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James Alan Gardner Books in Order

James Alan Gardner has written 15 books, published between 1997 and 2019. The first book is Expendable (1997) and the newest is Organisms: Selected Stories (2019). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
15
Published
1997–2019
Pages on record
3,662 in 10 of 15 books
Reading time
61–92 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,662 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 10 of 15 titles with a page count on record.

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James Alan Gardner, born 10 January 1955, is a Canadian science fiction author. League of Peoples and Dark/Spark are the two series in the catalogue, and recorded subjects run to hard science fiction, exploration, outer space, gender identity, vigilantes and conspiracies. Fifteen books are listed from Expendable (1997) to Organisms: Selected Stories (2019), taking in Commitment Hour (1998), Vigilant (1999), Hunted (2000), Ascending (2001), Trapped (2002) and Radiant (2004).

How many James Alan Gardner books are there?

James Alan Gardner has 15 books, released between 1997 and 2019. They include 2 series and 5 titles listed outside any series.

James Alan Gardner Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 15 James Alan Gardner 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. Cover of Expendable by James Alan Gardner, book 1 of the League of Peoples series (1997)
  2. Cover of Commitment Hour by James Alan Gardner, book 2 of the League of Peoples series (1998)
  3. Cover of Vigilant by James Alan Gardner, book 3 of the League of Peoples series (1999)
  4. Cover of Hunted by James Alan Gardner, book 4 of the League of Peoples series (2000)
  5. Cover of Ascending by James Alan Gardner, book 5 of the League of Peoples series (2001)
  6. Cover of Trapped by James Alan Gardner, book 6 of the League of Peoples series (2002)
  7. Cover of Gravity Wells by James Alan Gardner (2004)
  8. Cover of The Man of Bronze by James Alan Gardner, book 4 of the Lara Croft: Tomb Raider series (2004)
  9. Cover of All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault by James Alan Gardner, book 1 of the Dark/Spark series (2017)
  10. Cover of They Promised Me The Gun Wasn't Loaded by James Alan Gardner, book 2 of the Dark/Spark series (2018)
  1. 1
    ExpendableLeague of Peoples #11997 · 337 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1997337
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  2. 2
    Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream1997 · confirmed 2/4
    1997–
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  3. 3
    Commitment HourLeague of Peoples #21998 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1998352
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  4. 4
    VigilantLeague of Peoples #31999 · 384 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1999384
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  5. 5
    HuntedLeague of Peoples #42000 · 422 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2000422
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  6. 6
    AscendingLeague of Peoples #52001 · 384 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2001384
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  7. 7
    TrappedLeague of Peoples #62002 · 399 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2002399
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  8. 8
    Gravity Wells2004 · 344 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2004344
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  9. 9
    The Man of BronzeLara Croft: Tomb Raider #42004 · 304 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2004304
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  10. 10
    RadiantLeague of Peoples #72004 · confirmed 2/4
    2004–
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  11. 11
    The One With the Interstellar Group Consciousnesses2009 · confirmed 2/4
    2009–
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  12. 12
    A Clean Sweep With All the Trimmings2011 · confirmed 2/4
    2011–
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  13. 13
    All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's FaultDark/Spark #12017 · 384 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2017384
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  14. 14
    They Promised Me The Gun Wasn't LoadedDark/Spark #22018 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2018352
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  15. 15
    Organisms: Selected Stories2019 · confirmed 2/4
    2019–
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James Alan Gardner 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.

League of Peoples in order

7 books
  1. 1. Expendable
  2. 2. Commitment Hour
  3. 3. Vigilant
  4. 4. Hunted
  5. 5. Ascending
  6. 6. Trapped
  7. 7. Radiant

Dark/Spark in order

2 books
  1. 1. All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault
  2. 2. They Promised Me The Gun Wasn't Loaded

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider in order

1 book
  1. 4. The Man of Bronze

Standalone books

5 books

5 James Alan Gardner titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read James Alan Gardner books in order?

You only need to read James Alan Gardner 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 James Alan Gardner

Start with Expendable (1997), the earliest published title.

What is the newest James Alan Gardner book?

Organisms: Selected Stories (2019) is the newest James Alan Gardner book released so far.

Is there a new James Alan Gardner book coming?

No next James Alan Gardner 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 James Alan Gardner has won

Wikidata records 2 awards and 9 nominations for James Alan Gardner. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

James Alan Gardner at a glance

No recent titles
The newest James Alan Gardner title on record dates from 2019, 7 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
James Alan Gardner books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
3,662 pages across the 10 of 15 books with a recorded length, a median of 368 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most James Alan Gardner books, 7 of 15, were published in the 2000s.

What the James Alan Gardner books are about

11 of the 15 James Alan Gardner 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 11. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.