Neal Shusterman

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  • Bibliography:
    52 Books (10 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1988
  • Latest Book:
    February 2025
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Full Series List in Order

The Accelerati Trilogy

1 - Tesla's Attic (Feb-2014)
2 - Edison's Alley (Feb-2015)
3 - Hawking's Hallway (Feb-2016)

Arc of a Scythe

1 - Scythe (Nov-2016)
2 - Thunderhead (Feb-2018)
3 - The Toll (Nov-2019)

Dark Fusion

1 - Dread Locks (May-2005)
2 - Red Rider's Hood (Oct-2005)
3 - Duckling Ugly (Mar-2006)

MindQuakes

Mindtwisters: Stories To Shred Your Head (Jun-1997)
Mindbenders: Stories to Warp Your Brain (Mar-2000)
Mindquakes: Stories to Shatter Your Brain (Feb-2002)
Mindstorms: Stories To Blow Your Mind (Mar-2002)

Noah Prime

1 - I Am the Walrus (Apr-2023)

The Schwa

1 - The Schwa Was Here (Oct-2004)
2 - Antsy Does Time (Sep-2008)
3 - Ship Out of Luck (Jun-2013)

The Shadow Club

1 - The Shadow Club (1988)
2 - The Shadow Club Rising (Feb-2002)

Skinjacker Trilogy

1 - Everlost (Sep-2006)
2 - Everwild (Nov-2009)
3 - Everfound (May-2011)

Star Shards Trilogy

1 - Scorpion Shards (Nov-1995)
2 - Thief of Souls (Mar-1999)
3 - Shattered Sky (Jun-2002)

Unwind Dystology

1 - Unwind (Nov-2007)
2 - UnWholly (Sep-2012)
3 - Unsouled (Oct-2013)
4 - Undivided (Oct-2014)
5 - Unbound (Dec-2015)

Book List in Order: 52 titles

  • The Shadow Club

    The Shadow Club - 1

    Jared and Cheryl are tired of being second best. Jared is the second-best runner in the school; another boy beats him every time. Cheryl is the second-best singer and dancer in her family. Her cousin is always number one. They're fed up with living i...

  • Dissidents

    Moving to Moscow from Chicago isn't easy, especially if your mother is the US Ambassador. Derek must be well-mannered and presentable--there are parties to go to and state dinners to attend. but Derek has decided to break all the rules and risk every...

  • What Daddy Did // Chasing Forgiveness

    Preston Scott was only twelve years old when his father killed his mother. He never saw it coming. Despite his parents’ constant fighting, Preston always thought they were perfect together. He never dreamed his father would be capable of murder. Th...

  • Piggyback Ninja

  • Scorpion Shards

    Star Shards Trilogy - 1

    Six teens struggle to discover the source of their strange and horrific abilities in this first book of The Star Shards Chronicles.Dillon has the terrifying power to create massive amounts of destruction with the slightest tweak of his will. Deanna i...

  • The Dark Side of Nowhere

    Jason is having a bad day. The kind of day when you just don't feel like yourself. Only for Jason, it's not just a feeling. He really isn't himself. Not any more. Who is he? That's the problem. Jason isn't sure. And it's not just him. Everyone ...

  • Mindtwisters: Stories To Shred Your Head

    MindQuakes

    Think bungee jumping is a thrill? Meet a kid who skydives down the funnel of a tornado.

    Why not visit the shop in the local mall that sells alternate universes in little bottles. It's a lot of fun. Unless, of course, you open the little black ...

  • How To Host A Murder

  • Thief of Souls

    Star Shards Trilogy - 2

    For five young people born with extraordinary powers, a climactic battle against Evil seemingly brought an end to their nightmare. But as they will discover, the nightmare has only begun. Imprisoned for thousands of years, an ancient, malevolent f...



  • Downsiders

    Talon lives Downside, that is, underneath New York City. There is a strict code of secrecy among the Downsiders. However, when Talon accidentally meets a young woman named Lindsay, who is a Topsider (from above the ground), the two worlds inevitably ...

