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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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