Ender's Game (novel series)

The Ender's Game series (sometimes called Enderverse) is a series of books written by Orson Scott Card. There are 2 major series of the Ender's Game series: the Ender series and the Shadow series.

 Ender series 

The Ender series includes the books Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind. "Ender's Game" used to be a short story, but the author expanded it to make the novel Ender's Game.

 Shadow series 

The Shadow series (also called the "Bean Quartet") starts with Ender's Shadow, followed by 4 other books about the lives of the people Ender left behind. Ender's Shadow occurs at the same time and place (Battle School) as Ender's Game does, but instead in the view of Bean rather than Ender. Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, and Shadow of the Giant are stories about world dominance on Earth after the Bugger War in which the children at Battle School and Ender's older brother, Peter Wiggin, are main characters. Shadows in Flight, a sequel to Shadow of the Giant, is planned to come out; however, it will start after Children of the Mind, not Shadow of the Giant, and will combine the two Ender's Game series: the Ender series and the Shadow series. Shadows in Flight has recently been renamed to Shadows Alive.

 Stories in the series 
There are 11 stories in the Ender's Game series.  According to Orson Scott Card, the author, you do not have to read the books in any required order, except that Xenocide should be read right before Children of the Mind.

The books can be read in the order they were written/published in or by date times in the novels.

 Publication date 

 Ender's Game
 Speaker for the Dead 
 Xenocide
 Children of the Mind
 Ender's Shadow
 Shadow of the Hegemon
 Shadow Puppets
 Shadow of the Giant
 "First Meetings" (short story)
 A War of Gifts: An Ender Story
 Ender in Exile
Shadows in Flight
The Last Shadow

 Dates in series 

 "First Meetings" (short story)
 Ender's Game
 A War of Gifts: An Ender Story (the same time as Ender's Game is happening)
 Ender's Shadow (Ender's Game as seen by Bean)
 Ender in Exile (begins at the end of Ender's Game and ends after Giant leading into Speaker)
 Shadow of the Hegemon
 Shadow Puppets
 Shadow of the Giant
 Speaker for the Dead
 Xenocide
 Children of the Mind

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