Richard Kadrey Reading Order

2 books (2016–2017)

Start with The Everything Box and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Everything Box 2016Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Wrong Dead Guy 2017Buy 🇺🇸

19 books (1988–2025)

Start with The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook 1, the first of 19 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook 1 1988Buy 🇺🇸
2	Semiotext SF 1991Buy 🇺🇸
3	Storming the Reality Studio 1991Buy 🇺🇸
4	Omni Best Science Fiction One 1992Buy 🇺🇸
5	Omni Visions Two 1994Buy 🇺🇸
6	Bangs & Whimpers 1999Buy 🇺🇸
7	Angel Scene / Teeth and Tongue Landscape 2003Buy 🇺🇸
8	2020 Visions 2004Buy 🇺🇸
9	Voyager 2014Buy 🇺🇸
10	Children of Lovecraft 2016Buy 🇺🇸
11	Cyber World 2016Buy 🇺🇸
12	Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories 2019Buy 🇺🇸
13	Body Shocks 2021Buy 🇺🇸
14	When Things Get Dark 2021Buy 🇺🇸
15	Screams from the Dark 2022Buy 🇺🇸
16	Christmas and Other Horrors 2023Buy 🇺🇸
17	Grimdark Magazine, Issue #35 2023Buy 🇺🇸
18	Winter in the City 2024Buy 🇺🇸
19	Appalachian Strong: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the Survivors of Hurricane Helene 2025Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2023–2023)

2 books (2023–2025)

Start with The Pale House Devil and read in order.

1 book (2007–2007)

#	Title
1	Accelerate 2007Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2017–2017)

3 books (1994–1997)

Start with Covert Culture Sourcebook and read in order.

#	Title
1	Covert Culture Sourcebook 1994Buy 🇺🇸
2	Covert Culture Sourcebook 2.0 1994Buy 🇺🇸
3	From Myst to Riven 1997Buy 🇺🇸

14 books (2009–2026)

Start with Sandman Slim, the first of 14 books in the Sandman Slim series.

#	Title
1	Sandman Slim 2009Buy 🇺🇸
2	Kill the Dead 2010Buy 🇺🇸
3	Aloha from Hell 2011Buy 🇺🇸
4	Devil Said Bang 2012Buy 🇺🇸
5	Devil in the Dollhouse 2012Buy 🇺🇸
6	Kill City Blues 2013Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Getaway God 2014Buy 🇺🇸
8	Killing Pretty 2015Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Perdition Score 2016Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Kill Society 2017Buy 🇺🇸
11	Hollywood Dead 2018Buy 🇺🇸
12	Ballistic Kiss 2020Buy 🇺🇸
13	King Bullet 2021Buy 🇺🇸
14	In the Devil Wind 2026Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2003–2021)

Start with Black Neurology, the first of 6 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

1 book (2023–2023)

#	Title
1	The Secrets of Insects(With: Christopher Shy) 2023Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1988–2019)

Start with Metrophage, the first of 5 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Metrophage 1988Buy 🇺🇸
2	Kamikaze L'Amour 1995Buy 🇺🇸
3	Butcher Bird 2005Buy 🇺🇸
4	Dead Set 2013Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Grand Dark 2019Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2017–2018)

Start with Poison Truth(By: Simon Oliver), the first of 4 books in the The Hellblazer (2016) series.