Below is the complete list of Sarah J. Maas books in reading order, presented in publication order for the series. This is the recommended reading sequence for the series.
Throne Of Glass Books
- Throne of Glass (2012)
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View Book - Heir of Fire (2014)
View Book - Queen of Shadows (2015)
View Book - Empire of Storms (2016)
View Book - Tower of Dawn (2017)
View Book - Kingdom of Ash (2018)
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Throne Of Glass Short Stories Books
- The Assassin and the Pirate Lord (2012)
View Book - The Assassin and the Healer (2012)
View Book - The Assassin and the Desert (2012)
View Book - The Assassin and the Underworld (2012)
View Book - The Assassin and the Empire (2012)
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Throne Of Glass Collections Books
- The Assassin’s Blade (2015)
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A Court of Thorns and Roses Books
- A Court of Thorns and Roses (2015)
View Book - A Court of Mist and Fury (2016)
View Book - A Court of Wings and Ruin (2017)
View Book - A Court of Frost and Starlight (2018)
View Book - A Court of Silver Flames (2021)
View Book - A Court of Thorns and Roses 6 (2026)
View Book - A Court of Thorns and Roses 7 (2027)
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Crescent City Books
- House of Earth and Blood (2020)
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View Book - House of Flame and Shadow (2024)
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DC Icons Books
- Wonder Woman: Warbringer (2017)
(By Leigh Bardugo)
View Book - Batman: Nightwalker (2018)
(By Marie Lu)
View Book - Catwoman: Soulstealer (2018)
View Book - Superman: Dawnbreaker (2019)
(By Matt de la Peña)
View Book - Wonder Woman: Warbringer (The Graphic Novel) (2020)
(By Leigh Bardugo)
View Book - Black Canary: Breaking Silence (2020)
(By Alexandra Monir)
View Book - Harley Quinn: Reckoning (2022)
(By Rachael Allen)
View Book - Harley Quinn: Ravenous (2023)
(By Rachael Allen)
View Book - Harley Quinn: Redemption (2024)
(By Rachael Allen)
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About Sarah J. Maas
Sarah J. Maas is one of the defining commercial fantasy authors of her generation, and one of the writers most closely associated with the modern rise of romantasy. Her career is built around three major series—Throne of Glass, A Court of Thorns and Roses, and Crescent City—which together have made her an international bestseller on a scale few contemporary fantasy novelists reach. Official author and publisher biographies describe her as a #1 bestselling author whose books have sold tens of millions of copies worldwide and been translated into dozens of languages.
A useful way to understand Maas’s bibliography is to see it as a progression from young adult fantasy into broader adult crossover fantasy with an increasingly central romantic emphasis. Throne of Glass, her debut novel, introduced the assassin Celaena Sardothien and established many of the instincts that would shape her later work: high emotional stakes, court politics, mythic worldbuilding, and heroines forced to grow under pressure. The series began as fantasy with a young adult publishing identity, but as it expanded, so did its scale, moral weight, and narrative ambition. Even now, it remains the clearest starting point for understanding how Maas first developed her voice.
Her second major sequence, A Court of Thorns and Roses, is the point at which her readership widened dramatically. These books helped push Maas from successful fantasy author to cultural phenomenon. The series blends fairy-tale echoes, political intrigue, war, sensuality, and character-driven emotional drama in a way that proved enormously influential. If Throne of Glass showed her talent for long-form fantasy escalation, A Court of Thorns and Roses showed how fully she could fuse romance and fantasy without treating either element as secondary. That series is also central to understanding her genre identity, because it helped define the reading space now commonly described as romantasy.
Crescent City reveals another side of Maas’s bibliography. It moves into a more overtly adult register and a more modern fantasy environment, while still keeping the same appetite for layered lore, emotional intensity, and large-scale reveals. Read together, the three series show not repetition but expansion. Maas tends to build long arcs, emotional payoffs, and interconnected mythologies that reward patience, which is one reason reading order matters so much with her books. The publication sequence preserves the intended pace of discovery, especially where prequels, later-world knowledge, and evolving tonal expectations are concerned. Publisher reading guides reflect just how often readers have questions about where to begin and how the series relate to one another.
Biographically, Maas is an American author born in New York City in 1986. That basic fact matters less than the shape of her career, which is unusually clear on the page: she is a series-builder. Her fiction is driven by momentum, heightened feeling, and revelation, but it is also carefully scaffolded over multiple books. Readers tend not to come to her for standalones or minimalist realism. They come for immersive worlds, escalating bonds, and the sense that each installment enlarges what the previous one set in motion.
The best way to read Sarah J. Maas, then, is not as a loose collection of popular fantasy titles, but as the work of an author whose bibliography is organized around distinct fantasy worlds, each with its own tone and architecture. Throne of Glass shows her early epic instincts, A Court of Thorns and Roses captures her breakthrough fusion of fantasy and romance, and Crescent City shows her writing on a larger adult canvas. Together, they form one of the most commercially successful and structurally recognizable fantasy bibliographies of the past decade.