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Shaun David Hutchinson Books in Order

Shaun David Hutchinson has written 16 books, published between 2010 and 2025. The first book is The Deathday Letter (2010) and the newest is A Home for Unusual Monsters (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
16
Published
2010–2025
Pages on record
4,262 in 11 of 16 books
Reading time
71–107 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,262 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 11 of 16 titles with a page count on record.

See all 16 books in order Printable Shaun David Hutchinson checklist

Shaun David Hutchinson has 16 books catalogued from The Deathday Letter (2010) to A Home for Unusual Monsters (2025). Hutchinson, born on 1 May 1978, is an American writer of young adult fiction whose novels frequently pair speculative elements with LGBT characters and themes. We Are the Ants (2016), At the Edge of the Universe (2017) and The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza (2018) are among the titles. Gay teenagers, friendship, survival and death are recorded subjects, and Kairos Files is a Hutchinson series.

How many Shaun David Hutchinson books are there?

Shaun David Hutchinson has 16 books, released between 2010 and 2025. 2 of them belong to the Kairos Files series.

Shaun David Hutchinson Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 16 Shaun David Hutchinson 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 The Deathday Letter by Shaun David Hutchinson (2010)
  2. Cover of fml by Shaun David Hutchinson (2013)
  3. Cover of The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley by Shaun David Hutchinson (2015)
  4. Cover of We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson (2016)
  5. Cover of At the Edge of the Universe by Shaun David Hutchinson (2017)
  6. Cover of Feral Youth by Shaun David Hutchinson (2017)
  7. Cover of Brave Face by Shaun David Hutchinson (2019)
  8. Cover of The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried by Shaun David Hutchinson (2019)
  9. Cover of The State of Us by Shaun David Hutchinson (2020)
  10. Cover of A Complicated Love Story Set in Space by Shaun David Hutchinson (2021)
  11. Cover of Before We Disappear by Shaun David Hutchinson (2021)
  12. Cover of Howl by Shaun David Hutchinson (2022)
  1. 1
    The Deathday Letter2010 · confirmed 1/4
    2010–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  2. 2
    fml2013 · confirmed 1/4
    2013–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  3. 3
    The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley2015 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015288
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  4. 4
    What We Pretend to Be2016 · confirmed 1/4
    2016–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  5. 5
    We Are the Ants2016 · confirmed 1/4
    2016–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  6. 6
    At the Edge of the Universe2017 · 496 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017496
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  7. 7
    Feral Youth2017 · 336 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017336
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  8. 8
    The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza2018 · 438 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2018438
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  9. 9
    Brave Face2019 · 368 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019368
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  10. 10
    The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried2019 · 304 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019304
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  11. 11
    The State of Us2020 · 416 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2020416
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  12. 12
    A Complicated Love Story Set in Space2021 · 416 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2021416
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  13. 13
    Before We Disappear2021 · 512 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2021512
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  14. 14
    Howl2022 · 400 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2022400
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  15. 15
    The School for Invisible BoysKairos Files #12024 · confirmed 1/4
    2024–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  16. 16
    A Home for Unusual MonstersKairos Files #22025 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2025288
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK

Shaun David Hutchinson 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.

Kairos Files in order

2 books
  1. 1. The School for Invisible Boys
  2. 2. A Home for Unusual Monsters

Standalone books

14 books

14 Shaun David Hutchinson titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Shaun David Hutchinson books in order?

You only need to read Shaun David Hutchinson books in order within the Kairos Files series, which holds 2 of the 16 Shaun David Hutchinson books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Shaun David Hutchinson

Start with The Deathday Letter (2010), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Shaun David Hutchinson book?

A Home for Unusual Monsters (2025) is the newest Shaun David Hutchinson book released so far.

Is there a new Shaun David Hutchinson book coming?

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

Shaun David Hutchinson at a glance

Still publishing
Shaun David Hutchinson published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Shaun David Hutchinson books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
4,262 pages across the 11 of 16 books with a recorded length, a median of 400 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Shaun David Hutchinson books, 10 of 16, were published in the 2010s.

What the Shaun David Hutchinson books are about

11 of the 16 Shaun David Hutchinson 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 7 of 11. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.