Princesses book series in reading order

by Paula Harrison

by Shannon Hale

by E.D. Baker

by Ursula Vernon

by Jane B. Mason

by Victoria Aveyard

by Nancy Krulik

by Kiera Cass

by Erica David

by Katharine McGee

by Ian Falconer

by Shannon Hale

Meg Cabot

102 books• 20 series

Meggin Patricia Cabot, born February 1, 1967, is an American novelist of young adult and adult fiction. Meg Cabot wrote The Princess Diaries, a young adult series Walt Disney Pictures adapted into two feature films. Awards include the ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers and the Evergreen Young Adult Book Award. The catalogue lists 102 books from Where Roses Grow Wild (1998) to Kissing Cowboys (2026), including titles as Patricia Cabot and Jenny Carroll. Other series include Mediator, Heather Wells, Allie Finkle's Rules For Girls, Airhead and Little Bridge Island.

Paula Harrison writes children's fiction about princesses, animal rescue, cats and friendship, and the catalogue lists 45 of Harrison's books from 2012 to 2021. The series are Rescue Princesses, Kitty, Secret Rescuers, Princess of Pets, Tiara Friends, Red Moon Rising, Faerie Tribe and Robyn Silver. The Secret Promise (2012) is the first title recorded, with The Wishing Pearl and The Snow Jewel among the early books. Kitty and the Twilight Trouble (2021) is the newest entry.

Shannon Hale

62 books• 11 series

Shannon Hale, born Shannon Bryner on January 26, 1974, is an American author mainly of young adult fantasy. Princess Academy (2005) earned a Newbery Honor, and The Goose Girl (2003) opens the catalogue. Austenland (2007), the first novel for adults, became a film in 2013. Hale graduated from the University of Utah and the University of Montana, and has co-written with husband Dean Hale. The catalogue lists 63 titles through The Princess in Black and the Trick-or-Treating Trouble (2026), across series including Princess In Black, Books of Bayern, Real Friends and Kitty-Corn.

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.

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.

Julia Donaldson

349 books• 14 series

Dame Julia Donaldson, born Julia Catherine Shields on 16 September 1948, is a British writer and playwright who served as Children's Laureate from 2011 to 2013. Rhyming stories for children made Donaldson's name, above all those illustrated by Axel Scheffler, such as The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom, Stick Man and Superworm. Donaldson first wrote songs for children's television; the lyrics of A Squash and a Squeeze became a picture book in 1993, and books have been the focus since. The catalogue carries 349 entries, from Tim's Bad Mood and Other Stories (1970) to The Tooth Fairy and the Crocodile (2026), including Tales from Acorn Wood, Princess Mirror-Belle and Zog.

Nancy Krulik writes for children, and the catalogue lists Grades 1-3 as the reading level. Series credited to Krulik include Katie Kazoo, Switcheroo, How I Survived Middle School, Magic Bone, Princess Pulverizer and Project Droid, and George Brown, Class Clown appears among the characters. Subjects range across magic, schools, friendship, dogs, robots and humorous stories. The most recent listed book is Fangs for Having Us! (2021), and the catalogue marks the output as dormant.

Jessica Day George

17 books• 5 series

Fairy tales, dragons and castles are Jessica Day George's stock in trade. Five series divide the 17 catalogued books: Dragon Slippers, Castle Glower, Princess of the Midnight Ball, Rose Legacy and Silver in the Blood. George, born in 1976 and based in Utah, took the 2007 Whitney Award for Best Book by a New Author for Dragon Slippers and has reached the New York Times list with her young adult fantasy. The run closes with The Rider's Reign in 2020.

Emily Bliss writes the Unicorn Princesses and Pegasus Princesses series, children's fantasy for grades 3-5 with unicorns, magic and princesses among the subjects. Sunbeam's Shine, Flash's Dash, Bloom's Ball and Prism's Paint came out in 2017. Breeze's Blast, Moon's Dance and Feather's Flight followed in 2018, and The Moonbeams and The Wing Spell in 2020. Snow's Slide (2022) is the latest of 16 catalogued books.

Victoria Aveyard

15 books• 3 series

Victoria Aveyard writes young adult fantasy about power, blood and resistance to government. Red Queen (2015) opens a catalogue of 15 titles, joined the same year by the novella Queen Song, then Glass Sword (2016), Steel Scars (2016), the collection Cruel Crown (2016) and King's Cage (2017). Realm Breaker and Lyrian Sea form later series. Tempest is the newest title, and Aveyard remains actively publishing.

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.

Ursula Vernon

49 books• 10 series

Ursula Vernon is an American writer, artist and illustrator, born May 28, 1977, who also publishes for older readers as T. Kingfisher. Vernon's Hugo Awards cover the graphic novel Digger, the fantasy novel Nettle & Bone and the novella Thornhedge, and the short story "Jackalope Wives" won a Nebula. Hamster Princess and Dragonbreath are the children's series. The catalogue lists 51 titles from It Made Sense at the Time (2004) to Wolf Worm (2026), with A Spoonful of Trouble due in 2027 as T. Kingfisher. Saint of Steel, Swordheart and Sworn Soldier are among the other series.

Guardians of Ga'Hoole is one of the series by Kathryn Lasky, an American children's writer born June 24, 1944, who writes for adults as Kathryn Lasky Knight and E. L. Swann. Lasky's children's work also includes Dear America and The Royal Diaries books, Wolves of the Beyond, Sugaring Time and The Night Journey, and honours include a Newbery Honor, the National Jewish Book Award and the Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature. The catalogue holds 159 books from I Have Four Names for My Grandfather (1976) to Sacred Light (2026), including Tugboats Never Sleep (1977), The Weaver's Gift (1980) and Beyond the Divide (1983). Horses Of The Dawn, Bears Of The Ice and Camp Princess are further series, and subjects name owls, wolves, diaries and Jews.

Jane B. Mason writes children's books, and the catalogue lists 79 of them between 1993 and 2021. Early entries include Jurassic Park (1993), Apollo 13 (1995) and Balto (1995). Series include Zoey 101, Princess School, Bella Baxter, Rescue Dogs, A Dog and His Girl Mysteries and Tales from the Cryptkeeper. Subjects include dogs, schools, princesses, boarding school students, dinosaurs and superheroes. Sarah Hines Stephens is credited alongside Mason on 4 books, and Gem (2021) is the newest title.

Alexa Pearl writes children's fiction for grades 1 to 3. The catalogue holds 11 books from 2017 to 2020, with horses, mythical animals, princesses, friendship, magic and secrets among the subjects. Early titles include The Big Secret (2017) and Princess Lessons (2017), and The Best Birthday Party Ever (2020) is the newest. The median book is 98 pages.

Kiera Cass

19 books• 3 series

Kiera Cass, born May 19, 1981, is an American writer of young adult fiction, best known for The Selection series. The Selection grew into a trilogy told from the main character's point of view, two sequels about that character's daughter, and several novellas. Cass also reworked The Siren, a novel first posted online in 2008. The catalogue counts 19 titles between The Siren (2009) and A Thousand Heartbeats (2022), with Betrothed as a second series. Princesses, contests and dystopian fiction appear among the subject headings.

Maisey Yates is the author of 184 catalogued books, from His Virgin Acquisition (2010) to First Witches Club (2026), with Challenging Her Cowboy scheduled for 2027. Subject headings cover contemporary and western romance, cowboys, ranchers, Oregon, princes and princesses. Series include Gold Valley, Gold Valley Vineyards, Copper Ridge, Four Corners Ranch, Jasper Creek, Mustang River, Deacons of Bourbon Street and Once Upon a Seduction. A Mistake, a Prince and a Pregnancy (2010), The Argentine's Price (2011) and A Royal Without Mercy (2012) are early titles.

Cinda Williams Chima

16 books• 4 series

Cinda Williams Chima, born in 1952, writes young adult fantasy and has reached the New York Times bestseller list. The Heir Chronicles, a contemporary fantasy sequence, ran from 2006 to 2008 and gained two further instalments in 2013 and 2014. Seven Realms, high fantasy, appeared between 2009 and 2012, and the Shattered Realms books, set a generation later in that same world, ran from 2016 to 2019. Chima's Runestone Saga opened with Children of Ragnarok in 2022. Sixteen books are catalogued, from The Warrior Heir (2006) to Bane of Asgard (2024).

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.

Morgan Rhodes writes fantasy for readers in grades six to eight. Falling Kingdoms (2012) begins a six-book sequence about princes, princesses, gods and magic that ends with Immortal Reign (2017); A Book of Spirits and Thieves opens a companion series in 2015, and Echoes and Empires follows later. Fourteen titles span 2012 to 2023, closing with Legends and Liars.

Sherwood Smith, born 29 May 1951, is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction for young adults and adults. Smith is a Nebula Award finalist, and the short story Mom and Dad at the Home Front was a 2001 finalist for Best Short Story. Crown Duel is a young adult novel by Smith. Dave Trowbridge co-wrote the Exordium series with Smith, and Andre Norton co-wrote two Solar Queen books. The catalogue lists 83 books from Wren to the Rescue (1990) to Spark Royal (2026), with series including Wren, Inda, Crown & Court, Norsunder War, Dobrenica and Dori and Emma in Oz. Subjects include princesses, magic, sisters and Oz.

Mercedes Lackey

230 books• 52 series

Valdemar, a country in the world of Velgarth, is the setting for many of Mercedes Lackey's interlinked fantasy novels and trilogies. Lackey, an American writer born on June 24, 1950, brings human and non-human protagonists from many cultures together in the Valdemar books. A second Lackey setting resembles Earth but hides populations of elves, mages, vampires and other mythical beings. Bedlam's Bard follows a young man who works magic through music, SERRAted Edge features elves who race cars, and the Diana Tregarde thrillers star a Wiccan fighting evil. Arrows of the Queen (1987), Arrow's Flight (1987) and Arrow's Fall (1988) are among the listed titles, and Elemental Masters and Five Hundred Kingdoms are further series.

Christina Dodd's catalogue holds 82 books published between 1991 and 2026, opening with Candle in the Window and Treasure of the Sun in 1991 and reaching Teach the Torches to Burn in 2026. Dodd writes historical romance, much of it Regency, alongside romantic suspense; recorded subjects include England, governesses, princesses, and manners and customs. Series credited to Dodd include Governess Brides, Virtue Falls, Chosen Ones, Cape Charade, Darkness Chosen, Fortune Hunter and Knight. Dodd is a recipient of the RITA Award.

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.