Alex Rider Books in Order
Anthony Horowitz has written 25 books featuring Alex Rider, published between 2000 and 2024: 17 in the Alex Rider series and 8 related titles. The first book is Stormbreaker (2000) and the newest main-line book is Nightshade Revenge (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 25
- Published
- 2000–2024
- Confirmed
- 25 of 25 titles
- Pages on record
- 3,261 in 11 of 25 books
Alex Rider is the fictitious character at the centre of 25 Anthony Horowitz books dated 2000 to 2024. Stormbreaker (2000) is first, with Point Blank (2001), Skeleton Key (2002), Eagle Strike (2003), Scorpia (2004), Ark Angel (2005) and Snakehead (2007) after it. The subjects record orphans, spies, spy stories, thrillers and terrorism, and file the books as children's and young adult fiction; comic-strip editions appear too. Nightshade Revenge (2024) is the newest, and the run remains ongoing. Alex Rider Non-Fiction and Alex Rider: The Graphic Novel are related listings.
How many Alex Rider books are there?
Alex Rider appears in 25 books, released between 2000 and 2024. 17 of them belong to the Alex Rider series, and 8 related titles sit outside it: graphic novels and non-fiction.
Alex Rider Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 25 Alex Rider books in the order they were released, 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.
- 120002563/4
- 22001–4/4
- 32002–3/4
- 420033224/4
- 520043884/4
- 62005563/4
- 720053433/4
- 820061443/4
- 920071443/4
- 1020074003/4
- 112008–3/4
- 122009–3/4
- 132009–3/4
- 142010–3/4
- 1520114023/4
- 162012–3/4
- 1720133743/4
- 182016–3/4
- 192017–3/4
- 202019–3/4
- 212019–3/4
- 222020–3/4
- 232020–3/4
- 2420204323/4
- 252024–3/4
Alex Rider Books in Chronological Order
By publication date, the books of the Alex Rider series run from Stormbreaker (2000) to Nightshade Revenge (2024), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Alex Rider in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.
Do you have to read Alex Rider books in order?
You should read the Alex Rider series in publication order, the order of the numbered table above; the 8 related titles (graphic novels and non-fiction) sit outside that sequence. The catalogue does not record whether each Alex Rider book also stands alone.
Where to start with Alex Rider
Start with Stormbreaker (2000), the earliest published book in the Alex Rider series.
What is the newest Alex Rider book?
Nightshade Revenge (2024) is the newest book in the Alex Rider series.
Is there a new Alex Rider book coming?
No next Alex Rider book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Alex Rider at a glance
- Still running
- Alex Rider is still running, with a main-line title published as recently as 2024.
- Release pace
- Alex Rider books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 3,261 pages across the 11 of 25 books with a recorded length, a median of 343 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Alex Rider books, 13 of 25, were published in the 2000s.
- Corroboration
- 3 of the 25 titles appear in all four independent book listings, and every one of them in at least three.
What the Alex Rider books are about
20 of the 25 Alex Rider books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: spies is tagged on 12 of 20. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Spies 12 of 20 books
- Children's fiction 11 of 20 books
- Orphans 9 of 20 books
- Young adult fiction 8 of 20 books
- Terrorism 7 of 20 books
- Adventure stories 6 of 20 books
- Comics & graphic novels 6 of 20 books
- Rider, alex (fictitious character) 5 of 20 books
- Espionage 4 of 20 books
- Thrillers 4 of 20 books
More books by Anthony Horowitz
The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.
- Anthony Horowitz books in order 106 books