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Ted Dekker
  • Bibliography:
    45 Books (8 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2000
  • Latest Book:
    October 2018
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About the Author

Ted Dekker has made a name for himself amongst fantasy readers. Originally involved in various entrepreneurial pursuits, Dekker began pursuing a career as a novelist in the early nineties.

After selling his business, he began writing full-time. Dekker is a New York Times Bestselling Author and his novels have sold over 5 million copies worldwide. He lives in Austin, Texas with his family.

Full Series List in Order

A.D.

1 - A.D. 30 (Nov-2014)
1.5 - The Forgotten Way (Aug-2015)
2 - A.D. 33 (Oct-2015)

Beyond the Circle

1 - The 49th Mystic (May-2018)
2 - Rise of the Mystics (Oct-2018)

The Circle Trilogy

1 - Black (Feb-2004)
2 - Red (Jun-2004)
3 - White (Oct-2004)
Green (Sep-2009)

Eyes Wide Open

1 - Identity (Jan-2013)
2 - Mirrors (Jan-2013)
3 - Unseen (Jan-2013)
4 - Seer (Jan-2013)

The Lost Books

1 - Chosen (Jan-2008)
2 - Infidel (Jan-2008)
3 - Renegade (May-2008)
4 - Chaos (May-2008)
5 - Lunatic (Jun-2009)
6 - Elyon (Jun-2009)

Martyr's Song

1 - Heaven's Wager (Oct-2000)
2 - When Heaven Weeps (May-2001)
3 - Thunder of Heaven (Feb-2002)
The Martyr's Song (Jul-2005)

A Paradise Novel

1 - Showdown (Jan-2006)
2 - Saint (Oct-2006)
3 - Sinner (Sep-2008)

Stephen Carter

1 - Outlaw (Oct-2013)

Book List in Order: 45 titles



  • It was an absolutely perfect day . . . until everything went absolutely perfectly wrong. Kent Anthony is a brilliant software engineer who is cashing in on a brilliant career. He's finally living the idyllic life, far from thoughts of theft and mu...



  • A thriller unlike any you have ever read. A love strong enough to bring a tremor to your bones. A sacrifice powerful enough to make heaven weep. At the close of World War II, a shell-shocked solider, Jan Jovic, was forced to inflict a game of life...



  • The future changes in the BLINK of an eye...or does it? Seth Borders isn't your average graduate student. For starters, he has one of the world's highest IQs. Now he's suddenly struck by an incredible power -- the ability to see multiple potential...



  • What happens when the evil of terrorism collides with the love of God? Deep in the Amazon jungle a young American woman and the son of plantation owners fall madly in love. For Tanya and Shannon, life is a paradise most only dream about. But t...



  • Enter a world where nothing is what it seems. Where your closest friend could be your greatest enemy. Kevin Parson is alone in his car when his cell phone rings. A man calling himself Slater offers a deadly ultimatum: You have exactly three minute...



  • Enter an adrenaline-laced epic where dreams and reality collide. Fleeing his assailants through deserted alleyways, Thomas Hunter narrowly escapes to the roof of a building. Then a silent bullet from the night clips his head...and his world goes b...



  • "We have stepped off the cliff and are falling into madness." Thomas Hunter is caught between two shocking realities, each facing a meltdown of epic proportions. When he dreams in one world, he awakens in the other. In one reality, Thomas is a res...



  • "Never break the circle." For two realities, time is running out. In one world, a lethal virus threatens to destroy all life as scientists and governments scramble to find an antidote. In the other, a forbidden love could forever destroy the ra...



  • We know and love the Christmas story-light comes to dispel dark, purity comes to stomp corruption. It's beautiful. It's perfect proof of an eternal truth and light. . . . This is not the usual story. This is the tale of a mute boy who is born and aba...






  • A DEADLY TALE OF ULTIMATE OBSESSION Stephen Friedman is making a good living in good times. He's just an ordinary guy. Or so he thinks. But one day an .extraordinary piece of information tells him differently. It's a clue from the grave of a H...



