Patrick Ness Books in Order

In the odd seaside city of Hennington, where a herd of rhinoceros roams the streets, Jon Noth returns after decades away to win back his former lover, Cora Larsson. Now the city’s long‑serving mayor and happily married, Cora is at the center of tangled, comic and political upheavals.

This adult short‑story collection spins strange, funny tales from skewed urban myths and everyday absurdities. From eccentric telemarketers to benevolent kidnappers, the pieces explore loneliness, obsession and the weird ways people try to make sense of their lives.

In Prentisstown, where every man’s thoughts spill out as constant “Noise” and all the women are said to be dead, Todd Hewitt discovers an impossible pocket of silence. Fleeing with his dog Manchee, he meets Viola and uncovers the brutal secret his town has hidden from him.

Captured in New Prentisstown, Todd is forced to work for President Prentiss while Viola is drawn into a rebel movement called the Answer. As war brews, both must decide how far they’ll go, and who they’re willing to trust.

In the final Chaos Walking novel, full‑scale war erupts between President Prentiss’s army, Mistress Coyle’s Answer and the Spackle. Todd and Viola try to broker peace while new settlers arrive and the Noise makes every choice, betrayal and hope impossible to hide.

Set before The Knife of Never Letting Go, this prequel follows Viola aboard the settlers’ scout ship and through the crash that strands her on New World. It reveals what she lost long before she ever met Todd Hewitt.

Every night at 12:07, a monster made of yew branches visits Conor, whose mother is gravely ill, and insists on telling him unsettling stories. The creature forces Conor to face the truth he has been hiding from himself about fear, anger and letting go.

After drowning in a freezing ocean, sixteen‑year‑old Seth wakes up bruised and alone in an abandoned version of his English childhood town. As he searches the empty streets and meets two other survivors, he begins to question reality, memory and whether there is more than this life.

Set after Monsters of Men, this story follows Lee and Wilf on an expedition into New World’s frozen north. Amid ice, isolation and strange threats in the snow, they confront what peace really means for the newest settlers.

Middle‑aged printer George Duncan rescues an injured crane from his London garden, then meets the enigmatic artist Kumiko the next day. As they create haunting art together and fall into a hesitant romance, myth and everyday life blur in a story about love, anger and forgiveness.

In the fishing village of Horizon, a human teenager forms a forbidden bond with a Spackle just as tension between species is about to erupt into war. Their fragile connection hints at a different future than the one New World receives.

In 1945 small‑town America, children become obsessed with “Truth Tellers”, snake‑like devices that attach under the tongue and force them to blurt out secrets. The Fifth Doctor and Nyssa investigate the fad and uncover a far more sinister alien plan behind it.

Mikey and his friends just want to graduate, fall in love and stay alive while the so‑called “indie kids” in town battle yet another apocalyptic threat. This darkly funny novel follows the ordinary teens in the background, dealing with anxiety, family drama and first love.

Over one intense day in a small Washington town, Adam Thorn faces a showdown with his religious family, a predatory boss and the boy who broke his heart. At the same time, the restless spirit of a murdered girl walks the lake, searching for release of her own.

Whale apprentice Bathsheba serves under fearsome Captain Alexandra in a world where whales hunt humans. When their pod finds a lone survivor on a ruined ship, the trail leads toward legendary Toby Wick and forces Bathsheba to question an endless, violent war.

In 1950s Washington State, biracial farm girl Sarah Dewhurst’s father hires a blue dragon to clear their fields. The dragon believes Sarah is central to a prophecy, pulling her into a collision of cultists, assassins, FBI agents and world‑ending stakes.

Ant Stevenson is trying to work out what it means to be a boy who likes boys while keeping his secret sexual “experiments” with macho friend Charlie hidden. Torn between Charlie, openly queer classmate Jack and his own fears, Ant confronts friendship, desire and the pressure to fit in.

Zeke, a self‑doubting monitor lizard at a mostly mammal middle school, reluctantly becomes a hall monitor alongside friends Daniel, Alicia and hawk Meil. When pelican bully Pelicarnassus targets them, school squabbles spiral into outlandish supervillain plots, even as Zeke’s family grapples with grief and money worries.

In the second Lizard Nobody adventure, Zeke’s nerves spike when Daniel shows up in a mysterious pink hat and a new guidance counselor from Pelicarnassus’s crime family arrives. A field trip, a fresh supervillain scheme and shifting friendships force Zeke to rethink what makes someone important.