Larry Correia (John Ringo) Books in Order
Part ofJohn Ringo Books in OrderSee all Larry Correia and John Ringo collaborations in one place, with reading order, summaries, and notes on how these Monster Hunter spin-offs connect to both authors’ wider work.
Last updated: December 25, 2025
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Publication Order
3 books
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.
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.
Series background & context
Larry Correia (John Ringo) gathers the projects where Correia’s Monster Hunter universe meets Ringo’s voice head-on. These are the books in which Correia is actively co-plotting and revising, not just loaning out the setting, so you get a true blend of both writers.
The best-known titles here are the Monster Hunter Memoirs novels, which take the established MHI timeline and roll it back to earlier decades. Ringo’s first-person narrators bring a looser, more confessional style to Correia’s cosmology of monsters, government conspiracies, and bounty-hunting contractors.
Correia keeps the rules straight—what can kill a particular creature, how the PUFF system works, what entities lurk behind the scenes—while Ringo leans into wild set pieces, gallows humor, and characters who cope with trauma by talking too loud. Together they produce books that feel both familiar to Monster Hunter fans and distinctly their own thing.
This page is designed to help you slot those collaborations into your broader reading. If you have read only Correia so far, it shows where to dip into Ringo’s catalog next. If you are a Ringo reader trying Monster Hunter from the side door, it points back to the mainline series and to other co-written projects that might scratch the same itch.
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