Robots book series in reading order

by Scott Cawthon

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by Gerard Way

Isaac Asimov

553 books• 31 series

Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American writer who also taught biochemistry at Boston University. Hard science fiction is the core of Asimov's reputation, and the Foundation series about a fallen space empire is the most famous work; Asimov ranked with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke as one of the "Big Three" of the genre. The output also covers mysteries, fantasy and popular science, with non-fiction lines such as How Did We Find Out and the Library of the Universe. Asimov wrote or edited more than 500 books. This catalogue opens with the story Marooned Off Vesta (1939) and names Asimov on 400 of the listed books.

Dav Pilkey

86 books• 12 series

Dav Pilkey, born David Murray Pilkey Jr. on March 4, 1966, is an American comic book writer, author and illustrator of children's fiction. Captain Underpants and the graphic novel spin-off Dog Man are the series Pilkey is best known for. Dog Man appears under the pen names George Beard and Harold Hutchins, which are also the names of the two Captain Underpants protagonists. The catalogue holds 86 books from World War Won (1987) to A Sprinkle in Time (2026), and the Dragon, Dumb Bunnies, Ricky Ricotta and Cat Kid Comic Club lines also feature.

William Joyce

50 books• 6 series

William Joyce, born in 1957, is an American writer, illustrator and filmmaker who has produced more than 50 children's books, translated into over 40 languages. Rolie Polie Olie, the Guardians of Childhood and Dinosaur Bob are his main series, working with robots, dogs, adventure and the contest of good and evil, often in rhyme. Joyce started in film as a concept artist on Toy Story (1995) and took credits on A Bug's Life (1998) and Robots (2005); his A Day with Wilbur Robinson (1988) became the Disney film Meet the Robinsons (2007). The catalogue runs from William Joyce's Mother Goose (1984) to Scarecrow and the Nightingale (2020), at a median of 40 pages a book.

Brian Herbert

61 books• 14 series

Brian Patrick Herbert, born 29 June 1947, is an American author known for his work on the Dune franchise created by his father, Frank Herbert. Herbert's own novels include Sidney's Comet (1983), Sudanna Sudanna, Prisoners of Arionn and Man of Two Worlds, written with Frank Herbert. Dreamer of Dune (2003) is Herbert's biography of his father, and Herbert has edited Songs of Muad'dib and the Notebooks of Frank Herbert's Dune. The catalogue lists 61 books to 2024, with Kevin J. Anderson sharing the credit on 6. Series include Legends Of Dune, the Timeweb Chronicles, the Hellhole Trilogy, Stolen Gospels and several Dune graphic novel sets.

Scott Cawthon

44 books• 7 series

Scott Cawthon, born June 4, 1978, is an American video game developer, writer and producer who created Five Nights at Freddy's, a horror game series that grew into a media franchise. Cawthon started out making family-friendly Christian video games and moved to horror in 2014. The catalogue lists 46 books credited to Cawthon from 2015 to 2026, starting with The Silver Eyes (2015), with a Five Nights at Freddy's Character Encyclopedia due in 2027. Listings include Fazbear Frights, Tales from the Pizzaplex, graphic novels, an interactive novel and guidebooks.

Daniel H. Wilson

18 books• 4 series

Daniel H. Wilson, born March 6, 1978, is a novelist and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. Wilson writes techno-thrillers such as Robopocalypse, The Andromeda Evolution and How to Survive a Robot Uprising, and several of the books have appeared on the New York Times bestseller list. Wilson worked earlier as a robotics engineer and as a television host. The catalogue holds 18 books from How to Survive a Robot Uprising (2005) to Hole in the Sky (2025), with series Robo, Earth 2: World's End and Clockwork Dynasty. Subjects include robots, artificial intelligence, science fiction, superheroes and parody.

James Patterson

510 books• 73 series

James Patterson, born on March 22, 1947, is an American writer whose catalogue here holds 514 books published from 1976 to 2027. The run opens with The Thomas Berryman Number (1976), and Along Came a Spider (1992) and Kiss the Girls (1995) follow later. Alex Cross, Michael Bennett, Maximum Ride, Daniel X, Witch & Wizard, NYPD Red, Private, Middle School and the Women's Murder Club are among the Patterson series, alongside standalone thrillers, non-fiction and romance. Marshall Karp shares the credit on 5 of the books. Patterson's sales exceed 425 million copies, and Patterson was the first person to sell one million e-books. Forbes ranked Patterson the highest-paid author in 2016, for a third year running, and the National Book Foundation gave Patterson the Literarian Award in November 2015. 27 Stars is scheduled for 2027.

