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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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