James Dashner Books in Order

Jimmy Fincher thinks he knows every inch of the woods near his home—until he finds an impossible door and sees a crime that shouldn’t exist. That discovery pulls him into a hidden war against shadowy creatures threatening the entire world.

After receiving the first of four powerful Gifts, Jimmy flees with his family to Japan in search of the next clue. Hunted by biker-like agents of the Shadow Ka, he faces deadly tests in icy caves and learns the Stompers are coming.

Armed with two Gifts and a responsibility he never wanted, Jimmy joins an unlikely alliance on a desperate hunt for the third Gift. Their journey under the ocean and across the desert reveals what the Stompers really are and how close doom lies.

The Black Curtain has split wide open, unleashing Shadow Ka and a spreading Black Coma across the earth. To save his family and the world, Jimmy must solve the Riddle of the Red Disk, claim a final Gift, and confront terror inside his own dreams.

Thirteen-year-old Atticus "Tick" Higginbottom starts receiving bizarre letters that hint at the end of reality. Following the clues pulls him into a secret society, dangerous riddles, and a mission that could cost him his life before it even truly begins.

Tick and his friends race across alternate Realities to find a terrifying invention called Dark Infinity, which is driving people insane. To stop it, they may have to work alongside their enemy, Mistress Jane, and risk becoming the weapon’s next victims.

Thomas wakes up in a metal box with no memory and finds himself in the Glade, a camp surrounded by a constantly shifting Maze filled with lethal creatures. To escape, he must join the Runners, earn the boys’ trust, and unlock his buried past.

While Tick studies the strange energy that lets him cross Realities, Mistress Jane gains a terrifying new power: the Blade of Shattered Hope, capable of rewriting existence. Tick, Paul, Sofia, and Sato must infiltrate a secret facility before she destroys billions of lives.

Believing they’ve earned safety after escaping the Maze, Thomas and the Gladers are thrown into the Scorch, a sun-blasted wasteland crawling with infected Cranks. Promised a cure if they survive, they trek across ruined cities while betrayal and new experiments tear the group apart.

WICKED claims it’s close to a cure and offers to restore the Gladers’ memories, but Thomas no longer trusts anything the organization promises. As the Flare ravages the last remaining cities, he must choose between sacrificing more lives or ending the experiments for good.

History has gone wrong, and only three kids can help fix it. Dak, Sera, and Riq travel to 1492 to board Columbus’s ship, where a mutiny threatens to rewrite the age of exploration and trigger an even deadlier future catastrophe.

Set thirteen years before the Maze, this prequel follows Mark, Trina, and a handful of survivors after solar flares wreck the planet. When mysterious aircraft unleash a deadly virus, they uncover how the Flare began and how quickly hope can turn ruthless.

The final 13th Reality novel finds Tick separated from his friends and trapped with his greatest enemies as a rift tears through existence. While Paul, Sofia, and the Realitants battle chaos across worlds, Tick faces a choice that could save—or erase—everything.

In a future dominated by the VirtNet, gamer and hacker Michael loves bending the rules—until a mysterious figure named Kaine starts murdering players inside the system. Recruited by VirtNet Security, Michael and his friends dive into the deepest levels of code to stop him.

Told through confidential memos, recovered emails, and fragments of memory, this companion book reveals secrets behind WICKED, the Flare, and the Gladers’ pasts. It fills in side stories and offers extra clues for readers obsessed with the Maze Runner world.

This short prequel visits the VirtNet before the main Mortality Doctrine trilogy, following legendary gamer Gunner Skale on the mission that made his name. As challenges turn deadly, the story hints at the deeper dangers lurking inside the system.

In their final mission, Dak, Sera, and Riq jump to ancient Greece to stop an assassination attempt on young Alexander the Great. Competing time travelers and brutal politics force them into a last, desperate battle over who will control history itself.

Michael wakes up in a human body and learns he was never actually human at all but a sentient program placed in the real world. As Kaine’s Mortality Doctrine spreads, swapping digital minds into living hosts, Michael races to stop a quiet takeover of humanity.

The final Mortality Doctrine novel finds Michael and his friends fighting on both sides of the screen as Kaine’s plan nears completion. With the boundary between VirtNet and reality dissolving, they must decide how far they’ll go to save a world that may never trust them.

Set between The Kill Order and The Maze Runner, this prequel follows Thomas, Teresa, Newt, Minho, and others inside WICKED’s Arctic complex. As they help build the Maze and endure harsh training, Thomas slowly realizes how deeply he’s entangled in the coming trials.

Newt can’t bear to let his friends watch him lose himself to the Flare, so he slips away and heads for the infamous Crank Palace. On the streets and inside the quarantine, he clings to his fading humanity while protecting a desperate mother and child.

Decades after the original Gladers fled to an island safe haven, their descendants discover that the outside world hasn’t forgotten them. When a battered boat arrives with grim news and hidden agendas, Sadina, Isaac, and Jackie are dragged into new trials beyond the sea.

On their way to Alaska to meet the mysterious Godhead, Sadina and the islanders battle brutal weather, evolving Cranks, and fractures within the cult they hoped would help them. New revelations about the Cure and the Book of Newt blur the line between savior and monster.

In the trilogy’s finale, open war erupts between the Remnant Nation and the Godhead as long-buried truths about the maze trials surface. Separated across frozen battlefields, Sadina, Isaac, Ximena, Frypan, and Jackie must decide whether exposing the past is worth everything they could lose.