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ⓘ About Cory Doctorow
Doctorow is of British ancestry; he traces his antecedents to Jewish communities domiciled in Eastern Europe through his grandparents who, in the run-up to relocating to Canada, originated from Eastern Europe. His birthname is Cory Efram Doctorow and he was born in July 1971 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Doctorow, who co-founded an ill-fated software company, juggles various occupations in addition to his work as an author. He is also a cyber rights activist, blogger, public speaker, and journalist. For his early education, Cory Doctorow attended SEED School. For his undergraduate studies, Cory Doctorow drifted from one university to another and, eventually, ended up attending four different universities. However, he did not graduate from any of those universities.
All Book Series by Cory Doctorow
The Rapture of the Nerds
Book 6 of 9 · published 2012 Co-authored · Charles Stross
Cory Doctorow's Futuristic Tales Of The Here And Now
Series opener · book 1 of 2 · published 2008 Co-authored · Dara Naraghi
In Real Life
Latest in the series · book 2 of 2 · published 2014 Co-authored · Jen Wang
Jury Service
Series opener · book 1 of 14 · published 2002 Co-authored · Charles Stross
The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away
Book 5 of 14 · published 2008
Unauthorized Bread / Wie man einen Toaster überlistet: Novelle
Book 12 of 14 · published 2019
The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow
Book 4 of 5 · published 2011 Co-authored · Eleanor Arnason
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Science Fiction
Series opener · book 1 of 11 · published 2000
Chokepoint Capitalism
Book 8 of 11 · published 2022 Co-authored · Rebecca Giblin
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Book 10 of 11 · published 2025
The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI
Latest in the series · book 11 of 11 · published 2026
The Presidential Papers
Series opener · book 1 of 32 · published 1984 Anthology · John H. Kessel
The Left Left Behind
Book 3 of 32 · published 2009 Anthology · Terry Bisson,Eleanor Arnason
The Underbelly
Book 5 of 32 · published 2010 Anthology · Gary Phillips,Eleanor Arnason
Mammoths of the Great Plains
Book 6 of 32 · published 2010 Anthology · Eleanor Arnason
The Wild Girls
Book 7 of 32 · published 2011 Anthology · Ursula K. Le Guin,Eleanor Arnason
Modem Times 2.0
Book 8 of 32 · published 2011 Anthology · Michael Moorcock,Eleanor Arnason
The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow
Book 9 of 32 · published 2011 Co-authored · Eleanor Arnason
Report from Planet Midnight
Book 11 of 32 · published 2012 Anthology · Nalo Hopkinson,Eleanor Arnason
The Science of Herself
Book 12 of 32 · published 2013 Anthology · Karen Joy Fowler,Eleanor Arnason
Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials
Book 13 of 32 · published 2013 Anthology · Eleanor Arnason,Paul Krassner
Raising Hell
Book 15 of 32 · published 2014 Anthology · Norman Spinrad,Eleanor Arnason
Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be
Book 18 of 32 · published 2016 Anthology · Joe R. Lansdale
Fire.
Book 19 of 32 · published 2017 Anthology · Elizabeth Hand,Eleanor Arnason
The Atheist in the Attic
Book 21 of 32 · published 2018 Anthology · Samuel R. Delany,Eleanor Arnason
Thoreau's Microscope
Book 22 of 32 · published 2018 Anthology · Michael Blumlein,Eleanor Arnason
Utopias of the Third Kind
Book 28 of 32 · published 2021 Anthology · Vandana Singh
The Collapsing Frontier
Book 30 of 32 · published 2024 Anthology · Jonathan Lethem
She is Here
Latest in the series · book 32 of 32 · published 2026 Anthology · Nicola Griffith
Stargazing
Latest in the series · book 4 of 4 · published 2019 Anthology · Jen Wang
Seven Seasons of Buffy
Series opener · book 1 of 41 · published 2003 Anthology · Scott Westerfeld,Charlaine Harris,Chelsea Quinn Yarbro,Kevin Andrew Murphy,Christie Golden,Sherrilyn Kenyon,Nancy Holder,Lawrence Watt-Evans,David Brin,Jacqueline Lichtenberg,Jean Lorrah,Laura Resnick,Sarah Zettel,Nancy Kilpatrick,Michelle West,Glenn Yeffeth,Margaret L. Carter,Peg Aloi,Marguerite Krause,Jennifer Crusie,Carla Montgomery
Five Seasons of Angel
Book 3 of 41 · published 2004 Anthology · Chelsea Quinn Yarbro,Peter S. Beagle,Laura Anne Gilman,Sherrilyn Kenyon,Nancy Holder,Jacqueline Lichtenberg,Jean Lorrah,Josepha Sherman,Laura Resnick,Candace Havens,Glenn Yeffeth,Michelle Sagara,Steven Harper,Amy Berner,Marguerite Krause,Abbie Bernstein,Jennifer Crusie,Don DeBrandt,K. Stoddard Hayes,Joy Davidson,Don Kerns
Stepping through the Stargate
Book 4 of 41 · published 2004 Anthology · P.N. Elrod,Roxanne Conrad
What Would Sipowicz Do? Race, Rights and Redemption in NYPD Blue
Book 5 of 41 · published 2004 Anthology · Glenn Yeffeth,Shanna Caughey
The War of the Worlds
Book 8 of 41 · published 2005 Anthology · Connie Willis,Mercedes Lackey,H.G. Wells,Mike Resnick,Stephen Baxter,Lawrence Watt-Evans
Navigating the Golden Compass
Book 9 of 41 · published 2005 Anthology · Glenn Yeffeth
Farscape Forever! Sex, Drugs and Killer Muppets
Book 11 of 41 · published 2005 Anthology · Glenn Yeffeth
Flirting With Pride And Prejudice
Book 12 of 41 · published 2005 Anthology · Glenn Yeffeth,Jennifer Crusie
King Kong Is Back! An Unauthorized Look at One Humongous Ape!
