Order of Adam Roberts Books
Adam Roberts stands as one of Britain's most distinctive science fiction and fantasy novelists, bringing a unique blend of inventive storytelling, razor-sharp humor, and clever satirical commentary to genre literature. His work masterfully combines imaginative world-creation with insightful social observation, establishing him as a standout voice in modern speculative fiction.
Roberts launched his novel-writing career in 2000 with Salt and has since produced an impressive catalog of fiction, including the acclaimed Jack Glass, alongside scholarly critical examinations of science fiction and literary works. His approach to genre writing is marked by its wit and willingness to playfully subvert traditional conventions, creating stories that both entertain and provoke thought.
Here is a chronological listing of Adam Roberts' novels by their original publication dates:
(as A. R. R. R. Roberts)
(with Dave Hutchinson)
Publication Order of Anthologies
| # | Title | Year | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Murder on Route 66 | 1998 | |
| 2 |  Infinities | 2002 | |
| 3 |  Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection | 2003 | |
| 4 |  Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology | 2006 | |
| 5 |  Year's Best SF 11 | 2006 | |
| 6 |  Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition | 2007 | |
| 7 |  The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF | 2009 | |
| 8 |  Catastrophia | 2010 | |
| 9 |  Fables from the Fountain | 2011 | |
| 10 |  Pandemonium: Stories of the Smoke | 2012 | |
| 11 |  Best New SF 26 | 2013 | |
| 12 |  The Time Traveler's Almanac | 2013 | |
| 13 |  Noir | 2014 | |
| 14 |  Irregularity | 2014 | |
| 15 |  Solaris Rising 3 | 2014 | |
| 16 |  Paradox: Stories Inspired by the Fermi Paradox | 2014 | |
| 17 |  Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder | 2014 | |
| 18 |  Crises and Conflicts | 2016 | |
| 19 |  The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF Volume 3 | 2017 | |
| 20 |  Shoreline of Infinity 8½: Edinburgh International Book Festival Special Edition | 2017 | |
| 21 |  The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2017 | 2017 | |
| 22 |  We'll Never Have Paris | 2019 | |
| 23 |  The Best of British Fantasy 2018 | 2019 | |
| 24 |  No More Heroes | 2021 | |
| 25 |  Reports from the Deep End | 2023 |
Publication Order of Cardboard Box of the Rings Books
Publication Order of Imaginings Books
| # | Title | Year | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Colder Greyer Stones | 2012 | |
| 2 |  Last and First Contacts | 2012 | |
| 3 |  Stories from the Northern Road | 2012 | |
| 4 |  Objects in Dreams | 2012 | |
| 5 |  Microcosmos | 2013 | |
| 6 |  Feast and Famine | 2013 | |
| 7 |  Twember | 2013 | |
| 8 |  Strange Visitors | 2014 | |
| 9 |  Saint Rebor | 2015 | |
| 10 |  Sleeps With Angels | 2015 | |
| 11 |  The Light Warden | 2015 | |
| 12 |  Mementoes | 2016 |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| # | Title | Year | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The History of Science Fiction | 2005 | |
| 2 |  The Riddles of the Hobbit | 2013 | |
| 3 |  Sibilant Fricative: Essays and Reviews | 2014 | |
| 4 |  Get Started in: Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy | 2014 | |
| 5 |  Landor's Cleanness: A Study of Walter Savage Landor | 2014 | |
| 6 |  It's the End of the World: But What Are We Really Afraid Of? | 2020 |
Publication Order of Routledge Literature Companions Books
| # | Title | Year | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction | 2009 | |
| 2 |  The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science | 2010 | |
| 3 |  The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature | 2011 | |
| 4 |  The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature | 2012 | |
| 5 |  The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature | 2012 | |
| 6 |  The Routledge Companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature | 2014 | |
| 7 |  The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing | 2015 | |
| 8 |  The Routledge Companion to Literature and Religion | 2016 | |
| 9 |  The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities | 2017 | |
| 10 |  The Routledge Companion to Inter-American Studies | 2017 | |
| 11 |  The Routledge Companion to International Children's Literature | 2017 | |
| 12 |  The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks | 2017 | |
| 13 |  The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights | 2018 | |
| 14 |  The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food | 2018 | |
| 15 |  The Routledge Companion to World Literature and World History | 2018 | |
| 16 |  The Routledge Companion to Literature and Economics | 2018 | |
| 17 |  Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing | 2018 | |
| 18 |  The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction | 2019 | |
| 19 |  The Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies | 2019 | |
| 20 |  The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature | 2019 | |
| 21 |  Contemporary Publishing and the Culture of Books | 2020 | |
| 22 |  The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities | 2020 | |
| 23 |  The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction | 2020 | |
| 24 |  The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma | 2020 | |
| 25 |  The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature | 2020 | |
