Series
Maze Runner
James Dashner · 8 novels · 2 novellas · 1 short story · 2009–2025
The Maze Runner is a series of young adult dystopian science fiction novels written by American author James Dashner. The series consists of the trilogy The Maze Runner (2009), The Scorch Trials (2010) and The Death Cure (2011), as well as two prequel novels, The Kill Order (2012) and The Fever Code (2016). A novella titled Crank Palace (2020) and a companion book titled The Maze Runner Files (2013) have also been released. A sequel trilogy in the series titled The Maze Cutter takes place 73 years following the events of The Death Cure and consists of the novels The Maze Cutter (2022), The Godhead Complex (2023), and The Infinite Glade (2025).
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The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(5 editions)
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Maze Runner at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
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By decade
- 2000s1
- 2010s6
- 2020s4
Shape
8 novels · 2 novellas · 1 short story
1 author
reads like:dystopiasurvivalour worldnear futuretenseyoung adult
Mood
Grim and intense: 90% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book10 of 11 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Kill Orderdarkest · calmest
- The Maze Cutterbrightest
- The Godhead Complexmost intense









