Stephen Bly

Stephen Bly was a well known American novelist and author of historical fiction, western, and Christian fiction stories. He had written over 100 novels and numerous poems, short stories, and articles. Bly was the winner of the Christy Award in 2002, which he won for his novel, The Long Trail Home.

The best place to start is the Starring You / Making Choices series, the earliest of Stephen Bly's multi-book series: it opens with The Cereal Box Adventures (1981) and runs to 10 books across 1981–1995, ending with Time Warp Tunnel (1995). Stephen Bly's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Stephen Bly has 105 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1981 and 2013. 81 of them belong to 18 named series — the largest being the Starring You / Making Choices series with 10 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. Stephen Bly's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Starring You / Making Choices (1981–1995, 10 books), Crystal Blake Adventures (1986, 6 books) and The Legend of Stuart Brannon (1991–2012, 8 books), plus 15 more.

This guide splits Stephen Bly's 105 books into 18 named series and 24 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Starring You / Making Choices (10 books, 1981–1995); The Legend of Stuart Brannon (8 books, 1991–2012); Crystal Blake Adventures (6 books, 1986); The Adventures of Nathan T. Riggins (6 books, 1992–1994); Code of the West (6 books, 1994–1997), plus 13 further series.