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Beautiful Creatures Books in Order

Kami Garcia has written 11 Beautiful Creatures books, published between 2009 and 2016: 9 in the 2 main-line series and 2 related titles. The first book is Beautiful Creatures (2009) and the newest main-line book is A Gatlin Wedding (2016). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
11
Published
2009–2016
Confirmed
2 of 11 titles
Pages on record
1,173 in 3 of 11 books
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Beautiful Creatures is a young adult paranormal romance series by Kami Garcia, set around a high school where psychic ability and the supernatural surface. Beautiful Creatures (2009) opens the run, followed by Beautiful Darkness, Beautiful Chaos and Beautiful Redemption. Eleven catalogued titles, manga adaptations, companion volumes and The Untold Stories included, reach A Gatlin Wedding in 2016.

How many Beautiful Creatures books are there?

Beautiful Creatures has 11 books, released between 2009 and 2016. 9 of them belong to the 2 main-line series (Beautiful Creatures, Beautiful Creatures: The Untold Stories), and 2 related titles sit outside it: companion books and graphic novels.

Beautiful Creatures Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 11 Beautiful Creatures 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 Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia, book 1 of the Beautiful Creatures series (2009)
  2. Cover of Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia, book 2 of the Beautiful Creatures series (2010)
  3. Cover of Beautiful Chaos by Kami Garcia, book 4 of the Beautiful Creatures series (2011)
  4. Cover of Beautiful Redemption by Kami Garcia, book 5 of the Beautiful Creatures series (2012)
  5. Cover of Beautiful Creatures: The Manga by Kami Garcia, book 1 of the Beautiful Creatures Graphic Novels series (2013)
  1. 1
    Beautiful CreaturesBeautiful Creatures #12009 · 563 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2009563
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  2. 2
    Beautiful DarknessBeautiful Creatures #22010 · confirmed 3/4
    2010–
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  3. 3
    Dream DarkBeautiful Creatures #32011 · confirmed 2/4
    2011–
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  4. 4
    Beautiful ChaosBeautiful Creatures #42011 · 528 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2011528
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  5. 5
    Beautiful Creatures: A BookCaps Study GuideBeautiful Creatures Companion #12012 · 82 pages · confirmed 2/4
    201282
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  6. 6
    Beautiful RedemptionBeautiful Creatures #52012 · confirmed 2/4
    2012–
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  7. 7
    Beautiful Creatures: The MangaBeautiful Creatures Graphic Novels #12013 · confirmed 2/4
    2013–
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  8. 8
    The Mortal HeartBeautiful Creatures: The Untold Stories #12015 · confirmed 2/4
    2015–
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  9. 9
    The Seer's SpreadBeautiful Creatures: The Untold Stories #22015 · confirmed 2/4
    2015–
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  10. 10
    Before the ClaimingBeautiful Creatures: The Untold Stories #32015 · confirmed 2/4
    2015–
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  11. 11
    A Gatlin WeddingBeautiful Creatures: The Untold Stories #42016 · confirmed 2/4
    2016–
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Do you have to read Beautiful Creatures books in order?

You should read the 2 main-line series in publication order, the order of the numbered table above; the 2 related titles (companion books and graphic novels) sit outside that sequence. The catalogue does not record whether each Beautiful Creatures book also stands alone.

Where to start with Beautiful Creatures

Start with Beautiful Creatures (2009), the earliest published book in the 2 main-line series.

What is the newest Beautiful Creatures book?

A Gatlin Wedding (2016) is the newest book in the 2 main-line series.

Is there a new Beautiful Creatures book coming?

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

Beautiful Creatures at a glance

No recent titles
The newest main-line Beautiful Creatures title on record is A Gatlin Wedding (2016), 10 years ago.
Release pace
Beautiful Creatures books have appeared more than one a year on average.
Length
1,173 pages across the 3 of 11 books with a recorded length, a median of 528 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Beautiful Creatures books, 10 of 11, were published in the 2010s.

What the Beautiful Creatures books are about

5 of the 11 Beautiful Creatures books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: love is tagged on 4 of 5. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

More books by Kami Garcia

The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.