William Gibson Reading Order

27 books (1981–2015)

Start with Universe 11, the first of 27 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Universe 11 1981Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Nebula Awards 18 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The First Omni Book of Science Fiction 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Tesseracts 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Sixth Omni Book of Science Fiction 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Third Omni Book of Science Fiction 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Mirrorshades 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	The Fifth Omni Book of Science Fiction 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Mississippi Review 47 / 48 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Alien Sex 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Semiotext SF 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Storming the Reality Studio 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Christmas Stars 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	The Ascent of Wonder 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Hackers 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	New Worlds 1 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	The Ultimate Cyberpunk 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	The Uncanny: Experiments in Cyborg Culture 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Rewired 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	The Mammoth Book of Angels and Demons 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	The Time Traveler's Almanac 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	Ad Astra 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2019–2019)

16 books (1972–1987)

Start with The Best Science Fiction of the Year 1, the first of 16 books in the Best Science Fiction of the Year series.

#	Title
1	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 1 1972Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 2 1973Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 3 1974Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 4 1975Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 5 1976Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 6 1977Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 7 1978Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 8 1979Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 9 1980Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 10 1981Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 11 1982Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Best Science Fiction of the Year 13 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Best Science Fiction of the Year 14 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Best Science Fiction of the Year 15 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year 16 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (2003–2010)

Start with Pattern Recognition and read in order.

#	Title
1	Pattern Recognition 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Spook Country 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Zero History 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1993–1999)

Start with Virtual Light and read in order.

#	Title
1	Virtual Light 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Idoru 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	All Tomorrow's Parties 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

45 books (2011–2025)

Start with Nymph: The Singularity(By: J.E. Lansing), the first of 45 books in the Encyclopocalypse Originals series.

1 book (2017–2017)

#	Title
1	Archangel 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (1988–1992)

Start with Ax(By: Ernie Colón) and read in order.

#	Title
1	Ax(By: Ernie Colón) 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Punisher/Black Widow: Spinning Doomsday's Web(By: Larry Stroman,D.G. Chichester,Mark Farmer) 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2012–2012)

1 book (2021–2021)

#	Title
1	Alien 3: The Lost Screenplay by William Gibson(With: Pat Cadigan) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

44 books (2009–2022)

Start with Imprisoned by History: Aspects of Historicized Life(By: Martin L. Davies), the first of 44 books in the Routledge Approaches to History series.

