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 200–300 words a minute, covering the 27 of 48 titles with a page count on record.
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.
- 1A Place So Foreign and Eight More2000 · 243 pages · confirmed 2/420002432/4
- 2The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Science Fiction2000 · 360 pages · confirmed 2/420003602/4
- 3Essential Blogging2002 · 244 pages · confirmed 2/420022442/4
- 4Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom2003 · 208 pages · confirmed 2/420032082/4
- 5Eastern Standard Tribe2004 · 223 pages · confirmed 2/420042232/4
- 6I, Robot2005 · 48 pages · confirmed 2/42005482/4
- 7Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town2005 · 320 pages · confirmed 2/420053202/4
- 8When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth2006 · confirmed 2/42006–2/4
- 9Overclocked2007 · 304 pages · confirmed 2/420073042/4
- 10With a Little Help2007 · confirmed 2/42007–2/4
- 11Cory Doctorow's Futuristic Tales Of The Here And NowGraphic Standalone Novels #12008 · 144 pages · confirmed 2/420081442/4
- 1220084162/4
- 13Content2008 · 213 pages · confirmed 2/420082132/4
- 14The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away2008 · 46 pages · confirmed 2/42008462/4
- 15True Names2008 · confirmed 2/42008–2/4
- 16Makers2009 · 416 pages · confirmed 2/420094162/4
- 17Ebooks2010 · confirmed 2/42010–2/4
- 18For the Win2010 · 496 pages · confirmed 2/420104962/4
- 19Context2011 · 238 pages · confirmed 2/420112382/4
- 20Chicken Little2011 · confirmed 2/42011–2/4
- 212011–3/4
- 22Pirate Cinema2012 · 384 pages · confirmed 2/420123842/4
- 2320134482/4
- 242013–2/4
- 2520141752/4
- 26All Complex Ecosystems Have Parasites2014 · confirmed 2/42014–2/4
- 27Information Doesn't Want to Be Free2014 · 192 pages · confirmed 2/420141922/4
- 28After the Siege2015 · 64 pages · confirmed 2/42015642/4
- 29Anda's Game2015 · 38 pages · confirmed 2/42015382/4
- 30Car Wars2016 · confirmed 2/42016–2/4
- 31Walkaway2017 · 384 pages · confirmed 2/420173842/4
- 32Party Discipline2017 · confirmed 2/42017–2/4
- 33Radicalized2019 · 304 pages · confirmed 2/420193042/4
- 352020–2/4
- 3620203842/4
- 37Poesy the Monster Slayer2020 · 40 pages · confirmed 2/42020402/4
- 38Chokepoint Capitalism2022 · confirmed 2/42022–2/4
- 392023–2/4
- 40The Internet Con2023 · confirmed 2/42023–2/4
- 41The Lost Cause2023 · confirmed 2/42023–2/4
- 42The Canadian Miracle2023 · confirmed 2/42023–2/4
- 432024–2/4
- 442024–2/4
- 452024–2/4
- 462025–2/4
- 47Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It2025 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/420253522/4
- 48The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI2026 · 225 pages · confirmed 2/420262252/4
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. Little Brother
- 2. Homeland
- 3. Lawful Interception
- 4. Force Multiplier
- 5. Attack Surface
- 6. Spill
- 7. Vigilant
Martin Hench in order
3 booksGraphic Standalone Novels
2 books2 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Standalone books
35 books35 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.
- Inkpot Award2018Won
- Theodore Sturgeon Award2015Wonfor The Man Who Sold the Moon
- Prometheus Award2014Wonfor Homeland
- Prometheus Award2013Wonfor Pirate Cinema
- John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel2009Wonfor Little Brother
- Prometheus Award2009Wonfor Little Brother
- Locus Award for Best Novella2008Wonfor After the Siege
- Locus Award for Best Novelette2007Wonfor When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth
- Locus Award for Best Novelette2006Wonfor I, Robot
- Locus Award for Best First Novel2004Wonfor Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
- Astounding Award for Best New Writer2000Won
- Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel2026Shortlistedfor Picks and Shovels
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























