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The Borrowed World Books in Order

by Franklin HortonScience Fiction & Fantasy

12 books from The Borrowed World (2015) to The Fury of the Forsaken (2025). Rated 4.7 across 23,629 listener reviews.

Reading order

  1. The Borrowed World

    Book 1 2015 4.5 (4.9k)

    In a night of devastating terror, ISIS operatives have unleashed a coordinated attack on America's infrastructure. Life as we know it in America grinds to a halt as the electrical grid collapses, communication networks are damaged,…

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  2. Ashes of the Unspeakable

    Book 2 2015 4.7 (3.8k)

    In The Borrowed World, Franklin Horton showed us an America brought to its knees by a nationwide terror attack. The target? The American infrastructure. Cell phone connections were sporadic. Electrical power was failing.

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  3. Legion of Despair

    Book 3 2016 4.7 (3.2k)

    In his best-selling novels, The Borrowed World and Ashes of the Unspeakable, Franklin Horton showed us a nation facing societal collapse from a coordinated ISIS attack on the American infrastructure.

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  4. No Time for Mourning

    Book 4 2017 4.7 (1.9k)

    After spending weeks walking across a violent and horrific landscape to reach his family, Jim Powell hoped they could weather this storm on their secluded Appalachian farm....

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  5. Valley of Vengeance

    Book 5 2017 4.8 (2.2k)

    In this fifth installment in The Borrowed World Series, human resources manager Alice Watkins is finally making it home. In her journey across Virginia, she experiences a country disintegrating and collapsing in on itself in the wake of a…

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  6. Switched On

    Book 6 2018 4.8 (1.3k)

    It's been around nine long months since the United States spiraled into chaos due to a cascading systems failure. The die-off everyone predicted has begun and after a hard winter nearly every other house sits empty with the owners dead or…

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  7. The Ungovernable

    Book 7 2019 4.8 (1.5k)

    Boss is back. Having lost both a hand and his entire team when Jim Powell and his friends attacked the power plant, Boss is obsessed with revenge.

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  8. Blood And Banjos

    Book 8 2020 4.8 (1.2k)

    Two men. Two life-altering decisions. One epic journey. In this eighth installment in the best-selling Borrowed World series, Jim Powell is convinced that his presence in the valley is putting his friends and family in danger.

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  9. Resurgent

    Book 9 2021 4.9 (1.1k)

    The fog of indecision has passed. The struggle with guilt is over and the path forward is clear. The Jim Powell who fought his way home in the days immediately after the disaster - who left a trail of blood and bodies across the state of…

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  10. The Reset Roadhouse

    Book 10 2022 4.9 (1.2k)

    It was a hard-learned lesson but Jim Powell finally understood that isolating his group of friends and family was no longer the best idea.

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  11. The Endarkened

    Book 11 2024 4.9 (744)

    After nearly a year and a half without power, Jim Powell’s community has begun to stabilize. The Reset Roadhouse—Jim’s apocalyptic bar, restaurant, and trading post—gave his people something to do and helped expand his network of friends…

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  12. The Fury of the Forsaken

    Book 12 2025 4.9 (514)

    For technician Josie and her team, the sudden collapse of the Lightspeed wireless grid was more than just the end of a job– it was the beginning of a terrifying nightmare.

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About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for The Borrowed World is also the best order to read them in. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.

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