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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 "What Entropy Means to Me" (1972) and follow publication order through all 24 books.
The complete Standalone reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order

What Entropy Means to Me
1972

Relatives
1973

Nightmare Blue (With: Gardner Dozois)
1975

Those Gentle Voices
1976

Felicia
1976

Death in Florence / Utopia 3
1978

Heroics
1979

The Wolves Of Memory
1981

Shadow Money
1988

Look Away
1990

The Red Tape War (With: Mike Resnick,Jack L. Chalker)
1991

Trinity: Hope-Sacrifice-Unity
1997

Schrödinger's Kitten
1988

Everything But Honor (in Asimov's)
1989

The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything & Target
2011

Mixed Feelings
1974

Irrational Numbers
1976

Dirty Tricks
1978

Idle Pleasures
1983

Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson
1993

Budayeen Nights
2003

Live! from Planet Earth
2005

A Thousand Deaths
2007

Bliss-Bestowing Hands
2016
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