So, I've been away from the DS forums for a time and away from SR for just about as long. I come back and I don't see a lot of familiar names, but I hope some of you old and classic SR players will contribute to help put things right with the following list.

Here is a list of every (American) Shadowrun release that I can figure out through my meager resources. From my own research, I've got them correctly ordered down to the editions and years they were released. But, I would like to know which supplements, adventures, location books and core books came out in what order during those years. I'm not too concerned with where they fit in the canon chronology, only order of publication release. Some mistakes are blatantly obvious, such as all of the novels lumped at the end of the years. I know that they didn't just publish them all at the end of each year, but as of now, they are kind of ordered by what type of book they are because I have no idea what came out first.

Those damn IDs and SKUs that they are marked with aren't reliable for determining order of release, so don't try to order them with those either. This is going to require good old-fashioned knowledge and analysis to compile this list properly. Some changes that are needed are also obvious, because I know the content of Super Tuesday comes before the Big D's assassination, which is covered in Portfolio.

Some releases are listed with two years. This is because when you look up the copyright and publication info, it gives 2 different dates. On a lot of these, the back cover of the book will give a later year of publication than on the information page. Sometimes, I have two years listed for the years that the event was running, kind of like the Missions campaigns, which spanned months across multiple years.

My goal is to get everything in order so I can take a group of players through an epic campaign of released books, just trudging through the game as it was created. We're making 1st edition characters right now, and will start with the First Run in the 1st edition core book. But from there, I need to know what order the books and supplements come out so I can drag them through the world as it was created by the makers. Once we get started, I'll keep a campaign report so everyone can reminisce about old shared adventures long since played. But first, the list as it stands now:

1st Edition:
1989
--- 7100/7101 Shadowrun 1st Edition
--- 7102 GM Screen with SILVER ANGEL
--- 7104 Street Samurai Catalog
--- 7301 DNA/DOA
--- 7302 Mercurial
--- 7303 Dreamchipper
1989/1990
--- 7103 Sprawl Sites
1990
--- 7106 The Grimoire
--- 7105 Paranormal Animals of North America
--- 7201 Seattle Sourcebook
--- 7205 Universal Brotherhood
--- 7304 Queen Euphoria
--- 7305 Bottled Demon
--- 7306 Harlequin
--- Novel01 Never Deal with a Dragon
1990/1991
--- 7206 Neo-Anarchist's Guide to North America
1991
--- 7107 Virtual Realities
--- 7108 Rigger Black Book
??? 7109 Shadowbeat
--- 7202 Native American Nations Volume One
--- 7203 London Sourcebook
--- 7307 Dragon Hunt
--- 7308 Total Eclipse
--- Novel02 Choose Your Enemies Carefully
--- Novel03 Find Your Own Truth


