L. Ron Hubbard Reading Order

5 books (1941–2026)

Start with The Crossroads, the first of 5 books in the Anthologies series.

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1	The Crossroads 1941Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Sea Tales of Terror 1974Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	L. Ron Hubbard Presents The Best of Writers of the Future 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future: The First 25 Years 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 42 2026Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

41 books (1985–2025)

Start with L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 1, the first of 41 books in the L. Ron Hubbard Presents: Writers of the Future series.

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1	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 1 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 2 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 3 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 4 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 5 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 6 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 7 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 8 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future9 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 10 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 11 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 12 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 13 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 14 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 15 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 16 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 17 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 18 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 19 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 20 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 21 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 22 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 23 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 24 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 25 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 26 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 27 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 28 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 29 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 30 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 31 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 32 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 33 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 34 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 35 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
36	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 36 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
37	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 37 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
38	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 38 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
39	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 39 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
40	L. Ron Hubbard Presents: Writers of the Future 40 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
41	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 41 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

10 books (1985–1986)

Start with The Invaders Plan, the first of 10 books in the Mission Earth series.

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1	The Invaders Plan 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	An Alien Affair 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Black Genesis 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Death Quest 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Disaster 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Fortune of Fear 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Doomed Planet 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Enemy Within 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Villainy Victorious 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Voyage of Vengeance 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1956–2007)

Start with Scientology and read in order.

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1	Scientology 1956Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Self Analysis 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (1943–1943)

56 books (1934–2014)

Start with Hurtling Wings, the first of 56 books in the Short Story Collections series.

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1	Hurtling Wings 1934Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Sea Fangs 1934Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Twenty Fathoms Down 1934Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Sky Devil 1935Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Loot of the Shanung 1936Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Sky-Crasher 1936Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	All Frontiers Are Jealous 1937Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Devil—with Wings 1937Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Dive Bomber 1937Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	The Falcon Killer 1939Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Triton and Battle of Wizards 1949Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Yukon Madness 1949Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Greed 1950Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Ole Doc Methuselah 1970Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Lives You Wished To Lead But Never Dared 1978Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	The Kingslayer 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Brass Keys to Murder 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	When Shadows Fall 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Cargo of Coffins 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Danger in the Dark 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Inky Odds 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Man-Killers of the Air 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	The Professor Was a Thief 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Under the Black Ensign 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	A Matter of Matter 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	Destiny's Drum 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	Golden Hell 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	One Was Stubborn 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	The Toughest Ranger 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	Trail of the Red Diamonds 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	On Blazing Wings 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	Sky Birds Dare! 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	The Phantom Patrol 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	The Tramp 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	Tomb of the Ten Thousand Dead 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
36	Beyond All Weapons 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
37	False Cargo 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
38	Gunman\'s Tally 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
39	Hell's Legionnaire 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
40	Killer's Law 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
41	Mouthpiece 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
42	Red Death Over China 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
43	The Red Dragon 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
44	Trouble on His Wings 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
45	While Bugles Blow! 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
46	Black Towers to Danger 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
47	The Black Sultan 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
48	The Green God 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
49	The Lieutenant Takes the Sky 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
50	Trick Soldier 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
51	Arctic Wings 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
52	Fifty-Fifty O'Brien 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
53	Forbidden Gold 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
54	Mister Tidwell Gunner 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
55	The Bold Dare All 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
56	The Slickers 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (1948–1998)

Start with Slaves of Sleep and read in order.

#	Title
1	Slaves of Sleep 1948Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Masters of Sleep 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

22 books (1934–2014)

Start with Dead Men Kill, the first of 22 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Dead Men Kill 1934Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Carnival of Death 1934Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Hostage to Death 1935Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Hurricane 1935Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Wind-Gone-Mad 1935Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Headhunters 1936Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Battling Pilot 1937Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Death's Deputy 1940Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Typewriter in the Sky 1942Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Slaves of Sleep 1948Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Seven Steps to the Arbiter / The Kingslayer 1949Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	To the Stars / Return to Tomorrow 1950Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Fear 1952Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Buckskin Brigades 1955Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Battlefield Earth 1982Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	A Very Strange Trip(With: Dave Wolverton) 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	The Automagic Horse 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Ai! Pedrito!(With: Kevin J. Anderson) 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Read & Listen Package 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	The Ultimate Adventure 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Spy Killer 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Final Blackout 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

15 books (2008–2014)

Start with Branded Outlaw, the first of 15 books in the Western Short Stories Collection series.

#	Title
1	Branded Outlaw 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Six-Gun Caballero 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Under the Diehard Brand 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Cattle King for a Day 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Devil's Manhunt 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Toughest Ranger 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Shadows from Boot Hill 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Death Waits at Sundown 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Gun Boss of Tumbleweed 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Gunman\'s Tally 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Magic Quirt 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	King of the Gunmen 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	The Baron of Coyote River 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	The No-Gun Man 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Tinhorn's Daughter 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible