Steven Brust Books in Order
Steven Brust has written 37 books, published between 1983 and 2024. The first book is The Book of Jhereg (1983) and the newest is Lyorn (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 37
- Published
- 1983–2024
- Confirmed
- 1 of 37 titles
- Pages on record
- 8,558 in 28 of 37 books
- Reading time
- 143–214 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 8,558 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 28 of 37 titles with a page count on record.
Steven Brust is an American fantasy and science fiction author of Hungarian descent, born on November 23, 1955. The Vlad Taltos novels, about an assassin from a disdained human minority on the world of Dragaera, are the work Brust is best known for. The catalogue holds 37 books from The Book of Jhereg (1983) to Lyorn (2024), and other series include the Khaavren Romances and the Incrementalists. The Incrementalists (2013) and the sequel The Skill of Our Hands (2017) were written with Skyler White. Outside fiction, Brust is a drummer and singer-songwriter with one solo album and two albums recorded as part of Cats Laughing.
How many Steven Brust books are there?
Steven Brust has 37 books, released between 1983 and 2024. They include 4 series and 8 titles listed outside any series.
Steven Brust Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 37 Steven Brust 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.
- 11983–2/4
- 2To Reign In Hell1984 · 269 pages · confirmed 2/419842692/4
- 3198412/4
- 41985–2/4
- 519862142/4
- 6The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars1987 · 210 pages · confirmed 2/419872102/4
- 719881812/4
- 8Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grill1990 · 224 pages · confirmed 2/419902242/4
- 91990102/4
- 1019914912/4
- 1119922883/4
- 12Agyar1993 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/419932562/4
- 1319932432/4
- 1419945762/4
- 1519962902/4
- 16Freedom and Necessity1997 · 608 pages · confirmed 2/419976082/4
- 1719982882/4
- 1820012562/4
- 1920023992/4
- 2020034162/4
- 2120043842/4
- 2220062882/4
- 23My Own Kind of Freedom: A Firefly Novel2008 · confirmed 2/42008–2/4
- 2420083042/4
- 2520093192/4
- 262011–2/4
- 2720113352/4
- 2820133842/4
- 292013–2/4
- 3020143202/4
- 3120173522/4
- 3220173362/4
- 33Good Guys2018 · 316 pages · confirmed 2/420183162/4
- 342020–2/4
- 35The Sword of Happenstance2021 · confirmed 2/42021–2/4
- 362023–2/4
- 372024–2/4
Steven Brust series in order
The series linked below has its own reading-order page.
- Vlad Taltos books in order 18 books
Steven Brust 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.
Khaavren Romances in order
6 booksIncrementalists in order
3 booksDragaera in order
1 bookRobin Hobb Standalone Novels
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Standalone books
8 books8 Steven Brust titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Steven Brust Books in Chronological Order
By publication date, the Steven Brust books run from The Book of Jhereg (1983) to Lyorn (2024), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Steven Brust in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.
Do you have to read Steven Brust books in order?
You only need to read Steven Brust books in order within each series: the books listed here span 4 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Steven Brust
Start with The Book of Jhereg (1983), the first Vlad Taltos book. It is also the earliest catalogued title.
What is the newest Steven Brust book?
Lyorn (2024) is the newest Steven Brust book released so far.
Is there a new Steven Brust book coming?
No next Steven Brust 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 Steven Brust
Wikidata records 7 nominations for Steven Brust. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel2015Shortlistedfor Hawk
- Nebula Award for Best Short Story1999Shortlistedfor When the Bow Breaks
- Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel1998Shortlistedfor Freedom & necessity
- Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel1995Shortlistedfor Five Hundred Years After
- Locus Award for Best Horror Novel1994Shortlistedfor Agyar
- Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel1993Shortlistedfor The Gypsy
- Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel1986Shortlistedfor Brokedown Palace
Steven Brust at a glance
- Still publishing
- Steven Brust published a book as recently as 2024.
- Release pace
- Steven Brust books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 8,558 pages across the 28 of 37 books with a recorded length, a median of 297 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Steven Brust books, 10 of 37, were published in the 1990s.
What the Steven Brust books are about
28 of the 37 Steven Brust 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 20 of 28. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Fantasy 20 of 28 books
- Taltos, vlad (fictitious character) 11 of 28 books
- Dragaera (imaginary place) 9 of 28 books
- Vlad Taltos (Fictitious character) 6 of 28 books
- Fantasy, historical 3 of 28 books
- Fantasy, epic 2 of 28 books
- Khaavren (fictitious character) 2 of 28 books
- Magic 2 of 28 books