2nd Edition:
1992
--- 7900/7901 Shadowrun 2nd Edition
--- 7902 GM Screen with CONTACTS
--- 7104 Street Samurai Catalog Revised
--- 7110 Shadowtech
??? 7112 Paranormal Animals of Europe
--- 7208 The Neo-Anarchist's Guide to Real Life
??? 7207 Native American Nations Volume Two
--- 7309 Imago
??? 7310 Elven Fire
??? 7311 Ivy & Chrome
--- 7312 One Stage Before
??? 7111 Downtown Militarized Zone
--- Novel04 2XS
--- Novel05 Changeling
--- Novel06 Never Trust an Elf
--- Novel07 Into the Shadows
--- Novel08 Streets of Blood
1992/1993
--- 7903 Grimoire Second Edition
1992/93/94
--- 7204 Germany Sourcebook (1993/1994 in US, 1992 as Deutschland in den Schatten)
1993
--- 7113 Corporate Shadowfiles
??? 7209 California Free State
--- 7210 Tir Tairngire
??? 7313 Dark Angel
??? 7314 A Killing Glare
--- 7315 Celtic Double Cross
--- Novel09 Shadowplay
--- Novel10 Night's Pawn
--- Novel11 Striper Assassin
--- 7115 Lone Star
--- 7116 Prime Runners
1994
??? 7211 Tir na nOg
--- 7212 Denver: The City of Shadows
--- 7316 Eye Witness
--- 7317 Paradise Lost
--- 7318 Divided Assets
--- 7319 Double Exposure
--- 7320 Harlequins Back
--- 7401 Sprawl Maps
--- Novel12 Lone Wolf
--- Novel13 Fade to Black
--- Novel14 Nosferatu
--- Novel15 Burning Bright
1994/1995
--- 7114 Fields of Fire
??? 7117 Bug City
1995
--- 7904 Virtual Realities 2.0
--- 7118 Corporate Security Handbook
--- 7119 Cybertechnology
--- 7120 Awakenings
--- Novel16 Who Hunts the Hunter
--- Novel17 House of the Sun
--- Novel18 Worlds Without End
1995/1996
??? 7213 Aztlan
1996
--- 7905 Shadowrun Companion
??? 7906 Rigger 2
--- 7121 Threats
??? 7122 Portfolio of a Dragon: Dunkelzahn's Secrets
--- 7322 Super Tuesday
--- Novel19 Just Compensation
--- Novel20 Black Madonna
--- Novel21 Preying for Keeps
--- Novel22 Dead Air
1997
--- 7123 Underworld Sourcebook
--- 7124 Cyberpirates
--- 7214 Target: UCAS
??? 7215 Target: Smuggler Havens
??? 7323 Shadows of the Underworld
--- 7325 Missions
--- 7326 Mob War
--- 7701 High Tech and Low Life - The Art of Shadowrun
--- Novel23 The Lucifer Deck
--- Novel24 Steel Rain
--- Novel25 Shadowboxer
--- Novel26 Stranger Souls
--- Novel27 Headhunters
--- Novel28 Clockwork Asylum
1998
--- 7324 Predator and Prey
--- 7327 Blood in the Boardroom
--- 7328 Renraku Arcology: Shutdown
--- Novel29 Blood Sport
--- Novel30 Beyond the Pale
--- Novel31 Technobabel
--- Novel32 Wolf and Raven
--- Novel33 Psychotrope


3rd Edition:
1998
--- 7000/7001 Shadowrun 3rd Edition
??? 7002 GM Screen with CRITTERS SOURCEBOOK
1999
--- 7003 Shadowrun Quick Start Rules
--- 7905 Shadowrun Companion
--- 7907 Magic in the Shadows
??? 7125 Corporate Download
--- 7216 New Seattle
--- 7329 First Run
--- Novel34 The Terminus Experiment
--- Novel35 Run Hard, Die Fast
--- Novel36 Crossroads
--- Novel37 The Forever Drug
2000
--- 7908 Cannon Companion
--- 7909 Matrix
--- 7219 Target: Matrix
??? 7330 Corporate Punishment
--- Novel38 Ragnarock
2001
--- 7126 Man and Machine
??? 7910 Rigger 3
--- 10650 Year of the Comet
--- 10651 Target: Awakened Lands
??? 7331 Brainscan
--- Novel39 Tails You Lose
--- Novel40 The Burning Time
2001/2002
--- 10652 Threats 2
2002
--- 10653 Target: Wastelands
--- 10664 State of the Art: 2063
--- 10655 Shadows of North America
--- 10654 Wake of the Comet
2002/2003
??? 10665 Survival of the Fittest
2003
--- 10662 Rigger 3 Revised
??? 10673 Character Dossier
--- 10666 Dragons of the Sixth World
--- 10667 Sprawl Survival Guide
2004
--- 25003 Mr. Johnson's Little Black Book
--- 25004 State of the Art: 2064
--- 25002 Shadows of Europe
--- XXXXX Missions: Season 0 Seattle (5 Missions)
2004/2005
--- XXXXX Missions: Season 1 Seattle (9 Missions)
--- 25006 Loose Alliances
--- 25014 System Failure
--- 25007 Shadows of Asia
??? 25011 Shadows of Latin America (Never Released)
--- Novel41 Born to Run
--- Novel42 Poison Agendas
--- Novel43 Fallen Angels
--- Novel44 Drops of Corruption
--- Novel45 Aftershock
--- Novel46 A fistful of Data


