Tracy Hickman

Tracy Hickman was born in the year 1955 in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 1974, he graduated from Provo High School, where major interests were in Air Force JROTC, Drama, and music. The next year, he started two years of service as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The best place to start is the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons series, the earliest of Tracy Hickman's multi-book series: it opens with Thief's Screen/Screens and Reference Material(0)Description / Buy at AmazonAdvanced Dungeons & Dragons Players Handbook (1978) and runs to 15 books across 1978–2000, ending with Rise of the Titans (2000). Tracy Hickman's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Tracy Hickman has 181 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1978 and 2026. 173 of them belong to 38 named series — the largest being the Dungeons & Dragons, 5th Edition series with 27 books — and 8 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. Tracy Hickman's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (1978–2000, 15 books), Intermediate (1981–1987, 4 books) and Dragonlance Modules (1984–1988, 13 books), plus 35 more.

This guide splits Tracy Hickman's 181 books into 38 named series and 8 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Dungeons & Dragons, 5th Edition (27 books, 2014–2021); Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (15 books, 1978–2000); Dragonlance Modules (13 books, 1984–1988); Dragonlance Universe (11 books, 1987–2011); StarCraft (9 books, 2000–2016), plus 33 further series.