Sigmund Brouwer, born in 1959, is a Canadian author writing for children, young adults and adults, with more than 100 titles and four million books in print. Dead Man's Switch won the 2015 Arthur Ellis Award for best Canadian young adult mystery, and Shock Wave won the same award in 2025. Thief of Glory, a novel for adults, was named Book of the Year at the Christy Awards and also won an Alberta Readers Choice Award. The Last Disciple, co-authored with Hank Hanegraaff, was featured in Time magazine. The catalogue holds 162 books from Lost Beneath Manhattan (1990) to A Dangerous Game (2026), across series such as Accidental Detectives, Mars Diaries, Winds of Light, Lightning on Ice, Cyberquest and Robot Wars.

S.M. Stirling

96 books• 25 series

Born in France on September 30, 1953, Stephen Michael Stirling writes science fiction and fantasy as S.M. Stirling and holds Canadian and American nationality. Stirling is the author of the Draka alternate history novels, the Nantucket books combining time travel with alternate history, and the Emberverse. The catalogue starts with Snow Brother (1985), then The Sharpest Edge (1986), Marching Through Georgia (1988) and Under the Yoke (1989). Series include Raj Whitehall, Fifth Millennium, Island in the Sea of Time, Dies the Fire, Lords of Creation, Shadowspawn and T2. Subjects include time travel, the regression of civilization, imaginary wars and space warfare.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

55 books• 12 series

Margaret Peterson Haddix, born April 9, 1964, is an American writer best known for two children's series: Shadow Children (1998-2006) and The Missing (2008-2015). She also wrote the tenth book of The 39 Clues, a series with multiple authors. The catalogue lists 55 of her books from Running Out of Time (1995) to Moonleapers (2025), including Among the Hidden (1998), Just Ella (1999) and Turnabout (2000). Other series listings include Palace Chronicles, Children of Exile, Greystone Secrets, Mysteries of Trash and Treasure and Under Their Skin. Subjects include time travel, science fiction, brothers and sisters, and schools.

Tanith Lee

132 books• 22 series

Tanith Lee was a British writer of science fiction and fantasy, born 19 September 1947, who died on 24 May 2015, leaving more than 90 novels and 300 short stories. Death's Master (1980) made Lee the first woman to take the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel, the August Derleth Award, and Lee also won several World Fantasy Awards plus lifetime achievement honours from the World Fantasy and Bram Stoker awards. Lee wrote the Blake's 7 episodes "Sand" and "Sarcophagus", poems, and the picture book Animal Castle (1972). The catalogue lists 132 books from The Betrothed (1968) to The Earth is Flat (2023), including The Birthgrave (1975) and Don't Bite the Sun (1976). Series include Tales from the Flat Earth, Secret Books of Paradys, Claidi Journals, Blood Opera and Piratica.

Fred Saberhagen

75 books• 10 series

Fred Saberhagen (Fred Thomas Saberhagen, May 18, 1930 to June 29, 2007) was an American science fiction and fantasy author, most famous for the Berserker stories and novels. Saberhagen also wrote vampire novels with Dracula as protagonist, and a post-apocalyptic sequence that opens with Empire of the East and continues through the Swords and Lost Swords books. The site lists 75 books from The Golden People (1964) onward, including Berserker (1967) and The Dracula Tape (1975). Subjects include robots, artificial intelligence and space warfare.

Brian Aldiss

100 books• 4 series

Brian Aldiss (18 August 1925 to 19 August 2017) was an English author, artist and anthology editor whose reputation rests chiefly on science fiction, both novels and short stories. The Science Fiction Writers of America named Aldiss a Grand Master in 1999, and the Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted Aldiss in 2004; awards include two Hugos and one Nebula. Aldiss was a vice-president of the H. G. Wells Society. The catalogue lists 100 titles from Starswarm (1954) onward, including Non-Stop, Hothouse and the Helliconia, Squire Quartet and Horatio Stubbs series.

Clifford D. Simak

76 books• 2 series

Clifford D. Simak (1904–1988) was an American science fiction writer who also worked as a journalist. Simak won three Hugo Awards and one Nebula Award, became the third SFWA Grand Master, and was among the first three recipients of the Horror Writers Association's Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement. The catalogue records 76 books, from Empire (1932) through City (1952) to the collection The Thing in the Stone: And Other Stories (2024). Subjects include robots, telepathy, time travel and space travel, and the pastoral science fiction subgenre is linked to Simak's name.

