Series by Orson Scott Card
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Buy on Amazon1985 · Orson Scott Card
Ender's Game is a 1985 military science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card. The story is set in Earth's future, after two wars against an insectoid…
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Ender's Shadow (1999) is a science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card that takes place at the same time as Ender's Game. It tells the story from the…
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Ender in Exile is a 2008 novel by Orson Scott Card that serves as a direct sequel to Ender's Game. It follows Ender Wiggin, who, after years of…
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Bean and other members of Ender's Dragon Army return to Earth after winning the Formic War. Shortly after their return, all members of the army…
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A 2002 novel by Orson Scott Card. As the nations of the earth attempt to control the children trained at Battle School, Peter Wiggin continues to…
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A 2005 novel by Orson Scott Card in which Bean, nearing death, and his wife Petra search for their stolen children with the help of their former…
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Three thousand years later, Ender travels the stars as a Speaker for the Dead, telling unvarnished truths about the deceased. When a newly discovered…
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A 1991 novel by Orson Scott Card. On Lusitania, Ender finds a world where humans, pequeninos, and the Hive Queen could all live together, but the…
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A 1996 novel by Orson Scott Card set on Lusitania, home to the Pequeninos, a human colony, and the Hive Queen brought there by Ender. The Starways…
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2012 · Orson Scott Card
Shadows in Flight is a science fiction novella by Orson Scott Card, published in 2012. It is the twelfth book in the Ender's Game series and…
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1999 · Orson Scott Card
Ender's Shadow (1999) is a science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card that takes place at the same time as Ender's Game. It tells the story from the…
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2001 · Orson Scott Card
Bean and other members of Ender's Dragon Army return to Earth after winning the Formic War. Shortly after their return, all members of the army…
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2002 · Orson Scott Card
A 2002 novel by Orson Scott Card. As the nations of the earth attempt to control the children trained at Battle School, Peter Wiggin continues to…
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2005 · Orson Scott Card
A 2005 novel by Orson Scott Card in which Bean, nearing death, and his wife Petra search for their stolen children with the help of their former…
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2012 · Orson Scott Card
Shadows in Flight is a science fiction novella by Orson Scott Card, published in 2012. It is the twelfth book in the Ender's Game series and…
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Buy on Amazon1987 · Orson Scott Card
Seventh Son is a 1987 novel by Orson Scott Card set in an alternate version of frontier America. Young Alvin is the seventh son of a seventh son, a…
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Red Prophet is a 1988 novel by Orson Scott Card. It carries an age rating of PG-13, with a recommendation that readers have had "the birds and the…
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Prentice Alvin is an alternate history and fantasy novel written by American author Orson Scott Card. Published in 1989, it is the third book in…
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Alvin Journeyman (1995) is an alternate history/fantasy novel by American writer Orson Scott Card, the fourth book in his Tales of Alvin Maker…
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Heartfire (1998) is an alternate history/fantasy novel by American writer Orson Scott Card, the fifth book in Card's The Tales of Alvin Maker series.…
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A 2003 novel by Orson Scott Card set in an alternate history of North America where folk-magic drawn from the lore of its settlers is real and has…
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The Tales of Alvin Maker is a series of seven alternate history fantasy novels written by Orson Scott Card. Published between 1987 and 2026, the…
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Buy on Amazon1992 · Orson Scott Card
The Memory of Earth, a 1992 novel by Orson Scott Card, is set on the planet Harmony, settled by humans nearly forty million years earlier and guarded…
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Buy on Amazon1993 · Orson Scott Card
A 1993 novel by Orson Scott Card. As Harmony's Oversoul grows weaker, the warrior Moozh has arisen to challenge its bans, winning control of an army…
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Buy on Amazon1994 · Orson Scott Card
The Oversoul's chosen people flee Basilica after the city is destroyed in their wake by General Moozh, traveling across desert wastes to a hidden…
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1992 · Orson Scott Card
The Memory of Earth, a 1992 novel by Orson Scott Card, is set on the planet Harmony, settled by humans nearly forty million years earlier and guarded…
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1993 · Orson Scott Card
A 1993 novel by Orson Scott Card. As Harmony's Oversoul grows weaker, the warrior Moozh has arisen to challenge its bans, winning control of an army…
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1994 · Orson Scott Card
The Oversoul's chosen people flee Basilica after the city is destroyed in their wake by General Moozh, traveling across desert wastes to a hidden…
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1995 · Orson Scott Card
Earthfall (1995) is a science fiction novel by American writer Orson Scott Card. It is the fourth book in the Homecoming Saga, a series that…
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Earthborn is a 1995 novel by Orson Scott Card. Aboard a starship above Earth, Shedemai sleeps as the lone survivor of the Children of Wetchik,…
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Buy on Amazon2013 · Orson Scott Card
The book traces the events of the First Formic War, which took place a century before the events of Ender's Game. It follows Victor Delgado as he…
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Earth Awakens is the story of humanity's first encounter with an alien species known as the Formics. Set nearly 100 years before the events of…
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Pathfinder is a 2010 novel by Orson Scott Card. Rigg, who can see the paths of any living being, loses his father and learns he has a sister he never…
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A 2012 book by Orson Scott Card in which teenaged Rigg Sessamekesh, who can manipulate time, must assume more responsibility to prevent the…
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In this 2014 novel, time-shapers Rigg, Umbo, and Param must stop the Visitors from ordering the destruction of the planet Garden, an…
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Buy on Amazon2011 · Orson Scott Card
The Lost Gate is a 2011 fantasy novel by Orson Scott Card, the first novel in the Mither Mages trilogy. It is followed by a second novel, The Gate…
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In this sequel to The Lost Gate, Danny North, still in high school, holds within him the stolen outselves of thirteen centuries of gatemages, making…
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Buy on Amazon1979 · Orson Scott Card
*Hot Sleep: The Worthing Chronicle* is a science fiction novel written by American author Orson Scott Card in 1979. It is part of Card's Worthing…
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This book, currently out of print and replaced by The Worthing Saga, follows Jason Worthing, a telepath and the best of the ark captains sent to seed…
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Buy on Amazon2006 · Orson Scott Card
The American Empire has grown too fast, and the fault lines at home are stressed to the breaking point, as the war of words between Right and Left…
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Orson Scott Card returns to the near-future world of Empire, where the United States has fractured after a violent civil war. The conflict, sparked…
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Frequently asked questions
How many books has Orson Scott Card written?
We list 78 books by Orson Scott Card across 14 series, published between 1972–2021 — each shown in full reading order.
What order should I read Orson Scott Card's books?
Read each series in publication order. A good place to start is “Ender's Game.” Open any series above for its complete numbered reading order.
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