“So where should I start with your books?” is a question that I get a lot on social media, and the answer is it depends on what you’re into because I’m a multi-genre kind of guy. So here is a list of all my series, the genre, what they’re about, and where to start. (I put complete in bold if the series is done because that’s important to some customers)
Monster Hunter International – contemporary fantasy/urban fantasy. This is my most famous series. It’s professional monster hunters battling the forces of evil for fun and profit. It’s guns, old school action-adventure, big damned heroes, good versus evil. Think X-Files meets the Expendables.
Start with Monster Hunter International (which was also my first published book!) This series is up to 8 books in the main series with 2 to go. And multiple spin offs where I collaborated with other authors, and three anthologies of short stories from various authors.
Saga of the Forgotten Warrior – epic fantasy/sword and sorcery. This one is considered my magnum opus (so far!) and best reviewed series. It’s an epic story of a militant magical law enforcer in a fantasy world based on feudal India with brutal caste systems and the ocean is filled with demons. Picture fantasy Judge Dredd who turns into fantasy George Washington.
Start with Son of the Black Sword. This series is 6 books, complete and done. And I absolutely nailed the ending.
Academy of Outcasts – progression fantasy. This is a newer series, and is lighter than SotFW. Think a fast, fun, D&D style series, about a working class guy from a crappy lava world who wants to make it as a wizard in the big city. A group of misfits form a magic school and scrape by adventuring.
Start with Academy of Outcasts. This is 2 books so far, with the 3rd up for preorder, and I just signed the contract for 3 more. This one has been doing extremely well.
The Grimnoir Chronicles – Urban Fantasy/Alternate History/Super Heroes. That crazy genre mash up is my love song to pulp noir, set in the 1930s in a world where magic appeared in the 1800s and changed everything. Some people have magic abilities that manifest like super powers. It is a wild adventure about a hard boiled detective fighting magical samurai. This one is great for history nuts.
Start with Hard Magic. This is a complete trilogy. And it is awesome.
American Paladin – Thriller/Supernatural/Urban Fantasy. My newest series is set in the modern west, about a vigilante who hunts regular human violent criminals, as well as monsters. Its part Haunted Mesa, part Repairman Jack. It’s my answer to lone vigilante stories like Reacher, only he’s a regular blue collar dude. It’s cowboys vs. Aztecs.
Start with American Paladin. There is only one book so far, with the second coming out next year. This is an ongoing series, and each book stands alone. There is also a graphic novel about this same character called Dust Sacrifice.
Dead Six – Thriller/Modern Action. Cowritten with Mike Kupari. This is from back toward the beginning of my career, its a thieves versus mercenaries showdown in a third world country as it is melting down in a military coup. Lots of twists and turns, conspiracies, and gun fights. This is for the Vince Flynn/Brad Thor fans.
Start with Dead Six. This is a complete trilogy. There is also an omnibus available called Secret Wars that has a bonus novella from author Peter Nealen.
Age of Ravens – Dark Fantasy/Horror. Cowritten with Steve Diamond. Think WW1 style trench warfare in the world where mankind’s darkest fairytales come from. The main character pilots a giant suit of battle armor that is built from the remains of dead golems. How grim is it? One of the “good guys” is a murderous secret policeman for a totalitarian dictator.
Start with Servants of War. Book two is in the works.
Gun Runner – Sci-fi/Action. Cowritten with John D. Brown. A fun adventure novel about a smuggling crew who specialize in stealing battle mechs, and selling them to poor planets which aren’t allowed to have advanced weapons, until they get double crossed on a nightmarish colony world and end up stuck in an uprising.
Start with Gun Runner. This series is one and done. It’s a great book, but it came out right when everything was locked down for Covid and that killed the release. There is however a graphic novel adaptation in the works.
The Malcontents – Fantasy/Steam Punk. I wrote this for the Warmachine game, so I do not own this IP. However, I wrote a super bad ass couple of novels about a Dirty Dozen style group of knights armed with mad science lightning swords and their homicidal giant robot in a war against religious fanatics in the first one, and druids and werewolves in the second.
Start with Into the Storm. Though I love these, there are only two, and won’t be any more because the publisher folded and the game was sold to a different company. They’re still great books though.
