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Laundry Files Series

13 primary works • 21 total works
The multiple Hugo Award-winning Laundry Files series follows the exploits of a former tech support worker now-turned field agent, Bob Howard, at the Laundry, a top secret British intelligence agency dedicated to protecting the cosmos and the human race from nefarious supernatural phenomenon beyond spacetime. Starting off with The Atrocity Archives,…

Book 1

The Atrocity Archives
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3.89 · 27187 Ratings · 2225 Reviews · published 2004 · 48 editions
NEVER VOLUNTEER FOR ACTIVE DUTY ...
Bob Howard is a…

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    Book 1.5

    The Concrete Jungle
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    3.85     · 2708 Ratings · 127 Reviews · published 2004 · 5 editions
    Bob gets called out on account of a monster progra…

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    Book 2

    The Jennifer Morgue
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    4.02     · 15014 Ratings · 865 Reviews · published 2006 · 1 edition
    Bob Howard, from The Laundry, secret UK agency aga…

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    Book 2.5

    Down on the Farm
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    3.97     · 3639 Ratings · 122 Reviews · published 2008 · 6 editions
    In Charles Stross’s novel The Atrocity Archive and…

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    Book 2.9

    Equoid
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    3.96     · 5125 Ratings · 425 Reviews · published 2013 · 7 editions
    The "Laundry" is Britain's super-secret agency dev…

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    Book 3

    The Fuller Memorandum
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    4.19     · 12647 Ratings · 635 Reviews · published 2010 · 25 editions
    Computational demonologist Bob Howard catches up o…

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    Book 3.5

    Overtime
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    3.92     · 4100 Ratings · 168 Reviews · published 2009 · 5 editions
    Introduced to readers in the novels The Atrocity A…

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    Book 2.5, 2.9, 3.5

    Three Tales from the Laundry Files
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    4.21     · 609 Ratings · 26 Reviews · published 2014 · 2 editions
    Enjoy two short stories and a novella from the Lau…

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    Book 4

    The Apocalypse Codex
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    4.18     · 11382 Ratings · 570 Reviews · published 2012 · 21 editions
    For outstanding heroism in the field (despite hims…

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    Book 5

    The Rhesus Chart
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    4.19     · 9432 Ratings · 570 Reviews · published 2014 · 21 editions
    LONDON CAN DRAIN THE LIFE OUT OF YOU . . .

    Bob Howa…

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    Book 6

    The Annihilation Score
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    3.91     · 7639 Ratings · 596 Reviews · published 2015 · 17 editions
    In this this science fiction spy thriller by Hugo …

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    Book 6.5

    Escape from Yokai Land
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    3.92     · 1893 Ratings · 186 Reviews · published 2022 · 9 editions
    Regular readers of Charles Stross's Laundry Files …

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    Book 7

    The Nightmare Stacks
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    4.23     · 6766 Ratings · 518 Reviews · 14 editions
    Alex Schwartz had a great job and a promising futu…

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    Book 8

    The Delirium Brief
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    4.26     · 5799 Ratings · 436 Reviews · published 2017 · 12 editions
    Someone is dead set to air the spy agency’s dirty …

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    Book 9

    The Labyrinth Index
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    4.14     · 4655 Ratings · 305 Reviews · published 2018 · 11 editions
    The arrival of vast, alien, inhuman intelligences …

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    Book 10

    Dead Lies Dreaming
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    3.97     · 3386 Ratings · 343 Reviews · published 2020 · 10 editions

    In a world where magic has gone mainstream, a poli…

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    Book 11

    Quantum of Nightmares
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    4.11     · 2336 Ratings · 186 Reviews · published 2022 · 12 editions
    A unique blend of espionage thrills and Lovecrafti…

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    Book 12

    Season of Skulls
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    4.17     · 1938 Ratings · 133 Reviews · published 2023 · 9 editions
    Season of Skulls continues Hugo Award-winning auth…

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    Book 13

    A Conventional Boy
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    4.17     · 1113 Ratings · 116 Reviews · published 2025 · 8 editions
    In 1984, Derek Reilly was just another spotty teen…

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    Book 14

    The Regicide Report
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    4.50     · 8 Ratings · 3 Reviews · expected publication 2026 · 5 editions
    An occult assassin, an elderly royal and a living …

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    Book 1-2

    On Her Majesty's Occult Service
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    4.29     · 607 Ratings · 31 Reviews · published 2007 · 3 editions
    Bob Howard was just a typical hacker until he acci…

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