Chuck Wendig Books In Order – Complete List

Chuck Wendig is the New York Times bestselling author of the Zeroes techno-thriller series. A novelist and screenwriter, as well as a game designer (he was one of the developers of the popular Hunter: The Vigil game line), Chuck Wendig usually writes in several different genres, including various mystery subgenres with series such as Zeroes, a techno-thriller series, Miriam Black, a paranormal/urban fantasy crime series and Mookie Pearl, another urban fantasy/paranormal crime mystery series.

Here are the Chuck Wendig books in order for his series, standalone novels, short stories, collections, anthologies, and his non-fiction works, along with his game and graphic novels contributions.

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Latest Chuck Wendig Books

The Staircase in the Woods, April 2025

Miriam Black Books in Publication Order

Mookie Pearl Books in Publication Order

Heartland Trilogy Books in Publication Order

  1. Under the Empyrean Sky, 2013
  2. Blightborn, 2014
  3. The Harvest, 2015

Heartland Short Stories

Zeroes Books in Publication Order

  1. Zeroes, 2015
  2. Invasive, 2016

Atlanta Burns Books in Publication Order

  1. Atlanta Burns, 2015
  2. The Hunt, 2016

Turok Series

with Aubrey Sitterson

Wanderers Books in Publication Order

  1. Wanderers, 2019
  2. Wayward, 2022

Oberon’s Meaty Mysteries in Publication Order

with Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne

Series The Author Contributed To

Comic Books / Graphic Novels

Short Story Collections and Anthologies

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  • Beauty Has Her Way, 2011
  • Human Tales, 2011
  • Feeding Kate, 2012
  • Gimme Shelter, 2012
  • Tales of the Far West, 2012
  • Don’t Read This Book: 13 Forbidden Tales from the Mad City, 2013 (author edited)
  • The Malfeasance Occasional, 2013
  • Trouble in the Heartland: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Bruce Springsteen, 2014
  • Crimespree Magazine #64, 2016
  • From a Certain Point of View: Star Wars, 2017
  • Nights of the Living Dead, 2017 (edited by Jonathan Maberry)
  • Grimdark Magazine Issue #27, 2021
  • Roots of My Fears, 2025
  • The End of the World as We Know It, 2025
  • Appalachian Strong: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the Survivors of Hurricane Helene, 2025

Standalone Novels in Publication Order

Non-Fiction Books in Publication Order

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  • Confessions of a Freelance Penmonkey, 2011
  • 250 Things You Should Know About Writing, 2011
  • Revenge of the Penmonkey, 2011
  • 500 Ways to Be a Better Writer, 2011
  • 500 More Ways To Be A Better Writer, 2012
  • 500 Ways to Tell a Better Story, 2012
  • The Kick-Ass Writer, 2013
  • 30 Days in the Word Mines, 2014
  • You Can Do Anything, Magic Skeleton!, 2023
  • Gentle Writing Advice: How to Be a Writer Without Destroying Yourself

Chuck Wendig Biography

Chuck Wendig books in order

Chuck Wendig (full name Charles David Wendi) was born in 1976 in New Hope, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

Before writing novels, his focus was on writing RPG stories to computer games. He worked quite a lot as a freelance writer and game designer for White Wolf Publishing’s World of Darkness lines (which includes Vampire: The Requiem, Werewolf: The Forsaken, and Hunter: The Vigil) during the 2000s. This background helped a lot with his later storytelling, which often featuring really dark and complex themes, not to mention his notorious morally ambiguous characters.

Chuck Wendig also became popular through this blog, Terribleminds, which he launched in the late 2000s. A lot of aspiring writers looked up to his blog because of the no-nonsense, frank writing advice, spicy metaphors, and his famous listicles like “25 Things You Should Know About…”

He is, however, best known for his Miriam Black urban fantasy crime series about a protagonist who can see how and when people will die just by touching them. He also wrote the Star Wars: The Aftermath series, and my all-time favorite techno thriller novel, Zeroes.

But from these novels already we can see that his bibliography is quite impressive and eclectic. From adult horror (The Book of Accidents, Black River Orchard) to epic sci-fi ((Wanderers, Wayward), Star Wars canon novels (Aftermath trilogy), middle-grade fantasy (Dust & Grim), and pulp-style series like The Heartland Trilogy, Atlanta Burns, not to mention The Mookie Pearl books, and role playing games like Hunter: The Vigil, Chuck Wendig has really tried it all.

Aftermath was a Lucasfilms request, and he created the trilogy to bridge the gap between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens in Disney’s new canon. While commercially it was a great success, Star Wars fans gave it mixed reviews, probably because he introduced some lesser-known characters, not to mention that he also added new ones.

He has co-written Collapsus, a hybrid web project for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award, and he has even put his fingers on indie films, co-writing Pandemic. He also participated in the Sundance Screenwriters Lab in 2010 with collaborator Lance Weiler.

Wanderers, written in 2019, was a novel related to the current pandemic. It had several nominations, and it was even called a modern The Stand. Wayward was the sequel that also included AI ethics, politics, in a world that collapsed. And then we have his folk-horror novel Black River Orchard about cursed apples which won yet another award and got a nomination as well.

And if his fiction works are not enough, he also wrote several non-fiction books about writing, giving crafting advice and motivational ‘chicken soups’.

Another place where he is quite vocal is X, the former Twitter, where he talks a lot about diversity, and is eager to defend creators’ right. And as he does it on his blog, he is also eager to call out nonsense whenever he sees it. In fact, he is so outspoken that in 2018 he was fired by Marvel for his political comments.

Chuck Wendig is often found at the Comic Con where he is busy autographing his latest book. He currently lives in Pennsylvania with his wife, son, and a red dog.

Chuck Wendig Awards and Nominations

Over the year, Chuck Wendig’s books received or were nomination for several wards, including the below.

  • Blackbirds was nominated for the Astounding Award in the Best New Writer category in 2013
  • Wanderers was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award in the Superior Achievement in a Novel category in 2019
  • Wanderers was nominated for the Locus Award in the Best Science Fiction Novel category in 2020
  • Wanderers was nominated for the Dragon Award in the Best Science Fiction Novel category in 2020
  • The Book of Accidents was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award in the Superior Achievement in a Novel category in 2021
  • The Book of Accidents was nominated for the Locus Award in the Best Horror Novel category in 2022
  • The Book of Accidents was nominated for the British Fantasy Award in the Best Horror Novel category in 2022
  • The Book of Accidents received the Dragon Award in the Best Horror Novel category in 2022
  • Black River Orchard was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award in the Superior Achievement in a Novel category in 2023
  • Black River Orchard received the Dragon Award in the Best Horror Novel category in 2024