Series
Chaos Walking
Patrick Ness · 3 novels · 2 short stories · 2008–2018
Chaos Walking is a young adult science fiction series written by American-British novelist Patrick Ness. It is set in a dystopian world where all living creatures can hear each other's thoughts in a stream of images, words, and sounds called Noise. The series is named after a line in the first book: "The Noise is a man unfiltered, and without a filter, a man is just chaos walking." The series consists of a trilogy of novels and three short stories.
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(2 editions)
Map
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Stats
By decade
- 2000s2
- 2010s3
Shape
3 novels · 2 short stories
1 author
reads like:dystopiapsychic powersother star systemsfar futuretenseyoung adult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 5 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Monsters of Mendarkest · calmest
- The Knife of Never Letting Gobrightest · most intense