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Jeff VanderMeer Books in Order

13 series including Predator, Southern Reach and more

★ 4 NYT bestsellers 13 series 105 books Latest: Absolution (2024)

Jeff VanderMeer has written 105 books since 1987. The catalogue splits into 13 series, with Predator the most substantial at 13 books. Absolution (2024) is the most recent addition we've catalogued.

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1 Ambergris 2 Southern Reach 3 Borne 4 Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead 5 Leviathan 6 Jeff VanderMeer Other Novels 7 Jeff VanderMeer Short Stories/Novellas 8 Jeff VanderMeer Short Story Collections 9 Jeff VanderMeer Non-Fiction Books 10 Predator 11 Cat Rambo Collections with Cat Rambo 12 The Time Traveller's Almanac Series with Ann VanderMeer 13 Jeff VanderMeer Anthologies

New York Times Bestsellers

4 books

Jeff VanderMeer has placed 4 books on the New York Times bestseller lists, spending a combined 5 weeks on the charts.

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Absolution
Southern Reach Series

1 week on the Times Hardcover Fiction list · peaked at #7 · debuted Oct 2024 · 2 weeks across 2 NYT lists

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Authority
Southern Reach Series

1 week on the Times Paperback Trade Fiction list · peaked at #20 · debuted May 2014

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Reading Order

13 series · 105 books

Ambergris Series

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1 City of Saints and Madmen 2001 World Fantasy Award 2003Full award history → Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 Shriek 2006 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3 Finch 2009 Locus Award 2010World Fantasy Award 2010Nebula Award 2010Nebula Award 2009Full award history → Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

Southern Reach Series

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1 Annihilation 2014 🏆 Nebula Award 2015🏆 Nebula Award 2014🏆 Shirley Jackson Award 2014Locus Award 2015Goodreads Choice Award 2014Full award history → Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 Authority 2014 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3 Acceptance 2014 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4 Area X (Complete Trilogy) 2014 World Fantasy Award 2015Full award history → Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
5 Absolution 2024 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

Borne Series

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1 Borne 2017 Arthur C. Clarke Award 2018Goodreads Choice Award 2017Full award history → Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 The Strange Bird (Short Story) 2017 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3 Dead Astronauts 2019 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead Series

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1 A Peculiar Peril 2020 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

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 U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

Jeff VanderMeer Other Novels

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1 Veniss Underground 2003 World Fantasy Award 2004Bram Stoker Award 2003Full award history → Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 The Situation 2008 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3 The Three Quests of the Wizard Sarnod 2010 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4 Hummingbird Salamander 2021 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

Jeff VanderMeer Short Stories/Novellas

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

Jeff VanderMeer Short Story Collections

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1 The Day Dali Died (Short Story) 2003 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 Secret Life 2004 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3 The Third Bear 2007 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4 Strange Tales of Secret Lives 2007 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
5 The Surgeon's Tale and Other Stories (Short Story) ( With: Cat Rambo) 2007 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
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 U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
7 Monstrous Creatures: Explorations of Fantasy Through Essays, Articles and Reviews 2011 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

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 U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction 2013 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3 The Steampunk User's Manual ( With: S.J. Chambers) 2014 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

Predator Series

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1 Predator ( By: Paul Monette) 1987 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 Predator 2 ( By: Simon Hawke) 1990 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3 Concrete Jungle ( By: James A. Moore, Nathan Archer) 1995 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4 Cold War ( By: Nathan Archer) 1997 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
5 Big Game ( By: Sandy Schofield) 1999 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
6 Forever Midnight ( By: John Shirley) 2006 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
7 Flesh and Blood ( By: Robert Greenberger, Michael Jan Friedman) 2007 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
8 South China Sea 2008 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
9 Turnabout ( By: Steve Perry) 2008 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
10 Incursion ( By: Tim Lebbon) 2015 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
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 U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
12 Hunters and Hunted Official Movie Prequel ( By: James A. Moore) 2018 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
13 Stalking Shadows ( By: James A. Moore, Mark Morris) 2020 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

Cat Rambo Collections with Cat Rambo

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1 The Surgeon's Tale and Other Stories (Short Story) ( With: Cat Rambo) 2007 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight ( By: Cat Rambo) 2009 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3 Near ( By: Cat Rambo) 2012 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4 Altered America ( By: Cat Rambo) 2016 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
5 Neither Here Nor There ( By: Cat Rambo) 2016 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

The Time Traveller's Almanac Series with Ann VanderMeer

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1 Experiments 2014 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 Reactionaries 2014 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3 Mazes & Traps 2014 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4 Communiqués 2014 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

Jeff VanderMeer Anthologies

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

Jeff VanderMeer is a writer and editor whose fiction merges elements of science fiction, fantasy, and the weird. His stories frequently examine the intricate connection between humanity and the natural world, uncovering strange and sometimes unsettling phenomena. He is widely recognized for the Southern Reach trilogy, which delves into the enigma of Area X, a cryptic and potentially extraterrestrial zone.

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