American science fiction novelist (born 1951) · 1951
Orson Scott Card Books in Order
120 books · 10 series · 1978-2022
Orson Scott Card is an American writer known best for his science fiction works. As of 2024, he is the only person to have won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award in consecutive years, winning both awards for his novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986). A feature film adaptation of Ender's Game, which Card coproduced, was released in 2013. Card also wrote the Locus Fantasy Award-winning series The Tales of Alvin Maker (1987–2026). Card's fiction often features characters with exceptional gifts who make difficult choices with high stakes. Card has also written political, religious, and social commentary in his columns and other writing; he has provoked controversy and criticism for his public opposition to homosexuality.
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| # | Cover | Title | Published | Buy |
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| 1 |  | Capitol | 1979 | Amazon |
| 2 |  | Hot Sleep | 1979 | Amazon |
| 3 |  | The Worthing Chronicle | 1983 | Amazon |
| 4 |  | The Worthing Saga | 1990 | Amazon |
| — | A Thousand Deaths | 1978 | Amazon | |
| — | Killing Children | 1978 | Amazon | |
| — | Lifeloop | 1978 | Amazon | |
| — | A Sleep and a Forgetting | 1979 | Amazon | |
| — | Breaking the Game | 1979 | Amazon | |
| — | Second Chance | 1979 | Amazon | |
| — | Skipping Stones | 1979 | Amazon | |
| — | The Stars That Blink | 1979 | Amazon | |
| — | When No One Remembers His Name, Does God Retire? | 1979 | Amazon | |
| — | The Tinker | 1980 | Amazon | |
| — | Worthing Farm | 1990 | Amazon | |
| — | Worthing Inn | 1990 | Amazon | |
| — | And What Will We Do Tomorrow? | — | Amazon |
Entries without a number are not numbered in the source data - they are placed by publication date, which is usually but not always the intended reading order.
| # | Cover | Title | Published | Buy |
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| 1 |  | Ender's Game | 1985 | Amazon |
| 2 |  | Speaker for the Dead | 1986 | Amazon |
| 3 |  | Xenocide | 1991 | Amazon |
| 4 |  | Children of the Mind | 1996 | Amazon |
| 5 |  | A War of Gifts: An Ender Story | 2007 | Amazon |
| 6 |  | Ender in Exile | 2008 | Amazon |
| — |  | First Meetings | 2002 | Amazon |
| — | Mazer in Prison | 2005 | Amazon | |
| — | Ender's Homecoming | 2008 | Amazon | |
| — |  | The Swarm | 2016 | Amazon |
| — |  | Children of the Fleet | 2017 | Amazon |
| — |  | The Hive | 2019 | Amazon |
| — |  | The Last Shadow | 2021 | Amazon |
Entries without a number are not numbered in the source data - they are placed by publication date, which is usually but not always the intended reading order.
| # | Cover | Title | Published | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Seventh Son | 1987 | Amazon |
| 2 |  | Red Prophet | 1988 | Amazon |
| 3 |  | Prentice Alvin | 1989 | Amazon |
| 4 |  | Alvin Journeyman | 1995 | Amazon |
| 5 |  | Heartfire | 1998 | Amazon |
| 6 |  | The Crystal City | 2003 | Amazon |
| 7 | Master Alvin | — | Amazon | |
| — | The Yazoo Queen | 2003 | Amazon |
Entries without a number are not numbered in the source data - they are placed by publication date, which is usually but not always the intended reading order.
| # | Cover | Title | Published | Buy |
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| 1 |  | The Memory of Earth | 1992 | Amazon |
| 2 |  | The Call of Earth | 1993 | Amazon |
| 3 |  | The Ships of Earth | 1994 | Amazon |
| 4 |  | Earthfall | 1995 | Amazon |
| 5 |  | Earthborn | 1995 | Amazon |
| # | Cover | Title | Published | Buy |
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| 1 |  | Ender's Shadow | 1999 | Amazon |
| 2 |  | Shadow of the Hegemon | 2001 | Amazon |
| 3 |  | Shadow Puppets | 2002 | Amazon |
| 4 |  | Shadow of the Giant | 2005 | Amazon |
| 5 |  | Shadows in Flight | 2012 | Amazon |
| # | Cover | Title | Published | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Sarah | 2000 | Amazon |
| 2 |  | Rebekah | 2001 | Amazon |
| 3 |  | Rachel and Leah | 2004 | Amazon |
| 4 | The Wives of Israel | — | Amazon |
Entries without a number are not numbered in the source data - they are placed by publication date, which is usually but not always the intended reading order.
| # | Cover | Title | Published | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 |  | Earth Afire | 2013 | Amazon |
| 3 |  | Earth Awakens | 2014 | Amazon |
| — |  | Earth Unaware | 2012 | Amazon |
Entries without a number are not numbered in the source data - they are placed by publication date, which is usually but not always the intended reading order.
| # | Cover | Title | Published | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | The Lost Gate | 2011 | Amazon |
| 2 |  | The Gate Thief | 2013 | Amazon |
Entries without a number are not numbered in the source data - they are placed by publication date, which is usually but not always the intended reading order.
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Reading Orson Scott Card in order
Orson Scott Card has 10 series in our catalogue. Each one above is listed in reading order with its position number, so you can start at book one and work forward.
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