Sylvain Neuvel

12 books• 2 series

Canadian science fiction writer Sylvain Neuvel, born 1973, also works as a linguist and translator. Neuvel wrote two series, The Themis Files and Take Them to the Stars. The catalogue lists 12 entries from 2016 to 2026, including Sleeping Giants (2016), Waking Gods (2017), Only Human (2018), A History of What Comes Next (2021), Until the Last of Me (2022) and The Many (2026), plus several entries titled FILE with a number. Robots, giants and women physicists appear among the subject headings.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

33 books• 9 series

Young adult novels are the core of Jennifer Lynn Barnes's work; the American writer, born October 19, 1984, is best known for the Inheritance Games saga and The Naturals. The catalogue holds 33 Barnes books, from Golden (2006) to Dangerous Impulses (2026). Other series include Fixer, The Grandest Game, Raised By Wolves, Debutantes and Squad. Subjects attached to the books include high schools, friendship, extrasensory perception, the supernatural, werewolves and mythology.

R.L. Stine

589 books• 64 series

Robert Lawrence Stine, born October 8, 1943, is an American novelist who writes horror fiction for children. Goosebumps, the series Stine created, sold more than 400 million copies in 35 languages and grew into a franchise of two television series, video games, comics and two feature films. Fear Street, Stine's horror sequence for teenagers, passed 80 million copies and was adapted for film. Stine has been called the Stephen King of children's literature. The listing runs to 590 titles, from How to Be Funny (1978), published as Jovial Bob Stine, to How to Train Your Dummy, scheduled for 2027.

Neil Gaiman

199 books• 41 series

Neil Gaiman, born Neil Richard Gaiman on 10 November 1960, is an English writer of short fiction, novels, comic books, audio theatre and screenplays. The Sandman comic series ran from 1989 to 1996, and the novels include Stardust (1999), American Gods (2001), Coraline (2002), Anansi Boys (2005) and The Graveyard Book (2008). The Graveyard Book made Gaiman the first author to win both the Newbery and Carnegie medals for one work, and other awards include the Hugo, Nebula and Bram Stoker. Gaiman co-created the television adaptations of Good Omens and The Sandman. The catalogue runs from Duran Duran (1984) to The Silver Age (2024) and includes Sandman and Death graphic novels and children's books.

David Weber

90 books• 23 series

David Mark Weber, born October 24, 1952, is an American writer of science fiction and fantasy. The Honor Harrington books are his best-known work, and his first novel, written with Steve White, sold to Baen Books in 1989; Baen has remained his principal publisher. Weber's catalogue holds 90 titles from Insurrection (1990) to Challenges (2025), spanning the Honorverse, Safehold, War God, Dahak and Gordian Division series. Space warfare, women soldiers and imaginary wars and battles run through the recorded subjects.

Becky Chambers

9 books• 4 series

Becky Chambers, born May 3, 1985, is an American science fiction writer and a pioneer of the hopepunk genre. The Wayfarers series won a Hugo Award, and the Monk & Robot series opens with A Psalm for the Wild-Built (2021), also a Hugo winner. To Be Taught, If Fortunate (2019) is a separate novella. The catalogue lists 9 works, from A Good Heretic (2013) and The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (2014) to As You Wake, Break the Shell (2026). Tagged subjects include space opera, interplanetary voyages, extraterrestrial beings and LGBTQ science fiction.

Nathan Hale writes graphic novels for young readers. 19 catalogued books run from The Twelve Bots of Christmas (2005) to Bones and Berserkers (2025), and Hale continues to publish. Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales is the author's ongoing series, and the wider catalogue takes in comic strips, humorous stories, folklore and the First World War.

Gail Carriger

37 books• 13 series

Gail Carriger is an American author of steampunk fiction. Carriger's 37 catalogued books span 1999 to 2024 and cover the Alexia Tarabotti, Finishing School, Custard Protocol and Delightfully Deadly series, plus a Parasol Protectorate manga line and titles issued as G.L. Carriger. Werewolves, vampires, London society and etiquette run through the work, and Carriger remains actively publishing.

Alan Dean Foster

162 books• 30 series

Alan Dean Foster, born on 18 November 1946, is an American writer of science fiction and fantasy, with several book series, more than 20 standalone novels and many film novelizations. Catalogued titles open with The Tar-Aiym Krang (1972), followed by Bloodhype (1973), Icerigger (1974), Star Trek Log One (1974) and Midworld (1975). Lost on Paradise (2026) is the newest title. Foster series include Pip & Flinx, Icerigger, Journeys of the Catechist, Damned, Star Trek: The Animated, Alien Movie and Transformers. Subjects include the Humanx Commonwealth, interplanetary voyages and human-alien encounters.

Neal Asher

44 books• 10 series

Neal Asher, born in 1961, is an English science fiction writer living near Chelmsford. Asher's fiction works in space opera and military science fiction: artificial intelligence, human-alien encounters, space warfare and dystopias run through it. The Polity universe holds most of the catalogue, with Agent Cormac, Spatterjay, Rise of the Jain and Far Future Polity set inside it, and the Owner Trilogy standing apart. Forty-four books span 1994 to 2026, from Africa Zero to Dark Agent.