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Jeff VanderMeer Books in Order

13 series including Predator Series, Southern Reach Series and more

13 series 105 books Latest: Absolution (2024)

Reading Order

13 series · 105 books

Ambergris Series

0 of 3 read
# Title Year Buy
1 City of Saints and Madmen 2001 Buy from Amazon
2 Shriek 2006 Buy from Amazon
3 Finch 2009 Buy from Amazon
# Title Year Buy
1 Annihilation 2014 Buy from Amazon
2 Authority 2014 Buy from Amazon
3 Acceptance 2014 Buy from Amazon
4 Area X (Complete Trilogy) 2014 Buy from Amazon
5 Absolution 2024 Buy from Amazon

Borne Series

0 of 3 read
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1 Borne 2017 Buy from Amazon
2 The Strange Bird (Short Story) 2017 Buy from Amazon
3 Dead Astronauts 2019 Buy from Amazon

Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead Series

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1 A Peculiar Peril 2020 Buy from Amazon

Leviathan Series

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1 Leviathan: Cities ( By: Jay Lake, Forrest Aguirre, Ben Peek, Michael Cisco, K.J. Bishop, Stepan Chapman, Ursula Pflug, Allan Kausch, Tim Jarvis, Catherine Kasper, Darla Beasley) 2004 Buy from Amazon

Jeff VanderMeer Other Novels

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1 Veniss Underground 2003 Buy from Amazon
2 The Situation 2008 Buy from Amazon
3 The Three Quests of the Wizard Sarnod 2010 Buy from Amazon
4 Hummingbird Salamander 2021 Buy from Amazon

Jeff VanderMeer Short Stories/Novellas

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1 Dradin, In Love (Short Story) 1996 Buy from Amazon
2 The Transformation of Martin Lake 1999 Buy from Amazon
3 Why Should I Cut Your Throat? (Short Story) 2004 Buy from Amazon
4 Errata (Short Story) 2010 Buy from Amazon
5 Balzac's War (Short Story) 2011 Buy from Amazon
6 Greensleeves (Short Story) 2011 Buy from Amazon
7 Komodo (Short Story) 2014 Buy from Amazon
8 This World Is Full of Monsters (Short Story) 2017 Buy from Amazon
9 Wildlife 2022 Buy from Amazon

Jeff VanderMeer Short Story Collections

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1 The Day Dali Died (Short Story) 2003 Buy from Amazon
2 Secret Life 2004 Buy from Amazon
3 The Third Bear 2007 Buy from Amazon
4 Strange Tales of Secret Lives 2007 Buy from Amazon
5 The Surgeon's Tale and Other Stories (Short Story) ( With: Cat Rambo) 2007 Buy from Amazon
6 The Steampunk Bible: An Illustrated Guide to the World of Imaginary Airships, Corsets and Goggles, Mad Scientists, and Strange Literature ( With: S.J. Chambers) 2011 Buy from Amazon
7 Monstrous Creatures: Explorations of Fantasy Through Essays, Articles and Reviews 2011 Buy from Amazon

Jeff VanderMeer Non-Fiction Books

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1 The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals: The Evil Monkey Dialogues ( With: Ann VanderMeer) 2010 Buy from Amazon
2 Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction 2013 Buy from Amazon
3 The Steampunk User's Manual ( With: S.J. Chambers) 2014 Buy from Amazon
# Title Year Buy
1 Predator ( By: Paul Monette) 1987 Buy from Amazon
2 Predator 2 ( By: Simon Hawke) 1990 Buy from Amazon
3 Concrete Jungle ( By: James A. Moore, Nathan Archer) 1995 Buy from Amazon
4 Cold War ( By: Nathan Archer) 1997 Buy from Amazon
5 Big Game ( By: Sandy Schofield) 1999 Buy from Amazon
6 Forever Midnight ( By: John Shirley) 2006 Buy from Amazon
7 Flesh and Blood ( By: Robert Greenberger, Michael Jan Friedman) 2007 Buy from Amazon
8 South China Sea 2008 Buy from Amazon
9 Turnabout ( By: Steve Perry) 2008 Buy from Amazon
10 Incursion ( By: Tim Lebbon) 2015 Buy from Amazon
11 If It Bleeds ( By: Jonathan Maberry, Jeremy Robinson, Kevin J. Anderson, Bryan Thomas Schmidt, Tim Lebbon, Andrew Mayne, Steve Perry, Mira Grant, Larry Correia, Dayton Ward) 2017 Buy from Amazon
12 Hunters and Hunted Official Movie Prequel ( By: James A. Moore) 2018 Buy from Amazon
13 Stalking Shadows ( By: James A. Moore, Mark Morris) 2020 Buy from Amazon
# Title Year Buy
1 The Surgeon's Tale and Other Stories (Short Story) ( With: Cat Rambo) 2007 Buy from Amazon
2 Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight ( By: Cat Rambo) 2009 Buy from Amazon
3 Near ( By: Cat Rambo) 2012 Buy from Amazon
4 Altered America ( By: Cat Rambo) 2016 Buy from Amazon
5 Neither Here Nor There ( By: Cat Rambo) 2016 Buy from Amazon

