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Harlan Ellison Books in Order

Find every Harlan Ellison book in order, including standalone titles and complete series reading orders with publication years.

Updated 2026-07-11 / 139 books / 13 series

American author best known for his speculative fiction collections like *Dangerous Visions* and the classic short story "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream." A multiple Hugo and Nebula Award winner, his work has profoundly influenced modern science fiction. This page provides the Harlan Ellison books in order, including both chronological order and series reading order.

All Harlan Ellison Books in Chronological Order

1905 The Thinking Machine POoNB / 1 Buy
1958 Web of the City POoSN / 1 Buy
1958 The Deadly Streets POoSSC / 1 Buy
1959 Getting in the Wind POoSSC / 2 Buy
1959 The Man with 9 Lives POoSN / 2 Buy
1959 Sex Gang POoSSC / 3 Buy
1959 A Touch of Infinity POoSN / 3 Buy
1961 Memos From Purgatory POoNB / 2 Buy
1961 Children of the Streets / The Juvies POoSSC / 4 Buy
1961 Spider Kiss POoSN / 4 Buy
1961 Gentleman Junkie POoSSC / 5 Buy
1962 Ellison Wonderland POoSSC / 6 Buy
1965 "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman POoSS / 1 Buy
1965 Paingod and Other Delusions POoSSC / 7 Buy
1967 Amok Time(By: Theodore Sturgeon) POoSTFB / 1 Buy
1967 Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes POoSS / 2 Buy
1967 I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream POoSSC / 8 Buy
1967 From the Land of Fear POoSSC / 9 Buy
1968 Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled POoSSC / 10 Buy
1968 The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World POoSSC / 11 Buy
1969 A Boy and His Dog POoSS / 3 Buy
1970 The Glass Teat POoNB / 3 Buy
1970 The Region Between POoSS / 4 Buy
1970 Over the Edge POoSSC / 12 Buy
1972 Doomsman POoSN / 5 Buy
1972 Alone Against Tomorrow POoSSC / 13 Buy
1973 The Deathbird POoSS / 5 Buy
1973 All the Sounds of Fear POoSSC / 14 Buy
1974 Approaching Oblivion POoSSC / 15 Buy
1974 The Time of the Eye POoSSC / 16 Buy
1975 The Other Glass Teat POoNB / 4 Buy
1975 Phoenix Without Ashes POoSN / 6 Buy
1975 No Doors, No Windows POoSSC / 17 Buy
1975 Deathbird Stories POoSSC / 18 Buy
1977 The City on the Edge of Forever POoP / 1 Buy
1977 The Trouble with Tribbles(By: David Gerrold) POoSTFB / 3 Buy
1977 Jeffty Is Five POoSS / 6 Buy
1978 All Our Yesterdays(By: Jean Lissette Aroeste) POoSTFB / 4 Buy
1978 A Taste of Armageddon(By: Robert Hamner,Gene L. Coon) POoSTFB / 5 Buy
1978 Metamorphosis(By: Gene L. Coon) POoSTFB / 6 Buy
1978 The Galileo 7(By: Oliver Crawford,S. Bar-David) POoSTFB / 7 Buy
1978 A Piece of the Action(By: Gene L. Coon,David P. Harmon) POoSTFB / 8 Buy
1978 Day of the Dove(By: Jerome Bixby) POoSTFB / 9 Buy
1978 The Illustrated Harlan Ellison POoSSC / 19 Buy
1978 Strange Wine POoSSC / 20 Buy
1979 The Fantasies of Harlan Ellison POoSSC / 21 Buy
1980 All the Lies That Are My Life POoSS / 7 Buy
