Jeff VanderMeer Books In Order
Book links take you to Amazon. As an Amazon Associate I earn money from qualifying purchases.Publication Order of Ambergris Books
City of Saints and Madmen | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shriek | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Finch | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Southern Reach Books
Annihilation | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Authority | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Acceptance | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Area X (Complete Trilogy) | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Borne Books
Borne | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Strange Bird | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dead Astronauts | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead Books
Publication Order of Leviathan Books
Leviathan 2 | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Leviathan | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Leviathan: Cities | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mapping The Beast | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Veniss Underground | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Situation | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Three Quests of the Wizard Sarnod | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hummingbird Salamander | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Dradin, In Love | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Transformation of Martin Lake | (1999) | |
Why Should I Cut Your Throat? | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Errata | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Balzac's War | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Greensleeves | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Komodo | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
This World Is Full of Monsters | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wildlife | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
The Day Dali Died | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Secret Life | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Third Bear | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Strange Tales of Secret Lives | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Surgeon's Tale and Other Stories | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Steampunk Bible: An Illustrated Guide to the World of Imaginary Airships, Corsets and Goggles, Mad Scientists, and Strange Literature | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Monstrous Creatures: Explorations of Fantasy Through Essays, Articles and Reviews | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals: The Evil Monkey Dialogues | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Predator Books
Publication Order of Steampunk Books
Steampunk | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Dr. Black Books
Dr. Black and the Guerrillia | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Metanatural Adventures of Dr. Black | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Halo Anthologies
Evolutions: Essential Tales of the Halo Universe | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fractures: Extraordinary Tales from the Halo Canon | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz Books
Fast Ships, Black Sails | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Anthology series. |
Publication Order of The Dying Earth Books
The Dying Earth / Mazirian the Magician | (1950) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cugel's Saga / Cugel: The Skybreak Spatterlight | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Eyes of the Overworld / Cugel the Clever | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Quest for Simbilis | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Morreion | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Seventeen Virgins | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Bagful of Dreams | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rhialto the Marvellous | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Laughing Magician | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Anthology series. |
Publication Order of Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Anthology Books
Best New Horror | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 2 | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 3 | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Giant Book of Best New Horror | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 4 | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 5 | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 6 | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 7 | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 8 | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 9 | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10 | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #11 | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #12 | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13 | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 14 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Vol. 15 | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 16 | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 17 | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 18 | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of Best New Horror | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 19 | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 20 | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 21 | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 22 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Body Horror | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 23 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 24 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 25 | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror #26 | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 27 | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 28 | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 29 | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of Best New Horror, Volume One | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best of Best New Horror Volume 2 | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror #30 | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror #31 | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Cat Rambo Collections
The Surgeon's Tale and Other Stories | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Near | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Altered America | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Neither Here Nor There | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Diogenes Club Books
Shadows Over Innsmouth | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 5 | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cthulhu 2000 | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Terrors 2 | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark of the Night | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
White of the Moon | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Where The Bodies Are Buried | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Infinity Plus One | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Embrace the Mutation | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 14 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 16 | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Adventure | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Man from the Diogenes Club | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2006: 19th Annual Collection | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 18 | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Summer Chills | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Infinity Plus | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fair Folk | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 19 | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Digital Domains: A Decade of Science Fiction & Fantasy | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mysteries of the Diogenes Club | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of the Mummy | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Polyphony Anthologies Books
Polyphony, Volume 1 | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Polyphony, Volume 2 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Polyphony, Volume 3 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Polyphony, Volume 4 | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Polyphony, Volume 5 | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Dark Terrors Books
Dark Terrors | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Terrors 2 | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Terrors 3 | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Terrors 4 | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Terrors 5 | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Terrors 6 | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Darker Terrors 7 | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twentieth Annual Collection | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Breaking Windows | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Polyphony, Volume 5 | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Fantasy | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Brothers & Beasts | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Booklife | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Evolutions: Essential Tales of the Halo Universe | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Last Drink Bird Head | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Happily Ever After | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
ODD? | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Circus: Fantasy Under the Big Top | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Big Book of Science Fiction | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mixed Up: Cocktail Recipes (and Flash Fiction) for the Discerning Drinker | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Worlds Seen in Passing: Ten Years of Tor.com Short Fiction | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Big Book of Classic Fantasy | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Big Book of Modern Fantasy | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jeff VanderMeer is a renowned American Writer and New York best-selling novelist, teacher, publisher, and editor. Jeffrey is the recipient of the Physling Awards, Nebula Award, BFSA Award, World Fantasy Award and a finalist for the literary-awards Hugo Award. He is widely known for his contributions in the New Weird Stories and also his stories which were set in the city of Ambergris in novels such as City of Saints and Madmen. Jeffrey is also the author of the critically acclaimed Southern Reach trilogy a book series which began in the year 2014. Despite the fact that Jeff was born in Bellefonte, the established author spent many years, of his childhood, within the Islands of Fiji, where his parents used to serve with the Peace Corps. While returning to the United States, Jeff VanderMeer and his family passed through Africa, Asia, Europe, and Africa, thus, in turn, having an influence on him.
