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Shadow Unit Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Shadow Unit books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: March 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Shadow Unit series? Start with "Shadow Unit 1" (2011) and follow publication order through all 51 books.
The complete Shadow Unit reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
Shadow Unit 1
2011
Shadow Unit 2
2011
Shadow Unit 3
2011
Shadow Unit 4
2011
Shadow Unit 5
2011
Shadow Unit 6
2011
Shadow Unit 7
2011
Shadow Unit 8
2011
Shadow Unit 9
2011
Shadow Unit 10
2011
Shadow Unit 11
2012
Shadow Unit 12
2012
Shadow Unit 13
2013
Shadow Unit 14
2014
Shadow Unit 15
2014
The Queen in Winter
2006
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection
2006
Best New Romantic Fantasy 2
2007
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection
2007
Best American Fantasy
2007
So Fey: Queer Fairy Fiction
2007
TwentiethAnnual Collection
2007
Fast Ships, Black Sails
2008
The New Weird
2008
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2009
2008
The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 22
2008
Best New Fantasy 2
2009
Lovecraft Unbound
2009
Last Drink Bird Head
2009
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection
2010
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2
2010
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition
2010
Starship Vectors
2010
Whedonistas
2011
The Mammoth Book of Angels and Demons
2011
The Recent Weird
2011
New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird
2011
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition
2012
Ghosts: Recent Hauntings
2012
The Book of Cthulhu II
2012
Clarkesworld: Year Three
2013
Best New SF 26
2013
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition
2013
In Space No One Can Hear You Scream
2013
The Book of Apex: Volume 4
2013
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition
2014
Time Travel: Recent Trips
2014
New Cthulhu 2: More Recent Weird
2015
Mermaids and Other Mysteries of the Deep
2015
Ex Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries, and Lore
2017
Chiral Mad 4
2018
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