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If you go over to the left hand navigation and click on The Books > Deathlands that will take you to a complete listing of the books in the series. From there you can click on any book to view a detail page with more information about that particular book, including reader reviews.

Generally speaking the first 33 books tend to have a great deal of book-to-book continuity, with major characters coming and going and with the events of each book leading directly into the next. This is because for that period there was a single author writing the series. Beginning with Stoneface, the books began to be written by a rotating stable of authors. Because of that, the books tend to be much more episodic and have almost no direct book-to-book continuity. Some of the stories are grouped into trilogies or duologies, and you can see which ones those are by looking at the detail pages. Those ones will have subtitles like "Book 1 of the Baronies Trilogy". Any of those should be read as a group. Beyond that, you can pick up pretty much any book and read it as a standalone without any trouble at all.

I recommend you look at the reader reviews, as the quality of the books has been pretty scatter shot in the past few years. There are some real gems like Cannibal Moon, and then there are some real clunkers like Strontium Swamp. If you want a truly excellent read, I very much recommend you pick up the two most recent titles, Plague Lords and Dark Resurrection, as they are truly excellent.

LOL...strontium swamp was a new low for the entire brand...LOL....not just the series....I could not find one endearing quality to that rubbish except for the chortle I got from the killer dolphins....trust me that is not a spoiler...more a warning...LOL...no I'm not a newbie...just been away for awhile since the site was rehashed.  I can get a hold of tons of the books here...just depends on what you want to pay for them...obviously the more you ordered the cheaper they could be shipped.  I wouldn't charge you more then cost...LOL I promise.

Thanks, Ron. I just recieved my first Deathlands book on Saturday. It`s "Thunder Road" and I took it just because it was available on german amazon. I don't know if it's a highlight of the series and I have read only about 100 pages till now but I really like it. At least from the setting and the atmosphere it's quite what I was looking (and hoped) for.
For the books to come I will check out the reviews here (if available). There will be definitely more Deathlands books on my shelf, I'm sure