Max Gladstone Reading Order

9 books (2013–2024)

Start with The New Voices of Fantasy, the first of 9 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	The New Voices of Fantasy 2013Buy 🇺🇸
2	xo Orpheus 2013Buy 🇺🇸
3	Shared Nightmares 2014Buy 🇺🇸
4	Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2014 Edition 2015Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Starlit Wood 2016Buy 🇺🇸
6	Robots vs. Fairies 2018Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Long List Anthology Volume 4 2018Buy 🇺🇸
8	Worlds Seen in Passing 2018Buy 🇺🇸
9	George R. R. Martin Presents Wild Cards: Sleeper Straddle in Stories 2024Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2015–2016)

Start with A Sorcerer's Apprentice(By: Mur Lafferty), the first of 6 books in the Bookburners series.

#	Title
1	A Sorcerer's Apprentice(By: Mur Lafferty) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
2	Badge, Book, and Candle 2015Buy 🇺🇸
3	Shore Leave(By: Mur Lafferty) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
4	Under My Skin(By: Mur Lafferty) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
5	Bookburners 2016Buy 🇺🇸
6	Creepy Town 2016Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2012–2017)

Start with Three Parts Dead, the first of 6 books in the Craft Sequence series.

#	Title
1	Three Parts Dead 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	Two Serpents Rise 2013Buy 🇺🇸
3	Full Fathom Five 2014Buy 🇺🇸
4	Last First Snow 2015Buy 🇺🇸
5	Four Roads Cross 2016Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Ruin of Angels 2017Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2023–2025)

Start with Dead Country and read in order.

#	Title
1	Dead Country 2023Buy 🇺🇸
2	Wicked Problems 2024Buy 🇺🇸
3	Dead Hand Rule 2025Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2018–2018)

#	Title
1	The Ghost in the Shell 2018Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2014–2019)

Start with A Kiss With Teeth, the first of 6 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	A Kiss With Teeth 2014Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Angelus Guns 2014Buy 🇺🇸
3	Crispin's Model 2017Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Scholast in the Low Waters Kingdom 2017Buy 🇺🇸
5	Fitting In 2018Buy 🇺🇸
6	This Is How You Lose the Time War(With: Amal El-Mohtar) 2019Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2019–2022)

Start with Empress of Forever and read in order.

#	Title
1	Empress of Forever 2019Buy 🇺🇸
2	Last Exit 2022Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2016–2023)

Start with The Witch Who Came In From The Cold: Season One(With: Michael Swanwick,Ian Tregillis,Lindsay Smith,Cassandra Rose Clarke) and read in order.

49 books (1986–2025)

Start with Wild Cards(By: George R.R. Martin), the first of 49 books in the Wild Cards series.

#	Title
1	Wild Cards(By: George R.R. Martin) 1986Buy 🇺🇸
2	Aces High(By: Melinda M. Snodgrass) 1987Buy 🇺🇸
3	Jokers Wild(By: Melinda M. Snodgrass) 1987Buy 🇺🇸
4	Aces Abroad(By: Melinda M. Snodgrass) 1988Buy 🇺🇸
5	Down and Dirty(By: Melinda M. Snodgrass) 1988Buy 🇺🇸
6	Ace in the Hole(By: George R.R. Martin) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
7	Dead Man's Hand(By: George R.R. Martin) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
8	Jokertown Shuffle(By: Melinda M. Snodgrass) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
9	One-Eyed Jacks(By: Melinda M. Snodgrass) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
10	Dealer's Choice(By: George R.R. Martin) 1992Buy 🇺🇸
11	Double Solitaire(By: Melinda M. Snodgrass) 1992Buy 🇺🇸
12	Turn of the Cards(By: George R.R. Martin,Victor Milán) 1993Buy 🇺🇸
13	Deuces Down(By: Melinda M. Snodgrass) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
14	Death Draws Five(By: George R.R. Martin,John J. Miller) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
15	Busted Flush(By: George R.R. Martin,Melinda M. Snodgrass,Caroline Spector) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
16	Inside Straight(By: Melinda M. Snodgrass) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
17	Suicide Kings(By: Melinda M. Snodgrass) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
18	Ghost Girl Takes Manhattan(By: Carrie Vaughn) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
19	Fort Freak(By: George R.R. Martin,Melinda M. Snodgrass,David Anthony Durham) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Button Man and the Murder Tree(By: Cherie Priest) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Elephant in the Room(By: George R.R. Martin,Paul Cornell) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
22	Lowball(By: George R.R. Martin,Melinda M. Snodgrass,David Anthony Durham) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
23	Nuestra Señora de la Esperanza(By: Carrie Vaughn) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
24	Prompt. Professional. Pop!(By: Walter Jon Williams) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
25	Discards(By: David D. Levine) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
26	High Stakes(By: Melinda M. Snodgrass) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
27	The Thing about Growing Up in Jokertown(By: George R.R. Martin) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
28	The Atonement Tango(By: Stephen Leigh) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
29	When the Devil Drives(By: Melinda M. Snodgrass) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
30	Evernight(By: Victor Milán) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
31	Knaves Over Queens(By: George R.R. Martin) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
32	The Flight of Morpho Girl(By: George R.R. Martin,Caroline Spector) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
33	Long is the Way(By: George R.R. Martin) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
34	Naked, Stoned, and Stabbed(By: Bradley Denton) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
35	The City That Never Sleeps(By: Walton Simons) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
36	Wild Cards X: Double Solitaire(By: Melinda M. Snodgrass) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
37	American Hero(By: George R.R. Martin) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
38	Three Kings(By: George R.R. Martin,Melinda M. Snodgrass) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
39	Joker Moon(By: George R.R. Martin) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
40	Ripple Effects(By: Laura J. Mixon) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
41	Skin Deep(By: Alan Brennert) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
42	Full House(By: George R.R. Martin) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
43	Grow(By: Carrie Vaughn) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
44	Hearts of Stone(By: Emma Newman) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
45	Now & Then(By: Carrie Vaughn) 2023Buy 🇺🇸
46	Pairing Up(By: George R.R. Martin,Melinda M. Snodgrass,David Anthony Durham,Kevin Andrew Murphy,Gwenda Bond,Marko Kloos,Christopher Rowe,Bradley Denton,Peter Newman) 2023Buy 🇺🇸
47	Sleeper Straddle(With: Carrie Vaughn,Stephen Leigh,Mary Anne Mohanraj,Cherie Priest,Walter Jon Williams,Christopher Rowe) 2024Buy 🇺🇸
48	Ante Up(By: John Jos. Miller) 2025Buy 🇺🇸
49	House Rulesin Stories(By: George R.R. Martin) 2025Buy 🇺🇸