Tade Thompson Books in Order
Tade Thompson has written 14 books, published between 2015 and 2025. The first book is Making Wolf (2015) and the newest is One Night Only (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 14
- Published
- 2015–2025
- Pages on record
- 2,161 in 7 of 14 books
- Reading time
- 36–54 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,161 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 7 of 14 titles with a page count on record.
Tade Thompson is a British psychiatrist and writer of Yoruba descent, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Rosewater, his science fiction novel, took both a Nommo Award and an Arthur C. Clarke Award, and it heads the Wormwood Trilogy alongside The Rosewater Insurrection (2019) and The Rosewater Redemption (2019). A second series follows Molly Southbourne. Recorded subjects include extraterrestrial beings, doppelgangers, insurgency and criminal investigation. The 14 catalogued titles open with Making Wolf (2015) and include one anthology, AfroSFv2, that carries other contributors' names.
How many Tade Thompson books are there?
Tade Thompson has 14 books, released between 2015 and 2025. They include 2 series and 5 titles listed outside any series.
Tade Thompson Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 14 Tade Thompson 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.
- 1Making Wolf2015 · 270 pages · confirmed 1/420152701/4
- 22015–2/4
- 32016–2/4
- 420174231/4
- 520171281/4
- 620194161/4
- 720191241/4
- 820194161/4
- 9Household Gods and Other Narrative Offences2020 · confirmed 1/42020–1/4
- 10Far from the Light of Heaven2021 · 384 pages · confirmed 1/420213841/4
- 11Jackdaw2022 · confirmed 1/42022–1/4
- 122022–1/4
- 13Liberation2025 · confirmed 1/42025–1/4
- 142025–2/4
Tade Thompson 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.
Do you have to read Tade Thompson books in order?
You only need to read Tade Thompson 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 Tade Thompson
Start with Making Wolf (2015), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Tade Thompson book?
One Night Only (2025) is the newest Tade Thompson book released so far.
Is there a new Tade Thompson book coming?
No next Tade Thompson 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 Tade Thompson has won
Wikidata records 3 awards and 21 nominations for Tade Thompson. The most recent 12 are listed here. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign-Language Short Story2020Wonfor The Murders of Molly Southbourne
- Arthur C. Clarke Award2019Wonfor Rosewater
- Julia-Verlanger Award2019Wonfor The Murders of Molly Southbourne
- Locus Award for Best Novelette2024Shortlistedfor The Luck Thief
- Locus Award for Best Short Story2024Shortlistedfor The Sweet in the Empty
- Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel2022Shortlistedfor Far from the Light of Heaven
- Philip K. Dick Award2022Shortlistedfor Far from the Light of Heaven
- Locus Award for Best Short Story2021Shortlistedfor Thirty-Three
- Hugo Award for Best Series2020Shortlistedfor The Wormwood Trilogy
- Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel2020Shortlistedfor The Rosewater Insurrection
- Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel2020Shortlistedfor The Rosewater Redemption
- Philip K. Dick Award2020Shortlistedfor The Rosewater Redemption
Tade Thompson at a glance
- Still publishing
- Tade Thompson published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Tade Thompson books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 2,161 pages across the 7 of 14 books with a recorded length, a median of 384 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Tade Thompson books, 8 of 14, were published in the 2010s.
What the Tade Thompson books are about
7 of the 14 Tade Thompson books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: english literature is tagged on 4 of 7. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- English literature 4 of 7 books
- Blood 2 of 7 books
- Doppelgängers 2 of 7 books
- Extraterrestrial beings 2 of 7 books
- Human-alien encounters 2 of 7 books
- Murder 2 of 7 books
- Romans, nouvelles 2 of 7 books
- Science fiction 2 of 7 books