Jenni Fagan Books in Order

Jenni Fagan has written 8 books, published between 2011 and 2023. The first book is The Panopticon (2011) and the newest is Ootlin (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
8
Published
2011–2023
Confirmed
1 of 8 titles
Pages on record
1,349 in 6 of 8 books
Reading time
22–34 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,349 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 6 of 8 titles with a page count on record.

Jenni Fagan works in both fiction and poetry. The Panopticon (2011) opens a catalogue of eight books that reaches Ootlin (2023), with The Sunlight Pilgrims (2016), Luckenbooth (2021) and Hex (2022) along the way. Coming-of-age, family life, foster children, group homes, teenage girls and juvenile delinquents appear in the subjects, together with Scottish poetry, psychological and dystopian tags.

How many Jenni Fagan books are there?

Jenni Fagan has 8 books, released between 2011 and 2023.

Jenni Fagan Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 8 Jenni Fagan 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
    The Panopticon2011 · 324 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2011324
  2. 2
    The Dead Queen of Bohemia2016 · 176 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016176
  3. 3
    The Sunlight Pilgrims2016 · 310 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016310
  4. 4
    There's a Witch in the Word Machine2018 · 89 pages · confirmed 1/4
    201889
  5. 5
    Luckenbooth2021 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2021352
  6. 6
    HexDarkland Tales #22022 · confirmed 3/4
    2022
  7. 7
    The Bone Library2022 · 98 pages · confirmed 1/4
    202298
  8. 8
    Ootlin2023 · confirmed 1/4
    2023

Jenni Fagan 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.

Darkland Tales in order

1 book
  1. 2. Hex

Standalone books

7 books

7 Jenni Fagan titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Jenni Fagan books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 8 Jenni Fagan books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Jenni Fagan

Start with The Panopticon (2011), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Jenni Fagan book?

Ootlin (2023) is the newest Jenni Fagan book released so far.

Is there a new Jenni Fagan book coming?

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

Jenni Fagan at a glance

Paused
No new Jenni Fagan title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
Release pace
Jenni Fagan books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
1,349 pages across the 6 of 8 books with a recorded length, a median of 243 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Jenni Fagan books, 4 of 8, were published in the 2020s.

What the Jenni Fagan books are about

7 of the 8 Jenni Fagan books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: coming of age is tagged on 2 of 7. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.