Book 14 of 41 · published 2005 Anthology · David Brin
Totally Charmed
Book 15 of 41 · published 2005 Anthology · Maggie Shayne,Rebecca York,Jody Lynn Nye,Evelyn Vaughn,Tanya Huff,Vera Nazarian,Jennifer Crusie
The Unauthorized X-Men
Book 16 of 41 · published 2006 Anthology · Leah Wilson,Len Wein
This Is Chick-Lit
Book 17 of 41 · published 2006 Anthology · Lauren Baratz-Logsted
Welcome to Wisteria Lane
Book 18 of 41 · published 2006 Anthology · Leah Wilson
The Battle for Azeroth
Book 20 of 41 · published 2006 Anthology · Jody Lynn Nye,Justina Robson,Doranna Durgin,Bill Fawcett,Mel White,James John Bell,James M. Ward,Scott Cuthbertson,Nancy Berman,Jerry Jackson,Chris McCubbin,Maressa Hecht Orzack,Nancy Durgin
Boarding the Enterprise
Book 22 of 41 · published 2006 Anthology · Robert J. Sawyer,David Gerrold
So Say We All
Book 23 of 41 · published 2006 Anthology · Peter B. Lloyd,Richard Hatch
Investigating CSI
Book 24 of 41 · published 2006 Anthology · Leah Wilson,Donn Cortez
Coffee at Luke's
Book 26 of 41 · published 2007 Anthology · Leah Wilson,Jennifer Crusie
Jack Bauer for President
Book 28 of 41 · published 2007 Anthology · Leah Wilson,Richard Miniter
Halo Effect
Book 29 of 41 · published 2007 Anthology · Glenn Yeffeth,Jennifer Thomason
Serenity Found
Book 33 of 41 · published 2007 Anthology · Orson Scott Card,Jacob Clifton,Michael Marano,Jane Espenson,Natalie Haynes,Nathan Fillion
Batman Unauthorized
Book 35 of 41 · published 2008 Anthology · Leah Wilson,Alan J. Porter
Secrets of the Dragon Riders
Book 36 of 41 · published 2008 Anthology · James A. Owen
James Bond in the 21st Century
Book 38 of 41 · published 2009 Anthology · Leah Wilson,Glenn Yeffeth
You Do Not Talk About Fight Club
Latest in the series · book 41 of 41 · published 2015 Anthology · Chuck Palahniuk,Read Mercer Schuchardt
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection
Book 12 of 36 · published 2007
Tesseracts Eleven: Amazing Canadian Speculative Fiction
Book 14 of 36 · published 2007
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 5
Book 18 of 36 · published 2011
The Year's Best Science Fiction on Earth 3
Latest in the series · book 36 of 36 · published 2025
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Cory Doctorow?
Doctorow is of British ancestry; he traces his antecedents to Jewish communities domiciled in Eastern Europe through his grandparents who, in the run-up to relocating to Canada, originated from Eastern Europe. His birthname is Cory Efram Doctorow and he was born in July 1971 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Doctorow, who co-founded an ill-fated software company, juggles various occupations in addition to his work as an author.
Which Cory Doctorow series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Little Brother series, the earliest of Cory Doctorow's multi-book series: it opens with Little Brother (2008) and runs to 7 books across 2008–2024, ending with Vigilant (2024). Cory Doctorow's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.
How many books has Cory Doctorow written?
Cory Doctorow has 182 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1984 and 2026. 107 of them belong to 7 named series — the largest being the Little Brother series with 7 books — and 75 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Cory Doctorow's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Cory Doctorow's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Little Brother (2008–2024, 7 books), Graphic Standalone Novels (2008–2014, 2 books) and Jen Wang Graphic Novels (2010–2019, 4 books), plus 1 more.
How are Cory Doctorow's books organised into series?
This guide splits Cory Doctorow's 182 books into 7 named series and 75 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Little Brother (7 books, 2008–2024); Jen Wang Graphic Novels (4 books, 2010–2019); Martin Hench (3 books, 2023–2025); Graphic Standalone Novels (2 books, 2008–2014); Smart Pop (41 books, 2003–2015), plus 2 further series.