Philip K. Dick Reading Order

43 books (1955–2023)

Start with Star Science Fiction Stories 3, the first of 43 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Star Science Fiction Stories 3 1955Buy 🇺🇸
2	Galaxy Science Fiction, December 1963 1963Buy 🇺🇸
3	Alien Worlds 1964Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Eighth Galaxy Reader 1965Buy 🇺🇸
5	Dangerous Visions 1967Buy 🇺🇸
6	Dangerous Visions 2 1967Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 3 1970Buy 🇺🇸
8	Alpha 3 1972Buy 🇺🇸
9	Alpha 5 1974Buy 🇺🇸
10	Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology 1974Buy 🇺🇸
11	Beyond Tomorrow 1976Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction / Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century 1980Buy 🇺🇸
13	Peter Davison's Book of Alien Monsters 1982Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 24 1982Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Third Omni Book of Science Fiction 1985Buy 🇺🇸
16	Battlefields Beyond Tomorrow 1987Buy 🇺🇸
17	Hunger for Horror 1988Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Monster Book of Monsters 1988Buy 🇺🇸
19	Spells of Enchantment 1991Buy 🇺🇸
20	Inside the Funhouse 1992Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales 1993Buy 🇺🇸
22	Foundations of Fear: Volume III: Visions of Fear 1994Buy 🇺🇸
23	Angels! 1995Buy 🇺🇸
24	100 Astounding Little Alien Stories 1996Buy 🇺🇸
25	More Amazing Stories 1998Buy 🇺🇸
26	Bangs & Whimpers 1999Buy 🇺🇸
27	The Young Oxford Book of Aliens 1999Buy 🇺🇸
28	The Vintage Book of Amnesia 2000Buy 🇺🇸
29	The Mammoth Book Of Science Fiction 2002Buy 🇺🇸
30	The Ultimate Cyberpunk 2002Buy 🇺🇸
31	New Skies: An Anthology of Today's Science Fiction 2003Buy 🇺🇸
32	The Campfire Collection 2005Buy 🇺🇸
33	The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction 2010Buy 🇺🇸
34	The Fourth Science Fiction Megapack 2012Buy 🇺🇸
35	Classic Sci-Fi: Volume 1 2013Buy 🇺🇸
36	Contact: Stories of the New World 2013Buy 🇺🇸
37	Science Fiction Super Pack #1 2013Buy 🇺🇸
38	The Sixth Science Fiction Megapack 2013Buy 🇺🇸
39	Fantastic Stories Presents 2014Buy 🇺🇸
40	The Lobster's Birthday and Other Stories 2014Buy 🇺🇸
41	Lieu: Science Fiction Short Stories 2015Buy 🇺🇸
42	Nature's Warnings: Classic Stories of Eco-Science Fiction 2020Buy 🇺🇸
43	Robots Through the Ages 2023Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1968–2000)

Start with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? / Blade Runner, the first of 4 books in the Blade Runner series.

#	Title
1	Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? / Blade Runner 1968Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Edge of Human(By: K.W. Jeter) 1995Buy 🇺🇸
3	Replicant Night(By: K.W. Jeter) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
4	Eye and Talon(By: K.W. Jeter) 2000Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1992–1994)

Start with An Exploration of Horror: Foundations of Fear(By: George R.R. Martin,Robert A. Heinlein,David G. Hartwell,Peter Straub,Richard Matheson,Daphne du Maurier,Clive Barker,Carlos Fuentes,Arthur Machen,Gerald Durrell), the first of 4 books in the Foundations of Fear Anthology series.

#	Title
1	An Exploration of Horror: Foundations of Fear(By: George R.R. Martin,Robert A. Heinlein,David G. Hartwell,Peter Straub,Richard Matheson,Daphne du Maurier,Clive Barker,Carlos Fuentes,Arthur Machen,Gerald Durrell) 1992Buy 🇺🇸
2	Foundations of Fear: Volume I: Shadows of Fear(By: Robert A. Heinlein,David G. Hartwell,Peter Straub,H.P. Lovecraft,Daphne du Maurier,Arthur Machen,Jean Ray,Harriet Prescott Spofford) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
3	Foundations of Fear: Volume II: Worlds of Fear(By: George R.R. Martin,David G. Hartwell,Thomas Hardy,Gertrude Atherton,Thomas M. Disch,Elizabeth Engstrom,Carlos Fuentes) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
4	Foundations of Fear: Volume III: Visions of Fear(With: David G. Hartwell,E.T.A. Hoffmann,Richard Matheson,Clive Barker,Octavia E. Butler,Gerald Durrell) 1994Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1977–2010)

Start with A Scanner Darkly and read in order.

