Red Dwarf Books in Order
Red Dwarf contains 8 books, published between 1989 and 2026. The first book is Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers (1989) and the newest is Titan (2026). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 8
- Published
- 1989–2026
- Pages on record
- 1,472 in 6 of 8 books
- Reading time
- 25–37 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,472 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 6 of 8 titles with a page count on record.
Red Dwarf is a humorous science fiction series set in space and tied to television, with 8 books listed from 1989 to 2026. One book follows Lister, left as the last living human three million years from Earth aboard the spaceship Red Dwarf with a dead man, a senile computer and an evolved cat. Grant Naylor and Rob Grant are each credited on 3 books, Doug Naylor and Andrew Marshall on 1. Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers (1989) comes first, Better than Life followed in 1990, and Titan (2026) is the latest.
How many Red Dwarf books are there?
Red Dwarf has 8 books, released between 1989 and 2026.
Red Dwarf Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 8 Red Dwarf 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.
- 1Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers1989 · 304 pages · confirmed 1/419893041/4
- 2Better than Life1990 · 304 pages · confirmed 1/419903041/4
- 3The Official Red Dwarf Companion1992 · 96 pages · confirmed 1/41992961/4
- 4Last Human1995 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/419953201/4
- 5Backwards1996 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/419963521/4
- 6Scenes From The Dwarf1996 · 96 pages · confirmed 1/41996961/4
- 7Better Than Life2024 · confirmed 1/42024–1/4
- 8Titan2026 · confirmed 1/42026–1/4
Where to start with Red Dwarf
Start with Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers (1989), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Red Dwarf book?
Titan (2026) is the newest Red Dwarf book released so far.
Is there a new Red Dwarf book coming?
No next Red Dwarf book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Red Dwarf at a glance
- Still running
- Red Dwarf is still running, with a title published as recently as 2026.
- Release pace
- Red Dwarf books have appeared about one every 5 years on average.
- Length
- 1,472 pages across the 6 of 8 books with a recorded length, a median of 304 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Red Dwarf books, 5 of 8, were published in the 1990s.
- Attribution
- Of the 8 titles, 3 are credited to Grant Naylor, 3 to Rob Grant, 1 to Doug Naylor and 1 to Andrew Marshall. One title carries no credit.
What the Red Dwarf books are about
5 of the 8 Red Dwarf 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 5 of 5. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Science fiction 5 of 5 books
- Sci-fi 3 of 5 books
- Humour 2 of 5 books
- Space 2 of 5 books
- Computer games 1 of 5 books
- English fiction 1 of 5 books
- Future 1 of 5 books
- Interplanetary voyages 1 of 5 books
- Televison 1 of 5 books
- Thrillers, technological 1 of 5 books