Meg Elison

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Number One Fan (Standalone) was the most recently released book by Meg Elison, on August 30th, 2022.

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Meg Elison Stats: The highest rated book by Meg Elison on Book Notification is The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, the first novel in The Road to Nowhere series.

The most read book by Meg Elison on Book Notification is The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, the first novel in The Road to Nowhere series. The second most read book is The Book of Etta (The Road to Nowhere #2).

Below is a complete list of Meg Elison books in publication and chronological order, broken down by series. The most popular series by Meg Elison is The Road to Nowhere Series.

List of The Road to Nowhere Books in Publication Order

List of Standalone Novels in Publication Order

List of Short Stories/Novellas in Publication Order

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2020

List of Collections in Publication Order

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2020

List of Gothic Fantasy Books in Publication Order

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1990
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Science Fiction Short Stories (By: David Tallerman, Rachael K. Jones, Sarah Hans, Brian Trent, Adrian Ludens, Keyan Bowes, Beth Cato, Andy Sawyer, Zach Shephard, Alexis A. Hunter, M. Darusha Wehm, Edward Ahern, Patrick Tumblety, Donald Jacob Uitvlugt, Kate O'Connor, Conor Powers-Smith, Stewart C. Baker, Mike Morgan, Nemma Wollenfang, Jacob M. Lambert, Laura Bulbeck, Rob Hartzell)
2015
5
Chilling Horror Short Stories (By: Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Elizabeth Gaskell, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Guy de Maupassant, Thomas Hardy, Ambrose Bierce, H.P. Lovecraft, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edith Wharton, D.H. Lawrence, Lucy Taylor, William Hope Hodgson, A. Merritt, John Buchan, F. Marion Crawford, Robert E. Howard, C.L. Moore, Frank Long, Robert W. Chambers, Rebecca J. Allred, Frank Roger, Gwendolyn Kiste, Elise Forier Edie, Michael Paul Gonzalez, D.J. Tyrer, William R.D. Wood, Kristopher Triana, James Lecky, Glen Damien Campbell, Justin Coates, John H. Dromey, Andrew J. Wilson, Bill Kte'pi, Ed Grabianowski, Gillian Whitaker, Nick Wells, Laura Bulbeck, Dale Townshend, Michael Bondies, David A Elsensohn, Eric Esser, John Neruda, Frances Bodlam, Josie Mitchell)
2015
6
Chilling Ghost Short Stories (By: Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Wilkie Collins, Nikolai Gogol, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, E. Nesbit, Henry James, W.W. Jacobs, Oscar Wilde, Washington Irving, Edith Wharton, M.R. James, James Dorr, E.F. Benson, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Amanda C. Davis, Robert W. Chambers, Kurt Bachard, Raymond Little, Brian Rappatta, Tim Foley, Vonnie Winslow Crist, Michael Penkas, Jonathan Balog, Donna Cuttress, Luke Murphy, Annette Siketa, Philip Brian Hall, Rhiannon Rasmussen, Jeff Parsons, M. Regan, Zach Chapman, Lesa Pascavis Smith, Trevor Boelter, Laura Bulbeck, Dale Townshend, Cathy Smith)
2015
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Crime & Mystery Short Stories (By: Cameron Trost, Marcelle Dube, James Dorr, Jennifer Gifford, Dan Stout, Ruth Nestvold, Jennifer Dornan-Fish, H.L. Fullerton, Tara Campbell, Nathan Hystad)
2016
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2016
9
Dystopia Utopia Short Stories (By: Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Kim Antieau, Voltaire , William Morris, Claude Lalumière, Robert W. Chambers, Samuel Butler, Gerri Leen, Konstantine Paradias, M. Darusha Wehm, Thomas More, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Edward Bellamy, Carolyn Charron, Jeremy Szal, J.M. Templet, Steve Carr, Richard Jefferies, Michelle Kaseler, Andrew J. Wilson, Nidhi Singh, Jeff Parsons, Sarah Lyn Eaton, Megan Dorei, Dave Golder, Kelsey Shannahan, Russ Thorne)
2016
10
Murder Mayhem Short Stories (By: James Dorr, Gerri Leen, Liam Hogan, Kate Heartfield, David M. Hoenig, Donald Jacob Uitvlugt)
2016
11
2017
12
Lost Worlds Short Stories ( By: Various Various)
2017
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2017
