L.E. Modesitt, Jr. Reading Order

4 books (2004–2013)

Start with Flights, the first of 4 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Flights 2004Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Palencar Project 2012Buy 🇺🇸
3	Story Behind the Book : Volume 1 2013Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination 2013Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2002–2004)

Start with Archform and read in order.

#	Title
1	Archform 2002Buy 🇺🇸
2	Flash 2004Buy 🇺🇸

8 books (2002–2011)

Start with Legacies, the first of 8 books in the Corean Chronicles series.

#	Title
1	Legacies 2002Buy 🇺🇸
2	Darknesses 2003Buy 🇺🇸
3	Scepters 2004Buy 🇺🇸
4	Alector's Choice 2005Buy 🇺🇸
5	Cadmian's Choice 2006Buy 🇺🇸
6	Soarer's Choice 2006Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Lord-Protector's Daughter 2008Buy 🇺🇸
8	Lady-Protector 2011Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1986–1997)

Start with The Ecologic Envoy, the first of 4 books in the Ecolitan Matter series.

#	Title
1	The Ecologic Envoy 1986Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Ecolitan Operation 1989Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Ecologic Secession 1990Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Ecolitan Enigma 1997Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1987–1988)

Start with Dawn for a Distant Earth and read in order.

#	Title
1	Dawn for a Distant Earth 1987Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Silent Warrior 1987Buy 🇺🇸
3	In Endless Twilight 1988Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2021–2025)

Start with Isolate, the first of 4 books in the Grand Illusion series.

#	Title
1	Isolate 2021Buy 🇺🇸
2	Councilor 2022Buy 🇺🇸
3	Contrarian 2023Buy 🇺🇸
4	Legalist 2025Buy 🇺🇸

12 books (2009–2019)

Start with Imager, the first of 12 books in the Imager Portfolio series.

#	Title
1	Imager 2009Buy 🇺🇸
2	Imager's Challenge 2009Buy 🇺🇸
3	Imager's Intrigue 2010Buy 🇺🇸
4	Scholar 2011Buy 🇺🇸
5	Princeps 2012Buy 🇺🇸
6	Antiagon Fire 2013Buy 🇺🇸
7	Imager's Battalion 2013Buy 🇺🇸
8	Rex Regis 2014Buy 🇺🇸
9	Madness in Solidar 2015Buy 🇺🇸
10	Treachery's Tools 2016Buy 🇺🇸
11	Assassin's Price 2017Buy 🇺🇸
12	Endgames 2019Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1994–2005)

Start with Of Tangible Ghosts, the first of 4 books in the Johan Eschbach series.

#	Title
1	Of Tangible Ghosts 1994Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Ghost of the Revelator 1998Buy 🇺🇸
3	Ghost of the White Nights 2001Buy 🇺🇸
4	Ghosts of Columbia 2005Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1996–2003)

Start with The Parafaith War and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Parafaith War 1996Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Ethos Effect 2003Buy 🇺🇸

26 books (1991–2026)

Start with The Magic of Recluce, the first of 26 books in the Saga Of Recluce series.

#	Title
1	The Magic of Recluce 1991Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Towers of the Sunset 1992Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Magic Engineer 1994Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Death of Chaos 1995Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Order War 1995Buy 🇺🇸
6	Fall of Angels 1996Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Chaos Balance 1997Buy 🇺🇸
8	Colors of Chaos 1998Buy 🇺🇸
9	The White Order 1998Buy 🇺🇸
10	Magi'i of Cyador 2000Buy 🇺🇸
11	Scion of Cyador 2000Buy 🇺🇸
12	Wellspring of Chaos 2004Buy 🇺🇸
13	Ordermaster 2005Buy 🇺🇸
14	Natural Ordermage 2007Buy 🇺🇸
15	Mage-Guard of Hamor 2008Buy 🇺🇸
16	Arms-Commander 2009Buy 🇺🇸
17	Cyador's Heirs 2014Buy 🇺🇸
18	Heritage of Cyador 2014Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Mongrel Mage 2017Buy 🇺🇸
20	Outcasts of Order 2018Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Mage-Fire War 2019Buy 🇺🇸
22	Fairhaven Rising 2021Buy 🇺🇸
23	From the Forest 2024Buy 🇺🇸
24	Overcaptain 2024Buy 🇺🇸
25	Sub-Majer's Challenge 2025Buy 🇺🇸
26	Last of the First 2026Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2017–2017)

#	Title
1	Recluce Tales 2017Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2008–2008)

5 books (1997–2002)

Start with The Soprano Sorceress, the first of 5 books in the Spellsong Cycle series.

#	Title
1	The Soprano Sorceress 1997Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Spellsong War 1998Buy 🇺🇸
3	Darksong Rising 1999Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Shadow Sorceress 2001Buy 🇺🇸
5	Shadowsinger 2002Buy 🇺🇸

12 books (1985–2020)

Start with The Hammer of Darkness, the first of 12 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	The Hammer of Darkness 1985Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Green Progression 1992Buy 🇺🇸
3	Adiamante 1996Buy 🇺🇸
4	Gravity Dreams 1999Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Octagonal Raven 2001Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Eternity Artifact 2005Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Elysium Commission 2007Buy 🇺🇸
8	Haze 2009Buy 🇺🇸
9	Empress of Eternity 2010Buy 🇺🇸
10	The One-Eyed Man 2013Buy 🇺🇸
11	Solar Express 2015Buy 🇺🇸
12	Quantum Shadows 2020Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (2012–2012)

Start with Dormanna(By: Gene Wolfe), the first of 5 books in the The Palencar Project series.

2 books (1982–1992)

Start with The Timegod / The Fires of Paratime and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Timegod / The Fires of Paratime 1982Buy 🇺🇸
2	Timediver's Dawn 1992Buy 🇺🇸

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