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Philip K. Dick Books in Order

86 books are credited to Philip K. Dick, published between 1950 and 2022; 28 of them appeared after Philip K. Dick's death in 1982. The first book is The Defenders and Three Others (1950) and the newest is The Eyes Have It and Other Stories (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Philip K. Dick also publishes as Jack Dowland, Richard Phillipps.

Books
86
Published
1950–2022
Confirmed
2 of 86 titles
Pages on record
14,483 in 57 of 86 books
Reading time
241–362 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 14,483 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 57 of 86 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Philip K. Dick, author of the VALIS Trilogy

Philip K. Dick (December 16, 1928 to March 2, 1982) was an American science fiction novelist and short story writer. Dick wrote 45 novels and roughly 121 short stories, most of them first published in science fiction magazines. The fiction asks what is real and probes perception, identity and human nature. Characters in Dick's work contend with alternate realities, illusory worlds, monopoly corporations, drug abuse, authoritarian states and altered consciousness. Dick ranks among the most important figures in 20th-century science fiction. Catalogued titles include Beyond Lies the Wub (1951), Paycheck (1953) and Adjustment Team (1954), and the VALIS Trilogy appears as a series. Androids and life on other planets feature in the subject tags.

How many Philip K. Dick books are there?

Philip K. Dick has 86 books, released between 1950 and 2022. 28 of them were published after Philip K. Dick's death in 1982. 3 of them belong to the VALIS Trilogy series.

Philip K. Dick Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 86 Philip K. Dick 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 Solar Lottery / World of Chance by Philip K. Dick (1955)
  2. Cover of A Handful of Darkness by Philip K. Dick (1955)
  3. Cover of The World Jones Made by Philip K. Dick (1956)
  4. Cover of The Minority Report by Philip K. Dick (1956)
  5. Cover of Eye in the Sky by Philip K. Dick (1957)
  6. Cover of The Cosmic Puppets by Philip K. Dick (1957)
  7. Cover of The Variable Man and Other Stories by Philip K. Dick (1957)
  8. Cover of Dr. Futurity by Philip K. Dick (1960)
  9. Cover of Vulcan's Hammer by Philip K. Dick (1960)
  10. Cover of The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (1962)
  11. Cover of The Game-Players of Titan by Philip K. Dick (1963)
  12. Cover of Cantata-140 by Philip K. Dick (1964)
  13. Cover of The Penultimate Truth by Philip K. Dick (1964)
  14. Cover of The Simulacra by Philip K. Dick (1964)
  15. Cover of The Unteleported Man by Philip K. Dick (1964)
  16. Cover of Clans of the Alphane Moon by Philip K. Dick (1964)
  17. Cover of The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick (1964)
  18. Cover of Martian Time-Slip by Philip K. Dick (1964)
  19. Cover of Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb by Philip K. Dick (1965)
  20. Cover of Now Wait for Last Year by Philip K. Dick (1966)
  21. Cover of The Crack in Space by Philip K. Dick (1966)
  22. Cover of Counter-Clock World by Philip K. Dick (1967)
  23. Cover of The Zap Gun by Philip K. Dick (1967)
  24. Cover of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? / Blade Runner by Philip K. Dick, book 1 of the Blade Runner series (1968)
  1. 1
    The Defenders and Three Others1950 · confirmed 2/4
    1950–
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  2. 2
    Beyond Lies the Wub1951 · confirmed 2/4
    1951–
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  3. 3
    The Gun1952 · confirmed 2/4
    1952–
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  4. 4
    The Skull1952 · confirmed 2/4
    1952–
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  5. 5
    Mr. Spaceship1953 · confirmed 2/4
    1953–
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  6. 6
    The Defenders1953 · confirmed 2/4
    1953–
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  7. 7
    Paycheck1953 · confirmed 2/4
    1953–
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  8. 8
    The Hanging Stranger1953 · confirmed 2/4
    1953–
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  9. 9
    Beyond the Door1954 · confirmed 2/4
    1954–
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  10. 10
    The Crystal Crypt1954 · confirmed 2/4
    1954–
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  11. 11
    Small Town1954 · 24 pages · confirmed 2/4
    195424
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  12. 12
    The Last of the Masters1954 · confirmed 2/4
    1954–
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  13. 13
    Adjustment Team1954 · confirmed 2/4
    1954–
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  14. 14
    Solar Lottery / World of Chance1955 · 208 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1955208
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  15. 15
    A Handful of Darkness1955 · confirmed 2/4
    1955–
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  16. 16
    Human Is?1955 · 448 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1955448
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  17. 17
    War Veteran1955 · confirmed 2/4
    1955–
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  18. 18
    The World Jones Made1956 · confirmed 2/4
    1956–
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  19. 19
    The Man Who Japed1956 · 192 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1956192
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  20. 20
    The Minority Report1956 · 103 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1956103
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  21. 21
    Eye in the Sky1957 · confirmed 2/4
    1957–
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  22. 22
    The Cosmic Puppets1957 · 136 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1957136
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  23. 24
    The Unreconstructed M1957 · 46 pages · confirmed 2/4
    195746
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  24. 25
    Time Out of Joint1959 · confirmed 2/4
    1959–
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  25. 26
    Dr. Futurity1960 · 169 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1960169
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  26. 27
    Vulcan's Hammer1960 · 165 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1960165
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  27. 28
    The Man in the High Castle1962 · 274 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1962274
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  28. 29
    The Game-Players of Titan1963 · 224 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1963224
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  29. 30
    Cantata-1401964 · 208 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1964208
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Philip K. Dick 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.

VALIS Trilogy in order

3 books
  1. 1. VALIS
  2. 2. The Divine Invasion
  3. 3. The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

Blade Runner in order

1 book
  1. 1. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? / Blade Runner

Pulp Writers in order

1 book
  1. 2. Anthology of Sci-Fi V2

Last Interview in order

1 book
  1. 13. Philip K. Dick

Standalone books

80 books

80 Philip K. Dick titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Philip K. Dick books in order?

You only need to read Philip K. Dick books in order within the VALIS Trilogy series, which holds 3 of the 86 Philip K. Dick books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Philip K. Dick

Start with The Defenders and Three Others (1950), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Philip K. Dick book?

The Eyes Have It and Other Stories (2022) is the newest Philip K. Dick book released so far.

Is there a new Philip K. Dick book coming?

No next Philip K. Dick 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 Philip K. Dick has won

Wikidata records 9 awards and 24 nominations for Philip K. Dick. The most recent 12 are listed here. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

Philip K. Dick at a glance

Died
Philip K. Dick died in 1982, according to Wikidata.
After death
Books credited to Philip K. Dick are still being published after Philip K. Dick's death in 1982; the newest appeared in 2022.
Release pace
Philip K. Dick books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
14,483 pages across the 57 of 86 books with a recorded length, a median of 233 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Philip K. Dick books, 25 of 86, were published in the 1950s.

What the Philip K. Dick books are about

62 of the 86 Philip K. Dick 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 49 of 62. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.