  • Mindbenders: Stories to Warp Your Brain

    MindQuakes


    Ever have the feeling your head isn't screwed on right? That things just seem a bit...weird? Welcome to MindBenders. Not a place, but a state of mind. Think reality...with a twist. How twisted? Let's just say your brain will turn into a pretzel. ...

  • The Shadow Club Rising

    The Shadow Club - 2

    The Shadow Club doesn't exist anymore. The group of second-best kids used to play anonymous practical jokes on their rivals, until things spiraled out of control. Now Jared and the ex-Shadow Club members are having a hard time shaking their reputatio...

  • Mindquakes: Stories to Shatter Your Brain

    MindQuakes

    From award-winner Neal Shusterman-author of The Dark Side of Nowhere and Scorpion Shards-comes a spectacular collection of stories that are by turns terrifying, comic, darkly inventive, thought-provoking, and always just slightly off-center.
    ...

  • Mindstorms: Stories To Blow Your Mind

    MindQuakes

    A teenager and his mother embark on a whirlwind pleasure cruise, hoping to escape from their problems and searching for a little rest and relaxation. So they book passage on a no-frills excursion to the exotic Far East. Sounds like fun, huh? Too bad ...

  • Shattered Sky

    Star Shards Trilogy - 3

    In this conclusion to The Star Shards Chronicles, powerful and terrifying invaders have arrived from a parallel dimension, and only the Star Shards can prevent the destruction of the human race.Six children were conceived at the exact moment that the...

  • Full Tilt

    Sixteen-year-old Blake and his younger brother, Quinn, are exact opposites. Blake is the responsible member of the family. He constantly has to keep an eye on the fearless Quinn, whose thrill-seeking sometimes goes too far. But the stakes get higher ...

  • Speeding Bullet

    After Nick Herrera saved a little girl from being his by a New York City subway car, things have been different....He has been different. Now it seems as if accidents are falling at his feet and he's destined to play the role of the hero. But more im...

  • The Schwa Was Here

    The Schwa - 1

    THE SCHWA They say his clothes blend into the background, no matter where he stands. They say if you stare at him long enough, you can see what's written on the wall behind him. They say a lot of things about the Schwa, but one thing's for sure: No o...

  • Dread Locks

    Dark Fusion - 1

    Fifteen-year-old Parker Baer is bored with his entire perfect life. But when Parker finds Tara, a strange but beautiful girl sleeping in his bed, his life turns upside down. Exotic-looking, with long, glimmering spirals of golden hair that seem almos...



  • Red Rider's Hood

    Dark Fusion - 2

    Red rides around his tough urban neighborhood in his blood red Mustang. It satisfies his urge to wander, and it usually keeps him safe from the gangs in town, the Wolves and the Crypts. But when Red's grandmother is mugged by some members of the Wolv...

  • Duckling Ugly

    Dark Fusion - 3

    Cara is so ugly, mirrors would rather break than show her reflection. Not even her own parents can deny her ugliness, and nothing can make up for the cruelty of her schoolmates. Tormented and tortured by the shallow people of Flock's Rest, Cara's lif...

  • Everlost

    Skinjacker Trilogy - 1

    Nick and Allie don't survive the car accident... ...but their souls don't exactly get where they're supposed to get either. Instead, they're caught halfway between life and death, in a sort of limbo known as Everlost: a shadow of the living world, fi...

  • Darkness Creeping

    Imagine being trapped forever in someone else’s nightmare, with no means of escape. Or caught on one of the most terrifying roller coasters of all time, when suddenly the tracks ahead just disappear. Enter the world of Darkness Creeping, where holl...

  • Unwind

    Unwind Dystology - 1

    Connor, Risa and Lev are running for their lives. The Second Civil War was fought over reproductive rights. The chilling resolution: Life is inviolable from the moment of conception until age thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, ho...

  • Antsy Does Time

    The Schwa - 2

    It was a dumb idea, but one of those dumb ideas that accidentally turns out to be brilliant -- which, I've come to realize, is much worse than being dumb. My name's Antsy Bonano -- but you probably already know that -- and unless you got, like, memor...