The Time Traveller's Almanac Series with Ann VanderMeer

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1 Experiments 2014 Buy from Amazon
2 Reactionaries 2014 Buy from Amazon
3 Mazes & Traps 2014 Buy from Amazon
4 Communiqués 2014 Buy from Amazon

Jeff VanderMeer Anthologies

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# Title Year Buy
1 Dark Terrors 1995 Buy from Amazon
2 The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 7 1996 Buy from Amazon
3 Leviathan 2 1998 Buy from Amazon
4 Leviathan 2002 Buy from Amazon
5 Dark Terrors 6 2002 Buy from Amazon
6 The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases 2003 Buy from Amazon
7 The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 14 2003 Buy from Amazon
8 Breaking Windows 2003 Buy from Amazon
9 Polyphony, Volume 5 2005 Buy from Amazon
10 Best New Fantasy 2006 Buy from Amazon
11 Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories 2007 Buy from Amazon
12 Twentieth Annual Collection 2007 Buy from Amazon
13 Brothers & Beasts 2007 Buy from Amazon
14 Booklife 2007 Buy from Amazon
15 Fast Ships, Black Sails 2008 Buy from Amazon
16 The New Weird 2008 Buy from Amazon
17 Polluto 2: Apocalypses and Garden Furniture 2008 Buy from Amazon
18 Steampunk 2008 Buy from Amazon
19 Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 20 2008 Buy from Amazon
20 Best American Fantasy 2008 2008 Buy from Amazon
21 The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2009 2008 Buy from Amazon
22 Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 25, October 2008 2008 Buy from Amazon
23 Evolutions: Essential Tales of the Halo Universe 2009 Buy from Amazon
24 Year's Best SF 14 2009 Buy from Amazon
25 Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance 2009 Buy from Amazon
26 Last Drink Bird Head 2009 Buy from Amazon
27 Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded 2010 Buy from Amazon
28 The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories 2010 Buy from Amazon
29 Happily Ever After 2011 Buy from Amazon
30 The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities 2011 Buy from Amazon
31 Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters 2011 Buy from Amazon
32 Steampunk III 2012 Buy from Amazon
33 Arc 1.2: Post Human Conditions 2012 Buy from Amazon
34 The Mammoth Book of Steampunk 2012 Buy from Amazon
35 Circus: Fantasy Under the Big Top 2012 Buy from Amazon
36 Fungi 2012 Buy from Amazon
37 The Time Traveler's Almanac 2013 Buy from Amazon
38 Lightspeed Magazine, February 2014 2014 Buy from Amazon
39 Sisters of the Revolution 2015 Buy from Amazon
40 Love Hurts 2015 Buy from Amazon
41 Beyond the Woods: Fairy Tales Retold 2016 Buy from Amazon
42 The Big Book of Science Fiction 2016 Buy from Amazon
43 Mixed Up: Cocktail Recipes (and Flash Fiction) for the Discerning Drinker 2017 Buy from Amazon
44 Worlds Seen in Passing 2018 Buy from Amazon
45 The Big Book of Classic Fantasy 2019 Buy from Amazon
46 The Big Book of Modern Fantasy 2020 Buy from Amazon
47 Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn 2022 Buy from Amazon

Jeff VanderMeer (born July 7, 1968) is an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist known for his Southern Gothic-influenced science fiction and fantasy. Born in Bellingham, Washington, VanderMeer spent his formative years in the rural South. He began writing in the mid-1980s, publishing his first novel "Veniss Underground" in 1994. Notably, his "Southern Reach" trilogy ("Annihilation," "Authority," and "Acceptance") brought him widespread recognition and critical acclaim. VanderMeer has received numerous awards, including the Nebula, World Fantasy, British Fantasy, and Shirley Jackson Awards. His work has been praised for its unique blending of genres, its atmospheric and surreal settings, and its exploration of environmental and societal issues.

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