Hugh Howey

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  • Bibliography:
    40 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 2009
  • Latest Book:
    October 2024
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Full Series List in Order

The Bern Saga

1 - Molly Fyde and the Parsona Rescue (Sep-2009)
2 - Molly Fyde and the Land of Light (Dec-2009)
3 - Molly Fyde and the Blood of Billions (Jun-2010)
4 - Molly Fyde and the Fight for Peace (Nov-2010)
5 - Molly Fyde and the Darkness Deep (Jan-2014)

Sand

1 - The Belt of the Buried Gods (Dec-2013)
2 - Out of No Man's Land (Dec-2013)
3 - Return to Danvar (Jan-2014)
4 - Thunder Due East (Jan-2014)
5 - A Rap Upon Heaven's Gate (Jan-2014)
Sand (Jan-2014)

Shift

1 - First Shift - Legacy (Apr-2012)
2 - Second Shift - Order (Nov-2012)
3 - Third Shift - Pact (Jan-2013)

Silo

2 - Shift (Feb-2013)
3 - Dust (Aug-2013)

Wool

1 - Wool (Jul-2011)
2 - Proper Gauge (Dec-2011)
3 - Casting Off (Dec-2011)
4 - The Unraveling (Jan-2012)
5 - The Stranded (Apr-2012)
6 - First Shift - Legacy (Apr-2012)
7 - Second Shift - Order (Nov-2012)
8 - Third Shift - Pact (Jan-2013)

Book List in Order: 40 titles

  • Molly Fyde and the Parsona Rescue

    The Bern Saga - 1

    Molly gets kicked out of the Naval Academy and loses the only two things that truly matter: flying in space and her training partner, Cole. A dull future awaits, until her father's old starship-missing for a decade-turns up halfway across the galaxy....

  • Molly Fyde and the Land of Light

    The Bern Saga - 2

    "I need you to help me rescue your father_" With those words, Molly Fyde-and the rest of the known universe-will never be the same. What began as a simple task to retrieve her father's spaceship, has turned into more than Molly bargained for. Setting...

  • Half Way Home

    "Brilliant pacing. Vivid characters. Realistic science. Hugh Howey's Half Way Home tackles the tribal instincts currently tearing the world apart, giving fresh insights into the psychology of group-think. It's Lord of the Flies among the stars!" -- ...

  • Molly Fyde and the Blood of Billions

    The Bern Saga - 3

    It's been ten years since Molly last set foot on her birth planet, and this isn't how she'd imagined her homecoming. The sky is full of an invading fleet, one powerful enough to threaten the entire galaxy. The new family she has come to rely on -- he...

  • Molly Fyde and the Fight for Peace

    The Bern Saga - 4

    In just a few short weeks, a group of young orphans have come together to form a family. They have united in the most unlikely of alliances, finding strength in the tight bonds of friendship. In their individual cultures, these orphans were seen as c...

  • The Plagiarist

    Adam Griffey is living two lives. By day, he teaches literature. At night, he steals it. Adam is a plagiarist, an expert reader with an eye for great works. He prowls simulated worlds perusing virtual texts, looking for the next big thing. And when h...

  • The Hurricane

    Daniel Stillman's Life: 42 Facebook friends 18 Cell phone contacts 6 Twitter followers 4 blog subscribers Now a category five storm is about to take this all away. And replace it with a neighbor he's never met....

  • Wool

    Wool - 1

    n a ruined and toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Sheriff Holston, who has unwaveringly upheld ...

  • Casting Off

    Wool - 3

    The silo has appointed a new sheriff. Her name is Juliette, and she comes not from the shadows of deputies, but from the depths of the down deep. But what does being a mechanic have to do with upholding the law? And how will she be able to concentrat...



  • Proper Gauge

    Wool - 2

  • The Unraveling

    Wool - 4

    There is a legend in their past of an uprising, a war they have learned about, but have learned nothing from.Nobody knows what went wrong. Nobody talks about what happened. Such are the silo taboos.Now, nearly two hundred years later, the people of t...

  • First Shift - Legacy

    Shift - 1
    Wool - 6

    In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platform that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. In the same year, the CB...

  • The Stranded

    Wool - 5

    Two people find themselves stranded in worlds apart. One world is crumbling, the other already in ruin. Will their fight to be reunited spell doom for them both and all around them? Or will it bring salvation? Welcome to the exciting conclusion to th...

  • I, Zombie

    ***WARNING: NOT FIT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION***This book contains foul language and fouler descriptions of life as a zombie. It will offend most anyone, so proceed with caution or not at all.And be forewarned: This is not a zombie book. This is a differ...

  • Second Shift - Order

    Shift - 2
    Wool - 7

    This is the second part of the SHIFT trilogy. Please be aware that the three books will be combined and released as a single work in the Spring of 2013. You can save some money if you wait until then.SHIFT follows the New York Times bestselling WOOL ...

  • Third Shift - Pact

    Shift - 3
    Wool - 8

    The third and final chapter of the Shift saga. This is part 8 of the Silo Series, which began with Wool. All three Shift books will be collected in an Omnibus edition to save the reader a buck or two.Reading Order:1. WOOL (5 parts)2. SHIFT (3 parts)3...

  • Shift

    Silo - 2

    The much anticipated prequel to bestseller Wool that takes us back to the beginnings of the silo . The full novel which brings together First, Second and Third Shift. 'The next Hunger Games' The Sunday Times 'An epic feat of imagination. You...