1980 Star Trek: The Motion Picture(By: Alan Dean Foster,Harold Livingston,Richard J. Anobile) POoSTFB / 10 Buy
1980 Shatterday POoSSC / 22 Buy
1982 Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan(By: Richard J. Anobile) POoSTFB / 11 Buy
1982 Stalking the Nightmare POoSSC / 23 Buy
1984 Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed POoNB / 5 Buy
1985 An Edge in My Voice POoNB / 6 Buy
1985 Paladin of the Lost Hour (in Twilight Zone Magazine) POoSS / 8 Buy
1985 The Essential Ellison POoSSC / 24 Buy
1987 Volume I: The Color of Evil POoTDDB / 1 Buy
1987 I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay POoP / 2 Buy
1987 Soft Monkey POoSS / 9 Buy
1987 Mefisto in Onyx POoSSC / 25 Buy
1987 Night and the Enemy POoSSC / 26 Buy
1988 Vic and Blood POoVaBB / 1 Buy
1988 Harlan Ellison's Watching POoNB / 7 Buy
1988 The Function of Dream Sleep POoSS / 10 Buy
1988 The Function of Dream Sleep (in Asimov's) POoSS / 11 Buy
1988 Angry Candy POoSSC / 27 Buy
1989 Footsteps POoSSC / 28 Buy
1990 Volume II: The Medusa In The Shield POoTDDB / 2 Buy
1990 The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks POoSS / 12 Buy
1990 The Harlan Ellison Hornbook POoSSC / 29 Buy
1991 Volume III:A Fabulous, Formless Darkness POoTDDB / 3 Buy
1995 Dream Corridor Special POoDCB / 1 Buy
1995 Chatting with Anubis POoSS / 13 Buy
1996 Dream Corridor Quarterly POoDCB / 2 Buy
1996 Dream Corridor 1 POoDCB / 3 Buy
1996 Spider Kiss / Stalking the Nightmare POoSSC / 30 Buy
1997 Slippage POoSSC / 31 Buy
2001 From A to Z, in the Sarsaparilla Alphabet POoSS / 14 Buy
2001 Troublemakers POoSSC / 32 Buy
2003 She's a Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother POoSS / 15 Buy
2006 Run for the Stars POoSS / 16 Buy
2007 Dream Corridor 2(By: Gerard Jones) POoDCB / 4 Buy
2009 The Avengers, Vol. 1(By: Jack Kirby,Don Heck,Stan Lee) POoMMTAB / 1 Buy
2009 The Avengers, Vol. 2(By: Jack Kirby,Don Heck,Dick Ayers,Stan Lee,Larry Lieber,Paul Laiken) POoMMTAB / 2 Buy
2009 The Avengers, Vol. 3(By: Jack Kirby,Don Heck,Stan Lee) POoMMTAB / 3 Buy
2009 The Avengers, Vol. 4(By: Roy Thomas,Don Heck,Stan Lee) POoMMTAB / 4 Buy
2009 The Avengers, Vol. 5(By: Roy Thomas,Don Heck,John Buscema,George Tuska) POoMMTAB / 5 Buy
2009 The Avengers, Vol. 6(By: Roy Thomas) POoMMTAB / 6 Buy
2009 The Avengers, Vol. 7(By: Barry Windsor-Smith) POoMMTAB / 7 Buy
2009 The Avengers, Vol. 8(By: Roy Thomas) POoMMTAB / 8 Buy
2009 The Avengers, Vol. 9 POoMMTAB / 9 Buy
2009 Dreams with Sharp Teeth POoSSC / 33 Buy
2009 The Phantom Chronicles, Volume 2 POoSSC / 34 Buy
2010 The Avengers, Vol. 10(By: Roy Thomas,Neal Adams,Sal Buscema,John Buscema,Barry Windsor-Smith) POoMMTAB / 10 Buy
2010 Harlan Ellison's Movie POoSS / 17 Buy
2011 Brain Movies, Volume 1 POoBMB / 1 Buy
2011 Brain Movies, Volume 2 POoBMB / 2 Buy
2011 Harlan 101 POoNB / 8 Buy
2011 The Avengers, Vol. 11(By: Roy Thomas,Steve Englehart) POoMMTAB / 11 Buy
2012 None of the Above POoP / 3 Buy
