Patrick Ness

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  • Bibliography:
    22 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 2008
  • Latest Book:
    June 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Chaos Walking

1 - The Knife of Never Letting Go (Sep-2008)
2 - The Ask and the Answer (May-2009)
2.5 - The New World (Oct-2010)
3 - Monsters of Men (Oct-2010)

Book List in Order: 22 titles

  • The Knife of Never Letting Go

    Chaos Walking - 1

    Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men think, and they hear everything he thinks. Todd is just a month away from becoming a man, but in the midst of th...

  • The Ask and the Answer

    Chaos Walking - 2

    Part two of the literary sci-fi thriller follows a boy and a girl who are caught in a warring town where thoughts can be heard -- and secrets are never safe.

    Reaching the end of their flight in THE KNIFE OF NEVER LETTING GO, Todd and Viola d...

  • The Crash of Hennington

    Love is political, obsessive and utterly strange in the first novel from the author of the Chaos Walking trilogy and new novel ‘More Than This’.Love is political, obsessive and utterly strange in the first novel from the award-winning author of t...

  • Topics About Which I Know Nothing

    Scintillating, surprising, inventive fiction from one of the most talented writers in Britain " this is a superb collection of short stories from the acclaimed author of the Chaos Walking series and ‘More Than This’.Have you heard the urban myt...

  • Monsters of Men

    Chaos Walking - 3

    As a world-ending war surges around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions. The indigenous Spackle, thinking and acting as one, have mobilized to avenge their murdered people. Ruthless human leaders prepare to defend their factions at all cost...

  • The New World

    Chaos Walking - 2.5

    In this dramatic short story -- a prequel to the award-winning Chaos Walking Trilogy -- author Patrick Ness gives us the story of Viola's journey to the New World. Whether you're new to Chaos Walking or an established fan, this prequel serves as a fa...

  • A Monster Calls

    An unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply moving story of a boy, his seriously ill mother, and an unexpected monstrous visitor. At seven minutes past midnight, thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to find a monster outside his bedroom window. But it isn't...

  • The Crane Wife. Patrick Ness

  • Tip Of The Tongue

    Read Patrick Ness's first ever story in the world of Doctor Who.In 1945, a strange new craze for Truth Tellers is sweeping the kids of small-town America. The Fifth Doctor and Nyssa soon arrive to investigate the phenomenon, only to discover that the...



  • More Than This

    From two-time Carnegie Medal winner Patrick Ness comes an enthralling and provocative new novel chronicling the life -- or perhaps afterlife -- of a teen trapped in a crumbling, abandoned world. A boy named Seth drowns, desperate and alone in ...

  • The Crane Wife

    A magical novel, based on a Japanese folk tale, that imagines how the life of a broken-hearted man is transformed when he rescues an injured white crane that has landed in his backyard. George Duncan is an American living and working in London. At...

  • The Rest of Us Just Live Here

    A new YA novel from novelist Patrick Ness, author of the Carnegie Medal- and Kate Greenaway Medal-winning A Monster Calls and the critically acclaimed Chaos Walking trilogy, The Rest of Us Just Live Here is a bold and irreverent novel that powerfully...

  • The Chaos Walking Trilogy

    The riveting Chaos Walking trilogy by two-time Carnegie Medalist Patrick Ness, in one collection.As a world-ending war surges around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions. The indigenous Spackle, thinking and acting as one, have mobilized to ...

  • The Stone House

    Can't get enough of CLASS on BBC America? This thrilling companion novel to the new DOCTOR WHO spin-off features the group of extraordinary humans (and aliens) from the show, facing down an wholly original threat. Don't go near the house, whatev...

  • Release

    Inspired by Judy Blume’s Forever and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, this novel that Andrew Smith calls “beautiful, enchanting, [and] exquisitely written” is a new classic about teenage relationships, self-acceptance -- and what happens when ...

  • Joyride

    One of three thrilling companion novels, set in the universe of the new Doctor Who spin-off show, Class, created by #1 New York Times bestselling novelist Patrick Ness, author of The Rest of Us Just Live Here and the Carnegie Medal-winning A Monster ...

  • What She Does Next Will Astound You

    One of three thrilling companion novels set in the universe of the new Doctor Who spin-off show, Class “There’s no such thing as oversharing”…right? Everyone at Coal Hill School has become obsessed with completing exciting dares posted...

  • And the Ocean Was Our Sky

    A richly illustrated and lyrical tale, one that asks harrowing questions about power, loyalty, obsession, and the monsters we make of others. With harpoons strapped to their backs, the proud whales of Bathsheba's pod live for the hunt, fighting in...

  • Burn

    On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957, Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon he’d hired to help on the farm… Sarah Dewhurst and her father, outcasts in their little town of Frome, W...



  • Different for Boys

    Friendship, masculinity, sex -- Anthony Stevenson has a lot of questions. Is it different for boys who like boys? A poignant and frank story filled with meta-humor by renowned author Patrick Ness. Anthony “Ant” Stevenson isn’t sure when he stop...

  • Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody

    From the best-selling author of A Monster Calls, this funny, wise middle-grade series explodes every stereotype -- including what it means to be a hero -- in a brilliant reptilian take on surviving school. When Principal Wombat makes monitor lizards ...

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    A very powerful and dark novel for young adults that embraces the original idea of Siobhan Dowd who died before she set out to write the story. This is the story of Conor who has the same dream every night since his mother became sick. But one night,...

Award-Winning Books by Patrick Ness

The Ask and the Answer
2009 Costa Book Award -- Children's
The Knife of Never Letting Go
2008 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize -- Children's Fiction
2012 Green Mountain Book Award -- Grades 9-12
2012 Virginia Readers Choice Award -- High School
A Monster Calls
2012 Carnegie Medal -- Children's
2012 Greenaway Medal -- Illustrator
Monsters of Men
2011 Carnegie Medal -- Children's


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Patrick Ness has published 22 books.

The next book by Patrick Ness, Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody, will be published in June 2024.

The first book by Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go, was published in September 2008.

Yes. Patrick Ness has 1 series.
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