The Maze Runner · Book 2

The Scorch Trials

Published
18 September 2010
Pages
384
ISBN-13
9781906427795
Type
novel
Cover of The Scorch Trials

About this book

The Scorch Trials, the second novel, was published in September 2010 at 384 pages, arriving almost exactly a year after The Maze Runner and a year ahead of The Death Cure.

Key facts about The Scorch Trials

James Dashner wrote The Scorch Trials, a novel on our list. It has been out since 18 September 2010. The book has 384 pages.

We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781906427795 to find the main one.

The Scorch Trials is book 2 of 10 in The Maze Runner series. The series has 10 published books. However, the series starts with The Maze Runner (2009). 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 Scorch Trials is book 2 in the The Maze Runner series. It follows The Maze Runner. It is followed by The Death Cure. 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…

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