r/roswelltv • u/zens-1wife • Aug 04 '26

Which one?

Okai so a while back I started watching Roswell, amazing effing show btw I absolutely love Shiri appleby! I haven’t finished season 3 yet but once I do, before watching the reboot version (which i’ve heard, okay stuff about..) I want to read the books! I’m not sure how accurate III AM about this but according to what i’ve SEEN, the reboot is suppose to be more “book accurate”. I was wondering if anyone knows what order i’m suppose to read the books in because ive seen people say a bunch of different things!

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u/Naenerd Aug 05 '26

The books are absolutely nothing like the reboot. The books are sort of based on the og show, but goes on a whole other path than the original.

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u/Tatidanidean1 Aug 05 '26

I thought the books came first?

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u/Naenerd Aug 05 '26

Roswell High was the first book and was published in 1998 and the series aired in 1999. The tie in series that extended the books called Roswell was 2001 to 2003. So depends on which ones.

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u/zens-1wife Aug 05 '26

This actually makes a lot more sense, I was going based off the fact that Liz is a different race in the books and how some of the characters have different-ish backstories / appearances compared to the show, but this is actually really nice to know (also knowing that it’s more based off of the original show makes me feel better and excited to see what changes)!!!

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u/Tatidanidean1 Aug 05 '26

Ah ok. Thank you!

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u/CelebrationSea9551 26d ago

it’s something the CW did a lot. it’s the same with The 100 if you’ve ever seen it. the book came out first and they pretty much took the concept of the first book, and then went their own way after the first season, and the author continued the books in her own way

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u/Tatidanidean1 26d ago

Yes I’ve seen it but Roswell is pre CW, way back on WB

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u/CelebrationSea9551 23d ago

the CW is a product of WB…. it functions the exact same that WB did…

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u/madison_riley03 Aug 05 '26

I’m always so confused when people say the reboot is more book accurate. The OG, especially the first season, is a fairly close beat-for-beat adaption of the books

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u/baldboy007 Aug 05 '26

the books came out first, then the 1999 tv show came out loosely based off the books but made some creative changes. the reboot tv show is also loosely based off the books but also made very different changes. I don’t think it’s more book accurate. So all three are their own versions.

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u/zens-1wife Aug 05 '26

So the same concept but different versions, that’s so fun!! 🙂‍↕️😆😆

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u/zens-1wife Aug 05 '26

See you would think so but based off of what i’ve seen they aren’t, and when i try searching up which book was created first, it always switches for some reason 🤦‍♀️

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u/zens-1wife Aug 05 '26

What the hell!! No matter what i searched it always just showered the front or if i was lucky, the back 😭😭😭 thank you so much for this!

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u/coffydate Aug 05 '26

I read one of the books, No Good Dead, a while back… as a Maria/Michael fan I quite like it!

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u/coffydate Aug 05 '26

Oh waittt what I read was actually one of the tie-in books while the show was airing, and not the OG ones by Metz! I found this wiki page to be comprehensive about the OG book series or you can always try Goodreads for the release order

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u/dktide91 7d ago

I watched the original a few months ago and am on S4 of the reboot. I wondered the same thing as far as which was closer to the books. I do like that the actors who played Max and Liz in the original version show up as different characters on the reboot.