Erika Johansen Books in Order
Erika Johansen has written 5 books, published between 2014 and 2023. The first book is The Queen of the Tearling (2014) and the newest is The Kingdom of Sweets (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 5
- Published
- 2014–2023
- Confirmed
- 5 of 5 titles
- Pages on record
- 1,426 in 3 of 5 books
- Reading time
- 24–36 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,426 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 3 of 5 titles with a page count on record.
Erika Johansen writes young adult fantasy. Five books are catalogued between 2014 and 2023. The Queen of the Tearling (2014), The Invasion of the Tearling (2015), The Fate of the Tearling (2016) and Beneath the Keep (2021) make up the Tearling sequence, and The Kingdom of Sweets (2023) stands alone. Queens, princesses, magic, inheritance and succession, and imaginary wars run through the subjects. No new Johansen title has appeared since 2023.
How many Erika Johansen books are there?
Erika Johansen has 5 books, released between 2014 and 2023. 4 of them belong to the Queen of the Tearling series.
Erika Johansen Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 5 Erika Johansen 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.
- 120144343/4
- 220155143/4
- 320164783/4
- 42021–4/4
- 52023–3/4
Erika Johansen 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.
Queen of the Tearling in order
4 booksErika Johansen Standalone Novels
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Do you have to read Erika Johansen books in order?
You only need to read Erika Johansen books in order within the Queen of the Tearling series, which holds 4 of the 5 Erika Johansen books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Erika Johansen
Start with The Queen of the Tearling (2014), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Erika Johansen book?
The Kingdom of Sweets (2023) is the newest Erika Johansen book released so far.
Is there a new Erika Johansen book coming?
No next Erika Johansen book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Erika Johansen at a glance
- Paused
- No new Erika Johansen title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
- Release pace
- Erika Johansen books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 1,426 pages across the 3 of 5 books with a recorded length, a median of 478 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Erika Johansen books, 3 of 5, were published in the 2010s.
- Corroboration
- 1 of the 5 titles appear in all four independent book listings, and every one of them in at least three.
What the Erika Johansen books are about
3 of the 5 Erika Johansen books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: imaginary wars and battles is tagged on 3 of 3. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Imaginary wars and battles 3 of 3 books
- Alliances 2 of 3 books
- Fantasy 2 of 3 books
- Queens 2 of 3 books
- Drottningar 1 of 3 books
- Dystopias 1 of 3 books
- Gems 1 of 3 books
- Inheritance and succession 1 of 3 books
- Children's fiction 1 of 3 books
- Knights and knighthood 1 of 3 books
- Magic 1 of 3 books