  • Everwild

    Skinjacker Trilogy - 2

    There was the rumor of a beautiful sky witch, who soared across the heavens in a great silver balloon. And there were whispers of a terrible ogre made entirely of chocolate, who lured unsuspecting souls with that rich promising smell, only to cast th...

  • The Eyes of Kid Midas

    Kevin Midas is sick of being picked on, teased, and tormented. So when he finds a pair of magical sunglasses that give him the power to do -- well, anything -- he couldn't be happier. At first, Kevin spends his time pulling ice-cream cones out of...

  • Bruiser

    Tennyson: Don't get me started on the Bruiser. He was voted "Most Likely to Get the Death Penalty" by the entire school. He's the kid no one knows, no one talks to, and everyone hears disturbing rumors about. So why is my sister, Bront, dating him?...

  • Everfound

    Skinjacker Trilogy - 3

    While Mary lies in a glass coffin aboard a ghost train heading west, her minions are awaiting her re-awakening by bringing lots of new souls into Everlost to serve her. Meanwhile Jackin' Jill has met Jix, a fur-jacker -- a skin jacker who can take ov...



  • UnStrung

    How did Lev Calder move from an unwillingly escaped Tithe to a clapper? In this revealing short story, Neal Shusterman opens a window on Lev’s adventures between the time he left CyFi and showed up at the Graveyard. Pulling elements from Neal Sh...

  • UnWholly

    Unwind Dystology - 2

    Thanks to Connor, Lev, and Risa -- and their high-profile revolt at Happy Jack Harvest Camp -- people can no longer turn a blind eye to unwinding. Ridding society of troublesome teens while simultaneously providing much-needed tissues for transplant ...

  • Ship Out of Luck

    The Schwa - 3

    The uproarius companion to "The Schwa was Here" and "Antsy Does Time" In honor of Old Man Crawley’s eightieth birthday, the Bonano family has been invited to celebrate with a weeklong cruise to the Caribbean aboard the world’s largest, grande...

  • The Dirt on Our Shoes

    in Guys Read: Other Worlds

    T-Bin has been traveling through space for years to deposit its passengers on a new planet, to give them a new life. But now, mere days from arrival, Tanner can’t shake the feeling that there’s a more sinister plot at work. ...

  • Resurrection Bay

    Bones. They know the call of the ice. Anika knows the call of the ice, too. Living in an isolated port town in Alaska with her father and younger brother, Anika is practically steps away from the Harding Icefield, and Exit Glacier has always been ...

  • Unsouled

    Unwind Dystology - 3

    Connor and Lev are on the run after the destruction of the Graveyard, the last safe haven for AWOL Unwinds. But for the first time, they’re not just running away from something. This time, they’re running toward answers, in the form of a woman Pr...

  • Tesla's Attic

    The Accelerati Trilogy - 1

    After their home burns down, fourteen-year-old Nick, his younger brother, and their father move into a ramshackle Victorian house they've inherited. When Nick opens the door to his attic room, he's hit in the head by a toaster. That's just the beginn...

  • Undivided

    Unwind Dystology - 4

    Teens control the fate of America in the fourth and final book in the New York Times bestselling Unwind dystology by Neal Shusterman. Proactive Citizenry, the company that created Cam from the parts of unwound teens, has a plan: to mass produce re...

  • Edison's Alley

    The Accelerati Trilogy - 2

    Fourteen-year-old Nick has learned that the strange antiques in his attic bedroom were left there by the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla. They are pieces of Tesla's Far Range Energy Emitter, capable of transmitting "free energy" to the globe. Some co...

  • Challenger Deep

    A captivating novel about mental illness that lingers long beyond the last page, Challenger Deep is a heartfelt tour de force by New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman. Caden Bosch is on a ship that's headed for the deepest point on Ear...



  • Unbound

    Unwind Dystology - 5

    Find out what happens to Connor, Risa, and Lev now that they’ve finally destroyed the Proactive Citizenry in this collection of short stories set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Unwind Dystology by Neal Shusterman. Connor Lassiter...