In the year 2003, VanderMeer got married to Ann Kennedy, who used to serve as an editor at the Small Buzz city press and the Silver Web Magazine. One of Jeff VanderMeer’s best-performing books is the City of Saints and Madmen, which is set in Jeff’s VanderMeer’s signature creation, the city of Ambergris and other best performing novels by the author, which were published by Pan Macmillan, Tor, and Bantman. VanderMeer’s work, including short stories and novels, have been translated into more than 20 languages. Discredited Diseases may be the author’s most famous anthology and is also considered to be a cult classic. VanderMeer is also the founding editor of Ministry of the Whimsy Press, One of the press’s publications The Troika, which was authored by Stephen Chapman, was a winner at the Philip K. Dick Awards.
The author’s essays and reviews have been featured in Publisher’s Weekly, Washington Post and lots of other publications. Jeff VanderMeer is also a frequent columnist forthe Amazon book culture blog. Furthermore, he has also judged at the Eisner Awards and has also been a guest speaker at numerous diverse events such as the Brisbane Writer’s Festival, American Library Association Yearly conference and Finncon in Helsinki. VanderMeer has also served in several other media such as the film which was based on his book Shriek which featured an original score soundtrack by The Church, a renowned Rockband and also a Play Station based Animation that was based on his creation, A New Face in Hell. Jeff VanderMeer also penned down a novel called Predator for Dark Horse ComicSs.
He has also worked on numerous anthologies, with most of them being a collaboration with his wife, who is also a recipient of the Weird Tales. The Weird Tales Anthologies are a collection of stories from the New Weird authors. In the year 2014, Giroux, Straus, and Farrar published a brand new series called, the Southern-Reach Trilogy. The first book in the novel was released in February 2014 while the second book in the series was released in May 2014. The final novel called The Acceptance was released in September 2014. The publishers and VanderMeer had agreed to release the story in a span of eight months. The overall response to the series was positive. Slate termed the novel as one of the most uncompromising and rewarding genre series. Critically acclaimed authors such as Stephen King termed the novel as creepy and fascinating.
Apart from writing and editing, VanderMeer, has also worked as a creative teaching writer. One of the major projects that he has worked on is Shared Worlds, which is a two-week annual program, which aims to instill creative writing in Children. Jeff VanderMeer has been a tutor at Cariton Workshop and also at the Trinity Prep school. Apart from being a tutor, VanderMeer has also penned down creative writing guides such as Wonder book, which was a winner at the BFSA Awards.
Best Jeff VanderMeer Novels
Annihilation is another excellent read by Jeff VanderMeer. The book begins with an entry into area X. Area X is a highly contaminated environment, that was abandoned by humans very many years ago. The government of Southern Reach that is responsible for Area X is responsible for organizing expeditions into the area. Annihilation is the story of the twelfth expedition that is comprised of anthropologist, biologist, surveyor, and psychologist. The biologist is the narrator of the novel. In many ways, Area X is a pristine wilderness, which has not been touched by humans for so many years. The author, through the biologist, lavishes the details of the landscape, thereby establishing the reader to a setting that is both uncanny and familiar. The blue sky, the trees, the wetlands, the high number of unidentified reptiles, the low moaning phenomenon which usually occurs in the morning and the fungal life.
The author’s description, of the environment, are exceedingly vivid and appropriate to not only the biologist but also in the process serving an unbalance and orient to the reader. The ever-shifting relationship of the characters contributes to the uneasiness of the reader. It soon becomes clear to the biologist that there is more to what meets the eye. The psychologist is the leader of the expedition. She appears to know more than what she was saying and is always armed with phrases, which provide her with influence over the others. In some cases, she even subverts their independence. The main focus of this storyline is the examination of two landmarks, the tower which is a strange inversion of the lighthouse and the lighthouse that appears on the map of the team and appears to have been used as the scene of an exceedingly vicious assault.
With that said, this novel is not only a masterpiece but also a wonderfully created novel, which constantly demands the reader’s attention. The author’s storytelling skills are phenomenal. He not only makes use of the setting but also the plotting and character to create a growing sense of fear in the reader and also need to control the source of the fear. Despite the fact that this is a 200-page turner, the story is bigger, complex and mysterious. There are numerous small things which get mentioned in the novel, thereby making one think, there is more to it. This is an exceedingly enjoyable read in a mind-bending way.
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