Tim Pratt Reading Order

40 books (2002–2022)

Start with Fifteenth Annual Collection, the first of 40 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Fifteenth Annual Collection 2002Buy 🇺🇸
2	Best New Horror 17 2006Buy 🇺🇸
3	Jabberwocky 2 2006Buy 🇺🇸
4	Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories 2007Buy 🇺🇸
5	Nebula Awards Showcase 2007 2007Buy 🇺🇸
6	TwentiethAnnual Collection 2007Buy 🇺🇸
7	Best New Horror 19 2008Buy 🇺🇸
8	Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show 2008Buy 🇺🇸
9	Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition 2008Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy 2008Buy 🇺🇸
11	Last Drink Bird Head 2009Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Best of Abyss & Apex Volume One 2009Buy 🇺🇸
13	Realms 2 2010Buy 🇺🇸
14	Sympathy for the Devil 2010Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Way of the Wizard 2010Buy 🇺🇸
16	Daily Science Fiction Stories of March 2011 2011Buy 🇺🇸
17	New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird 2011Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Book of Cthulhu 2011Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Recent Weird 2011Buy 🇺🇸
20	Those Who Fight Monsters 2011Buy 🇺🇸
21	Glitter & Mayhem 2013Buy 🇺🇸
22	Nightmare Magazine, January 2014 2013Buy 🇺🇸
23	Rags & Bones 2013Buy 🇺🇸
24	Super Stories of Heroes and Villains 2013Buy 🇺🇸
25	Unidentified Funny Objects 2 2013Buy 🇺🇸
26	Whispers from the Abyss 2013Buy 🇺🇸
27	Unidentified Funny Objects 3 2014Buy 🇺🇸
28	Funny Science Fiction 2015Buy 🇺🇸
29	Unidentified Funny Objects 4 2015Buy 🇺🇸
30	Lightspeed Magazine, May 2016 2016Buy 🇺🇸
31	Unidentified Funny Objects 5 2016Buy 🇺🇸
32	Mixed Up: Cocktail Recipes (and Flash Fiction) for the Discerning Drinker 2017Buy 🇺🇸
33	Strange California 2017Buy 🇺🇸
34	Robots vs. Fairies 2018Buy 🇺🇸
35	Aconyte Books Best of 2020: A World Expanding Fiction Chapter Sampler 2020Buy 🇺🇸
36	Burn the Ashes 2020Buy 🇺🇸
37	Ignorance Is Strength 2020Buy 🇺🇸
38	Or Else the Light 2020Buy 🇺🇸
39	Shapers of Worlds Volume II 2021Buy 🇺🇸
40	Farther Reefs 2022Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2017–2021)

Start with The Wrong Stars, the first of 4 books in the Axiom series.

#	Title
1	The Wrong Stars 2017Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Dreaming Stars 2018Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Forbidden Stars 2019Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Alien Stars: And Other Novellas 2021Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2003–2019)

Start with Little Gods, the first of 6 books in the Collections series.

#	Title
1	Little Gods 2003Buy 🇺🇸
2	If There Were Wolves 2006Buy 🇺🇸
3	Hart and Boot and Other Stories 2007Buy 🇺🇸
4	Antiquities and Tangibles: and Other Stories 2012Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Christmas Mummy and Other Carols(With: Heather Shaw) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
6	Miracles & Marvels: Stories 2019Buy 🇺🇸

15 books (1991–2012)

Start with Into the Void(By: Nigel Findley), the first of 15 books in the Forgotten Realms Stand-Alone series.

#	Title
1	Into the Void(By: Nigel Findley) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
2	Prince of Lies(By: James Lowder) 1993Buy 🇺🇸
3	Once Around the Realms(By: Brian Thomsen) 1995Buy 🇺🇸
4	Escape from Undermountain(By: Mark Anthony) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Council of Blades(By: Paul Kidd) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Mage in the Iron Mask(By: Brian Thomsen) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
7	Evermeet: Island of Elves(By: Elaine Cunningham) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Shadow Stone(By: Richard Baker) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
9	Silverfall(By: Ed Greenwood) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
10	We Three Dragons(By: Ed Greenwood) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
11	Dawnbringer(By: Samantha Henderson) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
12	Sandstorm(By: Christopher Rowe) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
13	Prince of Ravens(By: Richard Baker) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Rose of Sarifal(By: Paulina Claiborne) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
15	Venom in Her Veins 2012Buy 🇺🇸

72 books (1999–2026)

Start with The Glass Prison(By: Monte Cook), the first of 72 books in the Forgotten Realms: Pathfinder Tales series.

