Your Thoughts (The Xeelee Sequence)

[Robert]

Series Book Order Links:
http://www.goodreads.com/series/49784...
http://www.goodreads.com/series/68629...

Book Shelf:
http://www.goodreads.com/group/booksh...

[Sijowies01]

The best reading order:


The Xeelee Flower(1987)*
Shell(1987)*
More than Time and Distance(1988)*
Blue Shift(1989)*
The Quagma Datum(1989)*
The Eighth Room(1989)*
The Switch(1990)*
Vacuum Diagrams(1990)*
The Tyranny of Heaven(1990)*
Stowaway(1991)*
Raft(1991)
Secret History(1991)*
The Baryonic Lords(1991)*
Timelike Infinity(1992)
Planck Zero(1992)*
The Gödel Sunflowers(1992)*
The Sun-People(1993)*
Liserl(1993)*
Pilot(1993)*
Flux(1993)
The Logic Pool(1994)*
Cilia-of-Gold(1994)*
Ring(1994)
Hero(1995)*
Eve(1997)*
Soliton Star(1997)*
Cadre Siblings(2000)**
Reality Dust(2000)**
Silver Ghost(2000)**
On the Orion Line(2000)**
The Cold Sink(2001)**
Ghost Pit(2001)**
In the Un-Black(2001)**
The Dreaming Mould(2002)**
Riding the Rock(2002)**
Coalescent(2003)
Conurbation 2473(2003)**
All in a Blaze(2003)**
Breeding Ground(2003)**
The Great Game(2003)**
The Ghop Line(2003)**
Mayflower 2(2004)**
Between Worlds(2004)**
PeriAndry’s Quest(2004)***
Lakes of Light(2005)**
Exultant(2005)
Transcendent(2005)
Climbing the Blue(2005)***
The Time Pit(2005)***
Ghost Wars(2006)**
The Siege of Earth(2006)**
The Lowland Expedition(2006)***
Remembrance(2007)***
The Seer and the Silverman(2008)***
Starfall(2009)***
Formidable Caress(2009)***
Return to Titan(2010)***
Gravity Dreams(2011)***
Endurance(2015)***

* Vacuum Diagrams(1997)
** Resplendent(2006)
*** Endurance(2015)

[Neofit]

@Robert
The book reading order at
https://www.goodreads.com/series/4978...
has a few duplicates.

"Riding the Rock" and "Mayflower II" are included in "Resplendant".
"Starfall" and "Gravity Dreams" are included in "Xeelee: Endurance".
(at least in the editions I got from Amazon)

And the book list and order proposed by @Sijowies01 is so complicated, that if I hadn't seen a simpler one I'd never even have tried ;).

In 2017 Amazon released the latest "omnibus" as of 2017, which included all 10 books available at that time, including compilations of short stories:

Raft
Timelike Infinity
Flux
Ring
Coalescent
Exultant
Transcendent
Resplendent
Vacuum Diagrams
Xeelee: Endurance

After that SB released "Xeelee: Vengeance" and "Xeelee: Redemption", which are obviously not part of that pack.

All of the short stories are included in the large pack. And from the "reading order page" at GR, we have:

Also, this happens to be IMO the best reading order. It's even better than what Stephen Baxter is suggesting on his site. He proposes to start with "Vacuum Diagrams" to have an idea of the universe, and that's what I did when I got the pack. Big mistake! Huge spoilers in the first chapter alone. Then I stopped reading Vacuum Diagrams and went with the order that the compilation author gave us and enjoyed the saga a lot. No more spoilers and no continuity issues that as far as I'm concerned.