Roger Zelazny Reading Order

48 books (1967–2023)

Start with Dangerous Visions, the first of 48 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Dangerous Visions 1967Buy 🇺🇸
2	Dangerous Visions 3 1967Buy 🇺🇸
3	New Worlds of Fantasy / Step Outside Your Mind 1967Buy 🇺🇸
4	Nebula Awards 3 1968Buy 🇺🇸
5	Great Short Novels of Science Fiction 1970Buy 🇺🇸
6	On Our Way to the Future 1970Buy 🇺🇸
7	Shores Beneath 1971Buy 🇺🇸
8	A Day in the Life 1972Buy 🇺🇸
9	This Side of Infinity 1972Buy 🇺🇸
10	Wondermakers 2 1974Buy 🇺🇸
11	Fantastic Stories Special - 1975 Sword & Sorcery Annual 1975Buy 🇺🇸
12	Beyond Tomorrow 1976Buy 🇺🇸
13	Nebula Award Stories Ten 1976Buy 🇺🇸
14	Science Fiction Discoveries 1976Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Best From Galaxy, Volume IV 1976Buy 🇺🇸
16	Other Worlds 1978Buy 🇺🇸
17	Other Worlds Volume 2 1980Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction / Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century 1980Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Three: Nebula Winners 1965-1969 1981Buy 🇺🇸
20	Chrysalis 10 1983Buy 🇺🇸
21	Nebula Award Stories 3 1983Buy 🇺🇸
22	Age of Wonders: Exploring the World of Science Fiction 1984Buy 🇺🇸
23	Berserker Base 1985Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Third Omni Book of Science Fiction 1985Buy 🇺🇸
25	Terry's Universe: Science fiction's finest writers join in honoring the memory of Terry Carr 1987Buy 🇺🇸
26	Robert Adams' Book of Soldiers 1988Buy 🇺🇸
27	The Monster Book of Monsters 1988Buy 🇺🇸
28	Hidden Turnings 1989Buy 🇺🇸
29	The Best of the Nebulas 1989Buy 🇺🇸
30	The Seventh Omni Book of Science Fiction 1989Buy 🇺🇸
31	Drabble II: Double Century 1990Buy 🇺🇸
32	Modern Classics of Science Fiction 1991Buy 🇺🇸
33	Christmas Forever 1993Buy 🇺🇸
34	Black Thorn, White Rose 1994Buy 🇺🇸
35	Omni Visions Two 1994Buy 🇺🇸
36	Sea-Cursed 1994Buy 🇺🇸
37	Angels! 1995Buy 🇺🇸
38	Cthulhu 2000 1995Buy 🇺🇸
39	Forever After 1995Buy 🇺🇸
40	Superheroes 1995Buy 🇺🇸
41	Warriors of Blood and Dreams 1995Buy 🇺🇸
42	The Williamson Effect 1996Buy 🇺🇸
43	Modern Classics of Fantasy 1997Buy 🇺🇸
44	Explorers 2000Buy 🇺🇸
45	Supermen 2002Buy 🇺🇸
46	A.I.s 2004Buy 🇺🇸
47	Fantasy For Good: A Charitable Anthology 2014Buy 🇺🇸
48	Robots Through the Ages 2023Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1980–1989)

Start with Changeling and read in order.

#	Title
1	Changeling 1980Buy 🇺🇸
2	Madwand 1981Buy 🇺🇸
3	Wizard World 1989Buy 🇺🇸

10 books (1970–1991)

Start with Nine Princes in Amber, the first of 10 books in the Chronicles Of Amber series.

#	Title
1	Nine Princes in Amber 1970Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Guns of Avalon 1972Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Sign of the Unicorn 1975Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Hand of Oberon 1976Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Courts of Chaos 1978Buy 🇺🇸
6	Trumps of Doom 1985Buy 🇺🇸
7	Blood of Amber 1986Buy 🇺🇸
8	Sign of Chaos 1987Buy 🇺🇸
9	Knight of Shadows 1989Buy 🇺🇸
10	Prince of Chaos 1991Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1978–2019)

Start with The Chronicles of Amber and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Chronicles of Amber 1978Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Chronicles of Amber: Volume II 1978Buy 🇺🇸
3	Seven Tales in Amber 2019Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (2009–2010)

Start with Last Exit to Babylon, the first of 7 books in the Collected Stories Of Collections series.

