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Avatar: The Last Airbender Books in Order

Avatar: The Last Airbender contains 15 books, published between 2006 and 2026. The first book is Avatar Volume 1: The Last Airbender (2006) and the newest is Fire and Family Treasury (2026). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
15
Published
2006–2026
Pages on record
2,161 in 13 of 15 books
Reading time
36–54 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,161 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 13 of 15 titles with a page count on record.

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Avatar: The Last Airbender is a comics and graphic novel series with 15 books dated 2006 to 2026. Avatar Volume 1: The Last Airbender (2006) opens the run, and further numbered volumes followed in 2006 and 2007; those volumes are credited to Michael Dante DiMartino. The Promise (2013), The Rift (2015), Smoke and Shadow (2016) and The Lost Adventures and Team Avatar Tales (2020) are credited to Gene Luen Yang. Fire and Family Treasury (2026) is the newest entry, and fantasy, martial arts and heroes are among the listed subjects.

How many Avatar: The Last Airbender books are there?

Avatar: The Last Airbender has 15 books, released between 2006 and 2026.

Avatar: The Last Airbender Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 15 Avatar: The Last Airbender 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 Avatar Volume 1: The Last Airbender by Michael Dante DiMartino, book 1 of the Avatar: The Last Airbender series
  2. Cover of The Promise by Gene Luen Yang, book 1 of the Avatar: The Last Airbender series (2013)
  3. Cover of Avatar Volume 2: The Last Airbender by Michael Dante DiMartino, book 2 of the Avatar: The Last Airbender series
  4. Cover of The Rift by Gene Luen Yang, book 2 of the Avatar: The Last Airbender series (2015)
  5. Cover of Avatar Volume 3: The Last Airbender by Michael Dante DiMartino, book 3 of the Avatar: The Last Airbender series
  6. Cover of Smoke and Shadow by Gene Luen Yang, book 3 of the Avatar: The Last Airbender series (2016)
  7. Cover of Avatar Volume 4: The Last Airbender by Michael Dante DiMartino, book 4 of the Avatar: The Last Airbender series
  8. Cover of The Lost Adventures and Team Avatar Tales by Gene Luen Yang, book 4 of the Avatar: The Last Airbender series (2020)
  9. Cover of Avatar Volume 5: The Last Airbender by Michael Dante DiMartino, book 5 of the Avatar: The Last Airbender series
  10. Cover of Avatar Volume 6: The Last Airbender by Michael Dante DiMartino, book 6 of the Avatar: The Last Airbender series
  11. Cover of Avatar: The Last Airbender the Art of the Animated Series by Michael Dante DiMartino (2010)
  1. 1
    Avatar Volume 1: The Last Airbender2006 · 96 pages · confirmed 1/4
    200696
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  2. 1
    The Promise2013 · 238 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2013238
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  3. 2
    Avatar Volume 2: The Last Airbender2006 · 85 pages · confirmed 1/4
    200685
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  4. 2
    The Rift2015 · 240 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2015240
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  5. 3
    Avatar Volume 3: The Last Airbender2006 · 96 pages · confirmed 1/4
    200696
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  6. 3
    Smoke and Shadow2016 · 240 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2016240
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  7. 4
    Avatar Volume 4: The Last Airbender2007 · 90 pages · confirmed 1/4
    200790
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  8. 4
    The Lost Adventures and Team Avatar Tales2020 · 312 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2020312
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  9. 5
    Avatar Volume 5: The Last Airbender2007 · 90 pages · confirmed 1/4
    200790
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  10. 6
    Avatar Volume 6: The Last Airbender2007 · 192 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2007192
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  11. 7
    Avatar Volume 7: The Last Airbender2007 · 192 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2007192
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  12. 8
    Avatar Volume 8: The Last Airbender2007 · 106 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2007106
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  13. 9
    Avatar: The Last Airbender the Art of the Animated Series2010 · 184 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2010184
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  14. 10
    Ashes of the Academy2025 · confirmed 1/4
    2025–
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  15. 11
    Fire and Family Treasury2026 · confirmed 1/4
    2026–
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Do you have to read Avatar: The Last Airbender books in order?

You should read the Avatar: The Last Airbender books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Avatar: The Last Airbender book also stands alone.

What order should you read Avatar: The Last Airbender books in?

Read them in publication order, starting with Avatar Volume 1: The Last Airbender (2006), the earliest published title. After it come The Promise (2013), Avatar Volume 2: The Last Airbender (2006), The Rift (2015) and Avatar Volume 3: The Last Airbender (2006); the numbered table above continues from there.

What is the newest Avatar: The Last Airbender book?

Fire and Family Treasury (2026) is the newest Avatar: The Last Airbender book released so far.

Is there a new Avatar: The Last Airbender book coming?

No next Avatar: The Last Airbender book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Avatar: The Last Airbender at a glance

Still running
Avatar: The Last Airbender is still running, with a title published as recently as 2026.
Release pace
Avatar: The Last Airbender books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
2,161 pages across the 13 of 15 books with a recorded length, a median of 184 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Avatar: The Last Airbender books, 8 of 15, were published in the 2000s.
Attribution
Of the 15 titles, 11 are credited to Michael Dante DiMartino and 4 to Gene Luen Yang.

What the Avatar: The Last Airbender books are about

11 of the 15 Avatar: The Last Airbender books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: comics & graphic novels is tagged on 5 of 11. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.