  • WHAT WOULD YOU DIE FOR? That's the question suddenly thrust upon a small band of women and children in Bosnia at the close of World War II. When a group of bitter soldiers stumble upon their peaceful village, they suddenly face an insidious evil ....



  • welcome to paradise When a stranger named Marsuvees Black appears in Paradise, he brings with him a message of hope and love. Or is it death and hate? Perhaps neither--perhaps both. He seems to know too much about the town's many unspoken se...



  • A Christmas tale with a modern twist.We all love singing the Christmas carol "The Little Drummer Boy." Our hearts swell as the poor boy offers his best, meager gift to the Baby in the manger, and we smile in joy as the infant Lord graciously smiles H...



  • An assassin. The most effective killer in the world. And yet... Carl Strople struggles to retain fleeting memories that betray an even more ominous reality. He's been told part of the truth--but what's the rest? Invasive techniques have stripped ...



  • A freak storm has spawned three tornados that are bearing down on the town of Summerville. Yet under the cover of the storm looms a much more ominous threat: vindictive killer known as Red who's left a string of victims in his wake and now bent on...



  • The Future Changes in the Blink of an Eye . . . Or Does It? Miriam is a Saudi princess promised to another, a pawn in a political struggle that could shift the balance of power in the Middle East. Seth is a certified genius with a head full of ...



  • THINK WITH YOUR HEART AND PREPARE TO DIE FOR YOU HAVE BEEn CHOSEN The land of the Forest Dwellers has been decimated by the Horde under the watchful eye of the vilest of all creatures, Teeleh. Thomas Hunter, supreme commander of the Forest Gua...



  • FROM CHOSEN TO TRAITOR? After being stretched to their limits, the four heroic young Forest Guard recruits--Johnis, Silvie, Billos, and Darsal--are pulled into deeper danger on their mission to secure the seven lost Books of History. Celebrated...



  • It takes an obsessive mind to know one. And Daniel Clark knows the elusive killer he's been stalking. He's devoted every waking minute as a profiler to find the serial killer known only as Eve. He's pored over the crime scenes of sixteen young wom...






  • A FINAL QUEST AND AN ULTIMATE BETRAYAL Deep in the mountains of Romania stands a fortress, and deep within that fortress lies a chamber. In that chamber, ruling the dead for over two thousand years, lives one Shataiki bat straight from the bowels of...



  • Everyone tries to be God at some point in their lives, and this time it's Billos's turn. Turning his back on all that he once held precious, he enters the forbidden book and lands in a reality that is as foreign to him as water is to oil. A place cal...



  • Full of mystery, intrigue, and mind-blowing twists, Sinner explores what happens when the idea of tolerance leads to intolerance.Some say roll with the punches. Drift with the tide. Nothing can stop the inevitability of change. There was a time when ...



  • Sometimes dying with the truth is better than living with a lie. After a car accident puts Shauna McAllister in a coma and wipes out six months of her memory, she returns to her childhood home to recover, but her arrival is fraught with confusion....



  • WOULD YOU KILL AN INNOCENT MAN TO SAVE YOUR DAUGHTER? They call him BoneMan, a serial killer who's abducted six young women. He's the perfect father looking for the perfect fighter, and when his victims fail to meet his lofty expectations, he kill...



  • Darsal is trying to love the Horde as Elyon asked her to, but she's torn between this new mission and her original one . . . especially now that Johnis and Silvie no longer seem to be on her side. The Chosen Ones are facing their greatest threat-...



  • FIGHT THE HORDE . . . OR DIE WITH LOVE Separated by time and space, our heroes finally return home. But five years have passed and they find a nightmarishly changed world. The despised Horde are now in control. The healing lakes of Elyon are now bl...



  • At Last . . . The Circle Reborn The story of how Thomas Hunter first entered the Black Forest and forever changed our history began at a time when armies were gathered for a final battle in the valley of Migdon. Green is a story of love, betrayal...





  • A virtuoso killer is carving a path of death across the west, intent on killing only the most beautiful women. Each time he leaves behind a handwritten note and a bridal veil. Desperate for help, Special Agent Brad Raines turns to the Center for Well...






