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Home / Authors / Catherynne M. Valente Catherynne M. Valente American author Catherynne M. Valente is best known for the *Fairyland* series and the *Space Opera* duology. A multiple Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award winner, her work is celebrated for its lyrical prose and mythic scope. This page provides the Catherynne M. Valente books in order, including both chronological and series reading order.
All books · chronological
2005 Oracles POoSSC · 1 Buy ↗ 2005 Apocrypha POoSSC · 2 Buy ↗ 2006 In the Night Garden POoTOTB · 1 Buy ↗ 2006 The Grass Cutting Sword POoSN · 1 Buy ↗ 2006 The Labyrinth POoSN · 2 Buy ↗ 2006 Yume No Hon POoSN · 3 Buy ↗ 2007 In the Cities of Coin and Spice POoTOTB · 2 Buy ↗ 2008 A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica POoSS · 1 Buy ↗ 2008 Clockwork Phoenix POoCPB · 1 Buy ↗ 2008 The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 2 POoTWCB · 1 Buy ↗ 2008 A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects POoSSC · 3 Buy ↗ 2009 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One POoBHotYB · 1 Buy ↗ 2009 Under in the Mere POoSS · 2 Buy ↗ 2009 Clockwork Phoenix 2 POoCPB · 2 Buy ↗ 2009 The Wiscon Chronicles, Vol.3: Carnival of Feminist SF(By: Yoon Ha Lee) POoTWCB · 2 Buy ↗ 2009 Palimpsest POoSN · 4 Buy ↗ 2010 The Habitation of the Blessed POoADfPJB · 1 Buy ↗ 2010 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition POoTYBDF&HB · 1 Buy ↗ 2010 Smoky and the Feast of Mabon POoCB · 1 Buy ↗ 2010 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two POoBHotYB · 2 Buy ↗ 2010 The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 4(By: Sylvia Kelso) POoTWCB · 3 Buy ↗ 2010 Clockwork Phoenix 3: New Tales of Beauty and Strangeness(By: Tanith Lee,John C. Wright,Gregory Frost,Michael M. Jones,Mike Allen,Cat Rambo,John Grant,Kenneth Schneyer,Shweta Narayan,C.S.E. Cooney,Gemma Files,Georgina Bruce,Marie Brennan,Nicole Kornher-Stace,Tori Truslow,S.J. Hirons) POoCPB · 3 Buy ↗ 2010 This Is My Letter To The World POoSSC · 4 Buy ↗ 2010 Ventriloquism POoSSC · 5 Buy ↗ 2011 The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making POoFB · 1 Buy ↗ 2011 Deathless POoLDB · 1 Buy ↗ 2011 The Folded World POoADfPJB · 2 Buy ↗ 2011 The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland - For a Little While POoFB · 2 Buy ↗ 2011 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition POoTYBDF&HB · 2 Buy ↗ 2011 Silently and Very Fast POoSS · 3 Buy ↗ 2011 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three POoBHotYB · 3 Buy ↗ 2011 The Wiscon Chronicles Volume 5(By: Nisi Shawl) POoTWCB · 4 Buy ↗ 2011 Myths of Origin POoSSC · 6 Buy ↗ 2012 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition POoTYBDF&HB · 3 Buy ↗ 2012 The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There POoFB · 3 Buy ↗ 2012 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four POoBHotYB · 4 Buy ↗ 2012 Fade to White POoSS · 4 Buy ↗ 2012 The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 6: Futures of Feminism and Fandom(By: Alexis Lothian) POoTWCB · 5 Buy ↗ 2013 Clockwork Phoenix 4(By: Tanith Lee,Richard Parks,A.C. Wise,Mike Allen,Yves Meynard,Cat Rambo,Kenneth Schneyer,Gemma Files,Alisa Alering,Ian McHugh,Benjanun Sriduangkaew,Shira Lipkin,Barbara Krasnoff,Patricia Russo,Camille Alexa,Marie Brennan,Nicole Kornher-Stace,Yukimi Ogawa,Corinne Duyvis) POoCPB · 4 Buy ↗ 2013 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition POoTYBDF&HB · 4 Buy ↗ 2013 The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two POoFB · 4 Buy ↗ 2013 The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five POoBHotYB · 5 Buy ↗ 2013 The Wiscon Chronicles Vol 7: Shattering Ableist Narratives(By: JoSelle Vanderhooft) POoTWCB · 6 Buy ↗ 2013 Six-Gun Snow White POoSSC · 7 Buy ↗ 2013 The Melancholy of Mechagirl POoSSC · 8 Buy ↗ 2013 The Bread We Eat in Dreams POoSSC · 9 Buy ↗ 2014 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition POoTYBDF&HB · 5 Buy ↗ 2014 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six POoBHotYB · 6 Buy ↗ 2014 Indistinguishable from Magic POoSSC · 10 Buy ↗ 2015 Speak Easy POoSS · 5 Buy ↗ 2015 Radiance POoSN · 5 Buy ↗ 2015 The Boy Who Lost Fairyland POoFB · 5 Buy ↗ 2015 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2015 Edition POoTYBDF&HB · 6 Buy ↗ 2015 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven POoBHotYB · 7 Buy ↗ 2015 The WisCon Chronicles, Vol.9(By: Mary Anne Mohanraj) POoTWCB · 7 Buy ↗ 2016 Clockwork Phoenix 5(By: Alex Dally MacFarlane,A.C. Wise,Mike Allen,Keffy R.M. Kehrli,Rich Larson,Cassandra Khaw,C.S.E. Cooney,Carlos Hernandez,Benjanun Sriduangkaew,Sonya Taaffe,Beth Cato,Barbara Krasnoff,Patricia Russo,Gray Rinehart,Marie Brennan,Sam Fleming,Shveta Thakrar,Holly Heisey,Jason Kimble,Rachael L. Jones,Rob Cameron,Sunil Patel) POoCPB · 5 Buy ↗ 2016 The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home POoFB · 6 Buy ↗ 2016 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2016 Edition POoTYBDF&HB · 7 Buy ↗ 2016 The Beasts Who Fought for Fairyland Until the Very End and Further Still POoFB · 7 Buy ↗ 2016 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight POoBHotYB · 8 Buy ↗ 2017 Nexus Uprising(By: Jason M. Hough) POoMEAB · 1 Buy ↗ 2017 The Island(By: Max Brooks) POoMB · 1 Buy ↗ 2017 Initiation(By: N.K. Jemisin,Mac Walters) POoMEAB · 2 Buy ↗ 2017 The Glass Town Game POoCB · 2 Buy ↗ 2017 The Year�s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2017 Edition POoTYBDF&HB · 8 Buy ↗ 2017 The WisCon Chronicles 11(By: Nisi Shawl,Jaymee Goh) POoTWCB · 8 Buy ↗ 2017 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine POoBHotYB · 9 Buy ↗ 2017 The Refrigerator Monologues POoSSC · 11 Buy ↗ 2018 Space Opera POoSOB · 1 Buy ↗ 2018 The Crash(By: Tracey Baptiste) POoMB · 2 Buy ↗ 2018 Annihilation POoMEAB · 3 Buy ↗ 2018 The Year�s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2018 Edition POoTYBDF&HB · 9 Buy ↗ 2018 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten POoBHotYB · 10 Buy ↗ 2018 The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction POoBHotYB · 11 Buy ↗ 2018 The Future is Blue POoSSC · 12 Buy ↗ 2019 The Lost Journals(By: Mur Lafferty) POoMB · 3 Buy ↗ 2019 The End POoMB · 4 Buy ↗ 2019 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven POoBHotYB · 12 Buy ↗ 2020 The Voyage(By: Jason Fry) POoMB · 5 Buy ↗ 2020 The Rise of the Arch-Illager(By: Matt Forbeck) POoMB · 6 Buy ↗ 2020 The Shipwreck(By: C.B. Lee) POoMB · 7 Buy ↗ 2020 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2019 Edition POoTYBDF&HB · 10 Buy ↗ 2020 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 1 POoTYBDF&HB · 11 Buy ↗ 2020 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve POoBHotYB · 13 Buy ↗ 2021 The Past Is Red POoSN · 6 Buy ↗ 2021 The Sin of America POoSS · 6 Buy ↗ 2021 L'Espirit de L'Escalier POoSS · 7 Buy ↗ 2021 The Mountain(By: Max Brooks) POoMB · 8 Buy ↗ 2021 Comfort Me With Apples POoSS · 8 Buy ↗ 2021 The Dragon(By: Nicky Drayden) POoMB · 9 Buy ↗ 2021 Mob Squad(By: Delilah S. Dawson) POoMB · 10 Buy ↗ 2021 The Haven Trials(By: Suyi Davies) POoMB · 11 Buy ↗ 2021 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 2 POoTYBDF&HB · 12 Buy ↗ 2021 The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen POoBHotYB · 14 Buy ↗ 2022 Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods POoCB · 3 Buy ↗ 2022 The Difference Between Love and Time POoSS · 9 Buy ↗ 2022 Never Say Nether(By: Delilah S. Dawson) POoMB · 12 Buy ↗ 2022 Zombies!