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Deborah Harkness Books in Order

Deborah Harkness has written 9 books, published between 1999 and 2024. The first book is John Dee's Conversations with Angels (1999) and the newest is The Black Bird Oracle (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
9
Published
1999–2024
Confirmed
9 of 9 titles
Pages on record
3,319 in 7 of 9 books
Reading time
55–83 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,319 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 7 of 9 titles with a page count on record.

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Deborah Harkness writes about witches, vampires, alchemy and the history of science, in both fiction and scholarship. The academic work came first, with John Dee's Conversations with Angels (1999) and The Jewel House (2007). A Discovery of Witches (2011) began the All Souls novels, continuing through Shadow of Night (2012) and The Book of Life (2014). Nine titles are catalogued in all, reaching The Black Bird Oracle, and Harkness remains actively publishing.

The All Souls novels follow Diana Bishop, a historian and witch, and Matthew Clairmont, a vampire, uncovering their supernatural heritage as they pursue a forbidden relationship and confront hostile forces across time.

How many Deborah Harkness books are there?

Deborah Harkness has 9 books, released between 1999 and 2024. 5 of them belong to the All Souls Trilogy series.

Deborah Harkness Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 9 Deborah Harkness books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of John Dee's Conversations with Angels by Deborah Harkness, book 1 of the Deborah Harkness Non-Fiction series (1999)
  2. Cover of A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness, book 1 of the All Souls Trilogy (2011)
  3. Cover of Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness, book 2 of the All Souls Trilogy (2012)
  4. Cover of The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness, book 3 of the All Souls Trilogy (2014)
  5. Cover of Time's Convert by Deborah Harkness, book 4 of the All Souls Trilogy (2018)
  6. Cover of The Black Bird Oracle by Deborah Harkness, book 5 of the All Souls Trilogy (2024)
  1. 1
    John Dee's Conversations with AngelsDeborah Harkness Non-Fiction #11999 · 266 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1999266
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  2. 2
    The Jewel HouseDeborah Harkness Non-Fiction #22007 · 384 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2007384
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  3. 3
    A Discovery of WitchesAll Souls Trilogy #12011 · 579 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2011579
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  4. 4
    Shadow of NightAll Souls Trilogy #22012 · 592 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2012592
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  5. 5
    The Book of LifeAll Souls Trilogy #32014 · 578 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2014578
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  6. 6
    The All Souls Real-Time Reading CompanionAll Souls Non-Fiction #12015 · confirmed 4/4
    2015–
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  7. 7
    The World of All SoulsAll Souls Non-Fiction #22018 · 484 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2018484
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  8. 8
    Time's ConvertAll Souls Trilogy #42018 · 436 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2018436
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  9. 9
    The Black Bird OracleAll Souls Trilogy #52024 · confirmed 4/4
    2024–
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Deborah Harkness books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

All Souls Trilogy in order

5 books
  1. 1. A Discovery of Witches
  2. 2. Shadow of Night
  3. 3. The Book of Life
  4. 4. Time's Convert
  5. 5. The Black Bird Oracle

Deborah Harkness Non-Fiction

2 books

2 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

All Souls Non-Fiction

2 books

2 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Do you have to read Deborah Harkness books in order?

You only need to read Deborah Harkness books in order within the All Souls Trilogy series, which holds 5 of the 9 Deborah Harkness books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

What order should you read Deborah Harkness books in?

Read them in publication order, starting with John Dee's Conversations with Angels (1999), the earliest published title. After it come The Jewel House (2007), A Discovery of Witches (2011), Shadow of Night (2012), The Book of Life (2014), The All Souls Real-Time Reading Companion (2015), The World of All Souls (2018), Time's Convert (2018) and The Black Bird Oracle (2024).

What is the newest Deborah Harkness book?

The Black Bird Oracle (2024) is the newest Deborah Harkness book released so far.

Is there a new Deborah Harkness book coming?

No next Deborah Harkness book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Awards Deborah Harkness has won

Wikidata records 1 award and 1 nomination for Deborah Harkness. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

Deborah Harkness at a glance

Still publishing
Deborah Harkness published a book as recently as 2024.
Release pace
Deborah Harkness books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
3,319 pages across the 7 of 9 books with a recorded length, a median of 484 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Deborah Harkness books, 6 of 9, were published in the 2010s.
Corroboration
8 of the 9 titles appear in all four independent book listings, and every one of them in at least three.

What the Deborah Harkness books are about

8 of the 9 Deborah Harkness books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: vampires is tagged on 4 of 8. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.