Rebecca Stead Books in Order
Rebecca Stead has written 10 books, published between 2007 and 2025. The first book is First Light (2007) and the newest is The Experiment (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 10
- Published
- 2007–2025
- Confirmed
- 10 of 10 titles
- Pages on record
- 1,320 in 5 of 10 books
- Reading time
- 22–33 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,320 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 5 of 10 titles with a page count on record.
Rebecca Stead, born in 1968, is an American writer of fiction for children and teenagers. Stead's second novel, When You Reach Me (2009), won the Newbery Medal in 2010, and Liar & Spy (2012) took the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 2013. The catalogue lists 10 books from First Light (2007) to The Experiment (2025), including Goodbye Stranger (2015), Bob (2018), The List of Things That Will Not Change (2020) and The Lost Library (2023). Catalogue subjects record adventure stories, secrets, space and time, middle schools, spies and family life.
How many Rebecca Stead books are there?
Rebecca Stead has 10 books, released between 2007 and 2025.
Rebecca Stead Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 10 Rebecca Stead 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.
- 120073363/4
- 22009–3/4
- 320122083/4
- 42013–3/4
- 52013–3/4
- 62015–3/4
- 720182083/4
- 82020–3/4
- 920232883/4
- 1020252803/4
Rebecca Stead 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.
Rebecca Stead Standalone Novels
8 books8 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Rebecca Stead Short Stories/Novellas
2 books2 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Do you have to read Rebecca Stead books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 10 Rebecca Stead books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Rebecca Stead
Start with First Light (2007), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Rebecca Stead book?
The Experiment (2025) is the newest Rebecca Stead book released so far.
Is there a new Rebecca Stead book coming?
No next Rebecca Stead 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 Rebecca Stead has won
Wikidata records 2 awards and 1 nomination for Rebecca Stead. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature2019Wonfor Bob
- Newbery Medal2010Wonfor When You Reach Me
- Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature2024Shortlistedfor The Lost Library
Rebecca Stead at a glance
- Still publishing
- Rebecca Stead published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Rebecca Stead books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 1,320 pages across the 5 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 280 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Rebecca Stead books, 5 of 10, were published in the 2010s.
What the Rebecca Stead books are about
6 of the 10 Rebecca Stead books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: children's fiction is tagged on 4 of 6. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Children's fiction 4 of 6 books