Maggie Stiefvater Books in Order

Below is the complete list of Maggie Stiefvater books in order of publication. This is the recommended reading sequence for the series.

Gathering Of Faerie Series

1. Lament (2008)
2. Ballad (2009)

The Wolves of Mercy Falls Series

1. Shiver (2009)
2. Linger (2010)
3. Forever (2011)
4. Sinner (2014)

The Raven Cycle Series

1. The Raven Boys (2012)
2. The Dream Thieves (2013)
3. Blue Lily, Lily Blue (2014)
4. 300 Fox Way Holiday Piece (2014)
5. A Minor Raven Boys Holiday Drabble (2015)
6. The Raven King (2016)
7. Opal (2018)
8. A Very Declan Christmas (2018)

Spirit Animals Series

1. Wild Born (2013)
   (By Brandon Mull)
2. Hunted (2014)
3. Blood Ties (2014)
   (By Garth Nix, Sean Williams)
4. Fire and Ice (2014)
   (By Shannon Hale)
5. Against the Tide (2014)
   (By Tui T. Sutherland)
6. Rise and Fall (2014)
   (By Eliot Schrefer)
7. The Evertree (2015)
   (By Marie Lu)

Pip Bartlett Series
with Jackson Pearce

1. Pip Bartlett’s Guide to Magical Creatures (2015)
2. Pip Bartlett’s Guide to Unicorn Training (2017)
3. Pip Bartlett’s Guide to Sea Monsters (2018)

Dreamer Trilogy Series

1. Call Down the Hawk (2019)
2. Mister Impossible (2021)
3. Greywaren (2022)

Standalone Novels Series

1. The Scorpio Races (2011)
2. All the Crooked Saints (2017)
3. Swamp Thing: Twin Branches (2020)
4. Bravely (2022)
5. The Listeners (2025)

Graphic Novels Series

1. The Raven Boys: The Graphic Novel (2025)
   (With StephanieWilliams)
2. The Dream Thieves: The Graphic Novel (2026)

The Curiosities Series
with Brenna Yovanoff, Tessa Gratton

1. The Curiosities (2012)
2. The Anatomy of Curiosity (2015)

About Maggie Stiefvater

Maggie Stiefvater is one of the more distinctive voices in contemporary fantasy because her books rarely feel content to be only one thing. She writes young adult fiction, certainly, but that label barely captures the atmosphere of her work. Her novels are often funny in a dry, sideways way, but also eerie, lyrical, romantic, and deeply interested in obsession, art, speed, hunger, and the private logic of desire. On her official site, she describes herself with characteristic bluntness: she writes books, some “funny, ha-ha,” and some “funny, strange.” That is as useful a summary of her bibliography as any.

Her career is best understood in a few major clusters. The first is the early faerie and werewolf work that brought her to prominence, especially Lament, Ballad, and the Wolves of Mercy Falls books beginning with Shiver. Publisher and official-author material consistently identify Shiver as one of her breakout successes, and the Mercy Falls novels established many of the qualities readers still associate with her: lush atmosphere, intense feeling, music and art as emotional language, and teenagers whose inner lives are far stranger and deeper than the surface of the plot first suggests.

The second major phase is the run of standalone and linked fantasy that made her reputation feel larger than a single hit series. The Scorpio Races remains especially important here. It showed that she could build a complete world and emotional mythology inside one novel, and it still stands as one of the strongest examples of her ability to make landscape, ritual, and longing feel inseparable. That same gift later expanded into The Raven Cycle, the sequence that probably defines her most clearly for many readers. Her official novels page places The Raven Cycle and The Dreamer Trilogy near the center of her current body of work, and that makes sense. Those books feel like the fullest expression of her mature style: ravenous imagination, strong ensemble dynamics, and a fascination with power that is both beautiful and dangerous.

What makes Stiefvater’s bibliography especially rewarding is that it is less about repeating a formula than about revisiting a sensibility. She returns again and again to certain obsessions: cars, speed, music, dreams, family damage, magical bargains, and the price of wanting something too much. Her official bio even foregrounds some of that personal texture, noting her love of music, art, and “things that go,” while public biographical sources also point to her interest in cars and automotive culture. Those details matter because they help explain why motion, machinery, and intensity feel so natural in her fiction rather than added for flair.

Her bibliography is also broader than the Shadowhunter-sized fantasy empires that dominate some of her contemporaries. On her official novels page, alongside the major series, she lists works such as All the Crooked Saints, Bravely, and the more recent The Listeners. That range is important. Stiefvater is not only the author of one beloved YA fantasy sequence. She has continued to move between standalones, companion works, and new directions while keeping a very recognizable voice.

The best way to understand Maggie Stiefvater’s books, then, is not simply as fantasy series arranged by title. They are the work of a writer with a rare gift for making the ordinary world feel one breath away from enchantment, danger, or collapse. Whether she is writing wolves in the Minnesota cold, psychic quests along old ley lines, dreamers pulling impossible things into the waking world, or standalone acts of mythmaking, she keeps returning to the same essential question: what happens when desire becomes powerful enough to change reality? That is the through-line of her shelf, and it is what makes her bibliography feel so alive.