Jeff VanderMeer

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  • Bibliography:
    40 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1996
  • Latest Book:
    October 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Southern Reach Trilogy

1 - Annihilation (Feb-2014)
2 - Authority (May-2014)
3 - Acceptance (Sep-2014)

Multi-Author Series List

Predator

Predator (Sep-2008)

Book List in Order: 40 titles

  • Dradin, in Love

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  • City of Saints and Madmen: The Book of Ambergris

  • Album Zutique

    The first of a planned series of pocket books (5 x 6.7 and under 200 pages) mainly focused on surreal and decadent literature. Jeff VanderMeer will serve as series editor and the editor of the first number. Thereafter, VanderMeer will enlist guest ed...

  • Veniss Underground

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer’s first novel, Veniss Underground, takes readers on a journey to a labyrinthine city of tunnels, and the dangers lurking behind each turn. This paperback edition features ...

  • The Day Dali Died

    "In this new collection from World Fantasy Award-winner Jeff VanderMeer, car accidents, Angkor Wat, dead whales, flower vendors, dogcatchers, classic television shows, frogs, and the moon are transformed by the author's imagination into something uni...

  • The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases

    From Delusions of Universal Grandeur to Twentieth Century Chronoshock, this amusing pocket guide to concocted diseases - designed and illustrated by John Coulthart - features an anthology of slightly morbid, darkly humorous ailments and prognosis srv...

  • City of Saints and Madmen

    City of elegance and squalor. Of religious fervor and wanton lusts. And everywhere, on the walls of courtyards and churches, an incandescent fungus of mysterious and ominous origin. In Ambergris, a would-be suitor discovers that a sunlit street can b...

  • Secret Life

    This collection of 23 stories reflects a diversity of approaches to key questions about the human condition, including questions about mortality, love, obsession, and creativity. "Balzac's War" is a harrowing, powerful far-future novella that pits br...

  • Why Should I Cut Your Throat?

    This nonfiction collection is an engaging look into the worlds of Science Fiction. Fantasy and Horror. This often hilarious insider's view of the genres is lively and engaging. full of sharp observations....



  • Secret Lives

    • In this new collection by World Fantasy Award winner Jeff VanderMeer, the secret lives of librarians, doctors, lawyers, university students, bank tellers, sex shop clerks and dozens of others are revealed for the first time. Ordered by profe...

  • Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases

    “Imagine if Monty Python wrote the Mayo Clinic Family Health Book, and you sort of get the idea. Afraid you’re afflicted with an unknown malady? Finally you have a place to turn!” â€"Book Sense

    You hold in your hands the most...

  • Shriek: An Afterword

    An epic yet personal look at several decades of life, love, and death in the imaginary city of Ambergris--previously chronicled in Jeff VanderMeer's acclaimed City of Saints & Madmen--Shriek: An Afterword relates the scandalous, heartbreaking, and ho...

  • Strange Tales of Secret Lives

    • In this new collection by World Fantasy Award winner Jeff VanderMeer, the secret lives of librarians, doctors, lawyers, university students, bank tellers, sex shop clerks and dozens of others are revealed for the first time. Ordered by profe...

  • Polluto

    They called her Singer because she was half woman and half Singer sewing machine ...Join Jeff VanderMeer, Rhys Hughes, Steve Redwood and Vince Locke as they take us on a search for magic, meaning and wonder. Inside these pages you may find: the secre...

  • Predator

    Predator

    On a remote South China Sea island, a deadly hunt is underway... but not the kind of expedition the participants expected. In this remote, jungle-covered island somewhere between Thailand and Indonesia some of the most exotic animals in the world hav...

  • The Goat Variations

    in Other Earths

    ROBERT CHARLES WILSON * JEFF VANDERMEER STEPHEN BAXTER * THEODORA GOSS LIZ WILLIAMS * GENE WOLFE GREG VAN EEKHOUT * ALASTAIR REYNOLDS PAUL PARK * LUCIUS SHEPARD BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM Alternate history explores the many possible directions our wo...

  • Finch

    From Jeff VanderMeer, the author of Borne and Annihilation, comes the paperback reissue of his cult classic Finch.In a deserted tenement in an occupied city, two dead bodies lie on a dusty floor as if they have fallen out of the air. One corpse is cu...

  • Mapping the Beast

    Mapping the Beast collects the best fiction from the landmark anthology series Leviathan and its sister publication Album Zutique. From the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s, Leviathan provided confrontational, sometimes controversial surreal short stories,...

  • Errata

    Perhaps "Errata" is a metafictional narrative about a short story assigned to Jeff VanderMeer (or a fictional version of Jeff VanderMeer) by a now-defunct literary journal (or a fictional version of a now-defunct literary journal) explicitly for the ...



  • The Third Bear

    “Cunningly crafted stories full of wonder and intelligence. VanderMeer proves again why he is so essential and why everybody should be reading him.” -- Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize"winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Featuring...