4th Edition:
2005
--- 26000 Shadowrun 4th Edition
2006
--- 26003 On the Run
--- 26005 Runner Havens
--- 26004 Street Magic
--- 26002 GM Screen with CONTACTS AND ADVENTURES
2006/2007
--- XXXXX Missions: Season 2 Denver (25 Missions)
2007
--- 26301 Emergence
--- 26002 Augmentation
--- xxxxx Shadowrun 4th Edition Quick Start Rules (PDF ONLY)
--- 26201 Corporate Enclaves
2008
--- 26003 Arsenal
--- 26004 Unwired
--- 26005 Runner's Companion
--- 26302 Ghost Cartels
??? 26001 Street Magic Redux/Reprint
--- 26600 Digital Grimoire (PDF released 14 Nov 2008)
--- 26202 Feral Cities
2009
??? 26601 Bad Moon Rising in the East (PDF released 11 Feb 2009)
--- 26000A Shadowrun 4th Edition 20th Anniversery Edition
??? 266002 Manhatten: The Rotten Apple (PDF released 21 Mar 2009)
--- 26240 Seattle 2072
--- 26101 Running Wild
--- 26400 Dawn of the Artifacts: Dusk
2009/2010
??? XXXXX Missions: Season 3 New York (13 Missions)
2010
--- 26203 Vice
--- 26401 Dawn of the Artifacts: Midnight
??? 26650 10 Gangs (PDF released 15 Feb 2010)
??? 26000ALE SR4 20th Anniversary Ed. Limited Edition
??? 26551 10 Jackpointers (PDF released 01 Mar 2010)
--- 26221 Corporate Guide
--- 26205 Sixth World Almanac
??? 2640X Dawn of the Artifacts: Darkest Hour
??? 26s001 This Old Drone (PDF released 29 Oct 2010)
??? Novel47 Spells and Chrome
2011
??? 26s002 MilSpecTech (PDF released 22 Jan 2011)
--- 26206 War!
2011/201X
??? xxxxx Missions: Season 4 Seattle (xx Missions)



Upcoming:
Attitude
Dawn of the Artifacts: New Dawn
Spy Games
Artifacts Unbound
A Fistful of Credsticks: Horizon Adventure One
Conspiracy Theories
Corporate Intrigue
Runners Toolkit



**Note** The dashes and question marks are notion for which books I have and which ones I still need to pick up. Three dashes (---) means I have the book in its entirety and can reference the years of publication. The question marks (???) mean that I don't own a copy of that book, so I can't look up that date and know for sure if it even belongs in that year bracket. Feel free to correct me as those are just educated guesses based on the publication dates of other items with close or similar item numbers.

**Secondary Note** The 4th edition List should be pristine, as I looked up all of the street dates on the official SR4 website just before they changed it and got rid of all of their back logs of news updates. Also, I know the novels have no relevance to me running a campaign, but they are thrown in for my own enjoyment so I can read them when I come to them.

For those about to rock, we salute you

Wish I could be more help tho :/

Well, since I received no help at all, here's the best re-organizing I can do without input from knowledgeable individuals. Feel free to call me out if you see mistakes, because most of this is just guess-work and intuition while trying to follow patterns that I've noticed with the release of 3rd and 4th edition books (where core supplements are offset with adventures or other types of books and what-not).

THE NEW LIST:

1st Edition:

1989
--- 7100/7101 Shadowrun 1st Edition
--- 7102 GM Screen with SILVER ANGEL
--- 7301 DNA/DOA
--- 7103 Sprawl Sites
--- 7302 Mercurial
--- 7104 Street Samurai Catalog
--- 7303 Dreamchipper

1990
--- 7105 Paranormal Animals of North America
--- 7205 Universal Brotherhood
--- 7106 The Grimoire
--- 7304 Queen Euphoria
--- Novel01 Never Deal with a Dragon
--- 7305 Bottled Demon
--- 7201 Seattle Sourcebook
--- 7306 Harlequin
--- 7206 Neo-Anarchist's Guide to North America

1991
--- 7107 Virtual Realities
--- 7307 Dragon Hunt
--- 7108 Rigger Black Book
--- Novel02 Choose Your Enemies Carefully
??? 7109 Shadowbeat
--- 7308 Total Eclipse
--- 7202 Native American Nations Volume One
--- Novel03 Find Your Own Truth
--- 7203 London Sourcebook


2nd Edition:

1992
--- 7900/7901 Shadowrun 2nd Edition
--- 7902 GM Screen with CONTACTS
--- 7309 Imago
--- Novel04 2XS
--- 7104 Street Samurai Catalog Revised
??? 7310 Elven Fire
--- Novel05 Changeling
--- 7110 Shadowtech
??? 7311 Ivy & Chrome
--- Novel06 Never Trust an Elf
??? 7112 Paranormal Animals of Europe
--- 7312 One Stage Before
--- Novel07 Into the Shadows
--- 7208 The Neo-Anarchist's Guide to Real Life
??? 7111 Downtown Militarized Zone
--- Novel08 Streets of Blood
??? 7207 Native American Nations Volume Two
--- 7903 Grimoire Second Edition

1993
--- 7204 Germany Sourcebook (1993/1994 in US, 1992 as Deutschland in den Schatten)
??? 7313 Dark Angel
--- 7113 Corporate Shadowfiles
--- Novel09 Shadowplay
??? 7209 California Free State
??? 7314 A Killing Glare
--- 7115 Lone Star
--- Novel10 Night's Pawn
--- 7210 Tir Tairngire
--- 7315 Celtic Double Cross
--- 7116 Prime Runners
--- Novel11 Striper Assassin

1994
--- 7316 Eye Witness
--- 7114 Fields of Fire
--- Novel12 Lone Wolf
--- 7317 Paradise Lost
??? 7211 Tir na nOg
--- Novel13 Fade to Black
--- 7318 Divided Assets
--- 7401 Sprawl Maps
--- Novel14 Nosferatu
--- 7319 Double Exposure
--- 7212 Denver: The City of Shadows
--- Novel15 Burning Bright
--- 7320 Harlequins Back

1995
??? 7117 Bug City
--- Novel16 Who Hunts the Hunter
--- 7904 Virtual Realities 2.0
--- 7118 Corporate Security Handbook
--- Novel17 House of the Sun
--- 7119 Cybertechnology
--- Novel18 Worlds Without End
--- 7120 Awakenings

1996
--- Novel19 Just Compensation
??? 7213 Aztlan
--- 7905 Shadowrun Companion
--- Novel20 Black Madonna
--- 7322 Super Tuesday
??? 7906 Rigger 2
--- Novel21 Preying for Keeps
--- 7121 Threats
--- Novel22 Dead Air
??? 7122 Portfolio of a Dragon: Dunkelzahn's Secrets

1997
--- Novel23 The Lucifer Deck
--- 7123 Underworld Sourcebook
??? 7323 Shadows of the Underworld
--- Novel24 Steel Rain
--- 7214 Target: UCAS
--- 7325 Missions
--- Novel25 Shadowboxer
--- 7124 Cyberpirates
--- 7326 Mob War
--- Novel26 Stranger Souls
??? 7215 Target: Smuggler Havens
--- Novel27 Headhunters
--- 7701 High Tech and Low Life - The Art of Shadowrun
--- Novel28 Clockwork Asylum

1998
--- 7324 Predator and Prey
--- Novel29 Blood Sport
--- Novel30 Beyond the Pale
--- 7327 Blood in the Boardroom
--- Novel31 Technobabel
--- Novel32 Wolf and Raven
--- 7328 Renraku Arcology: Shutdown
--- Novel33 Psychotrope

3rd Edition:

1998
--- 7000/7001 Shadowrun 3rd Edition
??? 7002 GM Screen with CRITTERS SOURCEBOOK

1999
--- 7003 Shadowrun Quick Start Rules
--- 7329 First Run
??? 7125 Corporate Download
--- Novel34 The Terminus Experiment
--- 7905 Shadowrun Companion
--- Novel35 Run Hard, Die Fast
--- 7216 New Seattle
--- Novel36 Crossroads
--- 7907 Magic in the Shadows
--- Novel37 The Forever Drug

2000
--- 7908 Cannon Companion
--- Novel38 Ragnarock
--- 7909 Matrix
??? 7330 Corporate Punishment
--- 7219 Target: Matrix

2001
--- 7126 Man and Machine
--- Novel39 Tails You Lose
--- 10650 Year of the Comet
??? 7331 Brainscan
??? 7910 Rigger 3
--- Novel40 The Burning Time
--- 10651 Target: Awakened Lands

2002
--- 10652 Threats 2
--- 10653 Target: Wastelands
--- 10654 Wake of the Comet
--- 10655 Shadows of North America
--- 10664 State of the Art: 2063

2003
--- 10662 Rigger 3 Revised
??? 10665 Survival of the Fittest
--- 10666 Dragons of the Sixth World
--- 10667 Sprawl Survival Guide
??? 10673 Character Dossier

2004
--- 25002 Shadows of Europe
--- 25003 Mr. Johnson's Little Black Book
--- 25004 State of the Art: 2064
--- XXXXX Missions: Season 0 Seattle (5 Missions)

2005
--- Novel41 Born to Run
--- XXXXX Missions: Season 1 Seattle (9 Missions)
--- Novel42 Poison Agendas
--- 25006 Loose Alliances
--- Novel43 Fallen Angels
--- 25007 Shadows of Asia
--- Novel44 Drops of Corruption
--- 25014 System Failure
--- Novel45 Aftershock
??? 25011 Shadows of Latin America (Never Released)
--- Novel46 A fistful of Data

4th Edition:

2005
--- 26000 Shadowrun 4th Edition

2006
--- 26003 On the Run
--- 26005 Runner Havens
--- 26004 Street Magic
--- 26002 GM Screen with CONTACTS AND ADVENTURES

2006/2007
--- XXXXX Missions: Season 2 Denver (25 Missions)

2007
--- 26301 Emergence
--- 26002 Augmentation
--- xxxxx Shadowrun 4th Edition Quick Start Rules (PDF ONLY)
--- 26201 Corporate Enclaves

2008
--- 26003 Arsenal
--- 26004 Unwired
--- 26005 Runner's Companion
--- 26302 Ghost Cartels
??? 26001 Street Magic Redux/Reprint
--- 26600 Digital Grimoire (PDF released 14 Nov 2008)
--- 26202 Feral Cities

2009
??? 26601 Bad Moon Rising in the East (PDF released 11 Feb 2009)
--- 26000A Shadowrun 4th Edition 20th Anniversery Edition
??? 266002 Manhatten: The Rotten Apple (PDF released 21 Mar 2009)
--- 26240 Seattle 2072
--- 26101 Running Wild
--- 26400 Dawn of the Artifacts: Dusk

2009/2010
??? XXXXX Missions: Season 3 New York (13 Missions)

2010
--- 26203 Vice
--- 26401 Dawn of the Artifacts: Midnight
??? 26650 10 Gangs (PDF released 15 Feb 2010)
??? 26000ALE SR4 20th Anniversary Ed. Limited Edition
??? 26551 10 Jackpointers (PDF released 01 Mar 2010)
--- 26221 Corporate Guide
--- 26205 Sixth World Almanac
??? 2640X Dawn of the Artifacts: Darkest Hour
??? 26s001 This Old Drone (PDF released 29 Oct 2010)
??? Novel47 Spells and Chrome

2011
??? 26s002 MilSpecTech (PDF released 22 Jan 2011)
--- 26206 War!