Target Rich Environment – All the genres! These are my short story collections, and they feature stories from all my universes, a bunch of originals, and things that I wrote for other people’s franchises, including some big ones like Alien, Predator, and V-Wars.
There’s just two of these, Target Rich Environment volume 1 and volume 2. I’ll probably do another once I’ve accumulated some more shorts.
In Defense of the Second Amendment – Non Fiction/Gun Rights. This is my one foray into non fiction publishing, with a book about gun control, self-defense laws, education, and sixteen pages of small print cites because I did my homework! I wrote this to be educational and useful to all gun owners. It makes a great gift to the fence sitters in your life.
Audible Exclusives –
These are not in print, but are currently available only on Audible.
The Adventures of Tom Stranger, Interdimensional Insurance Agent – Comedy/Sci-fi. The absolute silliest thing I’ve ever written. Its about the most dedicated to quality customer service insurance agent ever, his clueless intern, and a time travelling manatee. It’s goofy, hilarious, and not for people who are easily butt hurt over politics.
Start with Number One in Customer Service because it is a collection of all of the stories put together so that’s the best way to spend your credit!
Lost Planet Homicide – Sci-Fi/Mystery/Police Procedural. Set in the same universe as Gun Runner, I’d describe this as Space Bosch. It’s about the last honest cop on a horrible, acid covered, colony planet. It’s a gritty crime drama in space. I love these.
Start with Lost Planet Homicide. This is a series of three novellas. Each one is a stand alone mystery. I have plans for a fourth, and to then bundle them together as a novel.
I was bummed when I learned Gun Runner was a one-and-done. It’s a great story in a cool universe.
And I could read Grimnoir all day, but I get you have to cap it somewhere.
Thanks for writing cool stuff!
Grimnoir is my favorite. I love all of Larry’s stuff, and never miss anything, but it’ll be Christmas squared if there’s ever another Grimnoir trilogy.
Agreed, there seemed like a lot to flesh out in the universe they were building. That being said it does leave the door open and I have learned that sometimes things come around. Look at Taylor Anderson, he just jumped back into the Destroyermen.
I have read and liked them all. But American Paladin I read straight through on a work night finishing at 2:00 am. Could not put it down.
Another vote for more Gunrunner books! TBH, I was super looking forward to American Paladin, bought both the book and audio then shelved them until I get caught up on my backlog, which includes books in a couple of your other series.
I have at least 300 hours of pending audio and a stupid amount of unread books. And, yet, when a new Correia book comes out it gets added to the stack near the top…
I’d say start at the beginning: Monster Hunter International. Without which, none of the rest would exist, and that would be a terrible loss.
Slightly off-topic, but…
One of my favorite places to go on a rare idle morning are the local used book stores. They have a good selection at good prices, and I can easily spend an hour or two perusing among the aisles for anything and everything…
… except Larry’s books. Among the shelves upon shelves of Clancy, Crichton, Grisham, Bradbury, Martin (*spit*), King (*double spit*), Herbert, Rand, Goodkind, and many others, I have never seen any Larry Correia book on a used-book-store shelf in the wild.
Some might claim that it’s because nobody buys Larry’s books (Bezos-Mart’s numbers say otherwise), but you’d think, out of a half-dozen stores in three U.S. cities, at least one or two might be available.
I think it’s because people who buy Larry’s books tend to keep and re-read them. And on the rare instance one does make its way to a used shelf, it gets snatched up quickly.
And that, by itself, is a heck of a compliment.
I once read a comment by Drew Hayes that your readers expect a pattern of publication. So one book a year for a series is fine — but if you skip a year — they get annoyed.
I am currently re-reading MHI for the umpteenth time and still having a blast. Next up is when two of my three favorite authors collaborate on Sinners / Saints which i consider one of the top trilogies ever written.
Every one of the series and books offered by Mr. Corriea is a gift that keeps giving. Thank you for these and any future works which I will devour.
I think the publisher having the digital version of the first MHI book free is worth a mention.
Complete Tom Stranger used to be sold as a DRM free CD. Unfortunately seems to no longer be made.
Reading American Paladin (like it!) In the Paladin lyrics, should it read “a knight without ARMOR or HONOR”? the book has honor, but I thought the lyric was armor? Or I am missing something?