  • This story is for everyone--but not everyone is for this story. It is a dangerous tale of times past. A torrid love story full of deep seduction. A story of terrible longing and bold sacrifice. Then as now, evil begins its courtship cloaked in ligh...



  • TWO ABANDONED SOULS ARE ON THE HUNT FOR ONE POWERFUL MAN. SOON, THEIR PATHS WILL CROSS AND LEAD TO ONE TWISTED FATE. Danny Hansen is a Bosnian immigrant who came to America with hopes of escaping haunted memories of a tragic war that took his moth...



  • THE SANCTUARY is the gripping story of vigilante priest, Danny Hansen, who is now serving a fifty year prison term in California for the murder of two abusive men. Filled with remorse, Danny is determined to live out his days by a code of non-violenc...



  • First in the newest series from Ted Dekker, master of suspense, whose books have sold 9 million copies. Humming with intensity, Eyes Wide Open is a raw adrenaline rush from first page to last....



  • Eyes Wide Open is the mind-bending thrill ride from New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker which can be experienced THREE different ways. You choose:1. As an episodic story. Read Eyes Wide Open as four shorter sequential "episodes" much like yo...



  • Eyes Wide Open is the mind-bending thrill ride from New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker which can be experienced THREE different ways. You choose:1. As an episodic story. Read Eyes Wide Open as four shorter sequential "episodes" much like yo...



  • Eyes Wide Open is the mind-bending thrill ride from New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker which can be experienced THREE different ways. You choose:1. As an episodic story. Read Eyes Wide Open as four shorter sequential "episodes" much like yo...



  • Eyes Wide Open is the mind-bending thrill ride from New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker which can be experienced THREE different ways. You choose:1. As an episodic story. Read Eyes Wide Open as four shorter sequential "episodes" much like yo...



  • OUTLAW is the transformational epic of Julie Carter, set far from the comfortable home in Atlanta where she was raised. Taken into slavery among a stone-age civilization bound by ancient laws, her value rests solely in her ability to produce a son fo...



  • "My name is Alice Ringwald, but the man who kidnapped me says that's a lie."

    Thirteen-year-old orphan Alice Ringwald has no memory beyond six months ago. The only life she knows is the new one she's creating on...






  • My name is Nyah and I'm a hacker. I know things most people would never believe. Things that shouldn't exist, but do. 
    Seventeen year old Nyah Parks is a genius hacker whose world is unraveling. Deeply scarred from a horrific accident t...



  • A sweeping epic set in the harsh deserts of Arabia and ancient Palestine. A war that rages between kingdoms on the earth and in the heart. The harrowing journey of the woman at the center of it all. Step back in time to the year of our Lord...A.D....



  • New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker offers an exclusive, ebook original novella in this abridgment of A.D. 30, the epic historical novel about a woman who rises to lead her people after meeting Jesus. Maviah, the outcast daughter of a powerf...



  • New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker delivers the gripping story of Maviah, a women whose life is radically transformed when she meets Jesus. They call her the Queen of the Outcasts. Maviah, a woman whose fate was sealed on her birth by th...



  • Some say the great mystery of how one can live in two worlds at once died with Thomas Hunter many years ago. Still others that the gateway to that greater reality was and is only the stuff of dreams. They are wrong. In the small town of Eden, Utah...



  • Some say the great mystery of how one can live in two worlds at once died with Thomas Hunter many years ago. Still others that the gateway to that greater reality was and is only the stuff of dreams. They are all wrong. Rachelle Matthews, who gre...


Award-Winning Books by Ted Dekker

A.D. 30
2015 INSPYs the Bloggers Award for Excellence in Faith-Driven Literature -- Mystery/Thriller
Green
2010 INSPYs the Bloggers Award for Excellence in Faith-Driven Literature -- Speculative Fiction
Outlaw
2014 Christy Award -- Suspense
The Sanctuary
2012 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Inspirational Suspense
Thr3e
2004 Christy Award -- Suspense


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ted Dekker has published 45 books.

Ted Dekker does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Rise of the Mystics, was published in October 2018.

The first book by Ted Dekker, Heaven's Wager, was published in October 2000.

Yes. Ted Dekker has 8 series.