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The Extraordinaries reading order

TJ Klune

  1. The Extraordinaries2020
  2. Flash Fire2021
  3. Heat Wave2022
8.08.0 / 10
101 ratings
Score
3 volumes
Volumes
2020–2022
Published
about 21 h
Reading time
Ongoing
Status

Quick answer

The Extraordinaries
Start withThe Extraordinaries2020 · Volume 1 of 3
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Publication order

3 volumes2020–2022Ongoing

  • TJ Klune’s young adult superhero comedy: Nick Bell, a gay teenager with ADHD, writes wildly popular fan fiction about Nova City’s hero Shadow Star and decides to become extraordinary himself, dragging his long-suffering best friend Seth along.
  • Loud, warm and very funny, a love letter to fandom.
  • The first book is the one with enough ratings, and they are good.
  • A trilogy; read in order.

A plan for the whole series

3 volumes, 1,156 pages, about 21 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 4 weeks.

  • The series is still running; the last volume came out in 2022. You will wait for the next one anyway, so no need to rush.

Stages

2 stages, with 1 short book from outside the series between them. You finish around November 30, 2026, 4 days later than in one go.

  1. Stage 114 h19 daysby November 17, 2026
  2. Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.82 h, by November 21, 2026. A short book from another shelf, so you come back to the series hungry.
  3. Stage 27 h9 daysby November 30, 2026
    • 3. Heat Wave2022 · 380 pages · 7 h
  4. The end of the series
    November 30, 2026
In one goNovember 26, 2026about 4 weeks
In stages, with breaksNovember 30, 2026about 5 weeks · +2 h of other books

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How this plan is calculated

The plan comes from the pages and ratings of each volume: we split the series into stages of about three weeks’ reading, size each break to the stage before it, and read the chance of finishing from how many readers rate the last volume compared with the first. How we work out the plan →

Every volume in order

Read: 0 of 3
  1. The Extraordinaries
    The Extraordinaries2020 · 101 ratingsStart here
    8.08.0 / 10
  2. Flash Fire
    Flash Fire2021 · 43 ratings · Not ranked yetBuy
    –Not ranked yet
  3. Heat Wave
    Heat Wave2022 · 28 ratings · Not ranked yetBuy
    –Not ranked yet

Order checked by hand · Order and years: Wikidata (CC0). Spotted an error? Tell us. · Data updated October 29, 2026

Frequently asked questions

Which The Extraordinaries book is the longest?

“The Extraordinaries” is the longest at 400 pages; the shortest is “Flash Fire” with 376 pages.