2012 The Avengers, Vol. 12(By: John Romita Sr.,Steve Englehart,Sal Buscema,Bob Brown) POoMMTAB / 12 Buy
2012 Pulling a Train POoSSC / 35 Buy
2012 Rough Beasts POoSSC / 36 Buy
2013 Harlan Ellison's 7 Against Chaos POoGN / 1 Buy
2013 Brain Movies, Volume 3 POoBMB / 3 Buy
2013 Brain Movies, Volume 4 POoBMB / 4 Buy
2013 Brain Movies, Volume 5 POoBMB / 5 Buy
2013 Brain Movies, Volume 6 POoBMB / 6 Buy
2013 The Avengers, Vol. 13(By: Roy Thomas,Steve Englehart,Bob Brown,Jim Starlin,Gerry Conway) POoMMTAB / 13 Buy
2013 Li'l Harlan and His Sidekick Carl the Comet in Danger Land POoSS / 18 Buy
2013 Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word POoSSC / 37 Buy
2014 Batman '66 Vol. 1(By: Jeff Parker) POoB'B / 1 Buy
2014 Batman '66 Vol. 2(By: Jeff Parker) POoB'B / 2 Buy
2014 The Avengers, Vol. 14(By: Roy Thomas,Don Heck,Steve Englehart,Sal Buscema,George Tuska,Dave Cockrum,Ron Wilson) POoMMTAB / 14 Buy
2014 Again, Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word(With: Jason Davis) POoSSC / 38 Buy
2014 The Top of the Volcano POoSSC / 39 Buy
2015 Batman '66, Vol. 3(By: Jeff Parker) POoB'B / 3 Buy
2015 Batman '66 Vol. 4 POoB'B / 4 Buy
2015 The Avengers, Vol. 15(By: George P’rez,Don Heck,Steve Englehart,George Tuska,Keith Pollard,Tony Isabella) POoMMTAB / 15 Buy
2015 Can & Can'tankerous POoSSC / 40 Buy
2016 Batman '66, Vol. 5(By: Ray Fawkes,Jeff Parker,Gabe Soria) POoB'B / 5 Buy
2016 Batman '66 Meets the Man From U.N.C.L.E.(By: Jeff Parker) POoB'B / 6 Buy
2016 The Avengers, Vol. 16(By: Jack Kirby,George P’rez,Steve Englehart,Stan Lee,Sal Buscema,John Buscema,Gerry Conway,Jim Shooter) POoMMTAB / 16 Buy
2017 The Avengers, Vol. 17(By: Roger Stern,Jim Starlin,Jim Shooter) POoMMTAB / 17 Buy
2018 The Avengers, Vol. 18(By: George P’rez) POoMMTAB / 18 Buy
2019 Blood's a Rover POoVaBB / 2 Buy
2019 Brain Movies, Volume 7 POoBMB / 7 Buy
2019 Brain Movies, Volume 8 POoBMB / 8 Buy
2019 The Avengers, Vol. 19(By: Carmine Infantino,John Byrne,Steven Grant,George P’rez,David Michelinie,John Fuller,Sal Buscema,Tom DeFalco,Roger Stern,Jim Shooter,Arvell Jones,Mark Gruenwald,Bob Layton,Ron Wilson) POoMMTAB / 19 Buy
2019 The Ephemeral Ellison POoSSC / 41 Buy
2019 The Ellison Treatment POoSSC / 42 Buy
2019 Dimensions of Harlan Ellison POoSSC / 43 Buy
2020 Working Without a Net POoNB / 9 Buy
2020 The Avengers, Vol. 20(By: David Michelinie,Bill Mantlo,Chris Claremont,Roger Stern,J.M. DeMatteis,Jim Shooter,Danny Fingeroth) POoMMTAB / 20 Buy
2021 The Avengers, Vol. 21(By: J.M. DeMatteis) POoMMTAB / 21 Buy
2022 The Avengers, Vol. 22(By: John Romita Sr.,Dan Green,John Byrne,Al Milgrom,Bill Mantlo,Sal Buscema,Roger Stern,Bob Budiansky,Jackson Guice) POoMMTAB / 22 Buy
2023 The Avengers,Vol. 23(By: Jack Kirby,Don Heck,Stan Lee) POoMMTAB / 23 Buy
2024 The Avengers, Vol. 24(By: Al Milgrom,Roger Stern,Bob Harras,Luke McDonnell,Bob Hall) POoMMTAB / 24 Buy
2024 Greatest Hits POoSSC / 44 Buy
2025 The Avengers, Vol. 25(By: John Byrne,David Michelinie,John Buscema,Roger Stern,Bob Hall,Tom Palmer) POoMMTAB / 25 Buy

