Order of The Culture Books
The Culture is a series of science fiction novels by Scottish author Iain M. Banks. In the series, Banks has created an interstellar society with socialist, utopian and anarchistic values. In this fictional universe, Earth does exist elsewhere in the universe.
The Culture series started in 1987 with Consider Phlebas. Since then, there is usually a new book in the series every couple of years (with a few gaps here and there). Below is a list of Iain M. Banks’ The Culture books in order of when they were originally published and chronologically:
Publication Order of Culture Books
| Consider Phlebas | (1987) |    |
| The Player of Games | (1988) | |
| The State of the Art | (1989) | |
| Use of Weapons | (1990) | |
| Excession | (1996) | |
| Inversions | (1998) | |
| Look to Windward | (2000) | |
| Matter | (2008) | |
| Surface Detail | (2010) | |
| The Hydrogen Sonata | (2012) | |