
26	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 26 2010Buy 🇺🇸
27	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 27 2011Buy 🇺🇸
28	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 28 2012Buy 🇺🇸
29	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 29 2013Buy 🇺🇸
30	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 30 2014Buy 🇺🇸
31	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 31 2015Buy 🇺🇸
32	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 32 2016Buy 🇺🇸
33	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 33 2017Buy 🇺🇸
34	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 34 2018Buy 🇺🇸
35	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 35 2019Buy 🇺🇸
36	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 36 2020Buy 🇺🇸
37	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 37 2021Buy 🇺🇸
38	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 38 2022Buy 🇺🇸
39	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 39 2023Buy 🇺🇸
40	L. Ron Hubbard Presents: Writers of the Future 40 2024Buy 🇺🇸
41	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 41 2025Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2012–2018)

Start with Libriomancer, the first of 6 books in the Magic Ex Libris series.

#	Title
1	Libriomancer 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	Codex Born 2013Buy 🇺🇸
3	Chupacabra's Song 2015Buy 🇺🇸
4	Unbound 2015Buy 🇺🇸
5	Revisionary 2016Buy 🇺🇸
6	Imprinted 2018Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2014–2017)

Start with Invisible: Personal Essays on Representation in SF/F and read in order.

4 books (2008–2011)

Start with The Stepsister Scheme, the first of 4 books in the Princess series.

#	Title
1	The Stepsister Scheme 2008Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Mermaid's Madness 2009Buy 🇺🇸
3	Red Hood's Revenge 2010Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Snow Queen's Shadow 2011Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2003–2013)

Start with Goldfish Dreams, the first of 4 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Goldfish Dreams 2003Buy 🇺🇸
2	Kitemaster and Other Stories 2011Buy 🇺🇸
3	Sister of the Hedge & Other Stories 2012Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Goblin Master's Grimoire 2013Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (2014–2025)

Start with Rise of the Spider Goddess, the first of 5 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Rise of the Spider Goddess 2014Buy 🇺🇸
2	Tamora Carter: Goblin Queen 2020Buy 🇺🇸
3	Amelia Sand and the Silver Queens 2023Buy 🇺🇸
4	Kitemaster 2025Buy 🇺🇸
5	Slayers of Old 2025Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2008–2008)

#	Title
1	Red's Tale / Lobo's Tale 2008Buy 🇺🇸

13 books (2012–2026)

Start with Unidentified Funny Objects, the first of 13 books in the Unidentified Funny Objects Annual Anthology series.

#	Title
1	Unidentified Funny Objects 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	Unidentified Funny Objects 2 2013Buy 🇺🇸
3	Unidentified Funny Objects 3 2014Buy 🇺🇸
4	Funny Science Fiction 2015Buy 🇺🇸
5	Unidentified Funny Objects 4 2015Buy 🇺🇸
6	Funny Fantasy 2016Buy 🇺🇸
7	Unidentified Funny Objects 5 2016Buy 🇺🇸
8	Funny Horror 2017Buy 🇺🇸
9	Unidentified Funny Objects 6 2017Buy 🇺🇸
10	Unidentified Funny Objects 7 2018Buy 🇺🇸
11	Unidentified Funny Objects 8 2020Buy 🇺🇸
12	Unidentified Funny Objects 9 2022Buy 🇺🇸
13	Unidentified Funny Objects 10 2026Buy 🇺🇸