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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 Flying Sorcerers (With: Larry Niven)" (1970) and follow publication order through all 48 books.
The complete Standalone reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
The Flying Sorcerers (With: Larry Niven)
1970
Space Skimmer
1972
When HARLIE Was One
1972
The Man Who Folded Himself
1973
Moonstar Odyssey
1977
Deathbeast
1978
When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One 2.0
1988
The Martian Child
2002
The World of Star Trek
2014
Afternoon with a Dead Bus
2015
Jacob
2015
Thirteen Fourteen Fifteen O'Clock
2015
Here There Be Lawyers
2025
The Boy Who Was Girl
2025
In the Deadlands
1972
The Martian Child (in F&SF)
1994
In the Quake Zone
2011
The Kennedy Enterprise
2011
The Strange Disappearance And Equally Strange Reappearance Of David Gerrold
2011
Thirteen O'Clock
2011
A Wish for Smish
2011
Chester
2011
Dancer In The Dark
2011
Franz Kafka, Superhero!
2011
Ganny Knits A Spaceship
2011
Nowhere Man
2011
The Seminar From Hell
2011
Two Meditations on King Kong
2011
Crystallization
2011
Turtledome
2011
Digging in Gehenna
2012
Riding Janis
2012
The Case Of The Green Carnation
2013
Night Train To Paris
2014
fourteen o'clock
2015
The Bag Lady
2015
Finding Monstro
2015
The Gathering
2015
With a Finger in My I
1972
Alternate Gerrolds
2004
The Involuntary Human
2007
Fragments
2013
Read My Shorts
2013
Little Horrors
2014
A Promise of Stars
2014
Entanglements and Terrors
2015
Adrift in the Sea of Souls
2020
G is for Gerrold
2022
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