Kate Wilhelm Reading Order

25 books (1967–2012)

Start with Orbit 3, the first of 25 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Orbit 3 1967Buy 🇺🇸
2	Orbit 6 1970Buy 🇺🇸
3	Orbit 11 1972Buy 🇺🇸
4	Orbit 12 1973Buy 🇺🇸
5	Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader 1973Buy 🇺🇸
6	Alpha 5 1974Buy 🇺🇸
7	Nebula Awards 9 1974Buy 🇺🇸
8	Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Sixth Annual Collection 1977Buy 🇺🇸
9	Clarion SF 1977Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Three: Nebula Winners 1965-1969 1981Buy 🇺🇸
11	Isaac Asimov's Aliens & Outworlders 1983Buy 🇺🇸
12	Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, October 1986 1986Buy 🇺🇸
13	Terry's Universe: Science fiction's finest writers join in honoring the memory of Terry Carr 1987Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook 1 1988Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Seventh Omni Book of Science Fiction 1989Buy 🇺🇸
16	Best New Horror 4 1993Buy 🇺🇸
17	Asimov's Science Fiction, November 1994 1994Buy 🇺🇸
18	Omni Visions Two 1994Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Giant Book of Terror 1994Buy 🇺🇸
20	Angels! 1995Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women 1995Buy 🇺🇸
22	The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology 1999Buy 🇺🇸
23	The Secret History of Science Fiction 2009Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction 2010Buy 🇺🇸
25	Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August 2012 2012Buy 🇺🇸

14 books (1991–2017)

Start with Death Qualified, the first of 14 books in the Barbara Holloway series.

#	Title
1	Death Qualified 1991Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Best Defense 1994Buy 🇺🇸
3	Malice Prepense / For the Defense 1996Buy 🇺🇸
4	Defense for the Devil 1999Buy 🇺🇸
5	No Defense 2000Buy 🇺🇸
6	Desperate Measures 2001Buy 🇺🇸
7	Clear and Convincing Proof 2003Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Unbidden Truth 2004Buy 🇺🇸
9	Sleight of Hand 2006Buy 🇺🇸
10	A Wrongful Death 2007Buy 🇺🇸
11	Cold Case 2008Buy 🇺🇸
12	Heaven is High 2011Buy 🇺🇸
13	By Stone By Blade By Fire 2012Buy 🇺🇸
14	Mirror, Mirror 2017Buy 🇺🇸

12 books (1986–2012)

Start with The Gorgon Field, the first of 12 books in the Constance and Charlie series.

#	Title
1	The Gorgon Field 1986Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Hamlet Trap 1987Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Dark Door 1988Buy 🇺🇸
4	Smart House 1989Buy 🇺🇸
5	Sweet, Sweet Poison 1990Buy 🇺🇸
6	Seven Kinds of Death 1992Buy 🇺🇸
7	A Flush of Shadows 1995Buy 🇺🇸
8	All For One 2012Buy 🇺🇸
9	Sister Angel 2012Buy 🇺🇸
10	Torch Song 2012Buy 🇺🇸
11	Whisper Her Name 2012Buy 🇺🇸
12	With Thimbles, With Forks, and Hope 2012Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1986–2005)

Start with The Hills Are Dancing and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Hills Are Dancing 1986Buy 🇺🇸
2	Storyteller 2005Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (1986–2022)

Start with The Girl Who Fell Into the Sky, the first of 7 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	The Girl Who Fell Into the Sky 1986Buy 🇺🇸
2	Forever Yours, Anna (in Omni) 1987Buy 🇺🇸
3	Naming the Flowers 1992Buy 🇺🇸
4	I Know What You’re Thinking (in Asimov's) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
5	Moongate 2000Buy 🇺🇸
6	In Between 2014Buy 🇺🇸
7	The House Share 2022Buy 🇺🇸

13 books (1970–2015)

Start with Downstairs Room, The, the first of 13 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Downstairs Room, The 1970Buy 🇺🇸
2	Abyss 1973Buy 🇺🇸
3	Somerset Dreams and Other Fictions 1978Buy 🇺🇸
4	Better Than One(With: Damon Knight) 1980Buy 🇺🇸
5	Listen, Listen 1981Buy 🇺🇸
6	Children of the Wind 1989Buy 🇺🇸
7	And the Angels Sing 1992Buy 🇺🇸
8	Fear is a Cold Black 2010Buy 🇺🇸
9	Music Makers 2012Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Bird Cage 2012Buy 🇺🇸
11	Kate Wilhelm in Orbit, Volume One 2015Buy 🇺🇸
12	Kate Wilhelm in Orbit, Volume Two 2015Buy 🇺🇸
13	Yesterday's Tomorrows 2015Buy 🇺🇸

28 books (1963–2012)

Start with More Bitter Than Death, the first of 28 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	More Bitter Than Death 1963Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Mile-Long Spaceship 1963Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Clone(With: Theodore L. Thomas) 1965Buy 🇺🇸
4	Andover and the Android 1966Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Nevermore Affair 1966Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Killer Thing / The Killing Thing 1967Buy 🇺🇸
7	Let the Fire Fall 1969Buy 🇺🇸
8	Margaret and I 1971Buy 🇺🇸
9	City of Cain 1974Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Infinity Box 1975Buy 🇺🇸
11	Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang 1975Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Clewiston Test 1976Buy 🇺🇸
13	Fault Lines 1977Buy 🇺🇸
14	Juniper Time 1979Buy 🇺🇸
15	A Sense of Shadow 1981Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Winter Beach 1981Buy 🇺🇸
17	Oh, Susannah! 1982Buy 🇺🇸
18	Welcome, Chaos 1983Buy 🇺🇸
19	Huysman's Pets 1985Buy 🇺🇸
20	Crazy Time 1988Buy 🇺🇸
21	Cambio Bay 1990Buy 🇺🇸
22	Justice for Some 1993Buy 🇺🇸
23	The Good Children 1998Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Deepest Water 2000Buy 🇺🇸
25	Skeletons 2002Buy 🇺🇸
26	The Price of Silence 2005Buy 🇺🇸
27	Death of an Artist 2012Buy 🇺🇸
28	The Fullness of Time 2012Buy 🇺🇸