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Completed Sci-Fi Book Series

Which sci-fi book series are complete?

BookBinge tracks 33 finished science fiction series whose final book is already out. The best-known places to start are The Hunger Games, Dune and The Expanse.

33 series · Updated 18 October 2026

Science fiction book series whose final book is out, from YA dystopias to space operas. Use the trilogy filter for a three-book run.

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1. 

   The Hunger Games

   Suzanne Collins

   Teenagers are forced into a televised fight to the death, told by a sharp-eyed girl from a starving mining district.

   5 books~2,200 pages2008–2025★ 4.6

   Start with The Hunger Games (2008) · Reading order →

2. 

   Dune

   Frank Herbert

   Politics, religion and ecology collide on a desert planet that holds the most valuable substance in the galaxy.

   6 books~2,900 pages1965–1985★ 4.7

   Start with Dune (1965) · Reading order →

3. 

   The Expanse

   James S.A. Corey

   Hard-edged space opera across a colonised solar system, following one ship's crew as a strange alien substance appears.

   9 books~5,100 pages2011–2021★ 4.6

   Start with Leviathan Wakes (2011) · Reading order →

4. 

   Remembrance of Earth's Past

   Cixin Liu

   Chinese hard science fiction that starts during the Cultural Revolution and scales up to physics puzzles, alien contact and cosmic timescales.

   3 books2008–2010★ 4.4

   Start with The Three-Body Problem (2008) · Reading order →

5. 

   Foundation

   Isaac Asimov

   Idea-driven classic science fiction spanning centuries, where a mathematician's statistical predictions guide how a galaxy rebuilds after imperial collapse.

   7 books~2,600 pages1951–1993★ 4.4

   Start with Foundation (1951) · Reading order →

6. 

   Hyperion Cantos

   Dan Simmons

   Pilgrims on a far world trade life stories en route to a deadly creature, each tale written in a different genre.

   4 books~2,200 pages1989–1997★ 4.3

   Start with Hyperion (1989) · Reading order →

7. 

   Ender's Saga

   Orson Scott Card

   Opens as a military school story about a child commander, then turns into slower, philosophical novels about empathy and alien minds.

   5 books~2,100 pages1985–2008★ 4.4

   Start with Ender's Game (1985) · Reading order →

8. 

   Skyward

   Brandon Sanderson

   Young adult science fiction about a stubborn girl training as a starfighter pilot to defend humanity's last refuge from alien raids.

   4 books~1,900 pages2018–2023★ 4.5

   Start with Skyward (2018) · Reading order →

9. 

   Divergent

   Veronica Roth

   In a future Chicago split into personality-based factions, a girl who fits none of them hides what she is.

   3 books~1,500 pages2011–2013★ 4.3

   Start with Divergent (2011) · Reading order →

10. 

    The Maze Runner

    James Dashner

    Boys wake with no memories inside a walled glade ringed by a shifting maze, and must work out why.

    8 books~3,000 pages2009–2025★ 4.2

    Start with The Maze Runner (2009) · Reading order →

11. 

    The Broken Earth

    N.K. Jemisin

    On a continent hit by recurring apocalypses, a mother with feared earth-moving powers searches for her daughter.

    3 books~1,400 pages2015–2017★ 4.6

    Start with The Fifth Season (2015) · Reading order →

12. 

    Mars Trilogy

    Kim Stanley Robinson

    Two centuries of settling the red planet, heavy on science, politics and ecology, for readers who like detail more than pace.

    3 books~2,000 pages1992–1996★ 4.1

    Start with Red Mars (1992) · Reading order →

13. 

    The Dark Tower

    Stephen King

    Western, fantasy and horror blended into one long quest across linked worlds, with ties to many other Stephen King novels.

    8 books~4,300 pages1982–2012★ 4.1

    Start with The Gunslinger (1982) · Reading order →

14. 

    Arc of a Scythe

    Neal Shusterman

    Teens apprenticed to licensed killers in a future without natural death; YA science fiction with a sharp ethical edge.

    3 books~1,600 pages2016–2019★ 4.5

    Start with Scythe (2016) · Reading order →

15. 

    The Lunar Chronicles

    Marissa Meyer

    Fairy tales retold as science fiction, starting with a cyborg mechanic in New Beijing, with a new heroine added each book.

    4 books~2,300 pages2012–2015★ 4.4

    Start with Cinder (2012) · Reading order →

16. 

    Legend

    Marie Lu

    Alternating chapters from a street criminal and a military prodigy in a divided future America, fast and cinematic for YA readers.

    4 books~1,500 pages2011–2020★ 4.3

    Start with Legend (2011) · Reading order →

17. 

    Uglies

    Scott Westerfeld

    Dystopian YA where everyone gets cosmetic surgery at sixteen, told by a girl who starts questioning the system before her turn.

    4 books~1,600 pages2005–2007★ 4.1

    Start with Uglies (2005) · Reading order →

18. 