| 26 |  The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature | 2020 | |
| 27 |  The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class | 2021 | |
| 28 |  The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature | 2021 | |
| 29 |  The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen | 2021 | |
| 30 |  The Routledge Companion to the British and North American Literary Magazine | 2021 | |
| 31 |  The Routledge Companion to Yan Lianke | 2022 | |
| 32 |  The Routledge Companion to Humanism and Literature | 2022 | |
| 33 |  The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion | 2022 | |
| 34 |  The Routledge Companion to Literature of the U.S. South | 2022 | |
| 35 |  The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory | 2022 | |
| 36 |  The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies | 2022 | |
| 37 |  The Routledge Companion to World Literature | 2022 | |
| 38 |  The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature | 2022 | |
| 39 |  The Routledge Companion to Romantic Women Writers | 2022 | |
| 40 |  The Routledge Companion to Global Literary Adaptation in the Twenty-First Century | 2023 | |
| 41 |  The Routledge Companion to Politics and Literature in English | 2023 | |
| 42 |  The Routledge Companion to Literary Media | 2023 | |
| 43 |  The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics | 2023 | |
| 44 |  The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror | 2023 | |
| 45 |  The Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice | 2023 | |
| 46 |  The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture | 2023 | |
| 47 |  The Routledge Companion to Literature and Feminism | 2023 | |
| 48 |  The Routledge Companion to Working-Class Literature | 2024 | |
| 49 |  The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First-Century Irish Writing | 2024 |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Publication Order of Smart Pop Books
| # | Title | Year | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Seven Seasons of Buffy | 2003 | |
| 2 |  Taking the Red Pill | 2003 | |
| 3 |  Five Seasons of Angel | 2004 | |
| 4 |  Stepping through the Stargate | 2004 | |
| 5 |  The Anthology at the End of the Universe | 2005 | |
| 6 |  Finding Serenity | 2005 | |
| 7 |  The War of the Worlds | 2005 | |
| 8 |  Navigating the Golden Compass | 2005 | |
| 9 |  Alias Assumed | 2005 | |
| 10 |  Farscape Forever! Sex, Drugs and Killer Muppets | 2005 | |
| 11 |  Flirting With Pride And Prejudice | 2005 | |
| 12 |  Revisiting Narnia | 2005 | |
| 13 |  King Kong Is Back! An Unauthorized Look at One Humongous Ape! | 2005 | |
| 14 |  Totally Charmed | 2005 | |
| 15 |  The Unauthorized X-Men | 2006 | |
| 16 |  This Is Chick-Lit | 2006 | |
| 17 |  Welcome to Wisteria Lane | 2006 | |
| 18 |  The Man from Krypton | 2006 | |
| 19 |  The Battle for Azeroth | 2006 | |
| 20 |  Getting Lost | 2006 | |
| 21 |  Boarding the Enterprise | 2006 | |
| 22 |  So Say We All | 2006 | |
| 23 |  Investigating CSI | 2006 | |
| 24 |  Coffee at Luke's | 2007 | |
| 25 |  Webslinger | 2007 | |
| 26 |  Halo Effect | 2007 | |
| 27 |  Neptune Noir | 2007 | |
| 28 |  Perfectly Plum | 2007 | |
| 29 |  Grey's Anatomy 101 | 2007 | |
| 30 |  Serenity Found | 2007 | |
| 31 |  House Unauthorized | 2007 | |
| 32 |  Batman Unauthorized | 2008 | |
| 33 |  Secrets of the Dragon Riders | 2008 | |
| 34 |  In the Hunt | 2009 | |
| 35 |  James Bond in the 21st Century | 2009 | |
| 36 |  Ardeur | 2010 | |
| 37 |  A Taste of True Blood | 2010 | |
| 38 |  You Do Not Talk About Fight Club | 2015 |
Publication Order of Solaris Rising Anthology Books
Publication Order of The Aftermath Books
Publication Order of The Real-Town Murders Books
Publication Order of Year's Best SF Anthology Books
| # | Title | Year | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Year's Best SF | 1996 | |
| 2 |  Year's Best SF 2 | 1997 | |
| 3 |  Year's Best SF 3 | 1998 | |
| 4 |  Year's Best SF 4 | 1999 | |
| 5 |  Year's Best SF 5 | 2000 | |
| 6 |  Year's Best SF 6 | 2001 | |
| 7 |  Year's Best SF 7 | 2002 | |
| 8 |  Year's Best SF 8 | 2003 | |
| 9 |  Year's Best SF 9 | 2004 | |
| 10 |  Year's Best SF 10 | 2005 | |
| 11 | Year's Best SF 11 | 2006 | |
| 12 |  Year's Best SF 12 | 2007 | |
| 13 |  Year's Best SF 13 | 2008 | |
| 14 |  Year's Best SF 14 | 2009 | |
| 15 |  Year's Best SF 15 | 2010 | |
| 16 |  Year's Best SF 16 | 2011 | |
| 17 |  Year's Best SF 17 | 2012 | |
| 18 |  Year's Best SF 18 | 2013 |
Standalone Novels
| # | Title | Year | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Salt | 2000 | |
| 2 |  On | 2001 | |
| 3 |  Stone | 2002 | |
| 4 |  Polystom: Two Universes in One Reality | 2003 | |
| 5 |  The Snow | 2004 | |
| 6 |  Gradisil | 2006 | |
| 7 |  Splinter | 2007 | |
| 8 |  Land of the Headless | 2007 | |
| 9 |  Swiftly | 2008 | |
| 10 |  Yellow Blue Tibia | 2009 | |
| 11 |  I Am Scrooge: A Zombie Story for Christmas | 2009 | |
| 12 |  New Model Army | 2010 | |
| 13 |  The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo | 2010 | |
| 14 |  By Light Alone | 2011 | |
| 15 |  Jack Glass | 2012 | |
| 16 |  Twenty Trillion Leagues Under The Sea | 2014 | |
| 17 |  Bête | 2014 | |
| 18 |  The Thing Itself | 2015 | |
| 19 |  Bethany | 2016 | |
| 20 |  The Compelled | 2020 | |
| 21 |  Purgatory Mount | 2021 | |
| 22 |  Middlemarch: Epigraphs and Mirrors | 2021 | |
| 23 |  The This | 2022 | |
| 24 |  The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate | 2023 | |
| 25 |  High | 2024 | |
| 26 |  Lake of Darkness | 2024 |