#	Title
1	A Scanner Darkly 1977Buy 🇺🇸
2	Electric Ant 2010Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1975–2011)

Start with Confessions of a Crap Artist, the first of 5 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	Confessions of a Crap Artist 1975Buy 🇺🇸
2	What If Our World is Their Heaven? 1982Buy 🇺🇸
3	In Pursuit of VALIS 1991Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick 1995Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick 2011Buy 🇺🇸

12 books (1951–1966)

Start with Beyond Lies the Wub, the first of 12 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	Beyond Lies the Wub 1951Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Gun 1952Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Skull 1952Buy 🇺🇸
4	Paycheck 1953Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Defenders 1953Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Hanging Stranger 1953Buy 🇺🇸
7	Adjustment Team 1954Buy 🇺🇸
8	War Veteran 1955Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Minority Report 1956Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Unreconstructed M 1957Buy 🇺🇸
11	Cantata-140 1964Buy 🇺🇸
12	Total Recall 1966Buy 🇺🇸

22 books (1950–2022)

Start with The Defenders and Three Others, the first of 22 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	The Defenders and Three Others 1950Buy 🇺🇸
2	Mr. Spaceship 1953Buy 🇺🇸
3	Beyond the Door 1954Buy 🇺🇸
4	Small Town 1954Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Crystal Crypt 1954Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Last of the Masters 1954Buy 🇺🇸
7	A Handful of Darkness 1955Buy 🇺🇸
8	Human Is? 1955Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Variable Man and Other Stories 1957Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Book of Philip K. Dick 1972Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Golden Man 1980Buy 🇺🇸
12	I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon 1985Buy 🇺🇸
13	Second Variety 1987Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford and Other Classic Stories 1987Buy 🇺🇸
15	We Can Remember It for You Wholesale 1987Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Dark-Haired Girl 1988Buy 🇺🇸
17	Minority Report and Other Stories 2001Buy 🇺🇸
18	Paycheck and Other Classic Stories 2003Buy 🇺🇸
19	Dry My White Noise Tears 2010Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Collected Works of Philip K. Dick 2012Buy 🇺🇸
21	Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams 2017Buy 🇺🇸
22	The Eyes Have It and Other Stories 2022Buy 🇺🇸

41 books (1955–2007)

Start with Solar Lottery / World of Chance, the first of 41 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Solar Lottery / World of Chance 1955Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Man Who Japed 1956Buy 🇺🇸
3	The World Jones Made 1956Buy 🇺🇸
4	Eye in the Sky 1957Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Cosmic Puppets 1957Buy 🇺🇸
6	Time Out of Joint 1959Buy 🇺🇸
7	Dr. Futurity 1960Buy 🇺🇸
8	Vulcan's Hammer 1960Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Man in the High Castle 1962Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Game-Players of Titan 1963Buy 🇺🇸
11	Clans of the Alphane Moon 1964Buy 🇺🇸
12	Martian Time-Slip 1964Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Penultimate Truth 1964Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Simulacra 1964Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch 1964Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Unteleported Man 1964Buy 🇺🇸
17	Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb 1965Buy 🇺🇸
18	Now Wait for Last Year 1966Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Crack in Space 1966Buy 🇺🇸
20	Counter-Clock World 1967Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Ganymede Takeover(With: Ray Nelson) 1967Buy 🇺🇸
22	The Zap Gun 1967Buy 🇺🇸
23	Galactic Pot-Healer 1969Buy 🇺🇸
24	Ubik 1969Buy 🇺🇸
25	We Can Build You 1969Buy 🇺🇸
26	A Maze of Death 1970Buy 🇺🇸
27	Our Friends From Frolix 8 1970Buy 🇺🇸
28	Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said 1974Buy 🇺🇸
29	Deus Irae(With: Roger Zelazny) 1976Buy 🇺🇸
30	A Scanner Darkly 1977Buy 🇺🇸
31	Lies, Inc. 1983Buy 🇺🇸
32	In Milton Lumky Territory 1984Buy 🇺🇸
33	The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike 1984Buy 🇺🇸
34	Puttering About in a Small Land 1985Buy 🇺🇸
35	Radio Free Albemuth 1985Buy 🇺🇸
36	Humpty Dumpty in Oakland 1986Buy 🇺🇸
37	Mary and the Giant 1987Buy 🇺🇸
38	Nick and the Glimmung 1988Buy 🇺🇸
39	The Broken Bubble 1988Buy 🇺🇸
40	Gather Yourselves Together 1994Buy 🇺🇸
41	Voices from the Street 2007Buy 🇺🇸

41 books (2005–2023)

Start with Learning To Live Finally(By: Jacques Derrida), the first of 41 books in the The Last Interview series.