14
2017
15
Heroic Fantasy Short Stories ( By: Various Various)
2017
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2017
17
Sherlock Holmes Short Stories ( By: Flame Tree Studio)
2017
18
Agents & Spies Short Stories (By: Josh Pachter, Martin Edwards, Dan Stout, Tony Pi, Stephen Kotowych, David Downing, Sara Dobie Bauer, Shane Halbach, Colt Leasure, Lauren C. Teffeau, Joseph Cusumano, Jo Miles, Laura Bulbeck, Jonathan MacGregor, S.L. Scott)
2017
19
Pirates & Ghosts Short Stories (By: Jeremy A. TeGrotenhuis)
2017
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2017
21
Alien Invasion Short Stories (By: H.G. Wells, H.P. Lovecraft, Jonathan Swift, A. Merritt, Voltaire , Claude Lalumière, Rich Larson, Rachael K. Jones, George Allan England, Patrick Parrinder, Austin Hall, William R.D. Wood, John Walters, Bo Balder, Maria Haskins, Garrett P. Serviss, Sunil Patel, Jennifer Rachel Baumer, Laura Pearlman, Robert Potter, Tim Pieraccini, Angus McIntyre, Suo Hefu, George Chesney, Stephen G. Parks, Eric Reitan, S.A. Westerley)
2018
22
Norse Myths & Tales (By: Brittany Schorn)
2018
23
2018
24
Endless Apocalypse Short Stories (By: Shannon Connor Winward, Michael Paul Gonzalez)
2018
25
Robots & Artificial Intelligence Short Stories (By: George Cotronis, Rich Larson, Rachael K. Jones, Bruce Golden, Holly Lyn Walrath, Monte Lin, Eleanor R. Wood, David Sklar, Nemma Wollenfang, Deborah Davitt, Trixie Nisbet, Luke Dormehl, Roan Clay, Jeff Deck, Christopher Geeson, Rob Hartzell, Nathaniel Hosford, Chloie Piveral, Claire Sorrenson, Sara Uckelman)
2018
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2018
27
2018
28
2018
29
Irish Fairy Tales (By: Arthur Rackham, D.L. Ashliman)
2018
30
2018
31
2018
32
Haunted House Short Stories (By: Edgar Allan Poe, O. Henry, Elizabeth Gaskell, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Guy de Maupassant, E. Nesbit, Rudyard Kipling, Ramsey Campbell, Ambrose Bierce, W.W. Jacobs, H.P. Lovecraft, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, M.R. James, Charlotte Eliza Riddell, E.F. Benson, William Hope Hodgson, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, John Everson, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Rhoda Broughton, Bernard Capes, Gwendolyn Kiste, Hugh Walpole, Ralph Adams Cram, Mikal Trimm, Mrs. Oliphant, Zach Shephard, B.M. Croker, Shannon Fay, Morgan Sylvia, Kurt Newton, Tom English, Adele Gardner, Rebecca Buchanan, Rebecca Janicker, H.B. Diaz, Marina Favila, Bill Kte'pi, M. Regan)
2019
33
Cosy Crime Short Stories (By: Arthur Conan Doyle, E.E. King, G.K. Chesterton, R. Austin Freeman, Arnold Bennett, Edgar Wallace, Arthur Morrison, Martin Edwards, Ernest Bramah, Maurice Leblanc, Amanda C. Davis, Stephanie Bedwell-Grime, Emmuska Orczy, Israel Zangwill, Anna Katharine Green, Catherine Louisa Pirkis, Flame Tree Studio, Andrew Forrester, Nancy Sweetland, Jeffrey B. Burton, Louise Taylor, Annette Siketa, Philip Brian Hall, Tom Mead, C.B. Channell, Michael Martin Garrett, Trixie Nisbet, Joshua Boyce, Sarah Holly Bryant, Gregory Von Dare, B. David Spicer, Elise Warner, Anton Chekhov)
2019
34
2019
35
American Gothic Short Stories (By: Ramsey Campbell, Lucy A. Snyder, Lina Rather, Sean Logan, Wendy Nikel, Christi Nogle, Lynette Mejía, Madison McSweeney, Russell James, M. Regan, Monika Elbert, Terri Bruce, Maxx Fidalgo, Joshua Hiles, Clayton Kroh, Joe Nazare, Rebecca Ring, Mike Robinson, Valerie B. Williams, Nemma Wollenfang)
2019
36
Short Stories from the Age of Queen Victoria (By: Various Various, Peter Garratt)
2019
37
2019
38
2019
39
Lovecraft Mythos New & Classic Collection (By: Robert Bloch, Ramsey Campbell, Ambrose Bierce, H.P. Lovecraft, Fritz Leiber, Henry Kuttner, Hal Bodner, Clark Ashton Smith, William Browning Spencer, Mark Samuels, Robert E. Howard, Victor LaValle, Frank Long, Lord Dunsany, Arthur Machen, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Robert W. Chambers, Nancy Kilpatrick, JG Faherty, Rachael K. Jones, Cody Goodfellow, Evey Brett, John Llewellyn Probert, Zealia Bishop, Hazel Heald, Jonathan Thomas, Donald Tyson, Thana Niveau, Douglas Wynne, Helen E. Davis, N.R. Lambert, Scott R. Jones, Gillian Whitaker, Nick Wells, Taylor Bentley, Catherine Taylor, Caroline Watson, August E. Derleth, John Possidente, R.S. Stefoff)
2020
40
2020
41
2020
42
2020
43
2020
44
2020