Harlan Ellison Book Series Reading Orders / browse all ->

01 Vic and Blood 1988 Buy
02 Blood's a Rover 2019 Buy
01 "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman 1965 Buy
02 Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes 1967 Buy
03 A Boy and His Dog 1969 Buy
04 The Region Between 1970 Buy
05 The Deathbird 1973 Buy
06 Jeffty Is Five 1977 Buy
07 All the Lies That Are My Life 1980 Buy
08 Paladin of the Lost Hour (in Twilight Zone Magazine) 1985 Buy
09 Soft Monkey 1987 Buy
10 The Function of Dream Sleep 1988 Buy
11 The Function of Dream Sleep (in Asimov's) 1988 Buy
12 The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks 1990 Buy
13 Chatting with Anubis 1995 Buy
14 From A to Z, in the Sarsaparilla Alphabet 2001 Buy
15 She's a Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother 2003 Buy
16 Run for the Stars 2006 Buy
17 Harlan Ellison's Movie 2010 Buy
18 Li'l Harlan and His Sidekick Carl the Comet in Danger Land 2013 Buy
01 Harlan Ellison's 7 Against Chaos 2013 Buy
01 Brain Movies, Volume 1 2011 Buy
02 Brain Movies, Volume 2 2011 Buy
03 Brain Movies, Volume 3 2013 Buy
04 Brain Movies, Volume 4 2013 Buy
05 Brain Movies, Volume 5 2013 Buy
06 Brain Movies, Volume 6 2013 Buy
07 Brain Movies, Volume 7 2019 Buy
08 Brain Movies, Volume 8 2019 Buy
01 Amok Time(By: Theodore Sturgeon) 1967 Buy
03 The Trouble with Tribbles(By: David Gerrold) 1977 Buy
04 All Our Yesterdays(By: Jean Lissette Aroeste) 1978 Buy
05 A Taste of Armageddon(By: Robert Hamner,Gene L. Coon) 1978 Buy
06 Metamorphosis(By: Gene L. Coon) 1978 Buy
07 The Galileo 7(By: Oliver Crawford,S. Bar-David) 1978 Buy
08 A Piece of the Action(By: Gene L. Coon,David P. Harmon) 1978 Buy
09 Day of the Dove(By: Jerome Bixby) 1978 Buy
10 Star Trek: The Motion Picture(By: Alan Dean Foster,Harold Livingston,Richard J. Anobile) 1980 Buy
11 Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan(By: Richard J. Anobile) 1982 Buy
01 The Avengers, Vol. 1(By: Jack Kirby,Don Heck,Stan Lee) 2009 Buy
02 The Avengers, Vol. 2(By: Jack Kirby,Don Heck,Dick Ayers,Stan Lee,Larry Lieber,Paul Laiken) 2009 Buy
03 The Avengers, Vol. 3(By: Jack Kirby,Don Heck,Stan Lee) 2009 Buy
04 The Avengers, Vol. 4(By: Roy Thomas,Don Heck,Stan Lee) 2009 Buy
05 The Avengers, Vol. 5(By: Roy Thomas,Don Heck,John Buscema,George Tuska) 2009 Buy
06 The Avengers, Vol. 6(By: Roy Thomas) 2009 Buy
07 The Avengers, Vol. 7(By: Barry Windsor-Smith) 2009 Buy
08 The Avengers, Vol. 8(By: Roy Thomas) 2009 Buy
09 The Avengers, Vol. 9 2009 Buy
10 The Avengers, Vol. 10(By: Roy Thomas,Neal Adams,Sal Buscema,John Buscema,Barry Windsor-Smith) 2010 Buy
11 The Avengers, Vol. 11(By: Roy Thomas,Steve Englehart) 2011 Buy
12 The Avengers, Vol. 12(By: John Romita Sr.,Steve Englehart,Sal Buscema,Bob Brown) 2012 Buy
13 The Avengers, Vol. 13(By: Roy Thomas,Steve Englehart,Bob Brown,Jim Starlin,Gerry Conway) 2013 Buy
14 The Avengers, Vol. 14(By: Roy Thomas,Don Heck,Steve Englehart,Sal Buscema,George Tuska,Dave Cockrum,Ron Wilson) 2014 Buy
15 The Avengers, Vol. 15(By: George P’rez,Don Heck,Steve Englehart,George Tuska,Keith Pollard,Tony Isabella) 2015 Buy
16 The Avengers, Vol. 16(By: Jack Kirby,George P’rez,Steve Englehart,Stan Lee,Sal Buscema,John Buscema,Gerry Conway,Jim Shooter) 2016 Buy
17 The Avengers, Vol. 17(By: Roger Stern,Jim Starlin,Jim Shooter) 2017 Buy
18 The Avengers, Vol. 18(By: George P’rez) 2018 Buy
19 The Avengers, Vol. 19(By: Carmine Infantino,John Byrne,Steven Grant,George P’rez,David Michelinie,John Fuller,Sal Buscema,Tom DeFalco,Roger Stern,Jim Shooter,Arvell Jones,Mark Gruenwald,Bob Layton,Ron Wilson) 2019 Buy
20 The Avengers, Vol. 20(By: David Michelinie,Bill Mantlo,Chris Claremont,Roger Stern,J.M. DeMatteis,Jim Shooter,Danny Fingeroth) 2020 Buy
21 The Avengers, Vol. 21(By: J.M. DeMatteis) 2021 Buy
22 The Avengers, Vol. 22(By: John Romita Sr.,Dan Green,John Byrne,Al Milgrom,Bill Mantlo,Sal Buscema,Roger Stern,Bob Budiansky,Jackson Guice) 2022 Buy
