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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 "An Unusual Angle" (1983) and follow publication order through all 40 books.
The complete Standalone reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
An Unusual Angle
1983
Diaspora
1997
Blood Sisters
1998
Teranesia
1999
Schild's Ladder
2002
Incandescence
2008
Zendegi
2010
Dichronauts
2017
Phoresis
2018
Zeitgeber
2019
The Book of All Skies
2021
Scale
2022
Morphotrophic
2024
Luminous (in Asimov's)
1995
Cocoon (in Luminous)
1995
TAP (in Asimov's)
1995
Reasons to Be Cheerful
1997
The Planck Dive
1998
Border Guards
1999
Oracle
2000
Dark Integers
2007
Glory
2007
Bit Players
2013
Seventh Sight
2014
The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred
2016
Uncanny Valley
2017
The Nearest
2018
This is Not the Way Home
2019
Perihelion Summer
2019
Dispersion
2020
Axiomatic
1990
Our Lady Of Chernobyl
1995
Luminous
1995
Dark Integers and Other Stories
2008
Oceanic
2009
Crystal Nights and Other Stories
2009
The Best of Greg Egan
2019
Instantiation
2020
Sleep and the Soul
2023
Phoresis and Other Journeys
2023
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