Order of Philip José Farmer Books
Philip José Farmer is an American author best know for writing the World of Tiers series of books and the Riverworld series. His work focused on pulp heroes while also pioneering use of sexual and religious themes in the genre.
Farmer is a three-time Hugo Award winner and he was also awarded as a Nebula Grand Master. He is one of the foremost writers of science fiction and fantasy that wrote characters like Tarzan and Doc Savage. One of his best known works is The Lovers that introduced sex to the world of science fiction. Farmer grew up in Peoria, Illinois and wanted to write from fourth grade on. He washed out of flight training in World War II and eventually attended Bradley University where he earned a bachelor’s degree in English in 1950. Two years later, he would publish The Lovers.
Publication Order of World Of Tiers Books
| The Maker of Universes | (1965) |    |
| The Gates of Creation | (1966) | |
| A Private Cosmos | (1967) | |
| Behind the Walls of Terra | (1970) | |
| The Lavalite World | (1977) | |
| Red Orc's Rage | (1991) | |
| More Than Fire | (1993) | |
Publication Order of Herald Childe Books
| Image of the Beast | (1968) | |
| Blown | (1969) | |
| Traitor to the Living | (1973) | |
Publication Order of Doc Caliban and Lord Grandrith Books
| A Feast Unknown | (1969) | |
| Lord of the Trees | (1970) | |
| The Mad Goblin | (1970) | |
Publication Order of Opar Books
| Hadon of Ancient Opar | (1974) | |
| Flight to Opar | (1976) | |
Publication Order of Dayworld Books
| Dayworld | (1985) | |
| Dayworld Rebel | (1987) | |
| Dayworld Breakup | (1990) | |
Publication Order of Riverworld Books
| To Your Scattered Bodies Go | (1971) | |
| The Fabulous Riverboat | (1971) | |
| The Dark Design | (1977) | |
| The Magic Labyrinth | (1980) | |
| Gods of Riverworld | (1983) | |
| River of Eternity | (1983) | |
Publication Order of Tarzan Books
| Tarzan Alive | (1972) | |
| Doc Savage | (1973) | |
Publication Order of Philip Jose Farmer's The Dungeon Books
(with Richard A. Lupoff, Charles de Lint, Robin Wayne Bailey)
| Philip José Farmer's The Dungeon | (1988) | |
| The Black Tower | (1988) | |
| The Lake of Fire | (1989) | |
| The Valley of Thunder | (1989) | |
| The Final Battle | (1990) | |
| The Hidden City | (1990) | |
| The Dungeon | (2003) | |
| Philip José Farmer's The Dungeon Vol. 6, The Final Battle | (2017) | |
Publication Order of SF Authors Choice Books
| SF Authors' Choice 2 | (1970) | |
| SF Authors' Choice 3 | (1973) | |
Publication Order of The Further Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes Books
| The Adventure of the Peerless Peer | (1974) | |
| War of the Worlds | (1975) | |
| The Giant Rat of Sumatra | (1976) | |
| Sherlock vs Dracula | (1978) | |
| The Stalwart Companions | (1978) | |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes | (1979) | |
| The Ectoplasmic Man | (1985) | |
| The Whitechapel Horrors | (1992) | |
| The Seventh Bullet | (1992) | |
| Seance for a Vampire | (1994) | |
| The Angel of the Opera | (1994) | |
| The Titanic Tragedy | (1996) | |
| The Star of India | (1998) | |
| The Scroll of the Dead | (1998) | |
| The Man from Hell | (2000) | |
| The Haunting of Torre Abbey | (2000) | |
| The Veiled Detective | (2004) | |
| Between the Thames and the Tiber: The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | (2011) | |
| The Web Weaver | (2012) | |
| The Grimswell Curse | (2013) | |
| The Devil's Promise | (2014) | |
| The Albino's Treasure | (2015) | |
| The White Worm | (2016) | |
| The Ripper Legacy | (2016) | |
| Murder at Sorrow's Crown | (2016) | |
| The Counterfeit Detective | (2016) | |
| The Moonstone's Curse | (2017) | |
| Imagination Theatre's Sherlock Holmes of Scripts From The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | (2017) | |
| The Improbable Prisoner | (2018) | |
| The Devil and the Four | (2018) | |
| The Instrument of Death | (2019) | |
| The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Part 1: 1881-1891 | (2019) | |
| The Martian Menace | (2020) | |
| The Venerable Tiger | (2020) | |
| The Crusader's Curse | (2020) | |
| Sherlock Holmes and the Four Kings of Sweden | (2021) | |
Publication Order of Thieves' World Books
| Thieves' World | (1979) | |
| Tales from the Vulgar Unicorn | (1980) | |
| Shadows of Sanctuary | (1981) | |
| Storm Season | (1982) | |
| The Face of Chaos | (1983) | |
| Wings of Omen | (1984) | |
| The Dead of Winter | (1985) | |
| Soul of the City | (1986) | |
| Blood Ties | (1986) | |
| Aftermath | (1987) | |
| Uneasy Alliances | (1988) | |
| Stealers' Sky | (1989) | |
| Sanctuary | (2002) | |
| Turning Points | (2002) | |
| Enemies of Fortune | (2004) | |
Publication Order of Weird Heroes Books
| Weird Heroes Volume 1 | (1975) | |
| Weird Heroes Volume 2 | (1975) | |
| Weird Heroes: Volume 3: Quest of the Gypsy | (1976) | |
| Weird Heroes Volume 4: Nightshade | (1976) | |
| Weird Heroes, Volume 5: Doc Phoenix | (1977) | |
| Weird Heroes Volume 6 | (1977) | |
