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Philip K. Dick

American science fiction author (1928–1982) · 1928-1982

Philip K. Dick Books in Order

120 books · 3 series · 1952-2011

Philip Kindred Dick was an American science fiction short story writer and novelist. He wrote 45 novels and about 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines. His fiction explored varied philosophical and social questions such as the nature of reality, perception, human nature, and identity, and commonly featured characters struggling against alternate realities, illusory environments, monopolistic corporations, drug abuse, authoritarian governments, and altered states of consciousness. He is considered one of the most important figures in 20th-century science fiction.

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5 books, 1953-1955
# Cover Title Published Buy
1
Planet for Transients 1953 Amazon
2
The Cookie Lady 1953 Amazon
3 Adjustment Team 1954 Amazon
4 Breakfast at Twilight 1954 Amazon
5
Human Is 1955 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.

4 books, 1981-1982
# Cover Title Published Buy
1 Valis 1981 Amazon
2 The Divine Invasion 1981 Amazon
3 The Transmigration of Timothy Archer 1982 Amazon
The Owl in Daylight 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.

2 books, 1989-1990
# Cover Title Published Buy
3 The Father-Thing 1989 Amazon
The Little Black Box 1990 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.

Standalone books

Books outside a series, oldest first.
# Cover Title Published Buy
1 Beyond Lies the Wub 1952 Amazon
2
The Gun 1952 Amazon
3 The Skull 1952 Amazon
4
Colony 1953 Amazon
5
Expendable 1953 Amazon
6 Mr. Spaceship 1953 Amazon
7
Out in the Garden 1953 Amazon
8 Piper in the Woods 1953 Amazon
9
Roog 1953 Amazon
10
Second Variety 1953 Amazon
11 The Defenders 1953 Amazon
12 The Eyes Have It 1953 Amazon
13
The Hanging Stranger 1953 Amazon
14
The King of the Elves 1953 Amazon
15
Tony and the Beetles 1953 Amazon
16
A World of Talent 1954 Amazon
17
Beyond the Door 1954 Amazon
18
Exhibit Piece 1954 Amazon
19
Meddler 1954 Amazon
20
Progeny 1954 Amazon
21
Sales Pitch 1954 Amazon
22
Shell Game 1954 Amazon
23 The Golden Man 1954 Amazon
24
The Last of the Masters 1954 Amazon
25 The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford 1954 Amazon
26 The Turning Wheel 1954 Amazon
27
Upon the Dull Earth 1954 Amazon
28 A Handful of Darkness 1955 Amazon
29
Autofac 1955 Amazon
30
Nanny 1955 Amazon
31 Solar Lottery 1955 Amazon
32 The Man Who Japed 1956 Amazon
33 The World Jones Made 1956 Amazon
34 Eye in the Sky 1957 Amazon
35
Nicholas and the Higs 1957 Amazon
36 The Cosmic Puppets 1957 Amazon
37 The Variable Man and Other Stories 1957 Amazon
38
Fair Game 1959 Amazon
39 Time Out of Joint 1959 Amazon
40 Dr. Futurity 1960 Amazon
41 Vulcan's Hammer 1960 Amazon
42 The Man in the High Castle 1962 Amazon
43
If There Were No Benny Cemoli 1963 Amazon
44 The Days of Perky Pat 1963 Amazon
45 The Game-Players of Titan 1963 Amazon
46 Cantata-140 1964 Amazon
47 Clans of the Alphane Moon 1964 Amazon
48
Les Vingt Meilleurs Récits de science-fiction 1964 Amazon
49 Martian Time-Slip 1964 Amazon
50
Novelty Act 1964 Amazon
51 The Penultimate Truth 1964 Amazon
52 The Simulacra 1964 Amazon
53
The War with the Fnools 1964 Amazon
54
Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb 1965 Amazon
55 The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch 1965 Amazon
56
Holy Quarrel 1966 Amazon
57 Now Wait for Last Year 1966 Amazon
58
The Crack in Space 1966 Amazon
59 The Unteleported Man 1966 Amazon
60 We Can Remember It for You Wholesale 1966 Amazon
61 Counter-Clock World 1967 Amazon
62
Faith of Our Fathers 1967 Amazon
63 The Ganymede Takeover 1967 Amazon
64 The Zap Gun 1967 Amazon
65 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968 Amazon
66
Not by Its Cover 1968 Amazon
67 Galactic Pot-Healer 1969 Amazon
68 The Preserving Machine 1969 Amazon
69 Ubik 1969 Amazon
70 A Maze of Death 1970 Amazon
71
Our Friends from Frolix 8 1970 Amazon
72
The Electric Ant 1970 Amazon
73 We Can Build You 1972 Amazon
74
A Little Something for Us Tempunauts 1974 Amazon
75
Apocalyptic Stories 1974 Amazon
76 Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said 1974 Amazon
77
Mutant Stories 1974 Amazon
78 Confessions of a Crap Artist 1975 Amazon
79 Deus Irae 1976 Amazon
80 A Scanner Darkly 1977 Amazon
81 The Best of Philip K. Dick 1977 Amazon
82 How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later 1978 Amazon
83 I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon 1980 Amazon
84
Rautavaara's Case 1980 Amazon
85
False Stories 1984 Amazon
86 The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike 1984 Amazon
87 In Milton Lumky Territory 1985 Amazon
88
Mechanical Stories 1985 Amazon
89 Puttering About in a Small Land 1985 Amazon
90 Radio Free Albemuth 1985 Amazon
91 Humpty Dumpty in Oakland 1986 Amazon
92 Mary and the Giant 1987 Amazon
93
Orpheus with Clay Feet 1987 Amazon
94 The Eye of the Sibyl 1987 Amazon
95
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 17 1988 Amazon
96 Nick and the Glimmung 1988 Amazon
97 The Broken Bubble 1988 Amazon
98 The Dark-Haired Girl 1988 Amazon
99 In Pursuit of VALIS 1991 Amazon
100 Gather Yourselves Together 1994 Amazon
101 The Philip K. Dick Reader 1997 Amazon
102 Minority Report 2002 Amazon
103 Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick 2002 Amazon
104 Paycheck 2004 Amazon
105 Vintage PKD 2006 Amazon
106 Voices from the Street 2007 Amazon
107 The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick 2011 Amazon
108
A Time for George Stavros Amazon
109
What the Dead Men Say Amazon

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