Martha Wells

Martha Wells is the bestselling American author of Fantasy, Science Fiction and Science Fiction Fantasy novels and has a great series in the Murderbot Diaries. She was born in Texas in the United States. Wells became a published novelist in 1993 after her first novel The Element of Fire the debut novel in Ile-Rien series was published.

The best place to start is the Fall Of Ile-Rien series, the earliest of Martha Wells's multi-book series: it opens with The Wizard Hunters (2003) and runs to 3 books across 2003–2005, ending with The Gate of Gods (2005). Martha Wells's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Martha Wells has 90 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1993 and 2026. 66 of them belong to 11 named series — the largest being the Stargate Atlantis series with 25 books — and 24 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. Martha Wells's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Ile-Rien (1993–1998, 2 books), Fall Of Ile-Rien (2003–2005, 3 books) and Stargate Atlantis (2005–2020, 25 books), plus 7 more.

This guide splits Martha Wells's 90 books into 11 named series and 24 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Stargate Atlantis (25 books, 2005–2020); Murderbot Diaries (12 books, 2017–2026); The Murderbot Diaries [Dramatized Adaptation] (7 books, 2023–2024); Books Of The Raksura (6 books, 2011–2017); Fall Of Ile-Rien (3 books, 2003–2005), plus 6 further series.