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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 "Web of the City" (1958) and follow publication order through all 68 books.
The complete Standalone reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
Web of the City
1958
The Man with 9 Lives
1959
A Touch of Infinity
1959
Spider Kiss
1961
Doomsman
1972
Phoenix Without Ashes
1975
"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman
1965
Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes
1967
A Boy and His Dog
1969
The Region Between
1970
The Deathbird
1973
Jeffty Is Five
1977
All the Lies That Are My Life
1980
Paladin of the Lost Hour (in Twilight Zone Magazine)
1985
Soft Monkey
1987
The Function of Dream Sleep
1988
The Function of Dream Sleep (in Asimov's)
1988
The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks
1990
Chatting with Anubis
1995
From A to Z, in the Sarsaparilla Alphabet
2001
She's a Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother
2003
Run for the Stars
2006
Harlan Ellison's Movie
2010
Li'l Harlan and His Sidekick Carl the Comet in Danger Land
2013
The Deadly Streets
1958
Getting in the Wind
1959
Sex Gang
1959
Children of the Streets / The Juvies
1961
Gentleman Junkie
1961
Ellison Wonderland
1962
Paingod and Other Delusions
1965
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
1967
From the Land of Fear
1967
Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled
1968
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World
1968
Over the Edge
1970
Alone Against Tomorrow
1972
All the Sounds of Fear
1973
Approaching Oblivion
1974
The Time of the Eye
1974
No Doors, No Windows
1975
Deathbird Stories
1975
The Illustrated Harlan Ellison
1978
Strange Wine
1978
The Fantasies of Harlan Ellison
1979
Shatterday
1980
Stalking the Nightmare
1982
The Essential Ellison
1985
Mefisto in Onyx
1987
Night and the Enemy
1987
Angry Candy
1988
Footsteps
1989
The Harlan Ellison Hornbook
1990
Spider Kiss / Stalking the Nightmare
1996
Slippage
1997
Troublemakers
2001
Dreams with Sharp Teeth
2009
The Phantom Chronicles, Volume 2
2009
Pulling a Train
2012
Rough Beasts
2012
Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word
2013
Again, Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word (With: Jason Davis)
2014
The Top of the Volcano
2014
Can & Can'tankerous
2015
The Ephemeral Ellison
2019
The Ellison Treatment
2019
Dimensions of Harlan Ellison
2019
Greatest Hits
2024
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