#	Title
1	The Glass Prison(By: Monte Cook) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
2	Hell's Pawns(By: Dave Gross) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
3	Certainty(By: Liane Merciel) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
4	Noble Sacrifice(By: Richard S. Ford) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
5	Prince of Wolves(By: Dave Gross) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Lost Pathfinder(By: Dave Gross) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Secret of the Rose and Glove(By: Kevin Andrew Murphy) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
8	Winter Witch(By: Dave Gross,Elaine Cunningham) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
9	A Lesson in Taxonomy(By: Dave Gross) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
10	Death's Heretic(By: James L. Sutter) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
11	Faithful Servants(By: James L. Sutter) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
12	Husks(By: Dave Gross) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
13	Lord of Penance(By: Richard Lee Byers) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
14	Master of Devils(By: Dave Gross) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
15	Plague of Shadows(By: Howard Andrew Jones) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Ghosts of Broken Blades(By: Monte Cook) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Illusionist(By: Elaine Cunningham) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
18	Two Pieces of Tarnished Silver(By: Erik Mona) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
19	A Passage to Absalom(By: Dave Gross) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
20	A Tomb of Winter's Plunder 2012Buy 🇺🇸
21	Called to Darkness(By: Richard Lee Byers) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
22	City of the Fallen Sky 2012Buy 🇺🇸
23	Fingers of Death—No, Doom!(By: Lucien Soulban) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
24	Guilty Blood(By: F. Wesley Schneider) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
25	Hell or High Water(By: Ari Marmell) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
26	Krunzle the Quick(By: Hugh Matthews) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
27	Mother Bears(By: KarenWhite,Wendy N. Wagner) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
28	Nightglass(By: Liane Merciel) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
29	Plow and Sword(By: Robert Vardeman) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
30	Queen of Thorns(By: Dave Gross) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
31	Song of the Serpent(By: Hugh Matthews) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
32	The Perfumer's Apprentice(By: Kevin Andrew Murphy) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
33	Bastard, Sword 2013Buy 🇺🇸
34	Best Served Cold(By: Ari Marmell) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
35	In Red Rune Canyon(By: Richard Lee Byers) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
36	Killing Time(By: Dave Gross) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
37	King of Chaos(By: Dave Gross) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
38	Liar's Blade 2013Buy 🇺🇸
39	Misery's Mirror(By: Liane Merciel) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
40	Pirate's Honor(By: Chris A. Jackson) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
41	Proper Villains(By: Erik Scott de Bie) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
42	Shattered Steel(By: F. Wesley Schneider) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
43	Stalking the Beast(By: Howard Andrew Jones) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
44	Stargazer(By: Chris A. Jackson) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
45	The Fencing Master(By: Dave Gross) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
46	The Wizard's Mask(By: Ed Greenwood) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
47	Boar and Rabbit(By: Ray Porter,James L. Sutter) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
48	Nightblade(By: Liane Merciel) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
49	Pirate's Promise(By: Chris A. Jackson) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
50	Reign of Stars 2014Buy 🇺🇸
51	Skinwalkers(By: Wendy N. Wagner) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
52	The Crusader Road(By: Michael A. Stackpole) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
53	The Dagger of Trust(By: Chris Willrich) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
54	The Redemption Engine(By: James L. Sutter) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
55	The Tides of Blood!(By: Lucien Soulban) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
56	Undead Unleashed(By: Dave Gross,Adam Daigle,Mark Moreland) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
57	Beyond the Pool of Stars(By: Howard Andrew Jones) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
58	Bloodbound(By: F. Wesley Schneider) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
59	Firesoul(By: Gary Kloster) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
60	Forge of Ashes(By: Josh Vogt) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
61	Liar's Island 2015Buy 🇺🇸
62	Lord of Runes(By: Dave Gross) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
63	Hellknight(By: Liane Merciel) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
64	Liar's Bargain 2016Buy 🇺🇸
65	Pirate's Prophecy(By: Chris A. Jackson) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
66	Reaper's Eye(By: Richard A. Knaak) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
67	Shy Knives(By: Sam Sykes) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
68	Starspawn(By: Wendy N. Wagner) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
69	Gears of Faith(By: Gabrielle Harbowy) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
70	Through The Gate in the Sea(By: Howard Andrew Jones) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
71	The Shroud of Four Silences(By: Liane Merciel) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
72	Operation Hellmouth(By: Chris A. Jackson) 2026Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2021–2022)

Start with Doors of Sleep and read in order.

#	Title
1	Doors of Sleep 2021Buy 🇺🇸
2	Prison of Sleep 2022Buy 🇺🇸

15 books (2007–2018)

Start with Blood Engines, the first of 15 books in the Marla Mason series.

4 books (2009–2011)

Start with Bone Shop, the first of 4 books in the Marla Mason Prequel series.

3 books (2023–2025)

Start with The Ravening Deep and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Ravening Deep 2023Buy 🇺🇸
2	Herald of Ruin 2024Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Twilight Magus 2025Buy 🇺🇸

14 books (2006–2024)

Start with Cup and Table, the first of 14 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

7 books (2005–2026)

Start with The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, the first of 7 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl 2005Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Nex 2010Buy 🇺🇸
3	Briarpatch 2011Buy 🇺🇸
4	Heirs of Grace 2014Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Deep Woods 2015Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Knife and the Serpent 2024Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Jewel and the Comet 2026Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2013–2013)

#	Title
1	The Stormglass Protocol 2013Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2020–2020)

Start with Burn the Ashes and read in order.

3 books (2020–2022)

Start with The Fractured Void and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Fractured Void 2020Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Necropolis Empire 2021Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Veiled Masters 2022Buy 🇺🇸

13 books (2012–2026)

Start with Unidentified Funny Objects, the first of 13 books in the Unidentified Funny Objects Annual Anthology series.

#	Title
1	Unidentified Funny Objects 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	Unidentified Funny Objects 2 2013Buy 🇺🇸
3	Unidentified Funny Objects 3 2014Buy 🇺🇸
4	Funny Science Fiction 2015Buy 🇺🇸
5	Unidentified Funny Objects 4 2015Buy 🇺🇸
6	Funny Fantasy 2016Buy 🇺🇸
7	Unidentified Funny Objects 5 2016Buy 🇺🇸
8	Funny Horror 2017Buy 🇺🇸
9	Unidentified Funny Objects 6 2017Buy 🇺🇸
10	Unidentified Funny Objects 7 2018Buy 🇺🇸
11	Unidentified Funny Objects 8 2020Buy 🇺🇸
12	Unidentified Funny Objects 9 2022Buy 🇺🇸
13	Unidentified Funny Objects 10 2026Buy 🇺🇸