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Updated 2026-07-11 / 119 books / 15 series
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 Catherynne M. Valente Books in Chronological Order
2005
Oracles
POoSSC / 1
Buy
2005
Apocrypha
POoSSC / 2
Buy
2006
The Grass Cutting Sword
POoSN / 1
Buy
2006
In the Night Garden
POoTOTB / 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
Clockwork Phoenix
POoCPB / 1
Buy
2008
The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 2
POoTWCB / 1
Buy
2008
A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica
POoSS / 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
The Wiscon Chronicles, Vol.3: Carnival of Feminist SF(By: Yoon Ha Lee)
POoTWCB / 2
Buy
2009
Clockwork Phoenix 2
POoCPB / 2
Buy
2009
Under in the Mere
POoSS / 2
Buy
2009
Palimpsest
POoSN / 4
Buy
2010
The Habitation of the Blessed
POoADfPJB / 1
Buy
2010
Smoky and the Feast of Mabon
POoCB / 1
Buy
2010
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition
POoTYBDF&HB / 1
Buy
2010
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two
POoBHotYB / 2
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
The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 4(By: Sylvia Kelso)
POoTWCB / 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 Girl Who Ruled Fairyland - For a Little While
POoFB / 2
Buy
2011
The Folded World
POoADfPJB / 2
Buy
2011
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition
POoTYBDF&HB / 2
Buy
2011
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three
POoBHotYB / 3
Buy
2011
Silently and Very Fast
POoSS / 3
Buy
2011
The Wiscon Chronicles Volume 5(By: Nisi Shawl)
POoTWCB / 4
Buy
2011
Myths of Origin
POoSSC / 6
Buy
2012
The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
POoFB / 3
Buy
2012
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition
POoTYBDF&HB / 3
Buy
2012
Fade to White
POoSS / 4
Buy
2012
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four
POoBHotYB / 4
Buy
2012
The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 6: Futures of Feminism and Fandom(By: Alexis Lothian)
POoTWCB / 5
Buy
2013
The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
POoFB / 4
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 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
The Island(By: Max Brooks)
POoMB / 1
Buy
2017
Nexus Uprising(By: Jason M. Hough)
POoMEAB / 1
Buy
2017
Initiation(By: N.K. Jemisin,Mac Walters)
POoMEAB / 2
Buy
2017
The Glass Town Game
POoCB / 2
Buy
2017
The WisCon Chronicles 11(By: Nisi Shawl,Jaymee Goh)
POoTWCB / 8
Buy
2017
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2017 Edition
POoTYBDF&HB / 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 Sin of America
POoSS / 6
Buy
2021
The Past Is Red
POoSN / 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
Catherynne M. Valente Book Series Reading Orders /
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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
01
The Habitation of the Blessed
2010
Buy
02
The Folded World
2011
Buy
01
In the Night Garden
2006
Buy
02
In the Cities of Coin and Spice
2007
Buy
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
04
Fade to White
2012
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
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
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
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
01
Nexus Uprising(By: Jason M. Hough)
2017
Buy
02
Initiation(By: N.K. Jemisin,Mac Walters)
2017
Buy
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
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
03
A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects
2008
Buy
04
This Is My Letter To The World
2010
Buy
05
Ventriloquism
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
01
The Grass Cutting Sword
2006
Buy
02
The Labyrinth
2006
Buy
06
The Past Is Red
2021
Buy
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
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