Fairies book series in reading order

by Helen Perelman

by Lily Small

by Kiki Thorpe

by Seanan McGuire

by Emily Rodda

by Tracey West

by Elisabetta Dami

by Laurell K. Hamilton

by Sarah J. Maas

by Elisabetta Dami

by Eoin Colfer

by Chris Colfer

by Gerald Morris

by Holly Black

by Daisy Meadows

by Tom Percival

by Sarah J. Maas

Daisy Meadows is the name on the Rainbow Magic children's books, a fantasy line whose subjects include fairies, goblins, Jack Frost and two girls, Kirsty Tate and Rachel Walker. The catalogue opens in 2003 with colour-fairy titles such as Ruby the Red Fairy, Amber the Orange Fairy and Fern the Green Fairy, and runs to Nur the Vlogger Fairy (2023). Sub-series include the Weather, Jewel, Party, Pet Keeper, Dance, Ocean and Showtime Fairies. Magic Animal Friends appears under the same name.

Kiki Thorpe is a former children's book editor who has written or adapted more than fifty books for children and now writes full time from San Francisco. The catalogue lists 98 books from Luna's Night (1999) to Magnificently Major (2023). Series include Disney Fairies: The Never Girls, Finding Tinker Bell, Bear in the Big Blue House, Bob the Builder, Jay Jay The Jet Plane, Meet the Kreeps and Horsetail Hollow. Fairies, magic, bears and friendship appear among the subjects.

Eoin Colfer

59 books• 18 series

Eoin Colfer, born 14 May 1965, is an Irish children's writer and a former primary school teacher, best known for the eleven Artemis Fowl fantasy novels. By 2013 the Artemis Fowl books had sold more than 21 million copies in 44 languages, and in a 2010 public poll readers chose Artemis Fowl as their favourite Puffin Books title. The novel Artemis Fowl (2001) was followed by The Arctic Incident (2002) and The Eternity Code (2003). Other series include the Fowl Twins, W.A.R.P., Benny Shaw and Plugged, with Benny and Omar (1998) among the early titles and Deerheart (2026) the newest. The listing also credits The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1996) to Colfer.

Helen Perelman writes children's fiction, and the catalogue subjects include fairies, candy, magic, princesses, friendship, high schools and musicals. Candy Fairies and Quix are the two series credited to Perelman. The catalogue lists 45 books between 1999 and 2023, with The King and I (1999) the earliest and Friends Forever (2023) the newest. Heart to Heart (2007) and Ciao from Rome! (2009) are among the other titles. The catalogue marks Perelman as dormant.

Holly Black

60 books• 18 series

Holly Black is an American writer and editor, born in 1971, working in children's and young adult fiction, with fantasy and faeries prominent in the subjects. The Spiderwick Chronicles, created with writer and illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi, and the Folk of the Air series are the best-known work, and the Modern Faerie Tales form the debut trilogy. The catalogue opens with Tithe (2002) and lists 60 books to 2026, including Curse Workers, Book of Night and the Stolen Heir Duology, with 2 titles shared with Cassandra Clare. Black has received a Nebula Award, a Newbery Honor and a Mythopoeic Award.

Elisabetta Dami

309 books• 22 series

Elisabetta Dami, born 1 January 1958, is an Italian children's author known for the Geronimo Stilton book series. The catalogue credits Dami with 309 books from 1998 to 2026. Titles from 2000 include Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye, Attack Of The Bandit Cats and Four Mice Deep in the Jungle. Other listings include Geronimo Stilton: Thea Stilton, Mouseford Academy, Kingdom Of Fantasy, Geronimo Stilton Cavemice, Geronimo Stilton Spacemice and Creepella von Cacklefur. Subjects include mice, journalists, time travel and humorous stories. The Legend of Chocolate Hills (2026) is the newest title.

Lily Small is the author of Fairy Animals of Misty Wood, a children's series tagged with fairies and animals. Bella the Bunny, Chloe the Kitten, Hailey the Hedgehog and Mia the Mouse appeared in 2013, followed by Daisy the Deer and Poppy the Pony in 2014. Subject tags include rabbits, cats, dogs, ponies, hedgehogs and friendship, set in the imaginary Misty Wood. Penny the Puppy (2018) is the newest title. The median book length is 124 pages.

Karen Marie Moning

23 books• 4 series

Scotland and time travel drive the first half of Karen Marie Moning's work, in the Highlander romances that begin with Beyond the Highland Mist (1999) and run through Kiss of the Highlander, The Dark Highlander and The Immortal Highlander. MacKayla Lane carries the Fever series, urban fantasy about fae loose in the modern world. Watch Hill follows. Twenty-seven titles make up the catalogue, at a median of 464 pages.