  • Hawking's Hallway

    The Accelerati Trilogy - 3

    Nick Slate, in order to protect his father and little brother, reluctantly must help the Accelerati complete Tesla's great device. Their power-mad leader wants nothing less than to control the world's energy--but there are still three missing objects...

  • Scythe

    Arc of a Scythe - 1

    Two teens must learn the “art of killing” in this Printz Honor-winning book, the first in a chilling new series from Neal Shusterman, author of the New York Times bestselling Unwind dystology. A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no mis...

  • Thunderhead

    Arc of a Scythe - 2

    Rowan and Citra take opposite stances on the morality of the Scythedom, putting them at odds, in the chilling sequel to the Printz Honor Book SCYTHE from New York Times bestseller Neal Shusterman, author of the Unwind dystology. The Thunderhead ca...

  • The Toll

    Arc of a Scythe - 3

    In the highly anticipated finale to the New York Times bestselling trilogy, dictators, prophets, and tensions rise. In a world that’s conquered death, will humanity finally be torn asunder by the immortal beings it created? Citra and Rowan have ...

  • Game Changer

    All it takes is one hit on the football field, and suddenly Ash’s life doesn’t look quite the way he remembers it. Impossible though it seems, he’s been hit into another dimension -- and keeps on bouncing through worlds that are almost-but-n...

  • Roxy

    From the team that brought you the New York Times bestselling Dry comes a “gritty and unflinching” (Booklist) thriller that proves when gods play games, even love is a lie.The freeway is coming.It will cut the neighborhood in two. Construction ha...

  • Gleanings

    The New York Times bestselling Arc of the Scythe series continues with thrilling stories that span the timeline. Storylines continue. Origin stories are revealed. And new Scythes emerge!There are still countless tales of the Scythedom to tell. Centur...

  • I Am the Walrus

    Noah Prime - 1

    Eoin Colfer meets Rick Riordan -- with a little Margaret Peterson Haddix sprinkled on top -- in this hilarious sci-fi series from New York Times bestselling authors Neal Shusterman and Eric Elfman. ​ When fourteen-year-old Noah falls from the ...

  • Courage to Dream

    Sydney Taylor Honor Award winnerNational Jewish Book Award finalistNeal Shusterman, Margaret A. Edwards Award WinnerNational Book Award winner Neal Shusterman and acclaimed illustrator Andrés Vera Martínez present a graphic novel exploring the Holo...



  • Shock the Monkey

    Noah Prime must set out to save his friends and the universe once again in this jaw-dropping sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel, I Am the Walrus. Noah Prime never expected to wind up a fugitive hunted by aliens.  To be honest, h...

  • Break to You

    Bestselling author of Scythe and Challenger Deep Neal Shusterman, here with coauthors Debra Young and Michelle Knowlden, tells an intense yet tender story of two teens, trapped in impossible circumstances and unjust systems, willing to risk everythin...

  • All Better Now

    From New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman comes a young adult thriller about a world where happiness becomes contagious and the teens caught in the conspiracy by the powers that be to bring back discontent.An unprecedented condition is o...

Award-Winning Books by Neal Shusterman

Bruiser
2012 Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award -- Grades 9-12
Challenger Deep
2015 National Book Award -- Young People's Literature
Scythe
2020 California Young Reader Medal -- Young Adult
Tesla's Attic
2016 Beehive Award -- Young Adult
Unwind
2009 Black-Eyed Susan Award -- High School
2009 Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award -- Grades 9-12
2010 Evergreen Young Adult Book Award -- Young Adult
2010 Green Mountain Book Award -- Grades 9-12
2010 Nevada Young Readers' Award -- Intermediate
2010 Sequoyah Book Award -- Intermediate
2010 Virginia Readers Choice Award -- High School
2011 Nutmeg Book Award -- Teen


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Neal Shusterman has published 52 books.

The next book by Neal Shusterman, All Better Now, will be published in February 2025.

The first book by Neal Shusterman, The Shadow Club, was published in January 1988.

Yes. Neal Shusterman has 10 series.
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