The Maze Runner
- Published
- 6 October 2009
- Pages
- 375
- ISBN-13
- 9780385737951
- Type
- novel
About this book
James Dashner launched The Maze Runner in October 2009 with a 375-page opening novel that set the numbered series in motion, followed a year later by The Scorch Trials.
Key facts about The Maze Runner
The Maze Runner is a novel by James Dashner. Readers have had it since 6 October 2009. It runs to 375 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of The Maze Runner. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780385737951 to find the main one.
The Maze Runner is book 1 of 10 in The Maze Runner series. The series has 10 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. The Maze Cutter is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 1 November 2022.
Additionally, James Dashner writes The Jimmy Fincher Saga, The 13th Reality and The Mortality Doctrine as separate series. Those series sit on our fantasy, dystopian and science fiction shelves. Meanwhile, The Infinite Glade is the latest published James Dashner book on file, from 2025.
About James Dashner
James Dashner is an American author best known for The Maze Runner series, a young-adult dystopian saga following a group of teenagers trapped in a vast, shifting maze with no memory of their past lives, who gradually uncover the larger conspiracy behind their imprisonment. See every James Dashner book in order.
Its place in The Maze Runner
The Maze Runner is book 1 in the The Maze Runner series. It is followed by The Scorch Trials. See the full The Maze Runner reading order.
Thomas wakes up in a rising metal box with no memory except his own name, surrounded by dozens of other boys who've been living inside the Glade — a walled-off refuge at the center of a vast, shifting, monster-patrolled Maze. Every boy arrived the same way, one per month, with no way out except solving a labyrinth that rearranges itself nightly and kills anyone it catches. Thomas's arrival breaks the group's fragile routine: the next day a girl shows up, the first ever, carrying a note that says everything is…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780553511796
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781910655108
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780385737944