Tracey West, born October 1, 1965, is a children's author who writes for licensed series such as Pokémon and SpongeBob SquarePants. The catalogue lists 356 titles from 1988 to 2027, reaching Heart of the Ruby Dragon (2026), with Claw of the Diamond Dragon due in 2027. Named series include Pokémon chapter books, novelizations and readers, Naruto Chapter Books, LEGO Ninjago Reader, Bakugan Chapter Books, Pixie Tricks, Pet Vet Club and Scream Shop Pick Your Path. Dragon Masters and Heroes in Training appear as recurring lines. Ninja, dragons and plot-your-own stories appear among the subject headings.

Seanan McGuire

160 books• 32 series

Seanan McGuire, born January 5, 1978, is an American writer and filker known for urban fantasy. McGuire writes science fiction and horror as Mira Grant, and the Up-and-Under children's portal fantasy series as A. Deborah Baker. McGuire received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2010, and the work has earned the Alex, Hugo, Locus and Nebula awards. The catalogue records 162 titles, starting with Rosemary and Rue (2009) and A Local Habitation (2010), with A Divided Duty (2026) the newest and A Song of Sugar Sparrows due in 2027. Series include October Daye, InCryptid, Wayward Children, Newsflesh, Velveteen, Alchemical Journeys and Parasitology.

Melissa Marr

71 books• 15 series

Melissa Marr, born in 1972, writes young adult and urban fantasy. Wicked Lovely (2007) opened the series of the same name and its Desert Tales spin-off, both concerned with faeries; the Blackwell Pages books turn to Norse mythology, and Graveminder, Untamed City and Seven Black Diamonds run alongside. Marr also publishes as Ronnie Douglas and has written graphic novels and picture books. Seventy-one titles are catalogued through Greta Gets the Girl (2026), and Marr has won the Romance Writers of America RITA Award.

Enid Blyton

957 books• 42 series

Enid Blyton (11 August 1897 to 28 November 1968) was an English children's writer and one of the best-selling authors of children's literature, with more than 600 million copies sold and translations into ninety languages. Blyton wrote on education, natural history, fantasy, mystery and biblical stories. Noddy, the Famous Five, the Secret Seven, the Five Find-Outers and Malory Towers are the best-remembered Blyton books, and St Clare's, Mary Mouse and Toyland Stories are also listed. The catalogue opens with The Enid Blyton Book of Fairies (1924), and The Naughtiest Girl in the School (1930) and The Adventures of the Wishing-Chair (1937) follow. Titles dated after Blyton's death also appear, up to Stories of Wonders and Wishes (2023).

Emily Rodda is a pen name of Jennifer June Rowe, an Australian author born 2 April 1948. Rowe publishes crime fiction for adults under her own name, including the Verity Birdwood and Tessa Vance series, and children's fiction as Emily Rodda and as Mary-Anne Dickinson. Deltora Quest is the central children's sequence, extended by Dragons of Deltora, Deltora Shadowlands and Star of Deltora, with Rowan of Rin, Fairy Realm, Rondo and the Three Doors Trilogy beside it. The catalogue lists 102 books from Pigs Might Fly (1986) onward.

Sarah J. Maas, born March 5, 1986, is an American fantasy author known for three series: Throne of Glass, A Court of Thorns and Roses and Crescent City. The catalogue holds 45 books dated 2012 to 2027, starting in 2012 with The Assassin and the Pirate Lord and Throne of Glass, then Crown of Midnight in 2013. A Court of Splintered Harmony (2026) is the newest release, and A Court of Forgotten Melody is scheduled for 2027. Subjects across the books include fairies, assassins, magic, courts and courtiers, and romance. By 2024 Maas had sold more than 75 million copies, with translations in 40 languages.

Paranormal romance is the core of the Yasmine Galenorn catalogue, where subject tags name witches, vampires, fairies, shapeshifting, witchcraft and women mediums. 141 books are listed between 1997 and 2026. Early entries include Trancing the Witch's Wheel (1997), Embracing the Moon (1998), Tarot Journeys (1999) and Magical Meditations (2003), and a non-fiction heading sits among the series. Otherworld, Indigo Court and the Chintz 'n China Mystery recur as headings, alongside Wild Hunt, Moonshadow Bay, Bewitching Bedlam, Fury Unbound and Starlight Hollow. Yasmine Galenorn is still publishing.

