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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 "Salt" (2000) and follow publication order through all 39 books.
The complete Standalone reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
Salt
2000
2001
Stone
2002
Polystom: Two Universes in One Reality
2003
The Snow
2004
Gradisil
2006
Splinter
2007
Land of the Headless
2007
Swiftly
2008
Yellow Blue Tibia
2009
I Am Scrooge: A Zombie Story for Christmas (With: Zom Leech)
2009
New Model Army
2010
The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo
2010
By Light Alone
2011
Jack Glass
2012
Twenty Trillion Leagues Under The Sea
2014
Bête
2014
The Thing Itself
2015
Bethany
2016
The Compelled
2020
Purgatory Mount
2021
Middlemarch: Epigraphs and Mirrors
2021
The This
2022
The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate
2023
High
2024
Lake of Darkness
2024
Food Person
2025
Park Polar
2002
Jupiter Magnified
2003
Anticopernicus
2011
Wodwo Vergil
2018
The Lake Boy
2018
The Man Who Would Be Kling
2019
Stealing For The Sky
2022
The Midas Rain
2023
The Swoon
2024
Swiftly: Stories That Never Were and Might Never Be
2004
Adam Robots
2013
Rave and Let Die: The SF and Fantasy of 2014
2015
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