(By: Nick Eliopulos) POoMB · 13 Buy ↗ 2022 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, Volume 3 POoTYBDF&HB · 13 Buy ↗ 2022 Don't Fear the Creeper(By: Delilah S. Dawson) POoMB · 14 Buy ↗ 2022 The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen POoBHotYB · 15 Buy ↗ 2022 Castle Redstone(By: Sarwat Chadda) POoMB · 15 Buy ↗ 2023 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 4 POoTYBDF&HB · 14 Buy ↗ 2023 Return of the Piglins(By: Matt Forbeck) POoMB · 16 Buy ↗ 2023 Zombies Return!(By: Nick Eliopulos) POoMB · 17 Buy ↗ 2023 The Village(By: Max Brooks) POoMB · 18 Buy ↗ 2023 Minecraft: The Outsider(By: Danica Davidson) POoMB · 19 Buy ↗ 2024 Space Oddity POoSOB · 2 Buy ↗ 2024 The Year�s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 5 POoTYBDF&HB · 15 Buy ↗ 2024 The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen POoBHotYB · 16 Buy ↗ 2024 The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Sixteen POoBHotYB · 17 Buy ↗ 2024 Minecraft: The Tournament(By: DaVaun Sanders) POoMB · 20 Buy ↗ 2024 Minecraft: Zombies Unleashed!(By: Nick Eliopulos) POoMB · 21 Buy ↗ 2024 Minecraft: Journey to the Ancient City(By: Danny Lore) POoMB · 22 Buy ↗ 2025 The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seventeen POoBHotYB · 18 Buy ↗ 2025 Minecraft: House of Horrors(By: Angel Luis Col�n) POoMB · 23 Buy ↗ 2025 Minecraft: One Last Quest(By: Brandon Ho�ng) POoMB · 24 Buy ↗ 2026 Minecraft: Adventure School(By: Monica Sanz) POoMB · 25 Buy ↗ 2026 Minecraft: Battle of the Block(By: Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow) POoMB · 26 Buy ↗ Book series · browse all →
Publication Order of Leningrad Diptych Books 1 book · 2011
Publication Order of Space Opera Books 2 books · 2018–2024
Publication Order of Children's Books 3 books · 2010–2022
01 Smoky and the Feast of Mabon 2010 Buy ↗ 02 The Glass Town Game 2017 Buy ↗ 03 Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods 2022 Buy ↗ Publication Order of A Dirge for Prester John Books 2 books · 2010–2011
01 The Habitation of the Blessed 2010 Buy ↗ 02 The Folded World 2011 Buy ↗ Publication Order of The Orphan's Tales Books 2 books · 2006–2007
01 In the Night Garden 2006 Buy ↗ 02 In the Cities of Coin and Spice 2007 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas 9 books · 2008–2022
01 A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica 2008 Buy ↗ 02 Under in the Mere 2009 Buy ↗ 03 Silently and Very Fast 2011 Buy ↗ 06 The Sin of America 2021 Buy ↗ 07 L'Espirit de L'Escalier 2021 Buy ↗ 08 Comfort Me With Apples 2021 Buy ↗ 09 The Difference Between Love and Time 2022 Buy ↗ Publication Order of The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror Books 15 books · 2010–2024