Sally Gardner is a British writer and illustrator of children's literature who also publishes adult novels as Wray Delaney. Maggot Moon, issued by Hot Key Books in 2012, took both the Costa Book Award for Children's Book and the Carnegie Medal. The catalogue holds 44 books from The Little Nut Tree (1993) to The Bride Stone (2025), with fairies, fairy tales, magic and princesses among the recorded subjects. Magical Children, the Fairy Detective Agency: Wings & Co, Tales from the Box and Tindims are among the series listed.

Terry Pratchett

148 books• 18 series

Terry Pratchett (28 April 1948 to 12 March 2015) was an English author, humorist and satirist. Discworld, a run of 41 comic fantasy novels published from 1983 to 2015, is the work most associated with Pratchett, together with Good Omens (1990), written with Neil Gaiman. The Carpet People (1971) was the first Pratchett novel, and The Colour of Magic (1983) opened Discworld. The Shepherd's Crown, the last Discworld novel, came out in August 2015, five months after Pratchett's death. The catalogue also lists the Long Earth, Bromeliad Trilogy and Johnny Maxwell series, with The Discworld Bestiary dated 2026.

Julie Kagawa

41 books• 12 series

Julie Kagawa, born October 12, 1982, is an American author whose Iron Fey series runs to 15 books, among them The Iron King, The Iron Daughter, The Iron Queen and The Iron Knight. The catalogue holds 41 Kagawa books from 2010 to 2026, opening with The Iron King (2010) and reaching Skyshattered (2026). Other series include Blood of Eden, Shadow of the Fox, Iron Fey: Evenfall and the Storm Dragons Saga. Fairies, dragons, princes, shapeshifting and vampires appear among the subjects, and the catalogue files Kagawa under young adult fiction.

Suzanne Williams writes children's fiction, and the subject records cite friendship, schools, magic, fairies, princesses, fairy tales and Greek mythology. The catalogue lists 58 books from Mommy Doesn't Know My Name (1990) to Aphrodite & the Dragon's Emerald (2023), with Library Lil (1997) among the early titles. Series include Grimmtastic Girls, Princess Power, Fairy Blossoms, Thunder Girls, Little Goddess Girls, Third-Grade Friends and Goddess Girls Super Special. Heroes in Training and Goddess Girls are among the linked names.

Robin Wasserman, born May 31, 1978, is an American novelist and essayist who grew up outside Philadelphia and studied at Harvard University and UCLA. Before becoming an author, Wasserman was an associate editor at a children's book publisher. Wasserman has written books for children and young adults and two novels for adults; Mother Daughter Widow Wife (2020) was a finalist for the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award. The catalogue lists 52 books from 2000, including the WINX Club, Unfabulous and Chasing Yesterday series.

E.D. Baker writes fairy-tale fantasy for children. The Frog Princess (2002), a parody of the Grimm story The Frog Prince, opened the Tales of the Frog Princess and partly inspired the 2009 Disney film The Princess and the Frog. The Wide-Awake Princess, Fairy-Tale Matchmaker, Magic Animal Rescue, Fairy Wings and More Than a Princess follow. Princesses, witches, dragons and magic run through the subject headings. The catalogue holds 30 books reaching Power of a Princess (2019), at a median of 272 pages.

Laurell K. Hamilton

60 books• 11 series

Laurell K. Hamilton is an American writer of fantasy and romance, born February 19, 1963, and the author of two main series. Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter, a New York Times bestseller, features Anita Blake, a zombie raiser, vampire executioner and supernatural consultant to the police; the series spans novels, story collections and comics, with six million copies in print. The Merry Gentry series follows Meredith Gentry, a princess of the Unseelie court of Faerie who works as a private detective and faces repeated assassination attempts. The catalogue holds 60 titles from Nightseer (1992) to A Glimmer of Death (2026), with Guilty Pleasures dated 1993. The Zaniel Havelock series is also listed.

Brian Froud makes illustrated books about faeries and goblins, and the catalogue records fantasy in art, pictorial works and fortune-telling by cards among the subjects. Faeries (1978) is the earliest title listed, followed by The Goblins of Labyrinth (1986), Good Faeries Bad Faeries (1998) and The Faeries' Oracle (2000). The Lady Cottington books run to a Fairy Album (2002) and Pressed Fairy Letters (2005). Jim Henson is credited alongside Froud on 2 of the 18 catalogued titles, which reach 2023.

Gail Carson Levine

29 books• 3 series

Gail Carson Levine, born in 1947, writes fantasy for children and young adults out of fairy tale material. Ella Enchanted (1997) is the first novel and took a Newbery Honor in 1998. The Princess Tales retell familiar stories in short books - The Fairy's Mistake, The Princess Test, Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep and Cinderellis and the Glass Hill - and A Tale of Two Castles is a later series. Princesses, fairies, dragons and folklore recur across 29 titles, the newest being The Unusuals (2026).