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Year's Best SF Anthology Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Year's Best SF Anthology 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 Year's Best SF Anthology series? Start with "Year's Best SF" (1996) and follow publication order through all 59 books.
The complete Year's Best SF Anthology reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
Year's Best SF
1996
Year's Best SF 2
1997
Year's Best SF 3
1998
Year's Best SF 4
1999
Year's Best SF 5
2000
Year's Best SF 6
2001
Year's Best SF 7
2002
Year's Best SF 8
2003
Year's Best SF 9
2004
Year's Best SF 10
2005
Year's Best SF 11
2006
Year's Best SF 12
2007
Year's Best SF 13
2008
Year's Best SF 14
2009
Year's Best SF 15
2010
Year's Best SF 16
2011
Year's Best SF 17
2012
Year's Best SF 18
2013
Dreamworks: Strange New Stories
1983
Strange Attractors: Original Australian Speculative Fiction
1985
Second Annual Collection
1989
The Year's Best Fantasy 2 / Demons and Dreams
1990
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection
1993
Alien Shores
1994
The Year's Best Science Fiction, Thirteenth Annual Collection
1996
Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July 1999
1999
Explorers
2000
Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July 2000
2000
Supermen
2002
The Mammoth Book Of Science Fiction
2002
The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 16
2003
The Hard SF Renaissance
2003
One Million A.D.
2005
The Best Australian Science Fiction
2005
The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels
2005
Galileo's Children
2005
The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction
2006
The Best of the Best, Vol 2
2007
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection
2007
Rewired
2007
Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition
2008
The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 21
2008
Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, Volume 4
2008
The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 22
2008
The Time Traveler's Almanac
2013
Coming Soon Enough Six Tales of Technology's Future
2014
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Nine
2014
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 6
2014
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection
2014
Upgraded
2014
Galactic Empires
2017
The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume Three
2017
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 3
2019
The Long List Anthology Volume 5
2019
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 4
2020
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Five
2020
The 2020 Look at Space Opera Book
2020
Tomorrow's Parties: Life in the Anthropocene
2022
Clarkesworld Issue 229
2025
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