Smallville Books in Order

Smallville contains 8 books, published between 2002 and 2004. The first book is Strange Visitors (2002) and the newest is City (2004). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
8
Published
2002–2004
Total pages
2,086 across 8 books
Reading time
35–52 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,086 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute.

Smallville is a media tie-in series of eight novels published between 2002 and 2004. Credits differ by book: Alan Grant and Nancy Holder are each named on two, and Roger Stern, Dean Wesley Smith and Devin Grayson on one each. Recorded subjects include Superman, Kansas, teenage boys, heroes and zombies. Readers looking for Smallville books in order start with Strange Visitors (2002) and finish with City (2004). Page counts are recorded for all eight, at a median of 259.

How many Smallville books are there?

Smallville has 8 books, released between 2002 and 2004.

Smallville Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 8 Smallville 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. 1
    Strange Visitors2002 · 285 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2002285
  2. 2
    Dragon2002 · 244 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2002244
  3. 3
    Hauntings2003 · 240 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2003240
  4. 4
    Whodunnit2003 · 222 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2003222
  5. 5
    Shadows2003 · 261 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2003261
  6. 6
    Silence2004 · 303 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004303
  7. 7
    Curse2004 · 274 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004274
  8. 8
    City2004 · 257 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004257

Where to start with Smallville

Start with Strange Visitors (2002), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Smallville book?

City (2004) is the newest Smallville book released so far.

Is there a new Smallville book coming?

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

Smallville at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Smallville title on record dates from 2004, 22 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Smallville books have appeared more than one a year on average.
Length
2,086 pages across all 8 books with a recorded length, a median of 259 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Smallville books, 8 of 8, were published in the 2000s.
Attribution
Of the 8 titles, 2 are credited to Alan Grant, 2 to Nancy Holder, 1 to Roger Stern and 1 to Dean Wesley Smith. One further writer is credited. One title carries no credit.

What the Smallville books are about

All 8 Smallville books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: superman (fictitious character) is tagged on 7 of 8. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.