Arkady & Boris Strugatsky Books in Order
Arkady & Boris Strugatsky has written 27 books, published between 1959 and 2023. The first book is The Country of Crimson Clouds (1959) and the newest is The Waves Extinguish the Wind (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 27
- Published
- 1959–2023
- Pages on record
- 4,510 in 17 of 27 books
- Reading time
- 75–113 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,510 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 17 of 27 titles with a page count on record.
Arkady & Boris Strugatsky is the joint byline behind a body of Russian science fiction that reaches English readers in translation. The catalogue holds 27 books, from The Country of Crimson Clouds (1959) to The Waves Extinguish the Wind (2023). Noon Universe is the named series, and titles include Space Apprentice, Far Rainbow, Prisoners of Power and The Inhabited Island. Murder, police investigation and a ski resort setting also appear among the subjects, next to The Dead Mountaineer's Inn (1970).
How many Arkady & Boris Strugatsky books are there?
Arkady & Boris Strugatsky has 27 books, released between 1959 and 2023. They include 2 separate series.
Arkady & Boris Strugatsky Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 27 Arkady & Boris Strugatsky books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 11959–1/4
- 21960–1/4
- 319613191/4
- 419622311/4
- 519674161/4
- 619672871/4
- 719672401/4
- 819682131/4
- 9The Dead Mountaineer's InnArkady & Boris Strugatsky Standalone Novels #41970 · 238 pages · confirmed 1/419702381/4
- 1019724001/4
- 1119732191/4
- 121973–1/4
- 131973–1/4
- 14Definitely Maybe / One Billion Years to the End of the WorldArkady & Boris Strugatsky Standalone Novels #71974 · confirmed 1/41974–1/4
- 1519754161/4
- 161976–1/4
- 17Monday Starts on SaturdayArkady & Boris Strugatsky Standalone Novels #101977 · 282 pages · confirmed 1/419772821/4
- 18Roadside Picnic / Tale Of The TroikaArkady & Boris Strugatsky Standalone Novels #111977 · confirmed 1/41977–1/4
- 19Definitely Maybe / One Billion Years to the End of the WorldArkady & Boris Strugatsky Standalone Novels #121978 · 144 pages · confirmed 1/419781441/4
- 2019802431/4
- 2119812171/4
- 2219823211/4
- 2319842201/4
- 241988–1/4
- 25The Second Marxian Invasion: The Dialectical Fables of Arkady and Boris StrugatskyArkady & Boris Strugatsky #21991 · 104 pages · confirmed 1/419911041/4
- 26Stalkers of the Infinite: The Science Fiction of Arkady and Boris StrugatskyArkady & Boris Strugatsky #31997 · confirmed 1/41997–1/4
- 272023–1/4
Arkady & Boris Strugatsky series in order
The series linked below has its own reading-order page.
- Noon Universe books in order 11 books
Arkady & Boris Strugatsky books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Arkady & Boris Strugatsky Standalone Novels
13 books13 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Arkady & Boris Strugatsky in order
3 booksDo you have to read Arkady & Boris Strugatsky books in order?
You only need to read Arkady & Boris Strugatsky books in order within each series: the books listed here span 2 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
Start with Noon (1961), the first Noon Universe book. The earliest catalogued title overall is The Country of Crimson Clouds (1959).
What is the newest Arkady & Boris Strugatsky book?
The Waves Extinguish the Wind (2023) is the newest Arkady & Boris Strugatsky book released so far.
Is there a new Arkady & Boris Strugatsky book coming?
No next Arkady & Boris Strugatsky book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Arkady & Boris Strugatsky at a glance
- Paused
- No new Arkady & Boris Strugatsky title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
- Release pace
- Arkady & Boris Strugatsky books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
- Length
- 4,510 pages across the 17 of 27 books with a recorded length, a median of 240 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Arkady & Boris Strugatsky books, 11 of 27, were published in the 1970s.
What the Arkady & Boris Strugatsky books are about
15 of the 27 Arkady & Boris Strugatsky books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: russian science fiction is tagged on 6 of 15. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Russian Science fiction 6 of 15 books
- Science fiction 4 of 15 books
- Slavic philology 4 of 15 books
- Science fiction, Russian 3 of 15 books
- Russian fiction 2 of 15 books