01 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition 2010 Buy ↗ 02 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition 2011 Buy ↗ 03 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition 2012 Buy ↗ 04 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition 2013 Buy ↗ 05 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition 2014 Buy ↗ 06 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2015 Edition 2015 Buy ↗ 07 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2016 Edition 2016 Buy ↗ 08 The Year�s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2017 Edition 2017 Buy ↗ 09 The Year�s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2018 Edition 2018 Buy ↗ 10 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2019 Edition 2020 Buy ↗ 11 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 1 2020 Buy ↗ 12 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 2 2021 Buy ↗ 13 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, Volume 3 2022 Buy ↗ 14 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 4 2023 Buy ↗ 15 The Year�s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 5 2024 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Minecraft Books 26 books · 2017–2026
01 The Island(By: Max Brooks) 2017 Buy ↗ 02 The Crash(By: Tracey Baptiste) 2018 Buy ↗ 03 The Lost Journals(By: Mur Lafferty) 2019 Buy ↗ 05 The Voyage(By: Jason Fry) 2020 Buy ↗ 06 The Rise of the Arch-Illager(By: Matt Forbeck) 2020 Buy ↗ 07 The Shipwreck(By: C.B. Lee) 2020 Buy ↗ 08 The Mountain(By: Max Brooks) 2021 Buy ↗ 09 The Dragon(By: Nicky Drayden) 2021 Buy ↗ 10 Mob Squad(By: Delilah S. Dawson) 2021 Buy ↗ 11 The Haven Trials(By: Suyi Davies) 2021 Buy ↗ 12 Never Say Nether(By: Delilah S. Dawson) 2022 Buy ↗ 13 Zombies!(By: Nick Eliopulos) 2022 Buy ↗ 14 Don't Fear the Creeper(By: Delilah S. Dawson) 2022 Buy ↗ 15 Castle Redstone(By: Sarwat Chadda) 2022 Buy ↗ 16 Return of the Piglins(By: Matt Forbeck) 2023 Buy ↗ 17 Zombies Return!(By: Nick Eliopulos) 2023 Buy ↗ 18 The Village(By: Max Brooks) 2023 Buy ↗ 19 Minecraft: The Outsider(By: Danica Davidson) 2023 Buy ↗ 20 Minecraft: The Tournament(By: DaVaun Sanders) 2024 Buy ↗ 21 Minecraft: Zombies Unleashed!(By: Nick Eliopulos) 2024 Buy ↗ 22 Minecraft: Journey to the Ancient City(By: Danny Lore) 2024 Buy ↗ 23 Minecraft: House of Horrors(By: Angel Luis Col�n) 2025 Buy ↗ 24 Minecraft: One Last Quest(By: Brandon Ho�ng) 2025 Buy ↗ 25 Minecraft: Adventure School(By: Monica Sanz) 2026 Buy ↗ 26 Minecraft: Battle of the Block(By: Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow) 2026 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Clockwork Phoenix Books 5 books · 2008–2016
01 Clockwork Phoenix 2008 Buy ↗ 02 Clockwork Phoenix 2 2009 Buy ↗ 03 Clockwork Phoenix 3: New Tales of Beauty and Strangeness(By: Tanith Lee,John C. Wright,Gregory Frost,Michael M. Jones,Mike Allen,Cat Rambo,John Grant,Kenneth Schneyer,Shweta Narayan,C.S.E. Cooney,Gemma Files,Georgina Bruce,Marie Brennan,Nicole Kornher-Stace,Tori Truslow,S.J. Hirons) 2010 Buy ↗ 04 Clockwork Phoenix 4(By: Tanith Lee,Richard Parks,A.C. Wise,Mike Allen,Yves Meynard,Cat Rambo,Kenneth Schneyer,Gemma Files,Alisa Alering,Ian McHugh,Benjanun Sriduangkaew,Shira Lipkin,Barbara Krasnoff,Patricia Russo,Camille Alexa,Marie Brennan,Nicole Kornher-Stace,Yukimi Ogawa,Corinne Duyvis) 2013 Buy ↗ 05 Clockwork Phoenix 5(By: Alex Dally MacFarlane,A.C. Wise,Mike Allen,Keffy R.M. Kehrli,Rich Larson,Cassandra Khaw,C.S.E. Cooney,Carlos Hernandez,Benjanun Sriduangkaew,Sonya Taaffe,Beth Cato,Barbara Krasnoff,Patricia Russo,Gray Rinehart,Marie Brennan,Sam Fleming,Shveta Thakrar,Holly Heisey,Jason Kimble,Rachael L. Jones,Rob Cameron,Sunil Patel) 2016 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Mass Effect: Andromeda Books 3 books · 2017–2018
01 Nexus Uprising(By: Jason M. Hough) 2017 Buy ↗ 02 Initiation(By: N.K. Jemisin,Mac Walters) 2017 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Fairyland Books 7 books · 2011–2016
01 The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making 2011 Buy ↗ 02 The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland - For a Little While 2011 Buy ↗ 03 The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There 2012 Buy ↗ 04 The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two 2013 Buy ↗ 05 The Boy Who Lost Fairyland 2015 Buy ↗ 06 The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home 2016 Buy ↗ 07 The Beasts Who Fought for Fairyland Until the Very End and Further Still 2016 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Best Horror of the Year Books 18 books · 2009–2025
01 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One 2009 Buy ↗ 02 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two 2010 Buy ↗ 03 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three 2011 Buy ↗ 04 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four 2012 Buy ↗ 05 The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five 2013 Buy ↗ 06 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six 2014 Buy ↗ 07 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven 2015 Buy ↗ 08 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight 2016 Buy ↗ 09 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine 2017 Buy ↗ 10 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten 2018 Buy ↗ 11 The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction 2018 Buy ↗ 12 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven 2019 Buy ↗ 13 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve 2020 Buy ↗ 14 The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen 2021 Buy ↗ 15 The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen 2022 Buy ↗ 16 The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen 2024 Buy ↗ 17 The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Sixteen 2024 Buy ↗ 18 The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seventeen 2025 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Short Story Collections 12 books · 2005–2018
03 A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects 2008 Buy ↗ 04 This Is My Letter To The World 2010 Buy ↗ 06 Myths of Origin 2011 Buy ↗ 07 Six-Gun Snow White 2013 Buy ↗ 08 The Melancholy of Mechagirl 2013 Buy ↗ 09 The Bread We Eat in Dreams 2013 Buy ↗ 10 Indistinguishable from Magic 2014 Buy ↗ 11 The Refrigerator Monologues 2017 Buy ↗ 12 The Future is Blue 2018 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Standalone Novels 6 books · 2006–2021
01 The Grass Cutting Sword 2006 Buy ↗ 06 The Past Is Red 2021 Buy ↗ Publication Order of The WisCon Chronicles Books 8 books · 2008–2017
01 The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 2 2008 Buy ↗ 02 The Wiscon Chronicles, Vol.3: Carnival of Feminist SF(By: Yoon Ha Lee) 2009 Buy ↗ 03 The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 4(By: Sylvia Kelso) 2010 Buy ↗ 04 The Wiscon Chronicles Volume 5(By: Nisi Shawl) 2011 Buy ↗ 05 The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 6: Futures of Feminism and Fandom(By: Alexis Lothian) 2012 Buy ↗ 06 The Wiscon Chronicles Vol 7: Shattering Ableist Narratives(By: JoSelle Vanderhooft) 2013 Buy ↗ 07 The WisCon Chronicles, Vol.9(By: Mary Anne Mohanraj) 2015 Buy ↗ 08 The WisCon Chronicles 11(By: Nisi Shawl,Jaymee Goh) 2017 Buy ↗