Max Hawthorne Books in Order

Max Hawthorne has written 10 books, published between 2013 and 2022. The first book is Memoirs of a Gym Rat (2013) and the newest is The Sleigh (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
10
Published
2013–2022
Pages on record
1,254 in 3 of 10 books

Max Hawthorne is the author of the Kronos Rising series, with 10 books catalogued from 2013 to 2022. Subjects include thrillers, suspense and horror. Memoirs of a Gym Rat (2013) is the earliest title, and Kronos Rising (2014) follows. Diablo and Plague appeared in 2016, Monsters & Marine Mysteries in 2021, and The Sleigh (2022) is the newest. Median length is 550 pages.

How many Max Hawthorne books are there?

Max Hawthorne has 10 books, released between 2013 and 2022. 7 of them belong to the Kronos Rising series.

Max Hawthorne Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 10 Max Hawthorne 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
    Memoirs of a Gym Rat2013 · confirmed 1/4
    2013
  2. 2
    Kronos RisingKronos Rising #12014 · confirmed 1/4
    2014
  3. 3
    PlagueKronos Rising #22016 · 152 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016152
  4. 4
    Kraken, Volume OneKronos Rising #32016 · 552 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016552
  5. 5
    DiabloKronos Rising #42016 · confirmed 1/4
    2016
  6. 6
    Kraken, Volume TwoKronos Rising #52018 · 550 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2018550
  7. 7
    Kraken: Volume TwoKronos Rising #62018 · confirmed 1/4
    2018
  8. 8
    Kraken, Volume ThreeKronos Rising #72020 · confirmed 1/4
    2020
  9. 9
    Monsters & Marine Mysteries2021 · confirmed 1/4
    2021
  10. 10
    The Sleigh2022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022

Max Hawthorne 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.

Kronos Rising in order

7 books
  1. 1. Kronos Rising
  2. 2. Plague
  3. 3. Kraken, Volume One
  4. 4. Diablo
  5. 5. Kraken, Volume Two
  6. 6. Kraken: Volume Two
  7. 7. Kraken, Volume Three

Standalone books

3 books

3 Max Hawthorne titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Max Hawthorne books in order?

You only need to read Max Hawthorne books in order within the Kronos Rising series, which holds 7 of the 10 Max Hawthorne books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Max Hawthorne

Start with Memoirs of a Gym Rat (2013), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Max Hawthorne book?

The Sleigh (2022) is the newest Max Hawthorne book released so far.

Is there a new Max Hawthorne book coming?

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

Max Hawthorne at a glance

Paused
No new Max Hawthorne title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
Release pace
Max Hawthorne books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
1,254 pages across the 3 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 550 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Max Hawthorne books, 7 of 10, were published in the 2010s.

What the Max Hawthorne books are about

3 of the 10 Max Hawthorne books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. No subject is tagged on more than one of them, so each one below describes a single book. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.