    The Giver

    Lois Lowry

    Four linked novels set in different closed communities, starting with a boy chosen to hold a whole society's hidden memories.

    4 books~990 pages1993–2012★ 4.1

    Start with The Giver (1993) · Reading order →

19. 

    The Culture

    Iain M. Banks

    Standalone novels set in a vast post-scarcity civilization run by AI Minds, often seen through its enemies or its reluctant agents.

    9 books~4,200 pages1987–2012★ 4.81

    Start with Consider Phlebas (1987) · Reading order →

20. 

    Rama

    Arthur C. Clarke

    First-contact science fiction in which astronauts explore a silent alien cylinder crossing the solar system; later books turn into character-driven sagas.

    4 books~1,700 pages1973–1993★ 4.8

    Start with Rendezvous with Rama (1973) · Reading order →

21. 

    The Illuminae Files

    Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff

    Young adult space thriller told through hacked files, chat logs, AI transcripts and surveillance reports from a fleeing refugee fleet.

    3 books~1,900 pages2015–2018★ 4.62

    Start with Illuminae (2015) · Reading order →

22. 

    Zones of Thought

    Vernor Vinge

    Big-idea space opera where how fast minds and machines can think depends on where in the galaxy you are.

    3 books~1,800 pages1992–2011★ 4.61

    Start with A Fire Upon the Deep (1992) · Reading order →

23. 

    Imperial Radch

    Ann Leckie

    Space opera narrated by a warship's AI now confined to one human body, set in an empire whose language ignores gender.

    3 books~1,200 pages2013–2015★ 4.61

    Start with Ancillary Justice (2013) · Reading order →

24. 

    Wayfarers

    Becky Chambers

    Kind, low-stakes science fiction about everyday people and aliens sharing ships and stations; each book stands mostly on its own.

    4 books~1,600 pages2015–2021★ 4.61

    Start with The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (2015) · Reading order →

25. 

    The Interdependency

    John Scalzi

    Quick, wisecracking space opera about an empire whose faster-than-light routes are vanishing and the unready new ruler who must cope.

    3 books~1,000 pages2017–2020★ 4.62

    Start with The Collapsing Empire (2017) · Reading order →

26. 

    Sun Eater

    Christopher Ruocchio

    Far-future space opera written as the memoir of an aging man explaining how he came to be blamed for burning a star.

    7 books~5,200 pages2018–2025★ 4.61

    Start with Empire of Silence (2018) · Reading order →

27. 

    Night's Dawn

    Peter F. Hamilton

    Sprawling space opera in which the souls of the dead begin possessing the living, blending horror, politics, and starship action.

    3 books~2,500 pages1996–1999★ 4.61

    Start with The Reality Dysfunction (1996) · Reading order →

28. 

    Salvation Sequence

    Peter F. Hamilton

    Two timelines braid together here: a near-future team investigating a crashed alien ship, and children raised for a war centuries later.

    3 books~1,800 pages2018–2020★ 4.61

    Start with Salvation (2018) · Reading order →

29. 

    The Themis Files

    Sylvain Neuvel

    Documentary-style science fiction built from transcripts and logs, as investigators piece together a giant robot found buried in parts.

    3 books~1,000 pages2016–2018★ 4.42

    Start with Sleeping Giants (2016) · Reading order →

30. 

    The Final Architecture

    Adrian Tchaikovsky

    Space opera following a salvage crew and a traumatised veteran of humanity's war against planet-sculpting aliens who have returned.

    3 books2021–2023★ 4.3

    Start with Shards of Earth (2021) · Reading order →

31. 

    Terra Ignota

    Ada Palmer

    Dense, philosophical science fiction set in a 25th-century world without nations, narrated by a convict whose account cannot be trusted.

    4 books~1,800 pages2016–2021★ 4.0

    Start with Too Like the Lightning (2016) · Reading order →

32. 

    Newsflesh

    Mira Grant

    Political thriller with zombies, following sibling bloggers covering a presidential campaign in a world that learned to live with infection.

    4 books~2,400 pages2010–2016★ 3.9

    Start with Feed (2010) · Reading order →

33. 

    Parasitology

    Mira Grant

    Near-future medical horror where most people carry an engineered tapeworm, told by a woman who woke from a coma without memories.

    3 books~1,600 pages2013–2015★ 3.7

    Start with Parasite (2013) · Reading order →

How this list was built

This page lists every science fiction book series in BookBinge's catalogue of 333 series whose status we checked against the author's or publisher's own announcements on 11 October 2026. A series that has another main book announced, or whose author has hinted at more without confirming, stays off the list. It is sorted with the best-known series first; use the menu to sort by length, the year the last book came out, or average rating. Page totals are summed from each book's page count, and the catalogue is the same one the BookBinge app uses, so new books and status changes reach this page when the catalogue is updated.

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