Simon R. Green

As well as the novelization of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Simon R. Green has written the movie Judas Ghost. Set in the Ghost Finder series, Judas Ghost is about a group of ghost hunters sent to a village hall to investigate a seemingly standard haunting.

The best place to start is the Forest Kingdom series, the earliest of Simon R. Green's multi-book series: it opens with Blue Moon Rising (1989) and runs to 4 books across 1989–2014, ending with Once in a Blue Moon (2014). Simon R. Green's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Simon R. Green has 149 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1989 and 2026. 120 of them belong to 15 named series — the largest being the Nightside series with 12 books — and 29 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. Simon R. Green's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Forest Kingdom (1989–2014, 4 books), Hawk & Fisher (1990–2000, 8 books) and Twilight of the Empire (1992–1993, 3 books), plus 9 more.

This guide splits Simon R. Green's 149 books into 15 named series and 29 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Nightside (12 books, 2003–2012); Secret Histories (12 books, 2007–2018); Ishmael Jones (11 books, 2015–2022); Deathstalker (8 books, 1994–2005); Hawk & Fisher (8 books, 1990–2000), plus 10 further series.