#	Title
1	Last Exit to Babylon 2009Buy 🇺🇸
2	Nine Black Doves 2009Buy 🇺🇸
3	Power & Light 2009Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Road to Amber 2009Buy 🇺🇸
5	This Mortal Mountain 2009Buy 🇺🇸
6	Threshold 2009Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Ides of Octember: A Pictorial Bibliography of Roger Zelazny(With: David G. Grubbs,Christopher S. Kovacs,Ann Crimmins,Alice N.S. Lewis) 2010Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1981–1982)

Start with The Changing Land and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Changing Land 1981Buy 🇺🇸
2	Dilvish, the Damned 1982Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1969–1973)

Start with Isle of the Dead and read in order.

#	Title
1	Isle of the Dead 1969Buy 🇺🇸
2	To Die in Italbar 1973Buy 🇺🇸

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.

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

9 books (1986–1989)

Start with The Legacy of Lehr(By: Katherine Kurtz), the first of 9 books in the Millenium series.

#	Title
1	The Legacy of Lehr(By: Katherine Kurtz) 1986Buy 🇺🇸
2	A Dark Traveling 1987Buy 🇺🇸
3	Chess With A Dragon(By: David Gerrold) 1987Buy 🇺🇸
4	Project Pendulum(By: Robert Silverberg) 1987Buy 🇺🇸
5	A Place of Silver Silence(By: Ardath Mayhar) 1988Buy 🇺🇸
6	Joe Gosh(By: Tom De Haven) 1988Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Forever City(By: Richard A. Lupoff) 1988Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Year of the Ransom(By: Poul Anderson) 1988Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Homecoming(By: Barry B. Longyear) 1989Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1991–1995)

Start with Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming and read in order.

#	Title
1	Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming 1991Buy 🇺🇸
2	If at Faust You Don't Succeed 1993Buy 🇺🇸
3	A Farce to Be Reckoned With 1995Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (1988–1988)

#	Title
1	Roger Zelazny's Visual Guide to Castle Amber(With: Neil Randall) 1988Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1966–2024)

Start with For a Breath I Tarry, the first of 5 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	For a Breath I Tarry 1966Buy 🇺🇸
2	Home is the Hangman 1975Buy 🇺🇸
3	24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai 1985Buy 🇺🇸
4	Permafrost 1986Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Eve of RUMOKO 2024Buy 🇺🇸

12 books (1965–2018)

Start with Four for Tomorrow, the first of 12 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Four for Tomorrow 1965Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth 1971Buy 🇺🇸
3	Poems 1974Buy 🇺🇸
4	My Name is Legion 1976Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Illustrated Roger Zelazny 1978Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Last Defender of Camelot 1980Buy 🇺🇸
7	Unicorn Variation 1981Buy 🇺🇸
8	When Pussywillows Last in the Catyard Bloomed and Other Poems 1985Buy 🇺🇸
9	Frost and Fire 1989Buy 🇺🇸
10	Here There Be Dragons & Way Up High 1992Buy 🇺🇸
11	Manna From Heaven 2003Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Magic 2018Buy 🇺🇸

23 books (1966–2009)

Start with The Dream Master / He Who Shapes, the first of 23 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	The Dream Master / He Who Shapes 1966Buy 🇺🇸
2	This Immortal / …And Call Me Conrad 1966Buy 🇺🇸
3	Lord of Light 1967Buy 🇺🇸
4	Damnation Alley 1968Buy 🇺🇸
5	Creatures of Light and Darkness 1969Buy 🇺🇸
6	Jack of Shadows 1971Buy 🇺🇸
7	Today We Choose Faces 1973Buy 🇺🇸
8	Bridge of Ashes 1976Buy 🇺🇸
9	Deus Irae(With: Philip K. Dick) 1976Buy 🇺🇸
10	Doorways in the Sand 1976Buy 🇺🇸
11	Roadmarks 1979Buy 🇺🇸
12	To Spin is Miracle Cat 1981Buy 🇺🇸
13	Coils(With: Fred Saberhagen) 1982Buy 🇺🇸
14	Eye of Cat 1982Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Black Throne(With: Fred Saberhagen) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Mask of Loki(With: Thomas T. Thomas) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
17	Flare(With: Thomas T. Thomas) 1992Buy 🇺🇸
18	A Night in the Lonesome October 1993Buy 🇺🇸
19	Wilderness(With: Gerald Hausman) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
20	Donnerjack(With: Jane Lindskold) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
21	Psychoshop(With: Alfred Bester) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
22	Lord Demon(With: Jane Lindskold) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
23	The Dead Man's Brother 2009Buy 🇺🇸