James Dashner

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  • Bibliography:
    25 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 2003
  • Latest Book:
    April 2025
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Full Series List in Order

The 13th Reality

1 - The Journal of Curious Letters (Mar-2008)
2 - The Hunt for Dark Infinity (Apr-2009)
3 - The Blade of Shattered Hope (Apr-2010)
4 - The Void of Mist and Thunder (Feb-2013)

Jimmy Fincher

1 - A Door in the Woods (Jul-2003)
2 - A Gift of Ice (Mar-2004)
3 - The Tower of Air (May-2006)
4 - War of the Black Curtain (Aug-2005)

The Maze Cutter

1 - The Maze Cutter (Nov-2022)
2 - The Godhead Complex (Nov-2023)

Maze Runner

1 - The Maze Runner (Oct-2009)
2 - The Scorch Trials (Oct-2010)
3 - The Death Cure (Oct-2011)
3.5 - Crank Palace (Nov-2020)
The Kill Order (Aug-2012)
The Maze Runner Files (Aug-2013)
The Fever Code (Oct-2016)

Maze Runner Prequels

1 - The Kill Order (Aug-2012)
2 - The Fever Code (Oct-2016)

The Mortality Doctrine

1 - The Eye of Minds (Oct-2013)
1.5 - Gunner Skale (Mar-2014)
2 - The Rule of Thoughts (Sep-2014)
3 - The Game of Lives (Nov-2015)

Multi-Author Series List

Infinity Ring

1 - A Mutiny in Time (Sep-2012)
7 - The Iron Empire (Feb-2014)

Book List in Order: 25 titles

  • A Door in the Woods

    Jimmy Fincher - 1

    Jimmy Fincher never expected that a normal day in the woods would drastically change his life. Deep in the forest, he discovers an old wooden door, setting off a chain of events that explode into a torrent of suspense and excitement. One mysterious d...

  • A Gift of Ice

    Jimmy Fincher - 2

    In an impossible place under a door in the woods, Jimmy Fincher received the first of four gifts---given by a mysterious and desperate people trying to save the world from a ruthless enemy. Now, Jimmy flees to Japan in search of the second gift. Peri...

  • War of the Black Curtain

    Jimmy Fincher - 4

    Morose claims to have been rescued by a mermaid. Morose bestows a precious gift to Lavender and then she uncharacteristically runs off with him. John has to travel the world to discover the reason his true love has left him for Morose with the help o...

  • The Tower of Air

    Jimmy Fincher - 3

    Jimmy Fincher has been given two powerful gifts, and with them a responsibility he wouldn't wish on his worst enemy. Time is running out, and Jimmy finds himself in a desperate search for the third gift. The entire world is on the edge of chaos, and ...

  • The Journal of Curious Letters

    The 13th Reality - 1

    What if every time you made a choice that had a significant consequence, a new, alternate reality was created -- the life that would've been? What if those new Realities were in danger? What if it fell to you to save all the realities? Atticus Hig...

  • The Hunt for Dark Infinity

    The 13th Reality - 2

    After their life-changing adventures through the Realities, it's been a quiet summer for Tick, Paul, and Sofia, but the latest message from Master George changes everything. The Realities are in danger from something more terrible than Mistress Ja...

  • The Maze Runner

    Maze Runner - 1

    EVERYTHING IS GOING TO CHANGE... When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his first name. He has no recollection of his parents, his home, or how he got where he is. His memory is empty. But he's not alone. When the l...

  • The Blade of Shattered Hope

    The 13th Reality - 3

    Things have changed for Atticus Higginbottom. After the near catastrophe in the Fourth Reality, Tick’s being homeschooled in the fields of science, trying to master the mysterious Chi’karda. But just as he begins to make progress, Mistress Jane r...

  • The Scorch Trials

    Maze Runner - 2

    THE MAZE WAS ONLY THE BEGINNING... Solving the Maze was supposed to be the end. No more puzzles. No more variables. And no more running. Thomas was sure that escape meant he and the Gladers would get their lives back. But no one really knew what s...



  • The Death Cure

    Maze Runner - 3

    Thomas knows that Wicked can't be trusted, but they say the time for lies is over, that they've collected all they can from the Trials and now must rely on the Gladers, with full memories restored, to help them with their ultimate mission. It's up to...

  • The Kill Order

    Maze Runner
    Maze Runner Prequels - 1

    The prequel to the New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series. Before WICKED was formed, before the Glade was built, before Thomas entered the Maze, sun flares hit the earth and mankind fell to disease. Mark and Trina were there when it hap...