2011/201X
??? xxxxx Missions: Season 4 Seattle (xx Missions)



Upcoming:
Attitude
Dawn of the Artifacts: New Dawn
Spy Games
Artifacts Unbound
A Fistful of Credsticks: Horizon Adventure One
Conspiracy Theories
Corporate Intrigue
Runners Toolkit

Maybe that other list, sorted by in-context date, can be useful to you.

Thank you, that list is helpful, but isn't quite what I'm looking for.

I am trying to find a chronological order of publication release, not necessarily chronological game time. Reason being, I believe things should be experienced in the order they are given to the audience as certain spoilers will be given away among other things. Here's four reasons why I like to try to trek through timelines in publication order as opposed to chronological order:

Giving away plot twists:
In the Resident Evil games timeline, RE0 comes before RE1. In RE0, the game nonchalantly depicts Wesker and Birkin working together to lead their team to slaughter and gives away their true natures, however there is a big reveal in RE1 that Wesker is your betrayer. This climax is ruined by playing in order of timeline instead of release, as since RE0 came out later, everyone knows the twist and it's not treated with any kind of due respect.

Character portrayal:
It's interesting to see how characters are portrayed when they are First introduced later in their historical timelines during first releases, and how they can be altered for their historical "premiers" that happen in later written "prequel" stories. In the Chronicles of Narnia, "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" is written first, but isn't the first in chronology of the series. Aslan's portrayal is epic and given and it's a big deal. However, in the earliest book in the chronology, written later, readers know who Aslan is, and when he makes his first appearance in the realm, it's ho-hum and boring. Lame.

Character/Plot Retcon:
Sometimes characters are introduced in a publication (sometimes mentioned in passing later in the story timeline, but in early publication releases), and then detailed completely differently in a newer published story that takes place earlier in the timeline. A lot of minor characters get this treatment, with their occupations and historical accounts changing all the time. In the Star Wars timeline, Naga Sadow was mentioned as an old Sith Sorceror, and then later in the comic detailing his earlier flight from Sith Space to Yavin IV, depicted as a Lord and important figure. Minor shit, but still very interesting to someone with a good attention to detail.

Homage:
Some homages are lost on the audience because of their lack of association with the earlier works (occurring later in a timeline) when they experience them chronologically. All of the shots that wrap up Star Wars Episode III really hold no relevance if one experiences the series in chronological order, but mean everything to one who is familiar with the original trilogy.

That's why I stand by my theory that one should watch/experience media in the order it is released rather than the order it appears in a chronology. We as people are smart enough to make the connections and understand where it fits and how it interacts with other material that relates to it even when it's assembled piecemeal.



All that being said, does anyone actually know the order of release Shadowrun books? Does anyone know a way to find out?

In general, ISBN is a good indicator of intended release date.

The best list would be a sortable table with columns for Copyright, ISBN, and in game date.

Thanks for the suggestion on the ISBN. I'm reading how to understand the codes right now, and will see if that alters the list at all.

Also, the idea on having separate lists in a table in order to differentiate publication, copyright, and game time would be awesome. I don't know If I'll be the one to do it, but it would be awesome.

Can I ask where can you pick up these books and adventures as I'm new to shadowrun, only knowing shadowrun 4 but I'm wanting to do something similar with my group. However I lack the previous editions settings and adventures. Did you have these "lying around" or did you buy them recently? If you did buy them, where did you look/purchase them?

P.S. Cheers for the list, it's helped a great deal chronologically

I filled out the majority of my list by buying auction lots at my local game shop's quarterly auctions. If I saw several books or more in a lot, I just bid for the lot. That's a good way to end up with a bunch of them super quick, but it's also a good way to end up with a lot of copies and extras (which eventually, I'll end up dumping several lots down on the auction and maybe earning back some of what I paid for the copies).

Ebay and Amazon are a good way to fill in individual books (or again, auction lots on EBay), but it can get expensive, as everyone's asking prices are too high. I try to avoid this, but as I'm left filling in only little bits that I've got left, it's inefficient to keep buying auction lots for only a book or two, and this method is taking over for efficiency's sake.