Books in Order: A Comprehensive Guide to Kage Baker's Novels
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Kage Baker (1952–2010) built her reputation on the Company series — novels, novellas, and story collections that fold carefully researched history into science fiction with a tongue-in-cheek streak. Her debut, In the Garden of Iden, arrived in 1997, and new books kept appearing even after her death from cancer in January 2010; this guide's list runs all the way to In the Company of Thieves, published in 2013.
Twelve books, spanning 1997 to 2013, ordered by original publication. Baker could swing from comic to tragic inside a single page, and reading in sequence is the best way to appreciate how she held that balance across a whole series.
Start with Book 1: In the Garden of Iden
Find it on Amazon →| Start here In the Garden of Iden | (1997) | 📚 Find In the Garden of Iden on Amazon → |
| Sky Coyote | (1999) | 📚 Find Sky Coyote on Amazon → |
| Mendoza in Hollywood | (2000) | 📚 Find Mendoza in Hollywood on Amazon → |
| The Graveyard Game | (2001) | 📚 Find The Graveyard Game on Amazon → |
| The Life of the World to Come | (2004) | 📚 Find The Life of the World to Come on Amazon → |
| The Children of the Company | (2005) | 📚 Find The Children of the Company on Amazon → |
| The Machine’s Child | (2006) | 📚 Find The Machine’s Child on Amazon → |
| Rude Mechanicals | (2007) | 📚 Find Rude Mechanicals on Amazon → |
| The Sons of Heaven | (2007) | 📚 Find The Sons of Heaven on Amazon → |
| The Empress of Mars | (2009) | 📚 Find The Empress of Mars on Amazon → |
| Not Less Than Gods | (2009) | 📚 Find Not Less Than Gods on Amazon → |
| In the Company of Thieves | (2013) | 📚 Find In the Company of Thieves on Amazon → |