45
2020
46
Native American Myths Tales (By: Sam D. Gill)
2020
47
Witches, Wizards, Seers & Healers Myths & Tales (By: Abbie Farwell Brown, Andrew Lang, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Joseph Jacobs, Yei Theodora Ozaki, Douglas Hyde, Thomas Malory, Jeremiah Curtin, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Lewis Spence, Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, James Mooney, Charles Godfrey Leland, Florence Holbrook, E.A. Wallis Budge, Richard Wilhelm, F. Hadland Davis, Norman Hinsdale Pitman, Yi Ryuk, Charles Montgomery Skinner, Edmund Leamy, Sophia Morrison, William Elliot Griffis, James Scarth Gale, Elphinstone Dayrell, Alice Werner, M.I. Ogumefu, William Butler Yeats, Diane Purkiss, George W. Bateman, Elsie Finnimore Buckley, Margaret Compton, Jonathan Ceredig Davies, George Douglas, Alice Elizabeth Dracott, George Grey, Francis Hindes Groome, H.A. Guerber, Eleanor Hull, W.F. Kirby, Ignác Kúnos, Minnie Martin, Frederick H. Martens, W.R.S. Ralston, A.G. Seklemian, Chauncy Hugh Stigand, J.R. Walker, E.T.C. Werner, William Drake Westervelt, Lady Wilde, Albert Henry Wratislaw)
2020
48
2021
49
2021
50
2021
51
Black Sci-Fi Short Stories (By: K. Tempest Bradford, Russell Nichols, Wole Talabi, W.E.B. Du Bois, Tara Campbell, Walidah Imarisha, James Beamon, Martin R. Delany, Sandra M. Grayson, Patty Nicole Johnson, Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, Temi Oh, Michelle F. Goddard, Tia Ross, Harambee K. Grey-Sun, Sutton E. Griggs, Emmalia Harrington, Edward Johnson, Megan Pindling, Sylvie Soul, Lyle Stiles)
2021
52
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2021
54
Persian Myths & Tales: Epic Tales (By: Christine Ruymbeke)
2022
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2022
56
2022
57
2022
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2022
59
First Peoples Shared Stories: Gothic Fantasy (By: Flame Tree Studio (Literature and Science))
2022
60
Alternate History Short Stories (By: Flame Tree Studio (Literature and Science))
2023
61
2023
62
Immigrant Sci-Fi Short Stories (By: Flame Tree Studio (Literature and Science))
2023
63
Spirits & Ghouls Short Stories (By: Rayne Hall, Bret Nelson, Wen Wen Yang, Ahmed al-Rawi)
2023
64
Lost Atlantis Short Stories (By: Flame Tree Studio (Literature and Science))
2023
65
2023
66
2023
67
Viking Folk & Fairy Tales (By: Dagrún Ósk Jónsdóttir)
2023
68
Scottish Folk & Fairy Tales (By: Allison Galbraith)
2023
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2023
70
2024
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2024
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2024
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2024
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African Ghost Short Stories (By: Chinelo Onwualu, Nuzo Onoh, Divine Che Neba)
2024
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2024
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2024
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Babylon & Sumer Myths & Tales (By: Fiona Collins)
2024
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2024
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Moon Falling Short Stories (By: Various Various, Ben Moore)
2024
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2025
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Afrofuturism Short Stories (By: Flame Tree Studio (Literature and Science), Dr. Sandra M. Grayson)
2025
82
Were Wolf Short Stories (By: Dr. Karen E. Macfarlane)
2025
83
Prophecies & Oracles Myths & Tales (By: Richard Stoneman)
2025
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2025
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Kalevala & Finnish Myths & Tales (By: Various Various)
2026
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2026
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Slavic Myths & Tales: Epic Tales (By: Kristijan Petrovic, Ema Lakinska)
2026
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2026
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Folklore Horror Short Stories (By: Flame Tree Studio)
2026
90
Wars in the Stars Short Stories (By: Flame Tree Studio)
2026
91
Christmas Horror Short Stories (By: Flame Tree Studio)
2026
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List of Outspoken Authors Books in Publication Order

