The Maze Runner (novel series)

The Maze Runner
The author James Dashner at Comicon in 2014


AuthorJames Dashner
Cover artistPhilip Straub, Dennis Louis
CountryUnited States, Australia, Canada, France
LanguageEnglish, French
GenreAdventure
Science fiction
Dystopian
Young adult fiction
PublisherDelacorte Press
Published2009-Present
Media typePrint (hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-book
No. of books8

The Maze Runner is a series of young adult dystopian science fiction novels written by American author James Dashner. The series consists of the trilogy The Maze Runner (2009), The Scorch Trials (2010) and The Death Cure (2011), as well as two prequel novels, The Kill Order (2012) and The Fever Code (2016). A novella titled Crank Palace (2020) and a companion book titled The Maze Runner Files (2013) have also been released. A sequel trilogy in the series titled The Maze Cutter takes place 73 years following the events of The Death Cure and consists of the novels The Maze Cutter (2022), The Godhead Complex (2023), and The Infinite Glade (2025).

The series, revealing details in non-chronological order, tells how the world was devastated by a series of massive solar flares and coronal mass ejections.