#	Title
1	Imprisoned by History: Aspects of Historicized Life(By: Martin L. Davies) 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Frank Ankersmit's Lost Historical Cause: A Journey from Language to Experience(By: Peter Icke) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	History, Memory, and State-Sponsored Violence: Time and Justice(By: Berber Bevernage) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Integrity and Historical Research(By: Tony Gibbons,Emily Sutherland) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Narrative Projections of a Black British History(By: Eva Ulrike Pirker) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Historiography of Transition: Critical Phases in the Development of Modernity(By: Paolo Pombeni) 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Fiction of History(By: Alexander Lyon Macfie) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Material of World History(By: David Churchill,Tina Mai Chen) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Rise and Propagation of Historical Professionalism(By: Rolf Torstendahl) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	'A New Type of History': Fictional Proposals for dealing with the Past(By: Beverley C Southgate) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Beyond Memory: Silence and the Aesthetics of Remembrance(By: Jay Winter,Alexandre Dessingue) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	History, Ethics, and the Recognition of the Other: A Levinasian View on the Writing of History(By: Anton Froeyman) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	How History Works: The Reconstitution of a Human Science(By: Martin L. Davies) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Modernity, Metatheory, and the Temporal-Spatial Divide: From Mythos to Techne(By: Michael Kimaid) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	The Soviet Past in the Post-Socialist Present: Methodology and Ethics in Russian, Baltic and Central European Oral History and Memory Studies(By: Melanie Ilič) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	The Struggle for the Long-Term in Transnational Science and Politics: Forging the Future(By: Egl? Rindzevi?i?t?,Jenny Andersson) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Theoretical Perspectives on Historians' Autobiographies: From Documentation to Intervention(By: Jaume Aurell) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	The Emergence of Historical Forensic Expertise: Clio Takes the Stand(By: Vladimir Petrović) 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	History and Sociology in France: From Scientific History to the Durkheimian School(By: Robert Leroux) 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	The Work of History: Constructivism and a Politics of the Past(By: Kalle Pihlainen) 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Values, Objectivity, and Explanation in Historiography(By: Tor Egil Førland) 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Cowrie Shells and Cowrie Money(By: Bin Yang) 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Universal History and the Making of the Global(By: Hall Bjørnstad,Helge Jordheim,Anne Regent-Susini) 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	A Personalist Philosophy of History(By: Bennett Gilbert) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	Historia Ludens: The Playing Historian(By: Katherine J. Lewis,Alexander von Lünen,Benjamin Litherland,Pat Cullum) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	Historians Without Borders: New Studies in Multidisciplinary History(By: Lawrence Abrams,Kaleb Knoblauch) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	Historical Parallels, Commemoration and Icons(By: Andreas Leutzsch) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	Public Uses of Human Remains and Relics in History(By: Silvia Cavicchioli,Luigi Provero) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	Teleology and Modernity(With: Dan O'Brien,Marius Turda) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	The Aesthetics of History(By: Alun Munslow) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	The Enlightenment and the Fate of Knowledge: Essays on the Transvaluation of Values(By: Martin L Davies) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	Africa, Empire and World Disorder(By: A G Hopkins) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	Far-Right Revisionism and the End of History(By: Louie Dean Valencia-Garcia) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	History in a Post-Truth World(By: Marius Gudonis,Benjamin T. Jones) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	In Praise of Historical Anthropology: Perspectives, Methods, and Applications to the Study of Power and Colonialism(By: Alexandre Coello de la Rosa,Josep Lluis Mateo Dieste) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
36	Information and Power in History: Towards a Global Approach(By: Ida Nijenhuis,Marijke Van Faassen,Ronald Sluijter,Joris Gijsenbergh,Wim de Jong) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
37	The Primacy of Method in Historical Research(By: Jonas Ahlskog) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
38	Archives and Human Rights(By: Jens Boel,Perrine Canavaggio,Antonio González Quintana) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
39	Family History and Historians in Australia and New Zealand(By: Sophie Scott-Brown,Malcolm Allbrook) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
40	Humanism: Foundations, Diversities, Developments: Foundations, Diversities, Developments(By: Jörn Rüsen) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
41	National History and New Nationalism in the Twenty-First Century: A Global Comparison(By: Niels F May,Thomas Maissen) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
42	Writing Russia: The Discursive Construction of AnOther Nation(By: Melissa-Ellen Dowling) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
43	How to Write About the Holocaust(By: Theodor Pelekanidis) 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
44	The Politics of Time in China and Japan(By: Viren Murthy) 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (1985–1986)

Start with Dogfight (in Omni)(With: Michael Swanwick) and read in order.

1 book (1986–1986)

#	Title
1	Burning Chrome 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1984–1988)

Start with Neuromancer and read in order.

#	Title
1	Neuromancer 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Count Zero 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Mona Lisa Overdrive 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (1990–1995)

Start with The Difference Engine(With: Bruce Sterling) and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Difference Engine(With: Bruce Sterling) 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Johnny Mnemonic 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (2014–2020)

Start with The Peripheral and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Peripheral 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Agency 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

17 books (1971–1987)

Start with Universe 1(By: Terry Carr), the first of 17 books in the Universe series.

#	Title
1	Universe 1(By: Terry Carr) 1971Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Universe 2(By: Terry Carr) 1972Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Universe 3(By: Terry Carr) 1973Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Universe 4(By: Terry Carr) 1974Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Universe 5(By: Terry Carr) 1974Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Universe 6(By: John Shirley,Terry Carr) 1976Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Universe 7(By: Terry Carr) 1977Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Universe 8(By: Terry Carr) 1978Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Universe 9(By: John Shirley,Terry Carr) 1979Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Universe 10(By: Terry Carr) 1980Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Universe 11(With: Kim Stanley Robinson,Michael Swanwick,Carter Scholz,Michael Bishop,Ian Watson,Nancy Kress,Carol Emshwiller,Josephine Saxton,Terry Carr) 1981Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Universe 12(By: Terry Carr) 1982Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Universe 13(By: Kim Stanley Robinson,Lucius Shepard,Michael Bishop,Ian Watson,Terry Carr,Bruce Sterling,Leanne Frahm,Bill Bickel) 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Universe 14(By: Terry Carr) 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Universe 15(By: Terry Carr) 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Universe 16(By: Terry Carr) 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Universe 17(By: Terry Carr) 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible