Larry Correia Books in Order
Browse all Larry Correia books in order, with reading guides, series overviews, short summaries, and tips on where to start with his urban fantasy, epic sagas, and short fiction.
Last updated: December 25, 2025
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Publication Order
49 books
Magic and Bullets
by Larry Correia
2026
Oz Carnavon has finally clawed his way into the Academy of Outcasts, but surviving classes is only the start. Rival students, dangerous duels, and political schemes in the elemental realms force a magicless upstart to turn every trick he knows into power.
Heart of the Mountain
by Larry Correia
2025
The concluding volume of Saga of the Forgotten Warrior finds Ashok, prophet Thera Vane, Lord Protector Devedas, and Grand Inquisitor Omand on a collision course inside the living Heart of the Mountain. Old lies shatter as the final war between gods, demons, and men erupts.
Academy of Outcasts
by Larry Correia
2025
Oz Carnavon was born without magic in the brutal fire realm and destined for a life of servitude. After faking his death and sneaking into the Core City, he’s framed for attempted assassination and has one week to earn a place at a bottom-tier magic academy or be dragged back to hell.
The Five Points Ripper
by Larry Correia
2024
A serial killer stalks the slums and upper levels of Five Points, leaving bodies that suggest something more than human at work. As panic builds, Cade races to stop the so-called Five Points Ripper before the city tears itself apart.
Graveyard of Demons
by Larry Correia
2024
As demon incursions worsen and the old gods stir, Ashok’s fractured coalition must venture into places long abandoned to monsters. In the graveyard of demons, every step uncovers buried truths about Lok’s past and the real cost of victory.
Tower of Silence
by Larry Correia
2023
War and prophecy converge as Ashok Vadal and his allies push their rebellion toward the heart of the Capitol. The Tower of Silence hides secrets that could topple the Age of Law, if Ashok can survive the armies and assassins guarding it.
In Defense of the Second Amendment
by Larry Correia
2023
Blending his experience as a gun-store owner, firearms instructor, and novelist, Correia lays out a plainspoken case for civilian gun ownership, tackling topics like gun-free zones, “assault weapons,” red-flag laws, and how to argue effectively for the Second Amendment.
Ghosts of Zenith
by Larry Correia
2023
DCI Lutero Cade returns when a murder is committed at the Landing Site, a sacred relic of the colony ship that first brought settlers to Croatoan. Chasing the killer through domes and caverns, he uncovers ghosts of the past that refuse to stay buried.
Fever
by Larry Correia
2023
In disco-era Los Angeles, Chloe Mendoza is a half-demon nagual raised by the old gods of Mesoamerica. Leading an MHI strike team through nightclubs and back alleys, she has to stop an ancient evil feeding on the city’s nightlife before it claims her soul too.
Servants of War
by Larry Correia
2022
In a world locked in a brutal century-long war, farm boy Illarion Glaskov is conscripted into the Tsar’s army and assigned to The Wall, an elite unit that pilots golem-powered armor. Between trench warfare, nightmare creatures, and feuding goddesses, survival is far from guaranteed.
Monster Hunter Bloodlines
by Larry Correia
2021
With chaos god Asag still plotting in the shadows, Owen and Monster Hunter International race to steal a legendary Ward Stone from reptoids beneath Atlanta. When a mysterious thief gets there first, the hunt spirals into cults, curses, and older evils waking up.
Lost Planet Homicide
by Larry Correia
2021
On the acid-cloud world of Croatoan, the city of Five Points survives on five narrow mountain peaks and a lot of corruption. When a Special Magistrate is found dissolving in a protein vat, homicide cop Lutero Cade follows the case into the rot at his colony’s core.
Gun Runner
by Larry Correia
2021
Ex-mech pilot Jackson Rook now smuggles weapons for a living, ferrying a stolen state-of-the-art suit of armor to the lethal world of Swindle. Hired by a local warlord, Rook has to choose between profit and protecting the settlers ground under his client’s heel.
Into the Wild
by Larry Correia
2020
The misfit Storm Knights of the Malcontents are sent to babysit an archaeological expedition into the Wyrmwall Mountains. What should be boring guard duty turns into a desperate fight for survival in an abandoned fort haunted by monsters and very angry locals.
Destroyer of Worlds
by Larry Correia
2020
As rebellion spreads across Lok, Ashok Vadal and his allies take the fight beyond their homeland, confronting demons from the sea and rival great houses that would rather see the world burn than lose their power. War and prophecy collide on a brutal scale.
Target Rich Environment, Volume 2
by Larry Correia
2019
The second Target Rich Environment collection gathers more of Correia’s shorter work, from giant-robot battles in the Grimnoir universe to Monster Hunter missions and tales set in other authors’ worlds. It’s a fast-moving sampler of his action-heavy, monster-filled fiction.
Monster Hunter Guardian
by Larry Correia
2019
While Owen is off-plane on a rescue mission, Julie Shackleford is left to run MHI and care for their infant son. When a cult leader called Brother Death kidnaps the baby to seize a world-breaking artifact, Julie wages a one-woman war to get him back.
House of Assassins
by Larry Correia
2019
Following Son of the Black Sword, Ashok Vadal’s rebellion tangles with a sinister order of assassins and a kidnapped prophet whose visions may reshape the world. Battles, betrayals, and uneasy alliances push Lok closer to open war.
#1 in Customer Service The Complete Adventures of Tom Stranger
by Larry Correia
2019
This omnibus brings together the full run of Tom Stranger, Interdimensional Insurance Agent, as he and his long-suffering intern race across the multiverse to honor absurd policy clauses, rescue underinsured Earths, and punish anyone who settles for second-rate coverage.
Target Rich Environment
by Larry Correia
2018
Correia’s first short story collection offers fourteen fast, punchy tales featuring monster hunters, grimnoir sorcerers, Dead Six mercenaries, and more. It’s an easy way to sample his different settings, with everything from holiday noir to kaiju pirate battles.
Saints
by Larry Correia
2018
In the finale of Chad Gardenier’s memoirs, the monsters of New Orleans are only symptoms of something far worse: a larval Great Old One preparing to hatch. Out of allies and out of time, Chad has to rally unlikely saints for one last stand.
A Murder of Manatees
by Larry Correia
2018
In this Tom Stranger adventure, the world’s most overqualified insurance agent tackles a case involving kidnapped manatees, bureaucratic villains, and multiverse-spanning policy violations. Expect over-the-top gags, pop culture jabs, and lots of righteous paperwork.
The Monster Hunter Files
by Larry Correia
2017
An anthology of new tales from Monster Hunter International’s long history, featuring stories by Larry Correia and guest authors. From Nazi-fighting super-soldiers to trailer-park elf turf wars, these case files show how MHI battles the weirdest things that go bump in the night.
Monster Hunter Siege
by Larry Correia
2017
When MHI operatives are trapped in a nightmare dimension ruled by ancient evil, Owen Pitt leads the biggest monster-hunting operation in history. To bring their people home, a legion of hunters storms the City of Monsters in an all-or-nothing siege.
If It Bleeds
by Larry Correia
2017
A Monster Hunter International operative tracks a series of gruesome attacks that should not be possible, uncovering a predator clever enough to hide among humans. The hunt forces him to choose between following orders and doing what is right for the victims.
The Adventures of Tom Stranger, Interdimensional Insurance Agent
by Larry Correia
2016
This novella introduces Tom Stranger, a hyper-competent interdimensional insurance agent who treats alien invasions and timeline collapses as claim-adjustment opportunities. When he’s assigned a hapless intern, training day turns into a hilariously over-armed rescue mission.
Sinners
by Larry Correia
2016
Chad Gardenier is sent to reinforce MHI’s Hoodoo Squad in monster-choked New Orleans. Between loup-garou packs, necromancers, and swamp-born horrors, his job is to keep the Big Easy from becoming Hell on Earth, one chaotic hunt at a time.
Grunge
by Larry Correia
2016
In the 1980s, Marine Chad Gardenier gets a second chance at life and a divine mission, joining Monster Hunter International’s Seattle team. His memoirs chronicle bar fights, monster outbreaks, and one man’s very personal war against the darkness.
Alliance of Shadows
by Larry Correia
2016
In the finale of the Dead Six trilogy, mercenary Michael Valentine and thief Lorenzo are drawn into a collapsing Europe, chasing a ruthless woman whose plans could ignite global chaos. Old enemies, covert orders, and impossible choices force them into one last partnership.
Son of the Black Sword
by Larry Correia
2015
On the caste-bound continent of Lok, religion is outlawed and the law is everything. Ashok Vadal, an elite Protector bonded to a deadly ancestor blade, learns his entire life is built on a lie and must choose between blind duty and a rebellion he once hunted.
Tokyo Raider
by Larry Correia
2014
Set in the Grimnoir universe, this story sends a gravity-manipulating sorcerer and a towering battle suit into downtown Tokyo to confront something huge, hungry, and not at all impressed with human skyscrapers.
Murder on the Orient Elite
by Larry Correia
2014
A luxury train full of the super-rich becomes an all-you-can-eat buffet when monsters crash the party. It falls to a very irritated monster hunter to keep the passengers alive and figure out who invited the creatures onboard in the first place.
Monster Hunter Nemesis
by Larry Correia
2014
Agent Franks, the nearly indestructible enforcer of the Monster Control Bureau, discovers his own agency is secretly cloning him in violation of an ancient pact. When Project Nemesis goes live, Franks turns on his masters to stop a new breed of abomination.
Iron Kingdoms Excursions: Season Two, Volume Two
by Larry Correia
2014
Season Two’s second volume offers new short stories from across the Iron Kingdoms, including a Larry Correia piece about soldiers holding the line against horrors that thrive in the dark, backed only by faith, grit, and magitech firepower.
Iron Kingdoms Excursions: Season One, Volume Two
by Larry Correia
2014
A collection of short fiction set in the Iron Kingdoms miniature-game universe. This volume includes a Larry Correia story alongside other authors, spotlighting warjacks, soldiers, and sorcerers fighting for survival on battlefields full of steam and steel.
Iron Kingdoms Excursions: Season One, Volume Six
by Larry Correia
2014
This anthology continues the Iron Kingdoms Excursions line with more stand-alone adventures. Correia’s entry throws readers into a clash of honor, magic, and heavy artillery in a corner of the setting normally seen only on the tabletop.
Iron Kingdoms Excursions: Season One, Volume Four
by Larry Correia
2014
Another set of bite-sized tales from the Iron Kingdoms, featuring mercenaries, warcasters, and monsters from the Warmachine setting. Correia contributes a fast, pulpy story that drops ordinary soldiers into extraordinary, mechanized danger.
Warbound
by Larry Correia
2013
With a magic-eating predator headed for Earth, former PI Jake Sullivan assembles airship pirates, Grimnoir knights, and the world’s most dangerous Actives for a desperate strike into enemy territory before humanity’s power source is devoured.
Swords of Exodus
by Larry Correia
2013
After barely surviving Zubara, Valentine and Lorenzo team up for a high-risk mission against a brutal slaver fortress known as the Crossroads. Betrayals, mercenary armies, and a fanatical cult ensure the rescue operation turns into open war.
Into the Storm
by Larry Correia
2013
In the Iron Kingdoms, a disgraced officer is given command of the Malcontents, a Storm Knight platoon made up of drunks, thieves, and troublemakers. Their baptism of fire on a brutal front proves that misfits can be deadly soldiers when everything goes wrong.
Instruments of War
by Larry Correia
2013
This Iron Kingdoms novella follows Makeda, second daughter of House Balaash, as she claws her way up through betrayal and war to become Supreme Archdomina of the Skorne Empire. It’s a tale of harsh codes, ruthless ambition, and colossal warbeasts.
Monster Hunter Legion
by Larry Correia
2012
Monster hunters from across the globe converge on Las Vegas for a convention, only to unleash a nightmare leftover from a World War Two weapons program. Owen and the MHI crew must contain the creature, the coverup, and cutthroat rival companies.
Spellbound
by Larry Correia
2011
The secretive Grimnoir Society is framed for an assassination attempt on President Roosevelt, turning its knights into fugitives. As Jake Sullivan chases the real conspirators, he uncovers a universe-eating predator that even the world’s strongest Actives may not stop.
Monster Hunter Alpha
by Larry Correia
2011
Earl Harbinger, MHI’s werewolf leader, heads to a snowbound Michigan town to settle a score with an old KGB-made monster. When a new lycanthropy outbreak traps civilians between rival packs, Earl has to decide what kind of monster he’ll be.
Hard Magic
by Larry Correia
2011
In an alternate 1930s where magic users called Actives shape world politics, war veteran and gravity-manipulating PI Jake Sullivan is forced to hunt a bank robber who happens to be an old flame. The case drops him into a secret war over magic itself.
Detroit Christmas
by Larry Correia
2011
Set between Grimnoir novels, this holiday tale drops Jake Sullivan into a wintry Detroit haunted by something far worse than gangsters. A routine job turns into a desperate Christmas Eve showdown with magic, mobsters, and things that do not care about the season.
Dead Six
by Larry Correia
2011
In the war-torn Gulf nation of Zubara, covert operative Michael Valentine leads a government-backed hit squad called Dead Six while master thief Lorenzo is blackmailed into robbing the same targets. As a civil war erupts, the two men’s missions collide violently.
Monster Hunter Vendetta
by Larry Correia
2010
Owen Zastava Pitt, now a full-time hunter with Monster Hunter International, becomes the prime target of a death cult that worships the Old Ones. As killers close in on his family, Owen and MHI have to hunt the hunters first.
Monster Hunter International
by Larry Correia
2009
After his boss turns into a werewolf and tries to kill him, accountant Owen Zastava Pitt survives by throwing the monster out a fourteenth-story window. Recruited by Monster Hunter International, he’s soon facing undead hordes and an ancient entity bent on ending the world.
Where should I start?
If you want modern monster-hunting action: Monster Hunter International → Monster Hunter Vendetta → Monster Hunter Alpha.
If you prefer big epic fantasy: Son of the Black Sword → House of Assassins → Destroyer of Worlds → Tower of Silence.
If alternate-history magic noir sounds fun: Hard Magic → Spellbound → Warbound.
If you like gritty military thrillers without magic: Dead Six → Swords of Exodus → Alliance of Shadows.
If you just want to sample everything: Target Rich Environment → Target Rich Environment, Volume 2 → The Monster Hunter Files.
Author bio
Larry Correia grew up in El Nido, a tiny farming town in California’s Central Valley, where his Portuguese father ran a dairy. He spent his teenage years hauling hay, milking cows, reading anything he could find, and learning that hard work and good stories both matter.
When his family moved to Utah he stayed behind for a year, then joined them and enrolled at Utah State University. Raised Catholic, he joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, served a two-year mission in Alabama, and came home to finish an accounting degree and get married.
Accounting paid the bills, but it was never the only thing on his résumé. Correia co-owned a gun store and shooting range, worked as a military contract accountant, and taught firearms and concealed-carry courses. Along the way he became a competitive shooter and a regular on online gun forums, where he mixed talk of calibers with low-budget monster movie fandom.
Those forums are where his writing career really started. To entertain fellow posters he began serializing a rough draft about an accountant who throws his werewolf boss out a skyscraper window and gets recruited by a monster-hunting company. The story that became Monster Hunter International was self-published, hand-sold to that niche audience, and still managed to land on the Entertainment Weekly bestseller list.
That unexpected success drew the attention of Baen Books, which reissued Monster Hunter International in 2009 and signed him for more. The Monster Hunter novels grew into a long-running urban fantasy franchise, adding spin-offs like Monster Hunter Memoirs and anthologies such as The Monster Hunter Files. In parallel he launched the 1930s magic-noir Grimnoir Chronicles with Hard Magic, and then the epic fantasy Saga of the Forgotten Warrior beginning with Son of the Black Sword.
Correia has also co-written multiple series, often blending his love of action with his co-authors’ specialties. With Mike Kupari he produced the near-future military thrillers of the Dead Six trilogy. With Steve Diamond he built the grim military fantasy of Servants of War in The Age of Ravens. With John D. Brown he shifted into hard science-fiction adventure for Gun Runner. Shorter work is collected in his Target Rich Environment volumes and scattered across licensed worlds from the Iron Kingdoms to other authors’ universes.
In 2013 he left accounting, gun retail, and every other day job behind to write full time.
Correia’s audiobooks have earned Audie Awards, his fantasy novels have picked up multiple Dragon Awards, and his name appears regularly on bestseller lists. He also became a central figure in the Sad Puppies campaigns that tried to reshape Hugo Award nominations in the mid-2010s, an episode that put him in the middle of often heated debates about popularity, politics, and genre awards.
Outside of fiction he’s written extensively about firearms and self-defense, culminating in the book In Defense of the Second Amendment. He co-hosts the WriterDojo podcast with Steve Diamond, where the two talk craft, business, and the less glamorous parts of making a living with words. He now lives in Utah, often jokingly referred to as “Yard Moose Mountain,” with his family, a lot of books, and enough gun knowledge to keep his fictional firefights feeling real.
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