| Weird Heroes: Volume 7: Eye of the Vulture | (1977) | |
| Weird Heroes Volume 8 | (1977) | |
| The Big Spell | (1977) | |
Publication Order of Philip José Farmer Standalone Novels
| The Green Odyssey | (1957) | |
| A Woman a Day / The Day of Timestop / Timestop! | (1960) | |
| Flesh | (1960) | |
| The Lovers | (1961) | |
| Cache from Outer Space | (1962) | |
| Fire and the Night | (1962) | |
| Inside Outside | (1964) | |
| Tongues of the Moon | (1964) | |
| Dare | (1965) | |
| Night Of Light | (1966) | |
| The Gate of Time / Two Hawks from Earth | (1966) | |
| The Day of Timestop | (1968) | |
| Lord Tyger | (1970) | |
| The Stone God Awakens | (1970) | |
| Love Song | (1970) | |
| Time's Last Gift | (1972) | |
| The Other Log of Phileas Fogg | (1973) | |
| The Wind Whales of Ishmael | (1973) | |
| Venus on the Half-Shell | (1975) | |
| Ironcastle | (1976) | |
| Jesus on Mars | (1979) | |
| The Unreasoning Mask | (1981) | |
| Stations of the Nightmare | (1982) | |
| Greatheart Silver | (1982) | |
| A Barnstormer in Oz | (1982) | |
| Nothing Burns in Hell | (1988) | |
| The Caterpillar's Question | (1992) | |
| The City Beyond Play | (2007) | |
| The Evil in Pemberley House | (2009) | |
| Up From The Bottomless Pit | (2020) | |
Publication Order of Philip José Farmer Short Stories/Novellas
| Queen of the Deep | (1954) | |
| Rastignac the Devil | (2021) | |
Publication Order of Philip José Farmer Short Story Collections
| They Twinkled Like Jewels | (1954) | |
| Strange Relations | (1960) | |
| Alley God | (1962) | |
| Down in the Black Gang | (1971) | |
| The Book of Philip José Farmer | (1973) | |
| Riverworld War | (1980) | |
| Father to the Stars | (1981) | |
| The Cache | (1981) | |
| The Purple Book | (1982) | |
| The Grand Adventure | (1984) | |
| The Classic Philip Jose Farmer 1952-1964 | (1984) | |
| The Classic Philip Jose Farmer 1964-1973 | (1984) | |
| Riders of the Purple Wage | (1992) | |
| The Best of Philip José Farmer | (2006) | |
| Pearls from Peoria | (2006) | |
| Up From The Bottomless Pit And Other Stories | (2007) | |
| Venus on the Half-Shell and Others | (2008) | |
| Tales of the Wold Newton Universe | (2013) | |
| Greatheart Silver and Other Pulp Heroes | (2019) | |
| The Man Who Met Tarzan | (2021) | |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| A Rough Knight for the Queen | (2020) | |
Publication Order of Oz-Story Magazine Books
| Oz-Story 1 | (1995) | |
| Oz-Story 2 | (1996) | |
| Oz-Story 3 | (1997) | |
| Oz-Story 4 | (1998) | |
| Oz-Story 5 | (1999) | |
| Oz-Story 6 | (2000) | |
Publication Order of The Hugo Winners Books
(with Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Harlan Ellison, Larry Niven, Robert Silverberg, Poul Anderson, Jack Vance, C.M. Kornbluth, Fritz Leiber, Samuel R. Delany)
| The Hugo Winners, Vol. 1 & 2: 1955-1972 | (1962) | |
| Stories from The Hugo Winners, 1962-1967 | (1971) | |
| The Hugo Winners, 1968-1970 | (1973) | |
| The Hugo Winners, Vol. 3: 1971-1975 | (1977) | |
| The Hugo Winners: The Best of the Best Science Fiction, 1973 | (1979) | |
| The Hugo Winners, Vol. 4 | (1985) | |
| The Hugo Winners, Vol. 5 | (1986) | |
| The New Hugo Winners, 1983-1985 | (1989) | |
| The New Hugo Winners, Vol. 2: 1986-1988 | (1990) | |
| The Super Hugos | (1992) | |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| The Microcosmic God | (1965) | |
| Dangerous Visions | (1967) | |
| Backdrop of Stars | (1968) | |
| Alpha 3 | (1972) | |
| Orbit 11 | (1972) | |
| Demon Kind | (1973) | |
| Bug-Eyed Monsters | (1974) | |
| Continuum 1 | (1974) | |
| Jack the Knife: Tales of Jack the Ripper | (1975) | |
| Nebula Award Stories Ten | (1976) | |
| Chrysalis Volume 2 | (1978) | |
| The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction | (1980) | |
| Shadows of Sanctuary | (1981) | |
| The Monster Book of Monsters | (1988) | |
| The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes | (1989) | |
| Semiotext SF | (1991) | |
| Tales Of Riverworld | (1993) | |
| The Science Fiction Century | (1997) | |
| Naked Came the Farmer | (1998) | |
| The Worlds of Philip José Farmer: Protean Dimensions | (2010) | |
If You Like Philip José Farmer Books, You’ll Love…
To Your Scattered Bodies Go is the first book in the Riverworld series. The Riverworld is a place where every human who ever lived, from the earliest days of humanity to the present day, is resurrected after death on the banks of a river in an unknown world. They are provided with food, but no clue to the meaning of their afterlife and no idea of what they are meant to do. Billions of people from history have to start living again.
The World of Tiers starts with The Maker of Universes. The book focuses on a man named Robert Wolff who is trying to buy a new house in Arizona. One day, he finds a secret doorway through space and time that sends him into the World of Tiers. The world is populated by fantastical creatures and ascending levels that is anything beyond anything that Wolff has ever experienced.