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Standalone Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Standalone books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: April 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Standalone series? Start with "Gather, Darkness!" (1943) and follow publication order through all 73 books.
The complete Standalone reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
Gather, Darkness!
1943
Conjure Wife
1943
Destiny Times Three
1945
The Sinful Ones
1950
The Green Millennium
1953
The Silver Eggheads
1961
The Wanderer
1964
A Specter Is Haunting Texas
1968
Our Lady of Darkness
1977
Rime Isle
1977
No Truce with Kings & Ship of Shadows (With: Poul Anderson)
1989
The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich
1996
Coming Attraction
1950
The Moon Is Green
1952
What's He Doing in There?
1957
Bread Overhead
1958
The Night of the Long Knives
1960
No Great Magic
1963
Gonna Roll the Bones
1967
Belsen Express
1975
Dark Wings
1978
The Button Molder
1979
The Last Letter
2011
The Dead Man
2011
Mariana
2011
Claws from the Night
2014
Yesterday House
2016
Nice Girl with 5 Husbands
2016
Night's Black Agents
1947
A Pail of Air
1951
Night Monsters
1953
The Big Time / The Mind Spider and Other Stories
1961
The Creature from Cleveland Depths
1962
Shadows With Eyes
1962
Ships to the Stars
1964
The Night of the Wolf
1966
The Secret Songs
1968
The Book of Fritz Leiber
1974
The Best of Fritz Leiber
1974
The Second Book of Fritz Leiber
1975
The Worlds of Fritz Leiber
1976
Heroes and Horrors
1978
Ervool
1980
Ship of Shadows
1982
The Mystery of the Japanese Clock
1982
The Ghost Light
1984
Bazaar of the Bizarre
1984
The Leiber Chronicles: Fifty Years of Fritz Leiber
1990
Dark Ladies
1991
Gummitch and Friends
1992
Kreativity for Kats and Other Feline Fantasies
1992
The Black Gondolier
1998
Selected Stories
2001
Smoke Ghost
2002
Smoke Ghost& Other Apparitions
2002
Day Dark, Night Bright
2002
Horrible Imaginings
2004
The Creature from Cleveland Depths and Other Tales
2007
Poor Superman and Others
2009
Strange Wonders
2010
Horror Gems, Vol. Two
2011
Science Fiction Collection 001
2011
The Night of the Long Knives and Other Works
2011
Science Fiction Collection 002 (With: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)
2011
The Lords of Quarmall / The Beacon to Elsewhere
2011
Snakes & Spiders
2012
Hatchery of Dreams
2012
The Moon Is Green and Other Tales
2013
The Frost Monstreme
2014
Fritz Leiber
2016
Bullet with His Name and Other Tales
2016
A Hitch in Space and Other Tales
2016
The Science Fiction Archive #2
2018
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