Reading order
Wyman Ford reading order
1- 7.47.4 / 1065 ratings
- Score
- 4 volumes
- Volumes
- 2005–2014
- Published
- about 25 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
- Thriller
- Genre
Quick answer
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Publication order
4 volumes2005–2014Completed
- Douglas Preston’s solo techno-thrillers, written apart from his Pendergast books with Lincoln Child, about Wyman Ford, a former CIA agent who left a monastery to become an investigator.
- Each book takes on a big scientific premise: a Tyrannosaurus fossil in a New Mexico canyon, a supercollider that may be talking to God, a strange impact on the Moon, an AI built for exploring Titan.
- Fast and full of ideas, but ratings are low.
- Each stands alone.
A plan for the whole series
4 volumes, 1,496 pages, about 25 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 5 weeks.
Stages
2 stages, with 1 short book from outside the series between them. You finish around December 9, 2026, 4 days later than in one go.
- Stage 114 h19 daysby November 17, 2026
- Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.8
- Stage 213 h18 daysby December 9, 2026
- The end of the series
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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
Order checked by hand · Order and years: Wikidata (CC0). Spotted an error? Tell us. · Data updated October 29, 2026
Frequently asked questions
Which Wyman Ford book is the longest?
“Blasphemy” is the longest at 415 pages; the shortest is “The Kraken Project” with 352 pages.