A reading-order database
Every series.
In the right order.
1,190 series, 10,592 books. Publication order, chronological order, and the order we'd actually recommend — plus the date the next one lands.
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Publishing 6 October 2026
1,190
series in order
10,592
books catalogued
598
authors
60
with a dated next book
Dated and counting down
All 60 announced →- Where the Road Ends Jonathan Stride · Brian Freeman Publishing 6 October 2026
- Other Worlds Than These The Talisman · Stephen King Publishing 6 October 2026
- The Case of the Christmas Card Ali Dawson · Elly Griffiths Publishing 8 October 2026
- Dead Before Tea Time Agatha Raisin · M. C. Beaton Publishing 13 October 2026
- Jay to the World Meg Langslow · Donna Andrews Publishing 13 October 2026
- The Family Cross Alex Cross · James Patterson Publishing 19 October 2026
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All 16+ book series →Twenty, forty, eighty books deep. These are the ones nobody can keep straight.
Out this month — October 2026
Full list →- 1 October 2026 Tales from the Territory
- 6 October 2026 Bound and Unbound
- 6 October 2026 Other Worlds Than These
- 6 October 2026 The Pools
- 6 October 2026 The Witch
- 6 October 2026 Where the Road Ends
- 8 October 2026 The Case of the Christmas Card
- 8 October 2026 The Heights
- 13 October 2026 A Date with Santa
- 20 October 2026 A Married Little Christmas