Order of Gene Wolfe Books
Gene Wolfe is an American author of science fiction and fantasy novels and stories. He writes the Urth/Solar Cycle series. Wolfe is known for his dense and allusive prose and the influence his Catholic faith has on his work. Unlike popular conventions, his first-person narrators are sometimes unreliable. Wolfe once wrote to Neil Gaiman, “My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.” He has won numerous Nebula, Locus and World Fantasy awards, plus several other awards. Wolfe still resides in his home state of Illinois.
Gene Wolfe became a published author in 1970 with the novel Operation Ares. Below is a list of Gene Wolfe’s books in order of when they were originally released:
Publication Order of Urth: Book of the New Sun Books
| The Shadow of the Torturer | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Claw of the Conciliator | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Sword of the Lictor | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Citadel of the Autarch | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Urth of the New Sun | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Soldier Of The Mist Books
| Soldier of the Mist | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Soldier of Arete | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Latro in the Mist | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Soldier of Sidon | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Urth: Book of the Long Sun Books
| Nightside the Long Sun | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Litany of the Long Sun | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Caldé of the Long Sun | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Lake of the Long Sun | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Epiphany of the Long Sun | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Exodus from the Long Sun | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Urth: Book of the Short Sun Books
| On Blue's Waters | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| In Green's Jungles | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Book of the Short Sun | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Return to the Whorl | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of The Wizard Knight Books
| The Wizard | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Knight | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of A Borrowed Man Books
| A Borrowed Man | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Interlibrary Loan | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Operation Ares | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Peace | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Devil in a Forest | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Free Live Free | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| There Are Doors | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Castleview | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Pandora by Holly Hollander | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Pirate Freedom | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| An Evil Guest | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Sorcerer's House | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Home Fires | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Land Across | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| Of Relays and Roses | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| In the House of Gingerbread | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| No Planets Strike (in Strange Travelers) | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Golden City Far | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Memorare | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| The Fifth Head of Cerberus | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The New Atlantis and Other Novellas of Science Fiction | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| In the Wake of Man | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories and Other Stories | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Gene Wolfe's Book of Days | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bibliomen | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Plan(e)t Engineering | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Storeys from the Old Hotel | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| For Rosemary | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Endangered Species | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Castle of Days | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Young Wolfe | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Strange Travelers | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Starwater Strains | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Innocents Aboard: New Fantasy Stories | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Very Best of Gene Wolfe | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Dead Man and Other Horror Stories | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Wolfe at the Door | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| The Castle of the Otter | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Letters Home | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Gate of Horn, Book of Silk: A Guide to Gene Wolfe's The Book of the Long Sun and The Book of the Short Sun | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of R.A. Lafferty Collections
(with R.A. Lafferty)
| The Man Who Made Models | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Nine Hundred Grandmothers | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Strange Doings | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Does Anyone Else Have Something Further to Add? | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| In the Wake of Man | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Apocalypses | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ringing Changes | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Golden Gate and Other Stories | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Snake In His Bosom And Other Stories | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Man Who Made Models and Other Stories | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Slippery And Other Stories | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| East of Laughter | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dotty | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Lafferty in Orbit | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Man Who Walked Through Cracks | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best of R. A. Lafferty | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Isaac Asimov's Anthology Books
| Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Aliens | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Robots | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's War | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Ghosts | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Christmas | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Camelot | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Detectives | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Werewolves | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Solar System | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Utopias | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Father Day | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Halloween | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Orbit 3 | (1967) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Orbit 6 | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Nova 1 | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Alchemy and Academe | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Orbit 11 | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Frontiers 1: Tomorrow's Alternatives | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Continuum 1 | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Isaac Asimov's Wonders of the World | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Changes | Stories of Metamorphosis | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Terry's Universe: Science fiction's finest writers join in honoring the memory of Terry Carr | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Drabble Project | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tropical Chills: Fourteen Tales of Scorching Horror to Make Your Blood Run Cold | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Separate Star: A Tribute to Rudyard Kipling | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Second Annual Collection | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Year's Best Fantasy 2 / Demons and Dreams | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Now We Are Sick | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Best New Horror 2 | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Architecture of Fear | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Walls of Fear | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dante's Disciples | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Giant Book of Best New Horror | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Ascent of Wonder | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Love in Vein | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Cthulhu 2000 | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Year's Best SF | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Asimov's Science Fiction, August 1996 | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Space Opera | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Wild Women | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Furthest Horizon | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Such a Pretty Face: Tales of Power and Abundance | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Year's Best SF 5 | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Graven Images | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #11 | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dark Masques | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Supermen | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fifteenth Annual Collection | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Year's Best SF 8 | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine: Joe Haldeman and Others | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Vol. 15 | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Cross Plains Universe | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Best New Horror 18 | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fast Forward 1: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best of Jim Baen's Universe | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| This Is My Funniest 2 | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| TwentiethAnnual Collection | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Year's Best SF 13 | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2009 | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Secret History of Science Fiction | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2011 | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Book of Cthulhu | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ghosts by Gaslight | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mammoth Book of SF Wars | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Wildside Book of Fantasy | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Season of Wonder | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2012 edition | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Super Stories of Heroes and Villains | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Shadows of the New Sun | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Time Traveler's Almanac | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Lightspeed Magazine, July 2014 | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mermaids and Other Mysteries of the Deep | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Lightspeed Magazine, October 2015 | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Worst Contact | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Notes: In the Wake of Man also contains stories by R.A. Lafferty and Walter Moudy. A Walking Tour of the Shambles was written with Neil Gaiman. Gate of Horn, Book of Silk was written by Michael Andre-Driussi, with contributions by Wolfe.
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