Erin Bowman Books in Order

Erin Bowman has written 12 books, published between 2013 and 2024. The first book is Taken (2013) and the newest is In the Dead of the Night (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
12
Published
2013–2024
Pages on record
3,005 in 8 of 12 books
Reading time
50–75 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,005 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 8 of 12 titles with a page count on record.

Erin Bowman has 12 catalogued books from Taken (2013) to In the Dead of the Night (2024), and the catalogue lists the Vengeance Road and Achlys series. Frozen, Stolen and Forged followed Taken between 2014 and 2015. Vengeance Road (2015), Retribution Rails (2017), Contagion (2018), Immunity (2019) and The Girl and the Witch's Garden (2020) are further titles. Subject tags include science fiction, fantasy, frontier and pioneer life, robbers and outlaws, revenge and monsters. Bowman is still publishing.

How many Erin Bowman books are there?

Erin Bowman has 12 books, released between 2013 and 2024. They include 2 series and 3 titles listed outside any series.

Erin Bowman Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 12 Erin Bowman 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. 1
    TakenTaken #12013 · confirmed 2/4
    2013
  2. 2
    StolenTaken #22014 · confirmed 2/4
    2014
  3. 3
    FrozenTaken #32014 · 384 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2014384
  4. 4
    Vengeance RoadVengeance Road #12015 · 327 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2015327
  5. 5
    ForgedTaken #42015 · 384 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2015384
  6. 6
    Retribution RailsVengeance Road #22017 · 374 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2017374
  7. 7
    ContagionAchlys #12018 · 432 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2018432
  8. 8
    ImmunityAchlys #22019 · 448 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2019448
  9. 9
    Kate & JesseVengeance Road #32019 · confirmed 2/4
    2019
  10. 10
    The Girl and the Witch's Garden2020 · 224 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2020224
  11. 11
    Dustborn2021 · 432 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2021432
  12. 12
    In the Dead of the Night2024 · confirmed 2/4
    2024

Erin Bowman 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.

Taken in order

4 books
  1. 1. Taken
  2. 2. Stolen
  3. 3. Frozen
  4. 4. Forged

Vengeance Road in order

3 books
  1. 1. Vengeance Road
  2. 2. Retribution Rails
  3. 3. Kate & Jesse

Achlys in order

2 books
  1. 1. Contagion
  2. 2. Immunity

Standalone books

3 books

3 Erin Bowman titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Erin Bowman books in order?

You only need to read Erin Bowman books in order within each series: the books listed here span 2 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Erin Bowman

Start with Taken (2013), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Erin Bowman book?

In the Dead of the Night (2024) is the newest Erin Bowman book released so far.

Is there a new Erin Bowman book coming?

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

Erin Bowman at a glance

Still publishing
Erin Bowman published a book as recently as 2024.
Release pace
Erin Bowman books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
3,005 pages across the 8 of 12 books with a recorded length, a median of 384 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Erin Bowman books, 9 of 12, were published in the 2010s.

What the Erin Bowman books are about

8 of the 12 Erin Bowman books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: children's fiction is tagged on 5 of 8. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.