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Ready Player One Books in Order

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline contains 2 books, published between 2011 and 2020. The first book is Ready Player One (2011) and the newest is Ready Player Two (2020). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
2
Published
2011–2020
Confirmed
2 of 2 titles
Total pages
758 across 2 books
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Ready Player One is a two-book science fiction series by Ernest Cline: Ready Player One (2011) and Ready Player Two (2020). The first book opens in 2044, where the teenager Wade Watts escapes a degraded world by logging into a virtual utopia called the OASIS. Wade hunts the puzzles its creator hid there, built on the pop culture of earlier decades and carrying a fortune for whoever solves them first, and other players kill for the same prize. Virtual reality, dystopia, shared virtual environments and technology are the recorded subjects. The two books run to 758 pages together.

How many Ready Player One books are there?

Ready Player One has 2 books, released between 2011 and 2020.

Ready Player One Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 2 Ready Player One 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 Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, book 1 of the Ready Player One series (2011)
  2. Cover of Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline, book 2 of the Ready Player One series (2020)
  1. 1
    Ready Player One2011 · 374 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2011374
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  2. 2
    Ready Player Two2020 · 384 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2020384
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK

Is there a chronological order for Ready Player One?

No separate chronological order is on record for Ready Player One, because none of the book listings this catalogue draws on publishes one; the publication order above is the only order given.

Do you have to read Ready Player One books in order?

You should read the Ready Player One books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Ready Player One book also stands alone.

Where to start with Ready Player One

Start with Ready Player One (2011), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Ready Player One book?

Ready Player Two (2020) is the newest Ready Player One book released so far.

Is there a new Ready Player One book coming?

No next Ready Player One 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 Ready Player One

Wikidata records 2 nominations for Ready Player One. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

Ready Player One at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Ready Player One title on record dates from 2020, 6 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Length
758 pages across all 2 books with a recorded length, a median of 379 pages each.

What the Ready Player One books are about

All 2 Ready Player One books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: regression (civilization) is tagged on 2 of 2. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

More books by Ernest Cline

The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.