Carrie Ryan Books in Order

Mary has grown up behind fences, taught that the Sisterhood knows best and the Unconsecrated never stop. When the village is breached, she must choose between love, loyalty, and the terrifying chance that life exists beyond the forest.

On a fortified Curacao after the apocalypse, Iza grows up under her father's harsh rule. When the dead breach the compound and rebels seize her, she has to decide what survival is supposed to look like.

Gabry has lived safely behind the Barrier by the sea, trying not to think about the dead beyond it. One reckless night changes everything and sends her toward the secrets her mother thought she had escaped.

Before the old certainties fully harden around her, Tabitha slips beyond the village fence and meets a boy in the forest. Their connection offers wonder and risk in equal measure, and love may ask more of her than she can bear.

Annah survives in the ruined Dark City, haunted by abandonment and the Horde outside the walls. When a mysterious boy named Catcher enters her life, his secrets drag her back toward the past she wanted to leave buried.

Dak, Sera, and Riq land in medieval Paris during a Viking siege and immediately get split apart. With Dak trapped among the invaders and time breaking around them, the mission to fix history gets much more dangerous.

A senior cruise turns into a nightmare when infection spreads across the ship. Two boys make it to a life raft, but safety means very little when one of them has already been bitten.

Set in the world of Godspeed, this short story turns toward the emotional cost of survival in a tightly controlled society. It looks at how love, loyalty, and sacrifice can become choices people have to make under pressure.

Margie and her sister Sally have carved out a fragile refuge in a remote cabin after the apocalypse. Then a charming stranger arrives, and they learn the living can be more frightening than the dead.

Jonah and his friends are on a field trip when the dead begin to rise. Their dash to an apartment complex seems smart at first, until survival turns into a series of choices they may not be able to live with.

When the outbreak begins, Danny and Julie are stranded at home with no adults and nowhere truly safe. Hiding in the attic buys them time, but one small mistake may cost them everything.

Marrill is swept from an Arizona parking lot onto the Pirate Stream, while master thief Fin thinks a legendary map may lead him to his mother. Together they join a wild, dangerous hunt across connected worlds.

When magical waters start flooding Marrill's world, she returns to the Pirate Stream with Fin and the Enterprising Kraken crew. Their search for the source leads to Monerva, a wish machine, and a choice that could cost them their friendship.

Frances Mace survives a deadly attack at sea and spends years hiding behind another girl's identity. When she finally moves to expose the powerful family behind the lie, revenge gets tangled with old feelings and new danger.

Fin and Marrill go looking for Fin's missing mother, only to find his own people caught up in a dangerous hunt for a powerful wish orb. Without their usual guides, the two friends have to navigate the Pirate Stream on their own.

This collection gathers six dark short stories, from palace executions and plague-doctor nightmares to monstrous aftermaths and fairy-tale unease. It also includes an essay in which Ryan talks about the ideas behind the stories.

College radio host Mackenzie Walker reopens a decades-old Kentucky murder after an anonymous tip suggests the wrong man went to prison. The deeper her podcast investigation goes, the more someone wants her to stop.

Fin and Marrill's final trip down the Pirate Stream forces them into an uneasy alliance with their old enemy, Serth. To save their friends and every connected world, they must face the biggest threat the Stream has ever seen.

A wilderness expedition goes catastrophically wrong when a group of teens enters the Wyoming backcountry and only one comes home. Ryan turns the disappearance into a tense survival mystery built from what the group left behind.

After trouble at her son's school brings the media back to her door, Gwen Proctor takes a missing-girl case out of town. The deeper she digs, the more the investigation threatens both her family and Sam.

A viral true-crime podcast drags Gwen Proctor's past back into public view just as someone starts killing her enemies. When the evidence points toward Sam, Gwen returns to Stillhouse Lake for one last reckoning.