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Terry Dowling Books in Order

Terry Dowling has written 17 books, published between 1982 and 2020. The first book is The Man Who Walks Away Behind the Eyes (1982) and the newest is The Complete Rynosseros Vol 3 (2020). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
17
Published
1982–2020
Pages on record
2,270 in 8 of 17 books
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Photo of Terry Dowling, author of the Tom Rynosseros series
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Terence William Dowling, born in 1947, is an Australian writer and journalist working in speculative fiction. Dowling uses the self-coined label imagier, one who imagines, in place of a genre name. Seventeen books are catalogued from 1982 to 2020, and the Tom Rynosseros sequence belongs to him. Recorded subjects include Australian science fiction, horror, fantastic fiction, and fantasy collections and anthologies. Titles include Blue Tyson (1986), Rynosseros (1990), Twilight Beach (1992) and The Complete Rynosseros Vol 3 (2020).

Source: Wikidata

How many Terry Dowling books are there?

Terry Dowling has 17 books, released between 1982 and 2020. 6 of them belong to the Tom Rynosseros series.

Terry Dowling Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 17 Terry Dowling 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 November 2026.

  1. Cover of The Man Who Walks Away Behind the Eyes by Terry Dowling (1982)
  2. Cover of Terrarium by Terry Dowling (1984)
  3. Cover of The Maze Man by Terry Dowling (1984)
  4. Cover of Blue Tyson by Terry Dowling, book 2 of the Tom Rynosseros series (1986)
  5. Cover of Time of the Star by Terry Dowling (1986)
  6. Cover of Rynosseros by Terry Dowling, book 1 of the Tom Rynosseros series (1990)
  7. Cover of Twilight Beach by Terry Dowling, book 3 of the Tom Rynosseros series (1992)
  8. Cover of Scaring the Train by Terry Dowling (1994)
  9. Cover of The View in Nancy's Window by Terry Dowling (1999)
  10. Cover of Make Believe by Terry Dowling (2009)
  1. 1
    The Man Who Walks Away Behind the Eyes1982 · 253 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1982253
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  2. 2
    Terrarium1984 · 284 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1984284
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  3. 3
    The Maze Man1984 · 314 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1984314
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  4. 4
    Blue TysonTom Rynosseros #21986 · 238 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1986238
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  5. 5
    Time of the Star1986 · confirmed 1/4
    1986–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  6. 6
    The Complete Rynosseros Vol 1Tom Rynosseros #41987 · confirmed 1/4
    1987–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  7. 7
    RynosserosTom Rynosseros #11990 · 184 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1990184
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  8. 8
    Twilight BeachTom Rynosseros #31992 · 270 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1992270
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  9. 9
    Scaring the Train1994 · confirmed 1/4
    1994–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  10. 10
    The View in Nancy's Window1999 · 361 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1999361
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  11. 11
    The Complete Rynosseros Vol 2Tom Rynosseros #52003 · confirmed 1/4
    2003–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  12. 12
    Blackwater Days2005 · confirmed 1/4
    2005–
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  13. 13
    Make Believe2009 · 366 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2009366
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  14. 14
    Clowns At Midnight2010 · confirmed 1/4
    2010–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  15. 15
    Cemetery Dance Select: Terry DowlingCemetery Dance Select #62015 · confirmed 2/4
    2015–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  16. 16
    The Night Shop2018 · confirmed 1/4
    2018–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  17. 17
    The Complete Rynosseros Vol 3Tom Rynosseros #62020 · confirmed 1/4
    2020–
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Terry Dowling 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.

Tom Rynosseros in order

6 books
  1. 1. Rynosseros
  2. 2. Blue Tyson
  3. 3. Twilight Beach
  4. 4. The Complete Rynosseros Vol 1
  5. 5. The Complete Rynosseros Vol 2
  6. 6. The Complete Rynosseros Vol 3

Cemetery Dance Select in order

1 book
  1. 6. Cemetery Dance Select: Terry Dowling

Standalone books

10 books

10 Terry Dowling titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Terry Dowling books in order?

You only need to read Terry Dowling books in order within the Tom Rynosseros series, which holds 6 of the 17 Terry Dowling books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Terry Dowling

Start with The Man Who Walks Away Behind the Eyes (1982), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Terry Dowling book?

The Complete Rynosseros Vol 3 (2020) is the newest Terry Dowling book released so far.

Is there a new Terry Dowling book coming?

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

Award nominations for Terry Dowling

Wikidata records 8 nominations for Terry Dowling. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given. Award data is sourced from Wikidata.

Terry Dowling at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Terry Dowling title on record dates from 2020, 6 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Terry Dowling books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
2,270 pages across the 8 of 17 books with a recorded length, a median of 277 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Terry Dowling books, 6 of 17, were published in the 1980s.

When Terry Dowling books were published

Publication distribution by decade, showing when Terry Dowling titles appeared. 1980s was the most productive decade with 6 titles.

1980s
6
1990s
4
2000s
3
2010s
3
2020s
1

17 books total across 5 decades. Decade reflects the year each title was first catalogued.

What the Terry Dowling books are about

5 of the 17 Terry Dowling books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: australian science fiction is tagged on 2 of 5. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

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