Lavie Tidhar

Lavie Tidhar is a bestselling science fiction and fantasy author best known for combining all manner of genres. He has combined genres ranging from autobiographies, historical detective, science fiction, poetry and thriller fiction. He has also made live speaking appearances at the Singapore Writers Festival, the Ministry of Defense, English PEN, and Cambridge University.

The best place to start is The Bookman Histories series, the earliest of Lavie Tidhar's multi-book series: it opens with The Bookman (2010) and runs to 3 books across 2010–2012, ending with The Great Game (2012). Lavie Tidhar's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Lavie Tidhar has 180 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2005 and 2027. 51 of them belong to 10 named series — the largest being the Judge Dee series with 6 books — and 129 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. Lavie Tidhar's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are The Apex Book of World SF (2009–2012, 2 books), The Bookman Histories (2010–2012, 3 books) and Gorel of Goliris (2011–2027, 3 books), plus 4 more.

This guide splits Lavie Tidhar's 180 books into 10 named series and 129 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Judge Dee (6 books, 2020–2024); Gorel of Goliris (3 books, 2011–2027); The Bookman Histories (3 books, 2010–2012); Anti-Matter of Britain Quartet (2 books, 2020–2021); Central Station (2 books, 2016–2022), plus 5 further series.