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Standalone Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Standalone 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 Standalone series? Start with "An Invisible Sign of My Own" (2000) and follow publication order through all 34 books.
The complete Standalone reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
An Invisible Sign of My Own
2000
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
2010
The Butterfly Lampshade
2020
The Third Elevator
2007
Faces
2009
The Doctor and the Rabbi
2013
Dreaming in Polish
2015
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
1998
Willful Creatures
2005
The Color Master
2013
On the Rocks: The KGB Bar Fiction Anthology
2002
The Future Dictionary of America
2004
The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories
2004
The Secret Society of Demolition Writers
2005
The Insomniac Reader
2005
Awake!
2007
Tin House
2007
Sideshow: Ten Original Tales of Freaks, Illusionists and Other Matters Odd and Magical
2009
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me
2010
Unstuck #1
2011
The Best Bizarro Fiction of the Decade
2012
Monsters of Literary Sightings
2012
My First Novel
2013
Selected Shorts: Behaving Badly
2013
xo Orpheus
2013
Unscrolled
2013
Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
2014
Choose Wisely: 35 Women Up To No Good
2015
Watchlist
2015
Flashed
2016
9 Stories on the Magic of Cities
2018
The Best Small Fictions 2018
2018
Speculative Los Angeles
2021
Ploughshares Summer 2021
2021
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