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Harry Connolly Books in Order

Harry Connolly has written 13 books, published between 2009 and 2022. The first book is Child of Fire (2009) and the newest is The Flood Circle (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
13
Published
2009–2022
Pages on record
2,586 in 8 of 13 books
Reading time
43–65 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,586 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 8 of 13 titles with a page count on record.

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Harry Connolly writes fantasy, and the recorded subjects include urban and contemporary fantasy, magic, secret societies, magicians, quests and princes. The catalogue lists 13 books from Child of Fire (2009) to The Flood Circle (2022). Connolly's series are Twenty Palaces, Great Way and City of Fallen Gods. Game of Cages (2010), Circle of Enemies (2011), The Way into Chaos (2014), The Way into Magic (2015) and The Twisted Path (2017) are other titles. The catalogue marks Connolly as dormant.

How many Harry Connolly books are there?

Harry Connolly has 13 books, released between 2009 and 2022. They include 3 series and 2 titles listed outside any series.

Harry Connolly Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 13 Harry Connolly 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 Child of Fire by Harry Connolly, book 1 of the Twenty Palaces series (2009)
  2. Cover of Game of Cages by Harry Connolly, book 2 of the Twenty Palaces series (2010)
  3. Cover of Circle of Enemies by Harry Connolly, book 3 of the Twenty Palaces series (2011)
  4. Cover of A Key, an Egg, an Unfortunate Remark by Harry Connolly (2014)
  5. Cover of The Way into Chaos by Harry Connolly, book 1 of the Great Way series (2014)
  6. Cover of The Way into Magic by Harry Connolly, book 2 of the Great Way series (2015)
  7. Cover of The Way into Darkness by Harry Connolly, book 3 of the Great Way series (2015)
  1. 1
    Child of FireTwenty Palaces #12009 · 368 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2009368
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  2. 2
    Game of CagesTwenty Palaces #22010 · 368 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2010368
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  3. 3
    Bad Little Girls Die Horrible Deaths and Other Tales of Dark Fantasy2011 · confirmed 1/4
    2011–
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  4. 4
    Circle of EnemiesTwenty Palaces #32011 · 310 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2011310
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  5. 5
    Twenty PalacesTwenty Palaces #42011 · 318 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2011318
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  6. 6
    A Key, an Egg, an Unfortunate Remark2014 · 292 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2014292
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  7. 7
    The Way into ChaosGreat Way #12014 · 350 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2014350
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  8. 8
    The Way into MagicGreat Way #22015 · 228 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015228
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  9. 9
    The Way into DarknessGreat Way #32015 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015352
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  10. 10
    The Twisted PathTwenty Palaces #52017 · confirmed 1/4
    2017–
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  11. 11
    One ManCity of Fallen Gods #12019 · confirmed 1/4
    2019–
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  12. 12
    The Iron GateTwenty Palaces #62022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022–
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  13. 13
    The Flood CircleTwenty Palaces #72022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022–
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Harry Connolly 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.

Twenty Palaces in order

7 books
  1. 1. Child of Fire
  2. 2. Game of Cages
  3. 3. Circle of Enemies
  4. 4. Twenty Palaces
  5. 5. The Twisted Path
  6. 6. The Iron Gate
  7. 7. The Flood Circle

Great Way in order

3 books
  1. 1. The Way into Chaos
  2. 2. The Way into Magic
  3. 3. The Way into Darkness

City of Fallen Gods in order

1 book
  1. 1. One Man

Standalone books

2 books

2 Harry Connolly titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Harry Connolly books in order?

You only need to read Harry Connolly books in order within each series: the books listed here span 3 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Harry Connolly

Start with Child of Fire (2009), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Harry Connolly book?

The Flood Circle (2022) is the newest Harry Connolly book released so far.

Is there a new Harry Connolly book coming?

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

Harry Connolly at a glance

Paused
No new Harry Connolly title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
Release pace
Harry Connolly books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
2,586 pages across the 8 of 13 books with a recorded length, a median of 334 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Harry Connolly books, 10 of 13, were published in the 2010s.

What the Harry Connolly books are about

7 of the 13 Harry Connolly books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: magic is tagged on 6 of 7. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.