The X Files Books in Order

Brutal murders near Fort Dix bring Mulder and Scully to a military community with few clear leads. Reports of a killer who blends into the surroundings and local tales of goblins complicate their search for an explanation.

A nuclear weapons researcher dies under circumstances that leave his body dangerously radioactive. When unrelated victims suffer similar deaths, Mulder and Scully search for the connection behind a case with implications far beyond the initial murder.

Mulder and Scully travel to the Yucatán jungle after an archaeological team disappears at ancient Mayan ruins. Their investigation encounters a strange electronic signal beneath the site, apparently directed toward the stars, raising questions beyond an ordinary disappearance.

Mutilated bodies appear around Albuquerque without an obvious pattern of age, sex, or background. Mulder and Scully investigate the victims' connection to a natural disaster that seems increasingly unnatural as they pursue the source of the deaths.

A diseased body in a burned genetic research laboratory raises fears of an engineered plague. Mulder and Scully discover experiments involving microscopic machines designed to heal, and must determine whether a potential medical breakthrough has become lethal.

An ancient discovery beneath a Texas town threatens to expose a global conspiracy involving an alien virus. In this film novelization, Mulder and Scully pursue answers while powerful forces work to protect plans that could endanger humanity.

Mulder and Scully investigate a disastrous skin-grafting incident that points to biotech experimentation, hidden agendas, and something monstrous. The case runs from a New York hospital to Thailand and leans hard into medical horror.

When women vanish in rural Virginia and human remains appear in the snow, a disgraced priest claims disturbing visions. Former FBI agents Mulder and Scully return to investigate, uncertain whether his revelations can be trusted.

This X-Files anthology sends Mulder and Scully into a fresh stack of creepy investigations, from monsters to conspiracies. Gini Koch's story, "Sewers," follows a string of teen disappearances into very dangerous underground territory.

In this X-Files anthology, Ryan joins other writers to send Mulder and Scully toward new paranormal puzzles. Her contribution adds music, codes, and eerie uncertainty to the franchise's usual mix of investigation and dread.