Terry Hayes Books in Order

Terry Hayes has written 3 books, published between 1979 and 2024. The first book is Mad Max (1979) and the newest is The Year of the Locust (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
3
Published
1979–2024
Pages on record
612 in 1 of 3 books

Terry Hayes is an Australian author, screenwriter and film producer, born in 1951. Three catalogued books carry the Hayes name: Mad Max in 1979, the thriller I Am Pilgrim in 2013, and The Year of the Locust in 2024, the later two built around terrorism and intelligence officers. Hayes worked with the Kennedy Miller production house and took the AACTA Award for Best Film twice, first for 1987's The Year My Voice Broke and again for Flirting in 1991.

How many Terry Hayes books are there?

Terry Hayes has 3 books, released between 1979 and 2024. They include 2 separate series.

Terry Hayes Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 3 Terry Hayes 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. 1
    Mad MaxMad Max #11979 · confirmed 2/4
    1979
  2. 2
    I Am PilgrimPilgrim #12013 · 612 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2013612
  3. 3
    The Year of the LocustPilgrim #22024 · confirmed 2/4
    2024

Terry Hayes series in order

The series linked below has its own reading-order page.

Terry Hayes 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.

Pilgrim in order

2 books
  1. 1. I Am Pilgrim
  2. 2. The Year of the Locust

Terry Hayes Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the Terry Hayes books run from Mad Max (1979) to The Year of the Locust (2024), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Terry Hayes in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Do you have to read Terry Hayes books in order?

You only need to read Terry Hayes 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 Terry Hayes

Start with Mad Max (1979), the first Mad Max book. It is also the earliest catalogued title.

What is the newest Terry Hayes book?

The Year of the Locust (2024) is the newest Terry Hayes book released so far.

Is there a new Terry Hayes book coming?

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

Terry Hayes at a glance

Still publishing
Terry Hayes published a book as recently as 2024.
Release pace
Terry Hayes books have appeared about one every 23 years on average.
Length
612 pages across the 1 of 3 books with a recorded length, a median of 612 pages each.

What the Terry Hayes books are about

1 of the 3 Terry Hayes books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. No subject is tagged on more than one of them, so each one below describes a single book. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.