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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 "The Lathe of Heaven" (1971) and follow publication order through all 49 books.
The complete Standalone reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
The Lathe of Heaven
1971
Very Far Away from Anywhere Else / A Very Long Way from Anywhere Else
1976
The Eye of the Heron
1978
The Beginning Place / Threshold
1980
Always Coming Home
1985
Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand
1991
Changing Planes
2003
Lavinia
2008
Nine Lives
1968
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
1973
The Field of Vision
1973
The Water is Wide
1976
Leese Webster
1979
Gwilan's Harp
1981
Solomon Leviathan's 931st Trip Around the World
1983
The Visionary: The Life Story of Flicker of the Serpentine of Telina-Na (With: Scott Russell Sanders)
1984
Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight (With: Susan Seddon Boulet)
1987
Unchosen Love (Amazing Stories #591)
1994
The Matter of Seggri (in Crank!)
1994
Forgiveness Day
1994
Solitude (in F&SF)
1994
A Man of the People (in Asimov's)
1995
A Woman’s Liberation (in Asimov's)
1995
Ether OR
1995
Mountain Ways (in Asimov's)
1996
The Wild Girls (With: Eleanor Arnason)
2011
Dangerous People
2019
The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1
1975
Wild Angels
1975
The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 2
1978
Hard Words and Other Poems
1981
The Compass Rose
1982
In the Red Zone
1983
Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences
1987
Wild Oats and Fireweed
1988
Blue Moon Over Thurman Street (With: Roger Dorband)
1994
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea
1994
Going Out with Peacocks and Other Poems
1994
Unlocking the Air and Other Stories
1996
Sixty Odd
1999
The Birthday of the World and Other Stories
2002
Science Fiction Stories
2002
Incredible Good Fortune
2006
Walking in Cornwall
2008
Finding My Elegy
2012
Late in the Day: Poems, 2010-2014
2015
The Found and the Lost
2016
Five Ways to Forgiveness
2017
So Far, So Good
2018
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