Gleanings

Written by Neal Shusterman

Narrated by Neal Shusterman, Megan Tusing, Greg Tremblay and 3 more

The New York Times bestselling Arc of the Scythe series continues with “captivating…thrilling” (School Library Journal) stories that span the timeline. Storylines continue. Origin stories are revealed. And new Scythes emerge!

There are still countless tales of the Scythedom to tell. Centuries passed between the Thunderhead cradling humanity and Scythe Goddard trying to turn it upside down. For years, humans lived in a world without hunger, disease, or death with Scythes as the living instruments of population control.

Neal Shusterman—along with collaborators David Yoon, Jarrod Shusterman, Sofía Lapuente, Michael H. Payne, Michelle Knowlden, and Joelle Shusterman—returns to the world throughout the timeline of the Arc of a Scythe series. Discover secrets and histories of characters you’ve followed for three volumes and meet new heroes, new foes, and some figures in between.

Gleanings shows just how expansive, terrifying, and thrilling the world that began with the Printz Honor–winning Scythe truly is.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
• Release date: Nov 8, 2022
• ISBN: 9781797145907

Neal Shusterman

Neal Shusterman is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of more than fifty books, including Challenger Deep, which won the National Book Award; Scythe, a Michael L. Printz Honor Book; Dry, which he cowrote with his son, Jarrod Shusterman; Unwind, which won more than thirty domestic and international awards; Bruiser, which was on a dozen state lists; The Schwa Was Here, winner of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award; and Game Changer, which debuted as an indie top-five best seller. He is the winner of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for the body of his work. You can visit him online at storyman.com.

Reviews for Gleanings

[thebookgoblin13 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This was a bunch of fun stories. Some I were very invested in because they shocked me or included characters in the last few books I liked a lot. The ones about Scythe Curie, Ben, Loriana, Joel, Marni and (surprisingly) Goddard were my favorites for sure. The other stories were just as interesting but weren't my favorites.

[Parker Gladhart-Wells · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

It was great to get more of the Scythe world and see what happened to some of the characters or who they were before coming scythes. I wish there was more.

[Becky Baumgartner · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A delightful collection of short stories that either give backgrounds of Scythes you know, fill in gaps about side characters, show what happened to some after the last page of The Toll, or give glimpses into Scythdoms outside of where Anastasia and gang were hanging out. Though by a variety of authors they all still felt very true to Shusterman's world. I like the variety of narrators for the collection.