N.K. Jemisin Reading Order

20 books (2008–2023)

Start with The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 2, the first of 20 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 2 2008Buy 🇺🇸
2	Steam-Powered:Lesbian Steampunk Stories 2011Buy 🇺🇸
3	After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia 2012Buy 🇺🇸
4	Fantastic Erotica: The Best of Circlet Press 2008-2012 2012Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Mammoth Book of Steampunk 2012Buy 🇺🇸
6	Clarkesworld: Year Three 2013Buy 🇺🇸
7	Mothership 2013Buy 🇺🇸
8	Futuredaze 2: Reprise 2014Buy 🇺🇸
9	Lightspeed Magazine, December 2014 2014Buy 🇺🇸
10	Lightspeed Magazine, June 2014: Women Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue 2014Buy 🇺🇸
11	Speculative Fiction 2013 2014Buy 🇺🇸
12	Systems Fail 2014Buy 🇺🇸
13	New York Fantastic: Fantasy Stories from the City that Never Sleeps 2017Buy 🇺🇸
14	Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2016 Edition 2017Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 2017Buy 🇺🇸
16	Worlds Seen in Passing 2018Buy 🇺🇸
17	A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers 2019Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Best of Uncanny 2019Buy 🇺🇸
19	Escape Pod 2020Buy 🇺🇸
20	Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror 2023Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2014–2017)

Start with Stone Hunger, the first of 4 books in the Broken Earth series.

#	Title
1	Stone Hunger 2014Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Fifth Season 2015Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Obelisk Gate 2016Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Stone Sky 2017Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2018–2018)

#	Title
1	How Long 'til Black Future Month? 2018Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2012–2018)

Start with The Killing Moon and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Killing Moon 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Shadowed Sun 2012Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Narcomancer 2018Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2019–2019)

Start with Ark(By: Veronica Roth), the first of 6 books in the Forward series.

2 books (2021–2027)

Start with Far Sector and read in order.

#	Title
1	Far Sector 2021Buy 🇺🇸
2	Red Dirt Witch: A Graphic Novel(With: Kinitra Brooks) 2027Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2020–2022)

Start with The City We Became and read in order.

#	Title
1	The City We Became 2020Buy 🇺🇸
2	The World We Make 2022Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (2010–2015)

Start with The Broken Kingdoms, the first of 5 books in the Inheritance Trilogy series.

#	Title
1	The Broken Kingdoms 2010Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms 2010Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Kingdom of Gods 2011Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Awakened Kingdom 2014Buy 🇺🇸
5	Shades in Shadow 2015Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2017–2018)

Start with Initiation(With: Mac Walters) and read in order.

#	Title
1	Initiation(With: Mac Walters) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
2	Nexus Uprising(By: Jason M. Hough) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
3	Annihilation(By: Catherynne M. Valente) 2018Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2011–2011)

#	Title
1	Geek Wisdom(With: Genevieve Valentine) 2011Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2008–2020)

Start with Playing Nice with God’s Bowling Ball, the first of 4 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	Playing Nice with God’s Bowling Ball 2008Buy 🇺🇸
2	Non-Zero Probabilities 2009Buy 🇺🇸
3	The City Born Great 2016Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Ones Who Stay and Fight 2020Buy 🇺🇸

8 books (2008–2017)

Start with The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 2, the first of 8 books in the The WisCon Chronicles series.

#	Title
1	The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 2 2008Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Wiscon Chronicles, Vol.3: Carnival of Feminist SF(By: Yoon Ha Lee) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
3	The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 4(By: Sylvia Kelso) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Wiscon Chronicles Volume 5(By: Nisi Shawl) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
5	The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 6: Futures of Feminism and Fandom(By: Alexis Lothian) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Wiscon Chronicles Vol 7: Shattering Ableist Narratives(By: JoSelle Vanderhooft) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
7	The WisCon Chronicles, Vol.9(By: Mary Anne Mohanraj) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
8	The WisCon Chronicles 11(By: Nisi Shawl,Jaymee Goh) 2017Buy 🇺🇸