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The Ender Saga Books in Order

by Orson Scott CardScience Fiction & Fantasy

8 books from Ender's Game (1985) to The Last Shadow (2021). Rated 4.5 across 111,904 listener reviews.

Reading order

  1. Ender's Game

    Book 1 1985 4.6 (54.5k)

    From New York Times bestselling author Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game—adapted to film starring Asa Butterfield and Harrison Ford—is the classic Hugo and Nebula award-winning science fiction novel of a young boy's recruitment into the midst…

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  2. Speaker for the Dead

    Book 2 1986 4.6 (22.4k)

    Speaker for the Dead, the second novel in Orson Scott Card's The Ender Saga, is the winner of the 1986 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1987 Hugo Award for Best Novel.

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  3. Xenocide

    Book 3 1991 4.4 (13.3k)

    In Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last.

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  4. Children of the Mind

    Book 4 1996 4.4 (10.4k)

    The planet Lusitania is home to three sentient species: the Pequeninos, a large colony of humans, and the Hive Queen, who was brought there by Ender Wiggin.

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  5. First Meetings

    Book 8 2002 4.4 (2.2k)

    Welcome to the Enderverse. When Orson Scott Card first published "Ender's Game" as a novella in 1977, few would have predicted that it would become one of the most successful ventures in publishing history.

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  6. A War of Gifts

    Book 10 2006 4.3 (1.6k)

    From the #1 New York Times bestseller At the Battle School, there is only one course of study: the strategy and tactics of war. Humanity is fighting an alien race, and we fight as one.

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  7. Ender in Exile

    Book 11 2008 4.5 (5.6k)

    Orson Scott Card returns to his best-selling series with a new Ender novel, Ender in Exile. At the close of Ender's Game, Andrew Wiggin – called Ender by everyone – is told that he can no longer live on Earth, and he realizes that this is…

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  8. The Last Shadow

    Book 19 2021 4.1 (1.8k)

    Orson Scott Card's The Last Shadow is the long-awaited conclusion to both the original Ender series and the Ender's Shadow series, as the children of Ender and Bean solve the great problem of the Ender Universe—the deadly virus they call…

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About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for The Ender Saga 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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