  • Last Drink Bird Head

    Last Drink Bird Head is a variation on a surrealist writing game: we gave the phrase to over 70 writers and asked them "Who or what is Last Drink Bird Head?" The results run the gamut from the hilarious to the terrifying, with each writer bringing th...

  • Balzac's War

    A deadly invasion of a far-future ecologically ravaged earth. A terrible secret discovered in a ruined city. Earth is no longer ruled by humans, but by the species they uplifted. Creatures called fleshdogs are their emissaries, and humanity must figh...

  • The Compass of His Bones

    This e-book contains World Fantasy Award winner Jeff VanderMeer's novella “Ghost Dancing with Manco Tupac” and four related short stories: “The Emperor’s Reply,” “The Compass of His Bones,” “La Siesta Del Muerte,” and “Flight Is F...

  • The Infernal Desire Machines of Angela Carter

    This e-book contains the long essay “The Infernal Desire Machines of Angela Carter,” a definitive overview and analysis of the famous fantasist’s writings and career. It also includes a personal appreciation of Carter as an afterword. The main ...

  • Steampunk Bible

    Steampunk -- a grafting of Victorian aesthetic and punk rock attitude onto various forms of science-fiction culture -- is a phenomenon that has come to influence film, literature, art, music, fashion, and more. The Steampunk Bible is the first comp...

  • The Weird

    From Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman, a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a corpus of dark and strange stories that transcend all known genre boundaries. Together these stories form The Weird, and its practitioners include some o...

  • Annihilation

    Southern Reach Trilogy - 1

    Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; all the members of the second expedition com...

  • Authority

    Southern Reach Trilogy - 2

    After thirty years, the only human engagement with Area X -- a seemingly malevolent landscape surrounded by an invisible border and mysteriously wiped clean of all signs of civilization -- has been a series of expeditions overseen by a government age...

  • Acceptance

    Southern Reach Trilogy - 3

    It is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied explanation for thirty years, rebuffing expedition after expedition, refusing to reveal its secrets. As Area X expands, the agency tasked with investigating and overseeing it--the Sout...



  • Area X

    If J. J. Abrams, Margaret Atwood, and Alan Weisman collaborated on a series, it might be this awesome. This collection includes all three novels in the epic 'Southern Reach' trilogy - ''Annihilation'', ''Authority'', and ''Acceptance''. Praise...

  • The Southern Reach Trilogy

    In time for the holidays, a single-volume hardcover edition that brings together the three volumes of the Southern Reach Trilogy, which were originally published as paperback originals in February, May, and September 2014. "Annihilation" is the fi...

  • The Big Book of Science Fiction

    Quite possibly the greatest science fiction collection of all time -- past, present, and future!   What if life was neverending? What if you could change your body to adapt to an alien ecology? What if the pope were a robot? Spanning galaxies and ...

  • Borne

    "Am I a person?" Borne asks Rachel, in extremis. "Yes, you are a person," Rachel tells him. "But like a person, you can be a weapon, too." In a ruined, nameless city of the future, Rachel makes her living as a scavenger. She finds a creature she...

  • The Strange Bird

    The Strange Bird from New York Times bestselling novelist Jeff VanderMeer is a novella-length digital original that expands and weaves deeply into the world of his novel, Borne. The Strange Bird is a new kind of creature, built in a laboratory she is...

  • This World Is Full of Monsters

    An alien invasion comes to one man’s doorstep in the form of a story-creature, followed by death and rebirth in a transformed Earth.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied....

  • Three Dead Astronauts

    A mind-bending take on the postapocalyptic, THREE DEAD ASTRONAUTS expands the world of Nebula Award-winning author Jeff VanderMeer's critically acclaimed novel BORNE....

  • Dead Astronauts

    Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts presents a City with no name of its own where, in the shadow of the all-powerful Company, lives human and otherwise converge in terrifying and miraculous ways. At stake: the fate of the future, the fate of Earth...

  • A Peculiar Peril

    A Peculiar Peril is a head-spinning epic about three friends on a quest to protect the world from a threat as unknowable as it is terrifying, from the Nebula Award"winning and New York Times bestselling author of Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer. Jon...

  • Hummingbird Salamander

    From the author of Annihilation, a brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspiracy, endangered species, and the possible end of all things.Security consultant “Jane Smith” receives an envelope with a key to a storage unit that holds a taxidermi...



  • Absolution

    ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2024:The New York Times, Washington Post, New York Magazine, TIME, Kirkus, Literary Hub, GoodreadsThe surprise fourth volume in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach series -- and the final word on one of the most pr...

Award-Winning Books by Jeff VanderMeer

Annihilation
2014 Nebula Award -- Novel
The Big Book of Science Fiction
2017 Locus Award -- Anthology
The Weird
2012 World Fantasy Award -- Anthology


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jeff VanderMeer has published 40 books.

Jeff VanderMeer does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Absolution, was published in October 2024.

The first book by Jeff VanderMeer, Dradin, in Love, was published in January 1996.

Yes. Jeff VanderMeer has 1 series.
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