John Scalzi Reading Order

9 books (2007–2025)

Start with Space Opera, the first of 9 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Space Opera 2007Buy 🇺🇸
2	Rip-Off! 2012Buy 🇺🇸
3	Tor.com: Selected Original Fiction, 2008-2012 2013Buy 🇺🇸
4	Ad Astra 2015Buy 🇺🇸
5	Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2014 Edition 2015Buy 🇺🇸
6	Robots vs. Fairies 2018Buy 🇺🇸
7	Love, Death and Robots: The Official Anthology: Volume One 2021Buy 🇺🇸
8	Love, Death + Robots: The Official Anthology: Volumes 2 & 3 2022Buy 🇺🇸
9	Love, Death and Robots: The Official Anthology: Volume Four 2025Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2015–2015)

Start with Can Long Endure, the first of 4 books in the End of All Things series.

6 books (2023–2023)

Start with Falling Bodies(By: Rebecca Roanhorse), the first of 6 books in the Far Reaches Collection series.

11 books (1962–2022)

Start with Little Fuzzy(By: H. Beam Piper), the first of 11 books in the Fuzzy Sapiens series.

#	Title
1	Little Fuzzy(By: H. Beam Piper) 1962Buy 🇺🇸
2	Fuzzy Sapiens / The Other Human Race(By: H. Beam Piper) 1964Buy 🇺🇸
3	Fuzzy Bones(By: William Tuning) 1981Buy 🇺🇸
4	Golden Dream(By: Ardath Mayhar) 1982Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Adventures of Little Fuzzy(By: H. Beam Piper) 1983Buy 🇺🇸
6	Fuzzies and Other People(By: H. Beam Piper) 1984Buy 🇺🇸
7	Fuzzy Ergo Sum(By: Wolfgang Diehr) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
8	Fuzzy Nation 2011Buy 🇺🇸
9	Caveat Fuzzy(By: Wolfgang Diehr) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Fuzzy Conundrum(By: John F. Carr,Wolfgang Diehr) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
11	Fuzzy Logic(By: Wolfgang Diehr) 2022Buy 🇺🇸

13 books (2013–2013)

Start with A Problem of Proportion, the first of 13 books in the Human Division series.

#	Title
1	A Problem of Proportion 2013Buy 🇺🇸
2	A Voice in the Wilderness 2013Buy 🇺🇸
3	Earth Below, Sky Above 2013Buy 🇺🇸
4	Tales From the Clarke 2013Buy 🇺🇸
5	The B-Team 2013Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Back Channel 2013Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Dog King 2013Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Gentle Art of Cracking Heads 2013Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Observers 2013Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Sound of Rebellion 2013Buy 🇺🇸
11	This Must Be the Place 2013Buy 🇺🇸
12	Walk the Plank 2013Buy 🇺🇸
13	We Only Need the Heads 2013Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2014–2018)

Start with Lock In and read in order.

#	Title
1	Lock In 2014Buy 🇺🇸
2	Unlocked 2014Buy 🇺🇸
3	Head On 2018Buy 🇺🇸

8 books (2008–2016)

Start with METAtropolis(With: Jay Lake,Elizabeth Bear,Tobias Buckell,Karl Schroeder), the first of 8 books in the METAtropolis series.

#	Title
1	METAtropolis(With: Jay Lake,Elizabeth Bear,Tobias Buckell,Karl Schroeder) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
2	Cascadia(By: Ken Scholes) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
3	Green Space(By: Jay Lake) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
4	A Symmetry of Serpents and Doves(By: Ken Scholes) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
5	Byways(By: Tobias Buckell) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Wings We Dare Aspire(By: Ken Scholes) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
7	Stochasticity(By: Tobias Buckell) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
8	Tensegrity(By: Tobias Buckell) 2016Buy 🇺🇸

8 books (2000–2017)

Start with Rough Guide to Money Online, the first of 8 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	Rough Guide to Money Online 2000Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Rough Guide to the Universe 2003Buy 🇺🇸
3	Uncle John's Presents: The Book of the Dumb 2003Buy 🇺🇸
4	Uncle John's Presents Book of the Dumb 2 2004Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies 2005Buy 🇺🇸
6	You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi On Writing 2007Buy 🇺🇸
7	24 Frames into the Future 2012Buy 🇺🇸
8	Don't Live For Your Obituary 2017Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (2005–2025)

Start with Old Man's War, the first of 7 books in the Old Man's War series.

#	Title
1	Old Man's War 2005Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Ghost Brigades 2006Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Last Colony 2007Buy 🇺🇸
4	Zoe's Tale 2008Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Human Division 2013Buy 🇺🇸
6	The End of All Things 2015Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Shattering Peace 2025Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2005–2008)

Start with Questions for a Soldier and read in order.

#	Title
1	Questions for a Soldier 2005Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Sagan Diary 2007Buy 🇺🇸
3	After the Coup 2008Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2011–2011)

11 books (2006–2024)

Start with How I Proposed to My Wife: An Alien Sex Story, the first of 11 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

1 book (2016–2016)

#	Title
1	Miniatures 2016Buy 🇺🇸

10 books (2004–2026)

Start with Agent to the Stars, the first of 10 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Agent to the Stars 2004Buy 🇺🇸
2	The God Engines 2009Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Dead City 2011Buy 🇺🇸
4	Redshirts 2012Buy 🇺🇸
5	Virtue Signaling and Other Heresies 2018Buy 🇺🇸
6	A Very Scalzi Christmas 2019Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Kaiju Preservation Society 2022Buy 🇺🇸
8	Starter Villain 2023Buy 🇺🇸
9	When the Moon Hits Your Eye 2025Buy 🇺🇸
10	Monsters of Ohio 2026Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2006–2009)

Start with The Android's Dream and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Android's Dream 2006Buy 🇺🇸
2	Judge Sn Goes Golfing 2009Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2016–2022)

Start with The Dispatcher and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Dispatcher 2016Buy 🇺🇸
2	Murder By Other Means 2021Buy 🇺🇸
3	Travel by Bullet 2022Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2017–2020)

Start with The Collapsing Empire, the first of 4 books in the The Interdependency series.

#	Title
1	The Collapsing Empire 2017Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Consuming Fire 2018Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Origin of the Flow 2019Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Last Emperox 2020Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2025–2025)

Start with 3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years, the first of 6 books in the The Time Traveler's Passport series.

2 books (2008–2013)

Start with Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded and read in order.

#	Title
1	Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded 2008Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Mallet of Loving Correction 2013Buy 🇺🇸