23 The Avengers,Vol. 23(By: Jack Kirby,Don Heck,Stan Lee) 2023 Buy
24 The Avengers, Vol. 24(By: Al Milgrom,Roger Stern,Bob Harras,Luke McDonnell,Bob Hall) 2024 Buy
25 The Avengers, Vol. 25(By: John Byrne,David Michelinie,John Buscema,Roger Stern,Bob Hall,Tom Palmer) 2025 Buy
01 Dream Corridor Special 1995 Buy
02 Dream Corridor Quarterly 1996 Buy
03 Dream Corridor 1 1996 Buy
04 Dream Corridor 2(By: Gerard Jones) 2007 Buy
Standalone Books in Reading Order 6 books / 1958-1975
01 Web of the City 1958 Buy
02 The Man with 9 Lives 1959 Buy
03 A Touch of Infinity 1959 Buy
04 Spider Kiss 1961 Buy
05 Doomsman 1972 Buy
06 Phoenix Without Ashes 1975 Buy
Batman '66 Books in Reading Order 6 books / 2014-2016
01 Batman '66 Vol. 1(By: Jeff Parker) 2014 Buy
02 Batman '66 Vol. 2(By: Jeff Parker) 2014 Buy
03 Batman '66, Vol. 3(By: Jeff Parker) 2015 Buy
04 Batman '66 Vol. 4 2015 Buy
05 Batman '66, Vol. 5(By: Ray Fawkes,Jeff Parker,Gabe Soria) 2016 Buy
06 Batman '66 Meets the Man From U.N.C.L.E.(By: Jeff Parker) 2016 Buy
Plays Books in Reading Order 3 books / 1977-2012
01 The City on the Edge of Forever 1977 Buy
02 I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay 1987 Buy
03 None of the Above 2012 Buy
01 The Thinking Machine 1905 Buy
02 Memos From Purgatory 1961 Buy
03 The Glass Teat 1970 Buy
04 The Other Glass Teat 1975 Buy
05 Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed 1984 Buy
06 An Edge in My Voice 1985 Buy
07 Harlan Ellison's Watching 1988 Buy
08 Harlan 101 2011 Buy
09 Working Without a Net 2020 Buy
01 Volume I: The Color of Evil 1987 Buy
02 Volume II: The Medusa In The Shield 1990 Buy
03 Volume III:A Fabulous, Formless Darkness 1991 Buy
01 The Deadly Streets 1958 Buy
02 Getting in the Wind 1959 Buy
03 Sex Gang 1959 Buy
04 Children of the Streets / The Juvies 1961 Buy
05 Gentleman Junkie 1961 Buy
06 Ellison Wonderland 1962 Buy
07 Paingod and Other Delusions 1965 Buy
08 I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream 1967 Buy
09 From the Land of Fear 1967 Buy
10 Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled 1968 Buy
11 The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World 1968 Buy
12 Over the Edge 1970 Buy
13 Alone Against Tomorrow 1972 Buy
14 All the Sounds of Fear 1973 Buy
15 Approaching Oblivion 1974 Buy
16 The Time of the Eye 1974 Buy
17 No Doors, No Windows 1975 Buy
18 Deathbird Stories 1975 Buy
19 The Illustrated Harlan Ellison 1978 Buy
20 Strange Wine 1978 Buy
21 The Fantasies of Harlan Ellison 1979 Buy
22 Shatterday 1980 Buy
23 Stalking the Nightmare 1982 Buy
24 The Essential Ellison 1985 Buy
25 Mefisto in Onyx 1987 Buy
26 Night and the Enemy 1987 Buy
27 Angry Candy 1988 Buy
28 Footsteps 1989 Buy
29 The Harlan Ellison Hornbook 1990 Buy
30 Spider Kiss / Stalking the Nightmare 1996 Buy
31 Slippage 1997 Buy
32 Troublemakers 2001 Buy
33 Dreams with Sharp Teeth 2009 Buy
34 The Phantom Chronicles, Volume 2 2009 Buy
35 Pulling a Train 2012 Buy
36 Rough Beasts 2012 Buy
37 Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word 2013 Buy
38 Again, Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word(With: Jason Davis) 2014 Buy
39 The Top of the Volcano 2014 Buy
40 Can & Can'tankerous 2015 Buy
41 The Ephemeral Ellison 2019 Buy
42 The Ellison Treatment 2019 Buy
43 Dimensions of Harlan Ellison 2019 Buy
44 Greatest Hits 2024 Buy

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Publication order is usually the safest place to start. If a book belongs to a series, follow the numbered series reading order shown on this page.

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Yes. Standalone titles appear in the full chronological bibliography, and series are broken out separately with reading-order links when catalog data is available.

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