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Assassin's Creed Books in Order

Assassin's Creed contains 19 books, published between 2007 and 2023. The first book is The Invisible Imam (2007) and the newest is The Resurrection Plot (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
19
Published
2007–2023
Pages on record
3,837 in 9 of 19 books
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Assassin's Creed is a historical action-adventure series of 19 catalogued books, published between 2007 and 2023. Renaissance (2009) is set in Italy, and Brotherhood (2010), The Secret Crusade (2011) and The Magus Conspiracy (2022) follow, with France, revolution, revenge and the assassins themselves as the recurring subjects. The novels run to a median of 439 pages, and the run is currently dormant.

How many Assassin's Creed books are there?

Assassin's Creed has 19 books, released between 2007 and 2023.

Assassin's Creed Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 19 Assassin's Creed 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 Invisible Imam by Steven Barnes, book 1 of the Assassin's Creed series (2007)
  2. Cover of Renaissance by Anton Gill, book 1 of the Assassin's Creed series (2009)
  3. Cover of Brotherhood by Anton Gill, book 2 of the Assassin's Creed series (2010)
  4. Cover of The Secret Crusade by Anton Gill, book 3 of the Assassin's Creed series (2011)
  5. Cover of Revelations by Anton Gill, book 4 of the Assassin's Creed series (2011)
  6. Cover of Forsaken by Anton Gill, book 5 of the Assassin's Creed series (2012)
  7. Cover of Blackbeard: The Lost Journal by Anton Gill, book 7 of the Assassin's Creed series (2014)
  8. Cover of Unity by Anton Gill, book 8 of the Assassin's Creed series (2014)
  9. Cover of Underworld, book 9 of the Assassin's Creed series (2015)
  10. Cover of Heresy by Anton Gill, book 10 of the Assassin's Creed series (2016)
  11. Cover of Desert Oath by Anton Gill, book 11 of the Assassin's Creed series (2017)
  1. 1
    The Invisible Imam2007 · 384 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2007384
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  2. 1
    Renaissance2009 · 496 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2009496
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  3. 1
    The Ruling Class2019 · confirmed 2/4
    2019–
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  4. 1
    The Magus Conspiracy2022 · confirmed 2/4
    2022–
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  5. 2
    Brotherhood2010 · confirmed 2/4
    2010–
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  6. 2
    Adjudicated2019 · confirmed 2/4
    2019–
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  7. 2
    The Resurrection Plot2023 · confirmed 2/4
    2023–
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  8. 3
    The Secret Crusade2011 · 453 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2011453
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  9. 3
    Revenant2019 · confirmed 2/4
    2019–
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  10. 4
    Revelations2011 · 504 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2011504
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  11. 4
    Lazarus2019 · confirmed 2/4
    2019–
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  12. 5
    Forsaken2012 · 454 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2012454
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  13. 5
    Genesis2019 · confirmed 2/4
    2019–
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  14. 6
    Black Flag2013 · confirmed 2/4
    2013–
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  15. 7
    Blackbeard: The Lost Journal2014 · confirmed 2/4
    2014–
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  16. 8
    Unity2014 · 419 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2014419
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  17. 9
    Underworld2015 · 439 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2015439
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  18. 10
    Heresy2016 · 288 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2016288
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  19. 11
    Desert Oath2017 · 400 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2017400
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Assassin's Creed Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the Assassin's Creed books run from The Invisible Imam (2007) to The Resurrection Plot (2023), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Assassin's Creed in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Do you have to read Assassin's Creed books in order?

You should read the Assassin's Creed books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Assassin's Creed book also stands alone.

What order should you read Assassin's Creed books in?

Read them in publication order, starting with The Invisible Imam (2007), the earliest published title. After it come Renaissance (2009), The Ruling Class (2019), The Magus Conspiracy (2022) and Brotherhood (2010); the numbered table above continues from there.

What is the newest Assassin's Creed book?

The Resurrection Plot (2023) is the newest Assassin's Creed book released so far.

Is there a new Assassin's Creed book coming?

No next Assassin's Creed book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Assassin's Creed at a glance

Paused
No new Assassin's Creed title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
Release pace
Assassin's Creed books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
3,837 pages across the 9 of 19 books with a recorded length, a median of 439 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Assassin's Creed books, 15 of 19, were published in the 2010s.
Attribution
Of the 19 titles, 10 are credited to Anton Gill, 5 to Al Lamanda, 2 to Kate Heartfield and 1 to Steven Barnes. One title carries no credit.

What the Assassin's Creed books are about

10 of the 19 Assassin's Creed books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: assassins is tagged on 8 of 10. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

Characters in the Assassin's Creed books

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