Neal Shusterman's picture
333 followers
1,136 books added

Neal Shusterman


USA flag (b.1962)

aka Easton Royce

Award-winning author Neal Shusterman grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where he began writing at an early age. After spending his junior and senior years of high school at the American School of Mexico City, Neal went on to UC Irvine, where he made his mark on the UCI swim team, and wrote a successful humor column. Within a year of graduating, he had his first book deal, and was hired to write a movie script.
Neal Shusterman is the New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty award-winning books for children, teens, and adults, including The Unwind Dystology, The Skinjacker trilogy, Downsiders, and Challenger Deep, which won the National Book Award. Scythe, the first book in his newest series Arc of a Scythe, is a Michael L. Printz Honor Book. He also writes screenplays for motion pictures and television shows. The father of four children, Neal lives in California.
 

Awards: NBA (2015)  see all

Genres: Young Adult Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, Children's Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult Romance
 
New and upcoming books
July 2024

thumb
Break to You
 
February 2025

thumb
All Better Now
(All Better Now, book 1)
Series
Shadow Club
   1. The Shadow Club (1988)
   2. The Shadow Club Rising (2002)
thumbthumb
 
Star Shards
   1. Scorpion Shards (1994)
   2. Thief of Souls (1999)
   3. Shattered Sky (2002)
thumbthumbthumb
 
MindQuakes
   1. Mindquakes (1996)
   2. Mindstorms (1996)
   3. Mindtwisters (1997)
   4. Mindbenders (2000)
thumbthumbthumbthumb
 
Antsy Bonano Novels
   1. The Schwa Was Here (2004)
   2. Antsy Does Time (2008)
   3. Ship out of Luck (2013)
thumbthumbthumb
 
Dark Fusion
   1. Dread Locks (2005)
   2. Red Rider's Hood (2005)
   3. Duckling Ugly (2006)
thumbthumbthumb
 
Skinjacker Trilogy
   1. Everlost (2006)
   2. Everwild (2009)
   3. Everfound (2011)
thumbthumbthumb
 
Unwind Dystology
   1. Unwind (2007)
   1.5. UnStrung (2012) (with Michelle Knowlden)
   2. UnWholly (2012)
   3. UnSouled (2013)
   4. UnDivided (2014)
   5. UnBound (2015)
thumbthumbthumbthumb
thumbthumb
 
Accelerati Trilogy (with Eric Elfman)
   1. Tesla's Attic (2014)
   2. Edison's Alley (2015)
   3. Hawking's Hallway (2016)
thumbthumbthumb
 
Arc of a Scythe
   1. Scythe (2016)
   2. Thunderhead (2018)
   3. The Toll (2019)
   Gleanings (2022)
thumbthumbthumbthumb
 
N.O.A.H. Files (with Eric Elfman)
   1. I Am the Walrus (2023)
   2. Shock the Monkey (2024)
thumbthumb
 
thumb
 
Novels
   Dissidents (1989)
   Chasing Forgiveness (1991)
     aka What Daddy Did
   Speeding Bullet (1991)
   The Eyes of Kid Midas (1992)
   The Dark Side of Nowhere (1997)
   Downsiders (1999)
   Full Tilt (2003)
   Bruiser (2005)
   Challenger Deep (2015)
   Violent Ends (2015) (with others)
   Dry (2018) (with Jarrod Shusterman)
   Game Changer (2021)
   Roxy (2021) (with Jarrod Shusterman)
   Break to You (2024) (with Michelle Knowlden and Debra Young)
thumbthumbthumbthumb
thumbthumbthumbthumb
thumbthumbthumbthumb
thumbthumb
 
Collections
   Darkness Creeping (1993)
   Darkness Creeping II (1995)
   Other Worlds (2013) (with others)
thumbthumbthumb
 
Novellas and Short Stories
   The Dirt on Our Shoes (2013)
   Resurrection Bay (2013)
thumbthumb
 
Series contributed to
X-Files (young adult novels)
   3. Bad Sign (1995) (as by Easton Royce)
   10. Dark Matter (1999) (as by Easton Royce)
thumbthumb
 
X-Files (junior novels)
   8. Voltage (1996) (with Les Martin (as by Easton Royce) )
   9. E.B.E. (1996) (with Les Martin (as by Easton Royce) )
thumbthumb
 
Space: Above and Beyond (Harper Trophy)
   1. The Aliens Approach (1996) (as by Easton Royce)
   3. Mutiny (1996) (as by Easton Royce)
thumbthumb
 
Non fiction show
 
Books containing stories by Neal Shusterman
thumb
Future Hopes (2024)
Hopeful stories in a time of climate change
edited by
Lauren James

More books 


Awards
2015 National Book Award for Young People's Literature : Challenger Deep

Award nominations
2019 CrimeFest: Best Crime Fiction Novel for Young Adults (nominee) : Dry
2017 Michael L. Printz Award (nominee) : Scythe


Neal Shusterman recommends
thumb
Ruin Road (2024)
Lamar Giles
"Lamar Giles's latest thriller is filled with chilling haunts and horrors, not just in the magical curse that burdens the main character, but in the authentic real-life struggles and stigmas that plague him. A brilliant concept, deftly executed!"

Visitors also looked at these authors


About Fantastic Fiction       Information for Authors