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John Scalzi Books in Order
Every John Scalzi book in publication order — 64 in total, spanning 2000–2020.
Publication Order of Old Man's War Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Old Man's War | 2005 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  The Ghost Brigades | 2006 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 |  The Last Colony | 2007 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 |  Zoe's Tale | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 |  The Human Division | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 |  The End of All Things | 2015 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Old Man's War Short Stories/Novellas
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Questions for a Soldier | 2005 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  The Sagan Diary | 2007 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | After the Coup | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Shadow War Of The Night Dragons Short Stories/Novellas
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dead City | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Lock In Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome | 2014 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  Lock In | 2014 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 |  Head On | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of The Interdependency Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Collapsing Empire | 2017 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  The Consuming Fire | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | The Last Emperox | 2020 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Human Division Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The B-Team | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  Walk the Plank | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | We Only Need the Heads | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 |  A Voice in the Wilderness | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | Tales From the Clarke | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 | The Back Channel | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 | The Dog King | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 | The Sound of Rebellion | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 |  The Observers | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 | This Must Be the Place | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 11 | A Problem of Proportion | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 12 | The Gentle Art of Cracking Heads | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 13 | Earth Below, Sky Above | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of End of All Things Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Life of the Mind | 2015 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | This Hollow Union | 2015 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | Can Long Endure | 2015 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | To Stand or Fall | 2015 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Fuzzy Sapiens Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fuzzy Nation | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of METAtropolis Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | METAtropolis | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Uncle John's Presents Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Uncle John's Presents: The Book of the Dumb | 2003 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  Uncle John's Presents Book of the Dumb 2 | 2004 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Whatever Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  The Mallet of Loving Correction | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Agent to the Stars | 2004 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  The Android's Dream | 2006 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 |  The God Engines | 2009 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | Dead City | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 |  Redshirts | 2012 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 |  The Collapsing Empire | 2017 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 | Virtue Signaling and Other Heresies | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 |  A Very Scalzi Christmas | 2019 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How I Proposed to My Wife: An Alien Sex Story | 2006 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | The Tale of the Wicked | 2009 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 |  Judge Sn Goes Golfing | 2009 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | The President's Brain is Missing | 2010 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | An Election | 2010 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 | Muse of Fire | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 | Everything but the Squeal | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 |  The Dispatcher | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Miniatures | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Rough Guide to Money Online | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  The Rough Guide to the Universe | 2003 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 |  The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies | 2005 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 |  You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi On Writing | 2007 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 |  24 Frames into the Future | 2012 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 | Don't Live For Your Obituary | 2017 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Black Tide Rising Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Black Tide Rising | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Black Tide Rising | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
Every title by year All 64, oldest to newest
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rough Guide to Money Online | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Uncle John's Presents: The Book of the Dumb | 2003 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | The Rough Guide to the Universe | 2003 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | Uncle John's Presents Book of the Dumb 2 | 2004 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | Agent to the Stars | 2004 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 | Old Man's War | 2005 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 | Questions for a Soldier | 2005 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 | The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies | 2005 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 | The Ghost Brigades | 2006 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 | The Android's Dream | 2006 | Amazon US UK |
| 11 | How I Proposed to My Wife: An Alien Sex Story | 2006 | Amazon US UK |
| 12 | The Last Colony | 2007 | Amazon US UK |
| 13 | The Sagan Diary | 2007 | Amazon US UK |
| 14 | You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi On Writing | 2007 | Amazon US UK |
| 15 | Zoe's Tale | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
| 16 | After the Coup | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
| 17 | METAtropolis | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
| 18 | Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
| 19 | The God Engines | 2009 | Amazon US UK |
| 20 | The Tale of the Wicked | 2009 | Amazon US UK |
| 21 | Judge Sn Goes Golfing | 2009 | Amazon US UK |
| 22 | The President's Brain is Missing | 2010 | Amazon US UK |
| 23 | An Election | 2010 | Amazon US UK |
| 24 | Dead City | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
| 25 | Fuzzy Nation | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
| 26 | Dead City | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
| 27 | Redshirts | 2012 | Amazon US UK |
| 28 | 24 Frames into the Future | 2012 | Amazon US UK |
| 29 | The Human Division | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 30 | The B-Team | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 31 | Walk the Plank | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 32 | We Only Need the Heads | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 33 | A Voice in the Wilderness | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 34 | Tales From the Clarke | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 35 | The Back Channel | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 36 | The Dog King | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 37 | The Sound of Rebellion | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 38 | The Observers | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 39 | This Must Be the Place | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 40 | A Problem of Proportion | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 41 | The Gentle Art of Cracking Heads | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 42 | Earth Below, Sky Above | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 43 | The Mallet of Loving Correction | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 44 | Muse of Fire | 2013 | Amazon US UK |
| 45 | Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome | 2014 | Amazon US UK |
| 46 | Lock In | 2014 | Amazon US UK |
| 47 | The End of All Things | 2015 | Amazon US UK |
| 48 | The Life of the Mind | 2015 | Amazon US UK |
| 49 | This Hollow Union | 2015 | Amazon US UK |
| 50 | Can Long Endure | 2015 | Amazon US UK |
| 51 | To Stand or Fall | 2015 | Amazon US UK |
| 52 | Everything but the Squeal | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 53 | The Dispatcher | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 54 | Miniatures | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 55 | Black Tide Rising | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 56 | Black Tide Rising | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 57 | The Collapsing Empire | 2017 | Amazon US UK |
| 58 | The Collapsing Empire | 2017 | Amazon US UK |
| 59 | Don't Live For Your Obituary | 2017 | Amazon US UK |
| 60 | Head On | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
| 61 | The Consuming Fire | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
| 62 | Virtue Signaling and Other Heresies | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
| 63 | A Very Scalzi Christmas | 2019 | Amazon US UK |
| 64 | The Last Emperox | 2020 | Amazon US UK |
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