Joe Haldeman Reading Order

57 books (1972–2022)

Start with Orbit 11, the first of 56 books in the Anthologies series.

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1	Orbit 11 1972Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Year's Best Science Fiction 1973Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Year's Best Science Fiction, Volume 6 1973Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Cosmic Laughter; Science Fiction for the Fun of It 1974Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Sixth Annual Collection 1977Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Study War No More 1977Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Rod Serling's Other Worlds 1978Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Shadows of Sanctuary 1981Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Analog 3 1982Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Nebula Awards 17 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Alien Stars 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Body Armor 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1986 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Battlefields Beyond Tomorrow 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Supertanks 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Demons & Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Horror 1 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	First Annual Collection 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Spacefighters 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	A Separate Star: A Tribute to Rudyard Kipling 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Third Annual Collection 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Drabble II: Double Century 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1990 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 1990 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, December 1990 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	Asimov's Science Fiction, November 1994 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	South From Midnight 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	The New Hugo Winners, Vol. 3 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	Paragons 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	Year's Best SF 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	Far Horizons 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	Nebula Awards 34 (2000) 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	The Furthest Horizon 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	Vanishing Acts 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	I Have This Nifty Idea 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	Space Soldiers 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
36	Supermen 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
37	Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
38	The Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine: Joe Haldeman and Others 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
39	The Hard SF Renaissance 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
40	Future Washington 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
41	The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
42	Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
43	Escape from Earth 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
44	Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2006 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
45	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
46	Year's Best SF 11 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
47	Future Weapons of War 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
48	Nebula Awards 41 (2007) 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
49	Nebula Awards Showcase 2007 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
50	The Best of the Best, Vol 2 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
51	Warriors 1 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
52	Crucified Dreams 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
53	Lightspeed: Year One 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
54	The Mammoth Book of SF Wars 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
55	You're Not Alone 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
56	Visions of the Future 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
57	Bullet Points 2 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (1975–1975)

Start with Attar's Revenge and read in order.

#	Title
1	Attar's Revenge 1975Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	War of Nerves 1975Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (2008–2011)

Start with Marsbound and read in order.

#	Title
1	Marsbound 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Starbound 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Earthbound 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (1972–2005)

Start with War Year and read in order.

#	Title
1	War Year 1972Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	War Stories 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (1992–2003)

Start with Graves and read in order.

#	Title
1	Graves 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Four Short Novels 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

9 books (1977–2013)

Start with All My Sins Remembered, the first of 9 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	All My Sins Remembered 1977Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Infinite Dreams 1978Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	There Is No Darkness(With: Jack C. Haldeman II) 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Dealing in Futures 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Vietnam and Other Alien Worlds 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	None So Blind 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Saul's Death and Other Poems 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	A Separate War and Other Stories 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Best of Joe Haldeman 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

11 books (1976–2014)

Start with Mindbridge, the first of 11 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Mindbridge 1976Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Tool of the Trade 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Long Habit of Living / Buying Time 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Hemingway Hoax 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	1968 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Coming 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Guardian 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Camouflage 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Old Twentieth 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	The Accidental Time Machine 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Work Done for Hire 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

17 books (1970–1981)

Start with Spock Must Die!(By: James Blish), the first of 17 books in the Star Trek Adventures series.

#	Title
1	Spock Must Die!(By: James Blish) 1970Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Spock, Messiah!(By: Theodore R. Cogswell) 1976Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Star Trek: The New Voyages(By: Eleanor Arnason,Sondra Marshak,Myrna Culbreath) 1976Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Planet of Judgment 1977Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Star Trek 12(By: J.A. Lawrence) 1977Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Star Trek: The New Voyages 2(By: Sondra Marshak,Myrna Culbreath) 1977Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Price of the Phoenix(By: Sondra Marshak,Myrna Culbreath) 1977Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Mudd's Angels(By: J.A. Lawrence) 1978Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Starless World(By: Gordon Eklund) 1978Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Vulcan!(By: Kathleen Sky) 1978Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Devil World(By: Gordon Eklund) 1979Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	The Fate of the Phoenix(By: Sondra Marshak,Myrna Culbreath) 1979Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Trek to Madworld(By: Stephen Goldin) 1979Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	World Without End 1979Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Perry's Planet(By: Jack C. Haldeman II) 1980Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	The Galactic Whirlpool(By: David Gerrold) 1980Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Death's Angel(By: Kathleen Sky) 1981Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1974–1999)

Start with The Forever War and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Forever War 1974Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Forever Peace 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Forever Free 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

6 books (2017–2017)

Start with The Forever War #1, the first of 6 books in the The Forever War (2017) series.

3 books (2018–2018)

Start with The Forever War: Forever Free #1 and read in order.

2 books (2002–2002)

Start with The Forever War 2: Lieutenant Mandella and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Forever War 2: Lieutenant Mandella 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Forever War, Vol. 1: Private Mandella 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

4 books (2004–2008)

Start with The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1(By: Matt Ruff), the first of 4 books in the The James Tiptree Award Anthology series.

#	Title
1	The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1(By: Matt Ruff) 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3(By: Jeffrey D. Smith) 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The James Tiptree Award Anthology 4(By: Jeffrey D. Smith) 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

19 books (1979–2013)

Start with Thieves' World(By: Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin), the first of 19 books in the Thieves' World series.

#	Title
1	Thieves' World(By: Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) 1979Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Tales from the Vulgar Unicorn(By: Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) 1980Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Shadows of Sanctuary(With: Philip Jose Farmer,John Brunner,Robert Lynn Asprin) 1981Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Storm Season(By: Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) 1982Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Face of Chaos(By: Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Wings of Omen(By: Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Dead of Winter(By: Robert Lynn Asprin) 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Blood Ties(By: Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Soul of the City(By: Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Aftermath(By: Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Shadowspawn(By: Andrew J. Offutt) 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Uneasy Alliances(By: Robert Lynn Asprin) 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Stealers' Sky(By: Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	The Shadow of Sorcery(By: Andrew J. Offutt) 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Sanctuary(By: Lynn Abbey) 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Turning Points(By: Dennis L. McKiernan,Mickey Zucker Reichert,Lynn Abbey,Raymond E. Feist,Diana Paxson) 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Enemies of Fortune(By: C.J. Cherryh,Jody Lynn Nye,Mickey Zucker Reichert,Lynn Abbey,Robin Wayne Bailey,Andrew J. Offutt,Jeff Grubb,Selina Rosen,Diana Paxson) 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Thieves' World: Player's Manual(By: James Ryman) 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	The Secret of the Blue Star(By: Marion Zimmer Bradley) 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1981–1992)

Start with Worlds and read in order.

#	Title
1	Worlds 1981Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Worlds Apart 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Worlds Enough and Time 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

18 books (1996–2013)

Start with Year's Best SF, the first of 18 books in the Year's Best SF Anthology series.

#	Title
1	Year's Best SF 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Year's Best SF 2 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Year's Best SF 3 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Year's Best SF 4 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Year's Best SF 5 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Year's Best SF 6 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Year's Best SF 7 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Year's Best SF 8 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Year's Best SF 9 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Year's Best SF 10 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Year's Best SF 11 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Year's Best SF 12 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Year's Best SF 13 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Year's Best SF 14 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Year's Best SF 15 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Year's Best SF 16 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Year's Best SF 17 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Year's Best SF 18 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible