Kage Baker Reading Order

26 books (1998–2017)

Start with Asimov's Science Fiction, May 1998, the first of 26 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Asimov's Science Fiction, May 1998 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Asimov's Science Fiction, May 1999 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July 2000 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Asimov's Science Fiction: August 2001, Vol. 25, No. 8 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	New Voices In Science Fiction 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 16 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Silver Gryphon 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	ReVisions 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Year's Best Science Fiction: 21 Annual Edition 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2005 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Escape from Earth 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Fast Forward 1: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Wizards / Dark Alchemy 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Fast Ships, Black Sails 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Sideways In Crime 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 21 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	The Dragon Book 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	The Book of Cthulhu 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	The Time Traveler's Almanac 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	Time Travel: Recent Trips 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	Ex Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries, and Lore 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (2003–2010)

Start with The Anvil of the World and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Anvil of the World 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The House of the Stag 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Bird of the River 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (2002–2007)

Start with Black Projects, White Knights: The Company Dossiers and read in order.

#	Title
1	Black Projects, White Knights: The Company Dossiers 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Gods and Pawns 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (2009–2012)

Start with The Women of Nell Gwynne's and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Women of Nell Gwynne's 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Nell Gwynne's Scarlet Spy 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Nell Gwynne's On Land and At Sea 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2011–2011)

5 books (1999–2012)

Start with Son, Observe the Time, the first of 5 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	Son, Observe the Time 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Where the Golden Apples Grow 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Caverns of Mystery 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Or Else My Lady Keeps the Key 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Books 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

4 books (2004–2024)

Start with Mother Aegypt and Other Stories, the first of 4 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Mother Aegypt and Other Stories 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Dark Mondays 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Best of Kage Baker 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Maelstrom and Other Martian Tales 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (2009–2026)

#	Title
1	The Hotel Under the Sand 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Lady Keeps the Sea 2026Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

12 books (1997–2013)

Start with In the Garden of Iden, the first of 12 books in the The Company series.

#	Title
1	In the Garden of Iden 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Sky Coyote 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Mendoza in Hollywood 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Graveyard Game 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Life of the World to Come 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Children of the Company 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Machine's Child 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Rude Mechanicals 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Sons of Heaven 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Not Less Than Gods 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Empress of Mars 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	In the Company of Thieves 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

9 books (2001–2009)

Start with Year's Best Fantasy, the first of 9 books in the Year's Best Fantasy series.

#	Title
1	Year's Best Fantasy 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Year's Best Fantasy 2 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Year's Best Fantasy 3 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Year's Best Fantasy 4 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Year's Best Fantasy 5 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Year's Best Fantasy 6 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Year's Best Fantasy 7 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Year's Best Fantasy 8 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Year's Best Fantasy 9 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible