Fairies book series in reading order

by Helen Perelman

by Seanan McGuire

by Tracey West

by Elisabetta Dami

by Laurell K. Hamilton

by Sarah J. Maas

by Elisabetta Dami

by Eoin Colfer

by Chris Colfer

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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).

Fantasy and romance meet in Elise Kova's work, which opens with Air Awakens (2015) and runs to 39 catalogued titles. Elemental magic sits at the centre, the four elements, apprentice magicians, fairies and secret societies fill the subject tags, and the Married to Magic novels, the Loom Saga, A Trial of Sorcerers and Arcana Academy follow the Air Awakens books. Prince of Swords (2026) is Kova's newest title and the catalogue remains open.

Charles de Lint, a Canadian writer born December 22, 1951, works mainly in fantasy, covering urban fantasy, contemporary magical realism and mythic fiction. During the 1980s de Lint, together with Terri Windling, Emma Bull and John Crowley, helped establish urban fantasy as a subgenre. The output includes novels, novellas, short stories, poetry and song lyrics. The catalogue records 95 books from Moonheart (1984) to Juniper Wiles Does Not Want to Be Queen (2025), with Mulengro (1985), Yarrow (1986), Greenmantle (1988) and Wolf Moon (1988) among the early titles. Newford, an imaginary place in the subject headings, names a series, alongside Moonheart, Cerin Songweaver, Jack of Kinrowan and Juniper Wiles.

Michelle Harrison is a British writer, born in 1979. The debut novel The Thirteen Treasures won the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize and sold for translation in 17 countries; 13 Treasures (2009), The 13 Curses (2010) and 13 Secrets (2011) form the trilogy. Unrest (2012), a ghost story, was the first book for young adults. A Pinch of Magic (2019) opens a second series, followed by A Sprinkle of Sorcery (2020) and A Tangle of Spells (2021). Seventeen titles are catalogued through A Clock Strikes Murder (2026), with fairies, changelings and wishes among the subjects.

Fantasy across three series defines Sarah Maas's catalogued work: Throne of Glass, A Court of Thorns and Roses, and Crescent City. Twelve books run from Throne of Glass (2012) to House of Earth and Blood, the first Crescent City novel, in 2020, with the standalone Catwoman: Soulstealer (2018) among them. Assassins, fairies, magic and royal courts are the recurring subjects. Maas writes at length, 626 pages at the median.

Werewolves, vampires and shapeshifters populate Patricia Briggs's paranormal fantasy. Mercy Thompson, a shapeshifter who works as a car mechanic, leads the sequence that carries her name, and Alpha and Omega runs beside it, both with graphic novel adaptations. Briggs started with Masques (1993) and the Sianim and Hurog books before turning to the modern-day novels. The catalogue holds 54 titles and reaches Steel Rain in 2027.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

27 books• 6 series

Jennifer A. Nielsen writes adventure and fantasy for younger readers, with conspiracies, courts and imaginary wars in some books and goblins, fairies and magic in others. The Ascendance Trilogy begins at The False Prince (2012), and the Underworld Chronicles, Mark of the Thief and The Traitor's Game make up her other series. Twenty-five catalogued books run from Elliot and the Goblin War (2010) to Magnitude in 2026.

Brandon Mull

35 books• 10 series

Brandon Mull, born November 8, 1974, is an American writer of children's fantasy. Fablehaven (2006) is the first catalogued book and the series most associated with Mull, along with Dragonwatch, The Candy Shop War, the Beyonders trilogy and Five Kingdoms, and Mull also launched the Spirit Animals series. The catalogue counts 35 books through Forbidden Mountain (2026). Tolkien, C. S. Lewis and J. K. Rowling are Mull's stated influences, and dragons, fairies and mythical creatures fill the subjects.

Chris Colfer

20 books• 6 series

The Land of Stories is Chris Colfer's main series, with fairy tales, twins and the characters of literature among its subject tags. The Wishing Spell (2012) and Struck by Lightning (2012) are the earliest of 20 catalogued titles, which reach Roswell Johnson Saves the Galaxy! (2025). A Tale of Magic, the Land of Stories picture books and the graphic novels extend the work. Magic, fairies, secrets and books and reading recur.

Jane Yolen

237 books• 22 series

Jane Yolen (Jane Hyatt Yolen, February 11, 1939 to June 11, 2026) was an American author of fantasy, science fiction and children's books. The Devil's Arithmetic, a Holocaust novella, is the best-known Yolen work, and Owl Moon and The Emperor and the Kite are among the others. The short works Sister Emily's Lightship and Lost Girls both won Nebula Awards. The catalogue counts 237 books from The Witch Who Wasn't (1964) to Daddy Plays a Mean Guitar (2026). Series include Commander Toad, How Do Dinosaurs...?, Pit Dragons, the Young Merlin Trilogy, Books of the Great Alta and Tartan Magic. Yolen worked as an editor, collaborated most often with Adam Stemple, and in 2012 became the first woman to give the Andrew Lang lecture.

Carol Goodman

28 books• 3 series

Carol Goodman writes gothic fiction. The American novelist, a creative writing professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, has 28 catalogued books running from The Lake of Dead Languages (2002) to Our Marriage Is Murder (2026). Goodman won the Hammett Prize in 2003 for The Seduction of Water and has twice taken the Mary Higgins Clark Award. Goodman also publishes as Juliet Dark, and writes with her husband Lee Slonimsky under the joint name Lee Carroll. Three series are catalogued: Black Swan Rising, the Fairwick Trilogy and Blythewood.

Kiersten White

32 books• 9 series

Kiersten White is an American author of fiction for children, young adults and adults. HarperCollins published Paranormalcy, the first White book, in 2010. The catalogue lists 32 White books; Supernaturally (2011), Endlessly (2012), The Chaos of Stars (2013), Illusions of Fate (2014) and And I Darken (2016) followed Paranormalcy, and The Fox and the Devil (2026) is the newest. Series include Paranormalcy, Conqueror's Saga, Camelot Rising and Sinister Summer. Subjects include sisters, princesses, fairies, prophecies, monsters and good and evil.