Carrie Ryan

Ryan published the “Forest of Hands and Teeth,” her debut novel that spawned her first series of novels in 2009. Once she published that blockbuster novel, she has never looked back and now has more than a dozen novels across different series. With the novels in her debut series becoming so popular, “The Forest of Hands and Teeth” was optioned to be made into a major motion picture.

The best place to start is The Forest of Hands and Teeth series, the earliest of Carrie Ryan's multi-book series: it opens with The Forest of Hands and Teeth (2009) and runs to 9 books across 2009–2014, ending with A Game of Firsts (2014). Carrie Ryan's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Carrie Ryan has 48 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2009 and 2025. 31 of them belong to 5 named series — the largest being The Forest of Hands and Teeth series with 9 books — and 17 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Carrie Ryan's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are The Forest of Hands and Teeth (2009–2014, 9 books), Infinity Ring (2012–2014, 8 books) and The Map to Everywhere (2014–2018, 4 books), plus 2 more.

This guide splits Carrie Ryan's 48 books into 5 named series and 17 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: The Forest of Hands and Teeth (9 books, 2009–2014); Infinity Ring (8 books, 2012–2014); Stillhouse Lake (8 books, 2017–2025); The Map to Everywhere (4 books, 2014–2018); Dead Air (2 books, 2018).