#	Title
1	Learning To Live Finally(By: Jacques Derrida) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
2	Roberto Bolaño(By: Roberto Bolaño) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
3	Kurt Vonnegut(By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
4	Jorge Luis Borges(By: Jorge Luis Borges) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
5	Hannah Arendt(By: Hannah Arendt) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
6	David Foster Wallace: In His Own Words(By: David Foster Wallace) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
7	James Baldwin(By: James Baldwin,Quincy Troupe) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
8	Ray Bradbury(By: Ray Bradbury,Sam Weller) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
9	Ernest Hemingway(By: Ernest Hemingway) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
10	Gabriel García Márquez(By: Gabriel García Márquez) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
11	Lou Reed(By: Lou Reed) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
12	Nora Ephron(By: Nora Ephron) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
13	Philip K. Dick 2015Buy 🇺🇸
14	David Bowie(By: David Bowie) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
15	J. D. Salinger(By: J.D. Salinger) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
16	Jane Jacobs(By: Jane Jacobs) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
17	Oliver Sacks(By: Oliver Sacks) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
18	Christopher Hitchens(By: Christopher Hitchens) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
19	Martin Luther King, Jr.(By: Martin Luther King Jr.) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
20	Hunter S. Thompson(By: Hunter S. Thompson) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
21	Julia Child(By: Julia Child) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
22	Kathy Acker(By: Kathy Acker) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
23	Anthony Bourdain(By: Melville House,Helen Rosner) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
24	Billie Holiday(By: Billie Holiday) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
25	Graham Greene(By: Graham Greene) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
26	Prince(By: Prince) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
27	Ursula K. Le Guin(By: Ursula K. Le Guin) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
28	Frida Kahlo(By: Frida Kahlo) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
29	Marilyn Monroe(By: Melville House,Sady Doyle) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
30	Ruth Bader Ginsburg(By: Melville House) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
31	Toni Morrison(By: Toni Morrison) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
32	Fred Rogers(By: Fred Rogers) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
33	John Lewis(By: Melville House) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
34	Johnny Cash(By: Johnny Cash) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
35	Shirley Chisholm(By: Shirley Chisholm) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
36	The Last Interview(By: Fred Rogers) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
37	Diego Maradona(By: Melville House) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
38	Janet Malcolm(By: Melville House) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
39	Kurt Cobain(By: Melville House) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
40	Bell Hooks(By: bell hooks) 2023Buy 🇺🇸
41	Octavia E. Butler(By: Melville House) 2023Buy 🇺🇸

19 books (2013–2013)

Start with Anthology of Sci-Fi V1, the first of 19 books in the The Pulp Writers series.

#	Title
1	Anthology of Sci-Fi V1 2013Buy 🇺🇸
2	Anthology of Sci-Fi V10 2013Buy 🇺🇸
3	Anthology of Sci-Fi V11 2013Buy 🇺🇸
4	Anthology of Sci-Fi V12 2013Buy 🇺🇸
5	Anthology of Sci-Fi V13 2013Buy 🇺🇸
6	Anthology of Sci-Fi V15 2013Buy 🇺🇸
7	Anthology of Sci-Fi V17 2013Buy 🇺🇸
8	Anthology of Sci-Fi V18 2013Buy 🇺🇸
9	Anthology of Sci-Fi V2 2013Buy 🇺🇸
10	Anthology of Sci-Fi V20 2013Buy 🇺🇸
11	Anthology of Sci-Fi V21, the Pulp Writers 2013Buy 🇺🇸
12	Anthology of Sci-Fi V22 2013Buy 🇺🇸
13	Anthology of Sci-Fi V3 2013Buy 🇺🇸
14	Anthology of Sci-Fi V4 2013Buy 🇺🇸
15	Anthology of Sci-Fi V5 2013Buy 🇺🇸
16	Anthology of Sci-Fi V6 2013Buy 🇺🇸
17	Anthology of Sci-Fi V7 2013Buy 🇺🇸
18	Anthology of Sci-Fi V8 2013Buy 🇺🇸
19	Anthology of Sci-Fi V9 2013Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1981–1982)

Start with The Divine Invasion and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Divine Invasion 1981Buy 🇺🇸
2	VALIS 1981Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Transmigration of Timothy Archer 1982Buy 🇺🇸