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Predator Books in Order

Predator contains 18 books, published between 1987 and 2024. The first book is Predator (1987) and the newest is The Original Years Vol. 2 (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
18
Published
1987–2024
Confirmed
13 of 18 titles
Pages on record
3,611 in 13 of 18 books
Reading time
60–90 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,611 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 13 of 18 titles with a page count on record.

See all 18 books in order Printable Predator checklist

Predator is an 18-book listing spanning 1987 to 2024, with credits spread across many writers. Predator (1987) is credited to Paul Monette and Predator 2 (1990) to Simon Hawke, while Kevin J. Anderson is credited on Cold War (1994), The Essential Comics (2018) and The Original Years collections of 2022 and 2024. Nathan Archer, Sandy Schofield, John Shirley, Jeff VanderMeer, Steve Perry, Tim Lebbon and James A. Moore are among the other credited names. Media tie-in fiction, war comics, graphic novels and alien contact appear among the subjects, and Alien is a linked character.

How many Predator books are there?

Predator has 18 books, released between 1987 and 2024.

Predator Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 18 Predator 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 Predator by Paul Monette, book 1 of the Predator series (1987)
  2. Cover of Concrete Jungle, book 3 of the Predator series (1995)
  3. Cover of The Essential Comics by Kevin J. Anderson, book 3 of the Predator series (2018)
  4. Cover of Cold War by Nathan Archer, book 4 of the Predator series (1997)
  5. Cover of Big Game by Sandy Schofield, book 5 of the Predator series (1999)
  6. Cover of Forever Midnight by John Shirley, book 6 of the Predator series (2006)
  7. Cover of South China Sea by Jeff VanderMeer, book 8 of the Predator series (2008)
  8. Cover of Turnabout by Steve Perry, book 9 of the Predator series (2008)
  9. Cover of Incursion by Tim Lebbon, book 10 of the Predator series (2015)
  10. Cover of Hunters and Hunted Official Movie Prequel by James A. Moore, book 12 of the Predator series (2018)
  1. 1
    Predator1987 · 200 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1987200
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  2. 1
    Predator Vol. 11990 · confirmed 2/4
    1990–
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  3. 2
    Predator 21990 · 231 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1990231
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  4. 2
    Cold War1994 · 104 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1994104
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  5. 3
    Concrete Jungle1995 · 306 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1995306
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  6. 3
    The Essential Comics2018 · 376 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2018376
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  7. 4
    Cold War1997 · 272 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1997272
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  8. 4
    The Original Years Vol. 12022 · confirmed 2/4
    2022–
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  9. 5
    Big Game1999 · 226 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1999226
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  10. 5
    The Original Years Vol. 22024 · confirmed 2/4
    2024–
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  11. 6
    Forever Midnight2006 · 269 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2006269
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  12. 7
    Flesh and Blood2007 · confirmed 3/4
    2007–
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  13. 8
    South China Sea2008 · 345 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2008345
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  14. 9
    Turnabout2008 · 256 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2008256
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  15. 10
    Incursion2015 · 368 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2015368
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  16. 11
    If It Bleeds2017 · confirmed 3/4
    2017–
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  17. 12
    Hunters and Hunted Official Movie Prequel2018 · 322 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2018322
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  18. 13
    Stalking Shadows2020 · 336 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2020336
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Predator Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the Predator books run from Predator (1987) to The Original Years Vol. 2 (2024), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Predator in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Where to start with Predator

Start with Predator (1987), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Predator book?

The Original Years Vol. 2 (2024) is the newest Predator book released so far.

Is there a new Predator book coming?

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

Predator at a glance

Still running
Predator is still running, with a title published as recently as 2024.
Release pace
Predator books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
3,611 pages across the 13 of 18 books with a recorded length, a median of 272 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Predator books, 6 of 18, were published in the 1990s.
Attribution
Of the 18 titles, 5 are credited to Kevin J. Anderson, 2 to James A. Moore, 1 to Simon Hawke and 1 to Nathan Archer. A further 10 writers are credited. One title carries no credit.

What the Predator books are about

10 of the 18 Predator books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: science fiction is tagged on 6 of 10. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

Characters in the Predator books

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