Cory Doctorow Books in Order

Cory Doctorow has written 48 books, published between 2000 and 2026. The first book is A Place So Foreign and Eight More (2000) and the newest is The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI (2026). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
48
Published
2000–2026
Confirmed
1 of 48 titles
Pages on record
6,909 in 27 of 48 books
Reading time
115–173 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 6,909 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 27 of 48 titles with a page count on record.

Photo of Cory Doctorow, author

Cory Doctorow, born 17 July 1971, is a Canadian-British science fiction author, journalist and blogger who co-edited Boing Boing. Doctorow campaigns for looser copyright law and supports Creative Commons, releasing some books under its licences. Digital rights management, file sharing and post-scarcity economics recur in the fiction. The catalogue counts 48 books, from A Place So Foreign and Eight More (2000) through Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003) and Eastern Standard Tribe (2004) to The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI (2026). Little Brother and Martin Hench are the series.

How many Cory Doctorow books are there?

Cory Doctorow has 48 books, released between 2000 and 2026. They include 2 series and 35 titles listed outside any series.

Cory Doctorow Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 48 Cory Doctorow 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.

  1. 1
    A Place So Foreign and Eight More2000 · 243 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2000243
  2. 22000360
  3. 3
    Essential Blogging2002 · 244 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2002244
  4. 4
    Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom2003 · 208 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2003208
  5. 5
    Eastern Standard Tribe2004 · 223 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2004223
  6. 6
    I, Robot2005 · 48 pages · confirmed 2/4
    200548
  7. 7
    Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town2005 · 320 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2005320
  8. 8
    When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth2006 · confirmed 2/4
    2006
  9. 9
    Overclocked2007 · 304 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2007304
  10. 10
    With a Little Help2007 · confirmed 2/4
    2007
  11. 11
    Cory Doctorow's Futuristic Tales Of The Here And NowGraphic Standalone Novels #12008 · 144 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2008144
  12. 12
    Little BrotherLittle Brother #12008 · 416 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2008416
  13. 13
    Content2008 · 213 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2008213
  14. 14200846
  15. 15
    True Names2008 · confirmed 2/4
    2008
  16. 16
    Makers2009 · 416 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2009416
  17. 17
    Ebooks2010 · confirmed 2/4
    2010
  18. 18
    For the Win2010 · 496 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2010496
  19. 19
    Context2011 · 238 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2011238
  20. 20
    Chicken Little2011 · confirmed 2/4
    2011
  21. 21
    The Great Big Beautiful TomorrowOutspoken Authors #92011 · confirmed 3/4
    2011
  22. 22
    Pirate Cinema2012 · 384 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2012384
  23. 23
    HomelandLittle Brother #22013 · 448 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2013448
  24. 24
    Lawful InterceptionLittle Brother #32013 · confirmed 2/4
    2013
  25. 25
    In Real LifeGraphic Standalone Novels #22014 · 175 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2014175
  26. 262014
  27. 27
    Information Doesn't Want to Be Free2014 · 192 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2014192
  28. 28
    After the Siege2015 · 64 pages · confirmed 2/4
    201564
  29. 29
    Anda's Game2015 · 38 pages · confirmed 2/4
    201538
  30. 30
    Car Wars2016 · confirmed 2/4
    2016

Cory Doctorow 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.

Little Brother in order

7 books
  1. 1. Little Brother
  2. 2. Homeland
  3. 3. Lawful Interception
  4. 4. Force Multiplier
  5. 5. Attack Surface
  6. 6. Spill
  7. 7. Vigilant

Martin Hench in order

3 books
  1. 1. Red Team Blues
  2. 2. The Bezzle
  3. 3. Picks and Shovels

Graphic Standalone Novels

2 books

2 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Outspoken Authors in order

1 book
  1. 9. The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow

Standalone books

35 books

35 Cory Doctorow titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Cory Doctorow books in order?

You only need to read Cory Doctorow 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 Cory Doctorow

Start with A Place So Foreign and Eight More (2000), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Cory Doctorow book?

The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI (2026) is the newest Cory Doctorow book released so far.

Is there a new Cory Doctorow book coming?

No next Cory Doctorow book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Awards Cory Doctorow has won

Wikidata records 11 awards and 40 nominations for Cory Doctorow. The most recent 12 are listed here. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

Cory Doctorow at a glance

Still publishing
Cory Doctorow published a book as recently as 2026.
Release pace
Cory Doctorow books have appeared more than one a year on average.
Length
6,909 pages across the 27 of 48 books with a recorded length, a median of 243 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Cory Doctorow books, 18 of 48, were published in the 2010s.

What the Cory Doctorow books are about

24 of the 48 Cory Doctorow books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: science fiction is tagged on 10 of 24. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • Science fiction 10 of 24 books
  • Internet 4 of 24 books
  • Technology 4 of 24 books
  • Terrorism 3 of 24 books
  • American literature 2 of 24 books
  • Civil rights 2 of 24 books
  • Counterculture 2 of 24 books
  • Digital rights management 2 of 24 books
  • Hackers 2 of 24 books
  • Internet games 2 of 24 books
  • Children's fiction 2 of 24 books