Cory Doctorow books

Cory Doctorow is a Canadian-British science fiction author and technology activist known for novels like Little Brother, Walkaway, and the Martin Hench series.

Anthologies

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Tesseracts 7 1998 Buy
Asimov’s Science Fiction, June 1999 1999 Buy
Starlight 3 2001 Buy
Tesseracts 8 2002 Buy
Witpunk 2003 Buy
Open Space: New Canadian Fantastic Fiction 2003 Buy
New Voices In Science Fiction 2003 Buy
ReVisions 2004 Buy
Future Washington 2005 Buy
The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction 2006 Buy
Year’s Best SF 11 2006 Buy
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection 2007 Buy
Rewired 2007 Buy
Tesseracts Eleven: Amazing Canadian Speculative Fiction 2007 Buy
Fast Forward 2 2008 Buy
Unplugged 2009 Buy
The Chronicles of Harris Burdick 2011 Buy
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 5 2011 Buy
Robots: The Recent A.I. 2012 Buy
Imaginarium 2012 2012 Buy
Future Games 2013 Buy
Super Stories of Heroes and Villains 2013 Buy
After the End 2013 Buy
Imaginarium 2013 2013 Buy
Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2013 Edition 2013 Buy
Robot Uprisings 2014 Buy
Hieroglyph 2014 Buy
Imaginarium 3 2015 Buy
Watchlist 2015 Buy
Press Start to Play 2015 Buy
Escape Pod 2020 Buy
Make Shift 2021 Buy
The Year’s Best Science Fiction on Earth 3 2025 Buy

Graphic Standalone Novels Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales Of The Here And Now 2008 Buy
In Real Life 2014 Buy

Jen Wang Graphic Novels Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Koko Be Good 2010 Buy
In Real Life 2014 Buy
The Prince and the Dressmaker 2018 Buy
Stargazing 2019 Buy

Little Brother Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Little Brother 2008 Buy
Γενιά Xnet 2008 N/A
Homeland 2013 Buy
Force Multiplier 2020 Buy
Lawful Interception, see ISBN 978-1-4668-5384-3 2013 N/A
Lawful Interception 2013 Buy
Attack Surface 2020 Buy
Spill 2024 Buy
Vigilant 2024 Buy

Martin Hench Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Red Team Blues 2023 Buy
The Bezzle 2024 Buy
Picks and Shovels 2025 Buy

Non-Fiction

Title Published Buy on Amazon
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Publishing Science Fiction 2000 Buy
Essential Blogging 2002 Buy
Content 2008 Buy
Ebooks 2010 Buy
Context 2011 Buy
All Complex Ecosystems Have Parasites 2014 Buy
Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free 2014 Buy
Chokepoint Capitalism 2022 Buy
The Internet Con 2023 Buy
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It 2025 Buy

Short Stories/Novellas

Title Published Buy on Amazon
I, Robot 2005 Buy
When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth 2006 Buy
The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away 2008 Buy
True Names 2008 Buy
Chicken Little 2011 Buy
After the Siege 2015 Buy
Anda’s Game 2015 Buy
Car Wars 2016 N/A
Party Discipline 2017 Buy
Unauthorized Bread / Wie man einen Toaster überlistet: Novelle 2019 Buy
Poesy the Monster Slayer 2020 Buy
The Canadian Miracle 2023 Buy

Short Story Collections

Title Published Buy on Amazon
A Place So Foreign and Eight More 2000 Buy
Overclocked 2007 Buy
With a Little Help 2007 Buy
The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow 2011 Buy
Radicalized 2019 Buy

Standalone Novels

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom 2003 Buy
Eastern Standard Tribe 2004 Buy
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town 2005 Buy
Makers 2009 Buy
For the Win 2010 Buy
The Rapture of the Nerds 2012 Buy
Pirate Cinema 2012 Buy
Walkaway 2017 Buy
The Lost Cause 2023 Buy

Cory Doctorow is a Canadian-British author who writes science fiction focused on technology, surveillance, and digital rights. His novel Little Brother (2008) became a touchstone for young adult science fiction, telling the story of teenage hackers resisting government overreach after a terrorist attack. The series continued with Homeland (2013) and Attack Surface (2020), among other entries.

His more recent Martin Hench series, beginning with Red Team Blues (2023), follows a forensic accountant through the tech industry’s financial crimes. Doctorow’s standalone novels like Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003), Walkaway (2017), and The Lost Cause (2023) explore post-scarcity economics, maker culture, and climate adaptation.

Beyond fiction, Doctorow is a prolific non-fiction writer and activist. Books like Chokepoint Capitalism (2022) and The Internet Con (2023) examine how corporations control creative markets and digital infrastructure. His concept of “enshittification” became widely discussed as a description of how platforms degrade over time.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many books has Cory Doctorow written?

Cory Doctorow has written 87 books across nine series.

What was Cory Doctorow's first book?

Cory Doctorow’s first book is Tesseracts 7, published in 1998.

What are Cory Doctorow's most popular series?

His best-known fiction series is Little Brother, a young adult sequence about hackers fighting government surveillance. His Martin Hench series, starting with Red Team Blues (2023), follows a forensic accountant investigating financial crimes in the tech industry.

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