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Paolo Bacigalupi Books in Order

Paolo Bacigalupi has written 18 books, published between 1999 and 2024. The first book is Pocketful of Dharma (1999) and the newest is Navola (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
18
Published
1999–2024
Pages on record
3,488 in 10 of 18 books
Reading time
58–87 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,488 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 10 of 18 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Paolo Bacigalupi, author

Paolo Bacigalupi, born August 6, 1972, is an American science fiction and fantasy writer and a National Book Award nominee. Bacigalupi's awards include the Hugo, the Nebula, the Michael L. Printz, the Theodore Sturgeon, the Compton Crook and the John W. Campbell Memorial. Stories have run in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and High Country News, and essays in Salon.com. The catalogue lists 18 books from Pocketful of Dharma (1999) to Navola (2024), including The People of Sand and Slag (2004), Pump Six and Other Stories (2006), The Windup Girl (2009) and Ship Breaker (2010). Series are Ship Breaker, Windup Universe and Khaim, and subjects name dystopia, genetic engineering and survival.

How many Paolo Bacigalupi books are there?

Paolo Bacigalupi has 18 books, released between 1999 and 2024. They include 2 series and 11 titles listed outside any series.

Paolo Bacigalupi Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 18 Paolo Bacigalupi 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 Pump Six and Other Stories by Paolo Bacigalupi, book 1 of the Windup Universe series (2006)
  2. Cover of The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi, book 2 of the Windup Universe series (2009)
  3. Cover of Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi, book 1 of the Ship Breaker series (2010)
  4. Cover of The Alchemist by Paolo Bacigalupi, book 1 of the Khaim Short Stories/Novellas series (2011)
  5. Cover of The Drowned Cities by Paolo Bacigalupi, book 2 of the Ship Breaker series (2012)
  6. Cover of The Doubt Factory by Paolo Bacigalupi (2014)
  7. Cover of The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi (2015)
  8. Cover of Tool of War by Paolo Bacigalupi, book 3 of the Ship Breaker series (2017)
  9. Cover of Navola by Paolo Bacigalupi (2024)
  1. 1
    Pocketful of Dharma1999 · confirmed 2/4
    1999–
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  2. 2
    The Fluted Girl2003 · confirmed 2/4
    2003–
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  3. 3
    The People of Sand and Slag2004 · confirmed 2/4
    2004–
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  4. 4
    The Calorie Man2005 · confirmed 2/4
    2005–
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  5. 6
    The Tamarisk Hunter2006 · confirmed 2/4
    2006–
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  6. 7
    Yellow Card Man2006 · confirmed 2/4
    2006–
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  7. 8
    The Gambler2008 · confirmed 2/4
    2008–
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  8. 9
    The Windup GirlWindup Universe #22009 · 480 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2009480
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  9. 10
    Ship BreakerShip Breaker #12010 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2010352
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  10. 11
    The AlchemistKhaim Short Stories/Novellas #12011 · 95 pages · confirmed 2/4
    201195
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  11. 12
    The Drowned CitiesShip Breaker #22012 · 464 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2012464
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  12. 13
    Zombie Baseball Beatdown2013 · 320 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2013320
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  13. 14
    The Doubt Factory2014 · 484 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2014484
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  14. 15
    The Water Knife2015 · 371 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2015371
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  15. 16
    Tool of WarShip Breaker #32017 · 377 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2017377
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  16. 17
    The Tangled LandsKhaim Short Stories/Novellas #22018 · 297 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2018297
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  17. 18
    Navola2024 · confirmed 2/4
    2024–
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Paolo Bacigalupi 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.

Ship Breaker in order

3 books
  1. 1. Ship Breaker
  2. 2. The Drowned Cities
  3. 3. Tool of War

Windup Universe in order

2 books
  1. 1. Pump Six and Other Stories
  2. 2. The Windup Girl

Khaim Short Stories/Novellas

2 books

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

Standalone books

11 books

11 Paolo Bacigalupi titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Paolo Bacigalupi books in order?

You only need to read Paolo Bacigalupi 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 Paolo Bacigalupi

Start with Pocketful of Dharma (1999), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Paolo Bacigalupi book?

Navola (2024) is the newest Paolo Bacigalupi book released so far.

Is there a new Paolo Bacigalupi book coming?

No next Paolo Bacigalupi 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 Paolo Bacigalupi has won

Wikidata records 19 awards and 27 nominations for Paolo Bacigalupi. The most recent 12 are listed here. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

Paolo Bacigalupi at a glance

Still publishing
Paolo Bacigalupi published a book as recently as 2024.
Release pace
Paolo Bacigalupi books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
3,488 pages across the 10 of 18 books with a recorded length, a median of 362 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Paolo Bacigalupi books, 8 of 18, were published in the 2010s.

What the Paolo Bacigalupi books are about

10 of the 18 Paolo Bacigalupi 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 6 of 10. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.