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Shannon Messenger Books in Order

Shannon Messenger has written 16 books, published between 2012 and 2025. The first book is Keeper of the Lost Cities (2012) and the newest is Keeper of the Lost Cities The Graphic Novel Part 2: Volume 1 (2025). Publication order is the reading order below. 11 of the 16 books listed here are in the Keeper of the Lost Cities series, which has its own page: Keeper of the Lost Cities books in order.

Books
16
Published
2012–2025
Confirmed
16 of 16 titles
Pages on record
3,428 in 6 of 16 books
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Photo of Shannon Messenger, author

Shannon Messenger is an American author of middle-grade and young adult fantasy, published by Simon & Schuster. Keeper of the Lost Cities, begun in 2012, is her best-known series and a New York Times bestseller; its book 8.5, Unlocked, reached number 8 on the USA Today list in 2020. The young adult Sky Fall trilogy runs alongside, and a graphic novel adaptation of Keeper continues into 2025. Elves, psychic ability, memory and foster families are the standing subjects across 16 catalogued books.

Sophie Foster, the protagonist of Shannon Messenger's Keeper of the Lost Cities series, is a twelve-year-old girl who discovers she is part of an elven society and begins a new life at Foxfire, a school for elves.

How many Shannon Messenger books are there?

Shannon Messenger has 16 books, released between 2012 and 2025. They include 3 separate series.

Shannon Messenger Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 16 Shannon Messenger 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 Keeper of the Lost Cities by Shannon Messenger, book 1 of the Keeper of the Lost Cities series (2012)
  2. Cover of Exile by Shannon Messenger, book 2 of the Keeper of the Lost Cities series (2013)
  3. Cover of Let the Storm Break by Shannon Messenger, book 2 of the Sky Fall series (2014)
  4. Cover of Neverseen by Shannon Messenger, book 4 of the Keeper of the Lost Cities series (2015)
  5. Cover of Let the Wind Rise by Shannon Messenger, book 3 of the Sky Fall series (2016)
  6. Cover of Lodestar by Shannon Messenger, book 5 of the Keeper of the Lost Cities series (2016)
  7. Cover of Nightfall by Shannon Messenger, book 6 of the Keeper of the Lost Cities series (2017)
  8. Cover of Flashback by Shannon Messenger, book 7 of the Keeper of the Lost Cities series (2018)
  9. Cover of Legacy by Shannon Messenger, book 8 of the Keeper of the Lost Cities series (2019)
  10. Cover of Unlocked by Shannon Messenger, book 9 of the Keeper of the Lost Cities series (2020)
  11. Cover of Stellarlune by Shannon Messenger, book 10 of the Keeper of the Lost Cities series (2020)
  12. Cover of Unraveled by Shannon Messenger, book 11 of the Keeper of the Lost Cities series (2024)
  1. 1
    Keeper of the Lost CitiesKeeper of the Lost Cities #12012 · 512 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2012512
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  2. 2
    Let the Sky FallSky Fall #12013 · confirmed 3/4
    2013–
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  3. 3
    ExileKeeper of the Lost Cities #22013 · confirmed 4/4
    2013–
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  4. 4
    Let the Storm BreakSky Fall #22014 · 381 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2014381
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  5. 5
    EverblazeKeeper of the Lost Cities #32014 · 640 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2014640
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  6. 6
    NeverseenKeeper of the Lost Cities #42015 · confirmed 4/4
    2015–
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  7. 7
    Let the Wind RiseSky Fall #32016 · 407 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2016407
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  8. 8
    LodestarKeeper of the Lost Cities #52016 · confirmed 3/4
    2016–
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  9. 9
    NightfallKeeper of the Lost Cities #62017 · confirmed 3/4
    2017–
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  10. 10
    FlashbackKeeper of the Lost Cities #72018 · 848 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2018848
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  11. 11
    LegacyKeeper of the Lost Cities #82019 · confirmed 3/4
    2019–
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  12. 12
    UnlockedKeeper of the Lost Cities #92020 · 640 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2020640
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  13. 13
    StellarluneKeeper of the Lost Cities #102020 · confirmed 4/4
    2020–
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  14. 14
    Keeper of the Lost Cities The Graphic Novel Part 1: Volume 1Keeper of the Lost Cities: The Graphic Novels #12023 · confirmed 3/4
    2023–
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  15. 15
    UnraveledKeeper of the Lost Cities #112024 · confirmed 4/4
    2024–
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  16. 16
    Keeper of the Lost Cities The Graphic Novel Part 2: Volume 1Keeper of the Lost Cities: The Graphic Novels #22025 · confirmed 3/4
    2025–
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Shannon Messenger series in order

The series linked below has its own reading-order page.

Shannon Messenger 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.

Sky Fall in order

3 books
  1. 1. Let the Sky Fall
  2. 2. Let the Storm Break
  3. 3. Let the Wind Rise

Keeper of the Lost Cities: The Graphic Novels in order

2 books
  1. 1. Keeper of the Lost Cities The Graphic Novel Part 1: Volume 1
  2. 2. Keeper of the Lost Cities The Graphic Novel Part 2: Volume 1

Do you have to read Shannon Messenger books in order?

You only need to read Shannon Messenger 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 Shannon Messenger

Start with Keeper of the Lost Cities (2012), the first Keeper of the Lost Cities book. It is also the earliest catalogued title.

What is the newest Shannon Messenger book?

Keeper of the Lost Cities The Graphic Novel Part 2: Volume 1 (2025) is the newest Shannon Messenger book released so far.

Is there a new Shannon Messenger book coming?

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

Shannon Messenger at a glance

Still publishing
Shannon Messenger published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Shannon Messenger books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
3,428 pages across the 6 of 16 books with a recorded length, a median of 576 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Shannon Messenger books, 11 of 16, were published in the 2010s.
Corroboration
6 of the 16 titles appear in all four independent book listings, and every one of them in at least three.

What the Shannon Messenger books are about

13 of the 16 Shannon Messenger books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: fantasy is tagged on 8 of 13. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.