Virtual reality book series in reading order

by Reki Kawahara

by Reki Kawahara

by Reki Kawahara

by Ernest Cline

by Reki Kawahara

Reki Kawahara is a Japanese novelist, born August 18, 1974, who created Sword Art Online and Accel World; both have been adapted as anime series. Kawahara has been called one of the most successful light novel writers of the 2010s. The catalogue lists 96 books from 2009 to 2026, with subject tags for virtual reality, video games, internet games and survival. Kuroyukihime's Return and The Red Storm Princess both date from 2009. Series include Sword Art Online Progressive, Sword Art Online Alternative Clover's Regret and Demons' Crest, and Goddess of the Night (2026) is the latest title.

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.

James Dashner

26 books• 7 series

The Maze Runner series and the young adult fantasy series The 13th Reality are what American writer James Dashner, born November 26, 1972, is best known for. Much of Dashner's speculative fiction is aimed at children or young adults. The Journal of Curious Letters (2008), first in The 13th Reality, was a Borders Original Voices pick. The Maze Runner reached cinemas in 2014, with further films in 2015 and 2018 grossing an estimated $949 million together. The catalogue lists 26 books from A Door in the Woods (2003) to The Infinite Glade (2025), with the Jimmy Fincher Saga, Mortality Doctrine and Maze Cutter among the series.

William Gibson

21 books• 9 series

William Gibson, born William Ford Gibson on March 17, 1948, is an American and Canadian writer of speculative fiction and essays. Gibson is widely credited with pioneering cyberpunk, a label Gibson has repeatedly pushed away. The early works, written from the late 1970s, were noir near-future fiction about the effects of technology, cybernetics and computer networks on people. The catalogue lists 21 books, opening with Neuromancer (1984) and including Count Zero (1986), Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988), Virtual Light (1993) and Idoru (1996). Series include Sprawl, Blue Ant and Jackpot, and subjects include cyberspace, virtual reality and business intelligence.

Eric Brown was a British science fiction author and a critic for The Guardian, born on 24 May 1960 and died on 21 March 2023. Catalogue subjects include space opera, human-alien encounters, space colonies and mystery. The earliest listed book is The Time Lapsed Man And Other Stories (1990), followed by Meridian Days (1992) and Engineman (1994). Series credited to Brown include Langham and Dupré Mystery, Starship Seasons, Telemass Quartet, Virex Trilogy and Bengal Station.

Jack L. Chalker

60 books• 12 series

Jack L. Chalker (17 December 1944 to 11 February 2005) was an American science fiction author. Before writing full time, Chalker spent 12 years teaching history in Baltimore City Schools and left in 1978. Chalker belonged to the Washington Science Fiction Association and helped found the Baltimore Science Fiction Society. The catalogue records 60 books from A Jungle of Stars (1976) to Kaspar's Box (2003). Series include Well Of Souls, Dancing Gods, Soul Rider, Four Lords of the Diamond, Rings of the Master and Changewinds, and Nathan Brazil and Mavra Chang are named characters in the subject records.

Pat Cadigan

30 books• 5 series

Pat Cadigan is a British-American science fiction author whose work sits with the cyberpunk movement and returns to the relationship between the human mind and technology. Mindplayers, the 1987 debut, drew a Philip K. Dick Award nomination the following year, and Synners (1991) and Fools (1992) follow it. The catalogue lists 30 books through 2025, at a median of 280 pages, with the 1990s the heaviest decade. Virtual reality, computer hackers and conscious automata recur as subjects, and Alita: Battle Angel and Artificial Reality Division are the named series.

Nora Roberts

279 books• 37 series

Nora Roberts, born Eleanor Marie Robertson on October 10, 1950, is an American writer of romance under that name. As J. D. Robb, Roberts writes police procedurals with science-fiction elements, and has also published as Jill March and, in the UK, as Sarah Hardesty. This listing carries 280 Roberts books, opening with Irish Thoroughbred (1981); The Missing is scheduled for 2027. Series on the page include the In Death Universe, the MacGregors, Night Tales, the Calhoun Women, the Chesapeake Bay Saga, Irish Hearts and the O'Hurleys.

John Scalzi

75 books• 17 series

John Scalzi, born May 10, 1969, is an American science fiction author and a former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. The Old Man's War series is Scalzi's best known work, and three of its novels earned Hugo Award nominations. Scalzi has kept the blog Whatever since 1998, won the 2008 Hugo for Best Fan Writer largely on its strength, and used it for charity drives. Non-fiction subjects include finance, video games, film, astronomy, writing and politics, and Scalzi consulted on the series Stargate Universe. The catalogue holds 75 titles from Rough Guide to Money Online (2000) to Monsters of Ohio (2026), including Agent to the Stars (2004), Old Man's War (2005) and The Android's Dream (2006).

Kirsten Miller, born 1973, is an American novelist who created the Kiki Strike series. Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City (2006) opened the series, and The Empress's Tomb followed in October 2007. The books follow Kiki Strike, Ananka Fishbein and their friends through the tunnels and hidden rooms beneath New York City. The idea came in 2001, when the lawn of a Manhattan nursing home collapsed to reveal an underground room. The catalogue lists 18 books up to The Women of Wild Hill (2025), with The Eternal Ones and Last Reality as further series.

Ernest Cline

5 books• 4 series

Ernest Cline has 5 catalogued books. Ready Player One (2011), set in a shared virtual world built on puzzles, is the best known of them, and Cline co-wrote the screenplay for the Steven Spielberg film adaptation. Armada (2015) and Ready Player Two (2020) followed. The Importance of Being Ernest (2006) opens the catalogue and Bridge to Bat City (2024) is catalogued under his children's writing. Cline also performs as a slam poet.

Carolyn Keene is a Stratemeyer Syndicate pen name, the credit on the Nancy Drew mysteries. Mildred Wirt Benson, one of the writers behind the name, used it from 1929 to 1953 and contributed to 23 of the first 30 Nancy Drew books. The catalogue lists 647 Carolyn Keene books, beginning with The Secret of the Old Clock, The Hidden Staircase and The Bungalow Mystery (all 1930) and reaching Vans & Villains (2026). Series include Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, Nancy Drew Files, Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, Nancy Drew Diaries, Nancy Drew: Girl Detective and Dana Girls Mystery Stories.

D.J. MacHale

39 books• 10 series

Donald James MacHale, born March 11, 1956, is an American writer, director and executive producer. Television work includes Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Flight 29 Down and Seasonal Differences; in print, MacHale wrote the young adult series Pendragon and Morpheus Road. The catalogue holds 39 books from East of the Sun, West of the Moon (1991) to The Paper Trail (2025), with titles such as The Merchant of Death (2002), The Never War (2003) and Black Water (2004) along the way, and SYLO Chronicles among the later groupings. Stan Rogow is credited alongside MacHale on 6 books and Walter Sorrells on 5.