Presents iconic authors' fiction, plus interviews and essays.

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The Presidential Papers (By: John H. Kessel)
1984
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2001
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2009
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2009
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2011
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2011
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2015
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Gypsy (By: Carter Scholz, Eleanor Arnason)
2015
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2016
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2017
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2017
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2018
22
Thoreau's Microscope (By: Michael Blumlein, Eleanor Arnason)
2018
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2019
24
2019
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2019
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2020
27
2021
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Utopias of the Third Kind (By: Vandana Singh)
2021
29
Night Shift (By: Eileen Gunn)
2022
30
2024
31
2025
32
2026
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List of Meg Elison Anthologies in Publication Order

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Meg Elison

Meg Elison was born on May 10th, 1982 and is currently 43 years old.

Meg Elison is the author of The Road to Nowhere series which currently consists of 3 novels. The The Road to Nowhere series started in 2014 with the novel The Book of the Unnamed Midwife. The most recently released novel in The Road to Nowhere series was The Book of Flora which was released in 2019. There are no upcoming novels for The Road to Nowhere series.

Meg Elison: Awards & Accolades

Elison's book, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife won the Philip K. Dick Award, Best Science Fiction Book, in 2014.

Meg Elison books have also been nominated for multiple awards, The Book of Etta was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award, Best Science Fiction Book, in 2017. Big Girl was nominated for the Otherwise Award, Best Science Fiction, in 2018. The Book of Flora was nominated for the Otherwise Award, Best Science Fiction, in 2019. The Pill was nominated for the Hugo Award, Best Novelette, in 2021.

Related Authors

Fans of Meg Elison also enjoy these authors:

  1. Stephen King, author of The Dark Tower Series.
  2. Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.
  3. Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's Tale Series.
  4. Andy Weir, author of: Project Hail Mary.
  5. Celeste Ng, author of: Little Fires Everywhere.

Meg Elison: F.A.Q

When was Meg Elison Born? How old is Meg Elison?

Meg Elison was born on May 10th, 1982. Meg Elison is currently 43 years old.

What book awards has Meg Elison won?

Elison's book, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife won the award Philip K. Dick Award, Best Science Fiction Book, in 2014.

What was the first book Meg Elison wrote?

The first book written by Meg Elison was The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, published in 2014.

What was the most recent book Meg Elison wrote?

Her most recently released work was Number One Fan on August 30th, 2022.

What is the most popular book by Meg Elison?

Based on the number of readers on Book Notification, the most popular Meg Elison book is The Book of the Unnamed Midwife. Here are her most popular books:
  1. The Book of the Unnamed Midwife (9.4)
  2. The Book of Etta (9)
  3. The Book of Flora (4.5)
  4. Find Layla (6)
  5. Number One Fan (7)

Are there upcoming new books by Meg Elison?

Meg Elison has a new book coming out on June 23rd, 2026 called Foundling Fathers.

Click and we will keep you updated on this via e-mail, and about any new books Meg Elison announces in the future.

How many books has Meg Elison written?

Meg Elison has written 8 books excluding contributions to anthologies. 3 books in The Road to Nowhere Series, 3 Standalone Novels, 1 Short Story/Novella, 1 Collections, 1 book in the Outspoken Authors Series.

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