Hafsah Faizal Books in Order

Hafsah Faizal has written 5 books, published between 2019 and 2025. The first book is We Hunt the Flame (2019) and the newest is The Wishless Ones (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
5
Published
2019–2025
Pages on record
1,393 in 3 of 5 books
Reading time
23–35 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,393 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 3 of 5 titles with a page count on record.

Photo of Hafsah Faizal, author

Hafsah Faizal is an American young adult novelist whose fantasy novel We Hunt the Flame (2019) became a New York Times best seller. The catalogue lists 5 Faizal books: We Hunt the Flame, We Free the Stars (2021), A Tempest of Tea (2024), A Steeping of Blood (2025) and The Wishless Ones (2025). Sands of Arawiya and Tempest of Tea are the two named series. Subject tags include magic, impersonation, blessing and curing, and Middle East settings.

How many Hafsah Faizal books are there?

Hafsah Faizal has 5 books, released between 2019 and 2025. They include 2 separate series.

Hafsah Faizal Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 5 Hafsah Faizal 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
    We Hunt the FlameSands of Arawiya #12019 · 472 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2019472
  2. 2
    We Free the StarsSands of Arawiya #22021 · 592 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2021592
  3. 3
    A Tempest of TeaTempest of Tea #12024 · confirmed 2/4
    2024
  4. 4
    A Steeping of BloodTempest of Tea #22025 · confirmed 2/4
    2025
  5. 5
    The Wishless OnesDark Ascension #32025 · 329 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2025329

Hafsah Faizal 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.

Sands of Arawiya in order

2 books
  1. 1. We Hunt the Flame
  2. 2. We Free the Stars

Tempest of Tea in order

2 books
  1. 1. A Tempest of Tea
  2. 2. A Steeping of Blood

Dark Ascension in order

1 book
  1. 3. The Wishless Ones

Do you have to read Hafsah Faizal books in order?

You only need to read Hafsah Faizal 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 Hafsah Faizal

Start with We Hunt the Flame (2019), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Hafsah Faizal book?

The Wishless Ones (2025) is the newest Hafsah Faizal book released so far.

Is there a new Hafsah Faizal book coming?

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

Award nominations for Hafsah Faizal

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

Hafsah Faizal at a glance

Still publishing
Hafsah Faizal published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Hafsah Faizal books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
1,393 pages across the 3 of 5 books with a recorded length, a median of 472 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Hafsah Faizal books, 4 of 5, were published in the 2020s.

What the Hafsah Faizal books are about

2 of the 5 Hafsah Faizal books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. No subject is tagged on more than one of them, so each one below describes a single book. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • Blessing and curing--Fiction 1 of 2 books
  • Children's fiction 1 of 2 books
  • Fantasy 1 of 2 books
  • Impersonation--Fiction 1 of 2 books
  • Magic 1 of 2 books
  • Magic--Fiction 1 of 2 books
  • Middle East 1 of 2 books
  • Middle East--Fiction 1 of 2 books
  • Young adult fiction, fantasy, contemporary 1 of 2 books