🎯 Where Should I Start?
All Book Series by Cidney Swanson
Saving Mars / The Star We Call Home
Series opener · book 1 of 7 · published 2012
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Cidney Swanson?
Cidney Swanson has 39 books catalogued in this guide spanning 2011–2025, across 6 named series.
Which Cidney Swanson series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Ripple series, the earliest of Cidney Swanson's multi-book series: it opens with Rippler (2011) and runs to 7 books across 2011–2015, ending with Perilous (2015). Cidney Swanson's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.
How many books has Cidney Swanson written?
Cidney Swanson has 39 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2011 and 2025. 31 of them belong to 6 named series — the largest being the A Thief in Time series with 8 books — and 8 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Cidney Swanson's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Cidney Swanson's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Ripple (2011–2015, 7 books), Saving Mars (2012–2023, 7 books) and A Thief in Time (2016–2022, 8 books), plus 3 more.
How are Cidney Swanson's books organised into series?
This guide splits Cidney Swanson's 39 books into 6 named series and 8 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: A Thief in Time (8 books, 2016–2022); Ripple (7 books, 2011–2015); Saving Mars (7 books, 2012–2023); Five Kingdoms (3 books, 2024–2025); Payback Society (3 books, 2019), plus 1 further series.