Doug Dandridge

Doug Dandridge is an American writer of historical fiction, fantasy, and science fiction that hails from Venice, Florida. Born in September 1957 Dandridge was born to a mother with French Canadian ancestry and a Native Florida man. Venice at the time was a great place to live in, as it was a retirement community fronted with thousands of acres of wild lands and miles of sandy beaches.

The best place to start is The Deep Dark Well series, the earliest of Doug Dandridge's multi-book series: it opens with The Deep Dark Well (2011) and runs to 3 books across 2011–2014, ending with Deeper and Darker (2014). Doug Dandridge's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Doug Dandridge has 81 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2011 and 2025. 64 of them belong to 12 named series — the largest being the Exodus: Empires at War series with 16 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. Doug Dandridge's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are The Deep Dark Well (2011–2014, 3 books), Exodus: Empires at War (2012–2020, 16 books) and Refuge (2012–2018, 6 books), plus 7 more.

This guide splits Doug Dandridge's 81 books into 12 named series and 17 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Exodus: Empires at War (16 books, 2012–2020); Refuge (6 books, 2012–2018); Exodus: Machine War (5 books, 2015–2019); Exodus: Tales of The Empire (3 books, 2014–2018); The Deep Dark Well (3 books, 2011–2014), plus 7 further series.