  • A Mutiny in Time

    Infinity Ring - 1

    HISTORY IS BROKEN When best friends Dak Smyth and Sera Froste stumble upon the key to time travel -- a handheld device known as the Infinity Ring -- they're swept up in a centuries-old war for the fate of humankind. Recruited by a secret socie...

  • The Void of Mist and Thunder

    The 13th Reality - 4

    Suspense meets sacrifice in the action-packed conclusion to New York Times bestselling author James Dashner’s 13th Reality series. Atticus Higginbottom -- aka Tick -- has known all along that when the battle for every reality is on the line, his...

  • The Maze Runner Files

    Maze Runner

    "The Maze Runner Files" is a 50+ page collection of classified records and concealed information from the world of the "New York Times" bestselling Maze Runner series. Lost emails between WICKED employees, memos meant to be destroyed after reading, a...

  • The Eye of Minds

    The Mortality Doctrine - 1

    The Eye of Minds is the first book in The Mortality Doctrine, a series set in a world of hyperadvanced technology, cyberterrorists, and gaming beyond your wildest dreams . . . and your worst nightmares. Michael is a gamer. And like most gamers, h...

  • The Iron Empire

    Infinity Ring - 7

    They've sailed on the Santa Maria, defended famous cities from Vikings and Mongols, and come face-to-face with some of the greatest figures in history. Now, at long last, Dak, Sera, and Riq travel back in time to the moment it all began. Their missio...

  • Gunner Skale

    The Mortality Doctrine - 1.5

    From James Dashner, the New York Times bestselling author of the Maze Runner series, comes an original thirty-page e-short returning fans to the fast-paced, high-tech world from The Eye of Minds, the first book in the Mortality Doctrine series. Find ...

  • The Rule of Thoughts

    The Mortality Doctrine - 2

    Michael completed the Path. What he found at the end turned everything he’d ever known about his life -- and the world -- completely upside down. He barely survived. But it was the only way VirtNet Security knew to find the cyber-terrorist K...

  • The Game of Lives

    The Mortality Doctrine - 3

    From James Dashner, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series, comes The Game of Lives, the final book in the Mortality Doctrine series, an edge-of-your-seat cyber-adventure trilogy that includes The Eye of Minds and The Rule of ...



  • The Fever Code

    Maze Runner
    Maze Runner Prequels - 2

    All your questions are answered in the fifth book in James Dashner’s #1 New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series. The story that fans all over the world have been waiting for -- the story of how Thomas and WICKED built the Maze -- is fina...

  • Crank Palace

    Maze Runner - 3.5

    Newt has been to hell and back with his friends.The Glade. The Maze. The Scorch. The inner halls of WICKED. But now he has a burden that can't be shared with Thomas and the others—the Flare. And Newt can't bear the thought of his friends watchi...

  • The House of Tongues

    The author of the New York Times best-selling Maze Runner series leads us on a dark journey of generational horror as we visit The House of Tongues. David Player has spent 30 years trying to forget the traumas of his childhood. The threats, the ...

  • The Maze Cutter

    The Maze Cutter - 1

    Seventy-three years after the events of THE DEATH CURE, when Thomas and other immunes were sent to an island to survive the Flare-triggered apocalypse, their descendants have thrived. Sadina, Isaac, and Jackie all learned about the unkind history of ...

  • The Godhead Complex

    The Maze Cutter - 2

    FLARE ABOVE, MAZE BELOW.Sadina and the islanders are up against both man and nature as they navigate their way to Alaska. There, they hope to meet the mysterious Godhead, unsure of what separates myth from truth. But the Godhead, now led by Alexandra...

  • The Infinite Glade

    The Infinite Glade is the final book of The Maze Cutter series, resolving long-unanswered questions of The Maze Runner world...When Newt’s journal is decoded, long-buried secrets of the past come to light and the group of descendants along with...

Award-Winning Books by James Dashner

The Death Cure
2013 Buckeye Children's Book Award -- Grades 6-8
The Maze Runner
2010 Isinglass Teen Read Award -- Grades 6-8
2011 Florida Teens Read -- Grades 9-12
2011 Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers -- Young Adult
2011 Truman Readers Award -- Grades 6-8
2012 Evergreen Young Adult Book Award -- Young Adult
2014 Delaware Diamonds Award -- Middle School


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

James Dashner has published 25 books.

The next book by James Dashner, The Infinite Glade, will be published in April 2025.

The first book by James Dashner, A Door in the Woods, was published in July 2003.

Yes. James Dashner has 6 series.
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