  • Dust

    Silo - 3

    In a time when secrets and lies were the foundations of life, someone has discovered the truth. And they are going to tell. Jules knows what her predecessors created. She knows they are the reason life has to be lived in this way. And she won&#...

  • The Belt of the Buried Gods

    Sand - 1

    The wind blows from east to west. It brings with it the sand, deposited in dunes, to bury and torment the unfortunate souls who live here. Life on the sand is miserable. Life below it is even worse. From the New York Times bestselling author of Wool....



  • Out of No Man's Land

    Sand - 2

  • Molly Fyde and the Darkness Deep

    The Bern Saga - 5

  • The Walk Up Nameless Ridge

    Jonathan Davis is the perfect narrator for the main character of this audiobook, a man dead set on fame and glory. Davis narrates the protagonist's dark thoughts with harsh cadences that jut out of a usually cold and deadpan voice. The Walk up Namele...

  • A Rap Upon Heaven's Gate

    Sand - 5

  • Return to Danvar

    Sand - 3

    An eldest daughter is a father's curse. Vic knows this. She knows she was never supposed to be the one. But her father taught her to breathe beneath the sand, taught her how to dive deep and find the treasures of the buried past. He taught her brothe...

  • Sand

    Sand

    The old world is buried. A new one has been forged atop the shifting dunes. Here in this land of howling wind and infernal sand, four siblings find themselves scattered and lost. Their father was a sand diver, one of the elite few who could travel de...

  • Thunder Due East

    Sand - 4

    A family long scattered reunites as danger approaches Springston. Brother and sister rush to sound a warning, but that warning will come too late. Bombs will thunder like the pulse of a terrible god. The great dune will flow as the sea. And when a pe...

  • Peace in Amber

    Hugh Howey was a boat captain living aboard a seventy-four-foot yacht in the shadow of the Twin Towers on the morning of September 11, 2001. Imprisoned and put on display in a glass-domed zoo on the planet Tralfamadore, adult film actress Montana Wil...

  • Wool: The Graphic Novel

    WOOL as you’ve never read it before: The New York Times bestselling novel now told in graphic novel format, featuring full-color illustrations by Hugo Award-nominated artist Jimmy Broxton, and as adapted by fan-favorite writers Jimmy Palmiotti and ...

  • Misty

    Misty the Cloud lives with her family high above the valley. When her friends play a game where they turn into different shapes, Misty discovers she doesn't have this ability.

    Oh, but she has something else...

    ...



  • The Shell Collector

    The oceans are dying. The sea is growing warmer and is gradually rising. Seashells have become so rare that collecting them is now a national obsession. Flawless specimens sell like priceless works of art. Families hunt the tideline in the dark of ni...

  • Beacon 23

    For centuries, men and women have manned lighthouses to ensure the safe passage of ships. It is a lonely job, and a thankless one for the most part. Until something goes wrong. Until a ship is in distress. In the 23rd century, this job has moved into...

  • Glitch

    When a robot defies his programming, is he broken? Or is he something else? ...

  • Machine Learning

    A collection of shockingly prescient stories covering topics from aliens to AI, including some that have never before been seen, from the New York Times best-selling author of the Silo trilogyHugh Howey is known for crafting riveting and immersive pa...

  • Burn the Ashes

    We burn them to ashes and then burn the ashes. In Ray Bradbury's FAHRENHEIT 451, that's the motto of the Firemen who hunted down and burned books wherever they found them. Bradbury warned of a world where our literary history is taken from us. In BUR...

  • Ignorance is Strength

    War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. George Orwell once wrote of a world where abuse of power begins with an abuse of language and a bastardization of truth. Some of today's most exciting voices in speculative fiction explore the ...

  • Or Else the Light

    Into the darkness within; or else the light... When Margaret Atwood wrote these words, she left open the possibility that even our darkest tales may harbor a glimmer of hope. In OR ELSE THE LIGHT, the third and final entry of THE DYSTOPIA TRIPTYCH, o...

  • Across The Sand

    The first original novel from author Hugh Howey in six years, Across the Sand takes us back to the world of Sand, to a far future many generations after a disaster has destroyed civilization as we know it, where four siblings struggle to build their ...

  • Wanda Jane Rainer Monster Tamer

    Some kids in the neighborhood sell lemonade in the summer.Some mow lawns or deliver papers.Wanda Jane Rainer ... tames monsters.From authors Hugh Howey and Matt Mikalatos, and illustrated by Maine Diaz, comes a fantastical story about turning chaos i...

  • The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024

    A collection of the year’s best science fiction and fantasy short fiction selected by New York Times bestselling author of the Silo series Hugh Howey and series editor John Joseph Adams.Hugh Howey, bestselling author of Wool ...



  • Wool Deluxe Edition

    Now a series on Apple TV+A special, beautifully designed edition of the first book in the New York Times bestselling Silo trilogy! This deluxe hardcover features fully illustrated endpapers, sprayed edges, and a poster on the inside of...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Hugh Howey has published 40 books.

The next book by Hugh Howey, Wool Deluxe Edition, will be published in October 2024.

The first book by Hugh Howey, Molly Fyde and the Parsona Rescue, was published in September 2009.

Yes. Hugh Howey has 5 series.
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