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Nancy Farmer Books in Order

Nancy Farmer has written 13 books, published between 1993 and 2013. The first book is Do You Know Me (1993) and the newest is A New Year's Tale (2013). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
13
Published
1993–2013
Pages on record
3,003 in 9 of 13 books
Reading time
50–75 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,003 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 9 of 13 titles with a page count on record.

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Nancy Farmer writes science fiction and fantasy for children and young adults. Thirteen books are catalogued between Do You Know Me (1993) and A New Year's Tale (2013). The House of the Scorpion (2002) won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, and three Farmer books have been named Newbery Honor books. The Sea of Trolls (2004) and The Land of the Silver Apples (2007) belong to the series named for the first of them, with druids, bards and Saxons among the subject headings. Cloning, Zimbabweans and family life sit elsewhere in the list, which also holds The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm (1994) and A Girl Named Disaster (1996). Farmer was born in 1941.

How many Nancy Farmer books are there?

Nancy Farmer has 13 books, released between 1993 and 2013. They include 2 series and 8 titles listed outside any series.

Nancy Farmer Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 13 Nancy Farmer 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 Do You Know Me by Nancy Farmer (1993)
  2. Cover of The Warm Place by Nancy Farmer (1995)
  3. Cover of Runnery Granary by Nancy Farmer (1996)
  4. Cover of A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer (1996)
  5. Cover of Casey Jones's Fireman by Nancy Farmer (1999)
  6. Cover of The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer, book 1 of the Matteo Alacran series (2002)
  7. Cover of The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer, book 1 of the Sea of Trolls series (2004)
  8. Cover of Clever Ali by Nancy Farmer (2006)
  9. Cover of The Land of the Silver Apples by Nancy Farmer, book 2 of the Sea of Trolls series (2007)
  10. Cover of The Islands of the Blessed by Nancy Farmer, book 3 of the Sea of Trolls series (2009)
  11. Cover of The Lord of Opium by Nancy Farmer, book 2 of the Matteo Alacran series (2013)
  12. Cover of A New Year's Tale by Nancy Farmer (2013)
  1. 1
    Do You Know Me1993 · 105 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1993105
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  2. 2
    The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm1994 · 336 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1994336
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  3. 3
    The Warm Place1995 · 152 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1995152
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  4. 4
    Runnery Granary1996 · confirmed 1/4
    1996–
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  5. 5
    A Girl Named Disaster1996 · 336 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1996336
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  6. 6
    Casey Jones's Fireman1999 · confirmed 1/4
    1999–
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  7. 7
    The House of the ScorpionMatteo Alacran #12002 · 380 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2002380
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  8. 8
    The Sea of TrollsSea of Trolls #12004 · 459 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004459
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  9. 9
    Clever Ali2006 · confirmed 1/4
    2006–
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  10. 10
    The Land of the Silver ApplesSea of Trolls #22007 · 496 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2007496
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  11. 11
    The Islands of the BlessedSea of Trolls #32009 · confirmed 1/4
    2009–
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  12. 12
    The Lord of OpiumMatteo Alacran #22013 · 432 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2013432
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  13. 13
    A New Year's Tale2013 · 307 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2013307
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Nancy Farmer 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.

Sea of Trolls in order

3 books
  1. 1. The Sea of Trolls
  2. 2. The Land of the Silver Apples
  3. 3. The Islands of the Blessed

Matteo Alacran in order

2 books
  1. 1. The House of the Scorpion
  2. 2. The Lord of Opium

Standalone books

8 books

8 Nancy Farmer titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Nancy Farmer books in order?

You only need to read Nancy Farmer 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 Nancy Farmer

Start with Do You Know Me (1993), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Nancy Farmer book?

A New Year's Tale (2013) is the newest Nancy Farmer book released so far.

Is there a new Nancy Farmer book coming?

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

Awards Nancy Farmer has won

Wikidata records 1 award and 5 nominations for Nancy Farmer. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

Nancy Farmer at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Nancy Farmer title on record dates from 2013, 13 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Nancy Farmer books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
3,003 pages across the 9 of 13 books with a recorded length, a median of 336 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Nancy Farmer books, 6 of 13, were published in the 1990s.

What the Nancy Farmer books are about

12 of the 13 Nancy Farmer 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 6 of 12. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.