Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Green Odyssey | 1957 | Philip José Farmer | Buy |
| 2 | The Black Tower | 1988 | Philip José Farmer | N/A |
| 3 | A Woman a Day / The Day of Timestop / Timestop! | 1960 | Philip José Farmer | Buy |
| 4 | The Dark Abyss | 1989 | Philip José Farmer | N/A |
| 5 | Flesh | 1960 | Philip José Farmer | Buy |
| 6 | The Valley of Thunder | 1989 | Philip José Farmer | N/A |
| 7 | The Lovers | 1961 | Philip José Farmer | Buy |
| 8 | The Lake of Fire | 1989 | Philip José Farmer | N/A |
| 9 | Cache from Outer Space | 1962 | Philip José Farmer | Buy |
| 10 | The Hidden City | 1990 | Philip José Farmer | N/A |
| 11 | Fire and the Night | 1962 | Philip José Farmer | Buy |
| 12 | The Final Battle | 1990 | Philip José Farmer | N/A |
| 13 | Inside Outside | 1964 | Philip José Farmer | Buy |
| 14 | Tongues of the Moon | 1964 | Philip José Farmer | Buy |
| 15 | Dare | 1965 | Philip José Farmer | Buy |
| 16 | Night Of Light | 1966 | Philip José Farmer | Buy |
| 17 | The Gate of Time / Two Hawks from Earth | 1966 | Philip José Farmer | Buy |
| 18 | The Day of Timestop | 1968 | Philip José Farmer | Buy |
| 19 | Lord Tyger | 1970 | Philip José Farmer | Buy |
| 20 | The Stone God Awakens | 1970 | Philip José Farmer | Buy |
| 21 | Love Song | 1970 | Philip José Farmer | Buy |
| 22 | Time’s Last Gift | 1972 | Philip José Farmer | Buy |
| 23 | The Other Log of Phileas Fogg | 1973 | Philip José Farmer | Buy |
| 24 | The Wind Whales of Ishmael | 1973 | Philip José Farmer | Buy |
| 25 | Venus on the Half-Shell | 1975 | Philip José Farmer | Buy |
| 26 | Ironcastle | 1976 | Philip José Farmer | Buy |
| 27 | Dark is the Sun | 1979 | Philip José Farmer | Buy |
| 28 | Jesus on Mars | 1979 | Philip José Farmer | Buy |
| 29 | The Unreasoning Mask | 1981 | Philip José Farmer | Buy |
| 30 | Stations of the Nightmare | 1982 | Philip José Farmer | Buy |
| 31 | Greatheart Silver | 1982 | Philip José Farmer | Buy |
| 32 | A Barnstormer in Oz | 1982 | Philip José Farmer | Buy |
| 33 | Nothing Burns in Hell | 1988 | Philip José Farmer | Buy |
| 34 | The Caterpillar’s Question | 1992 | Philip José Farmer | Buy |
| 35 | The City Beyond Play | 2007 | Philip José Farmer | Buy |
| 36 | The Evil in Pemberley House | 2009 | Philip José Farmer | Buy |
| 37 | Up From The Bottomless Pit | 2020 | Philip José Farmer | Buy |
Philip Jose Farmer’s standalone novels represent some of his most adventurous writing. The thirty-seven titles span from The Green Odyssey (1957) to Up From The Bottomless Pit (2020, published posthumously), covering everything from hard science fiction to literary pastiche to outright satire. The Lovers (1961), an expanded version of his boundary-breaking novella, remains one of his most important works.
The standalones include Venus on the Half-Shell (1975), which Farmer wrote under the name Kilgore Trout, the fictional author from Kurt Vonnegut’s novels. Other notable entries include Lord Tyger (1970), a darkly satirical reworking of the Tarzan origin story, and The Other Log of Phileas Fogg (1973), which reimagines Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days. Farmer’s refusal to stay in one lane makes his standalone catalog unpredictable and rewarding for adventurous readers.