Below is the complete list of Cassandra Clare books in order. For each series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of Mortal Instruments Books
Publication Order of Mortal Instruments Collections Books
Publication Order of The Infernal Devices Trilogy Books
Publication Order of The Infernal Devices: Manga Books
Publication Order of The Bane Chronicles Books
with Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson
Publication Order of Magisterium Books
with Holly Black
Publication Order of Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy Books
with Sarah Rees Brennan
Publication Order of The Dark Artifices Books
Publication Order of The Eldest Curses Books
with Wesley Chu
Publication Order of The Last Hours Books
Publication Order of Chronicles of Castellane Books
Publication Order of Mortal Instruments Graphic Novels Books
Publication Order of Mortal Instruments Non-Fiction Books
Publication Order of The Wicked Powers Books
Publication Order of Shadowhunter Chronicles Books
- After the Bridge (2013)
After the Bridge was first published in 2013; within the Shadowhunter Chronicles series, it is listed as book #15. 
- Son of the Dawn (2018)
(With Sarah Rees Brennan)
Son of the Dawn was published in 2018 and is listed as book #36 in the Shadowhunter Chronicles series. - Cast Long Shadows (2018)
(With Sarah Rees Brennan)
Published in 2018, Cast Long Shadows is listed as book #37 in the Shadowhunter Chronicles series. - Every Exquisite Thing (2018)
(With Maureen Johnson)
Every Exquisite Thing is a 2018 release and appears as book #38 in the Shadowhunter Chronicles series. - Learn About Loss (2018)
(With Kelly Link)
In the Shadowhunter Chronicles series, Learn About Loss is book #39 and was published in 2018. - A Deeper Love (2018)
(With Maureen Johnson)
A Deeper Love was first published in 2018; within the Shadowhunter Chronicles series, it is listed as book #40. - The Wicked Ones (2018)
(With Robin Wasserman)
The Wicked Ones was published in 2018 and is listed as book #41 in the Shadowhunter Chronicles series. - The Land I Lost (2018)
(With Sarah Rees Brennan)
Published in 2018, The Land I Lost is listed as book #42 in the Shadowhunter Chronicles series. - Through Blood, Through Fire (2018)
(With Robin Wasserman)
Through Blood, Through Fire is a 2018 release and appears as book #43 in the Shadowhunter Chronicles series. - Secrets of Blackthorn Hall (2021)
In the Shadowhunter Chronicles series, Secrets of Blackthorn Hall is book #49 and was published in 2021. 
Publication Order of Short Story Collections Books
About Cassandra Clare
Cassandra Clare is an American fantasy author best known for The Shadowhunter Chronicles, the interconnected young adult universe that began with City of Bones and grew into one of the most recognizable fantasy franchises of the twenty-first century. Her work blends urban fantasy, romance, demon-hunting mythology, family secrets, political conflict, and chosen-family bonds, often following young characters who discover that the world they understand is only one layer of a much older supernatural order.
Clare was born to American parents in Tehran and spent much of her childhood moving internationally, including time in France, England, and Switzerland. That early exposure to different places is reflected in the global and historical range of her fiction. Before publishing novels, she worked as an entertainment journalist, and her command of fast dialogue, pop-cultural wit, and dramatic pacing became part of the voice that made her early Shadowhunter books stand out in young adult fantasy.
Her breakthrough came with City of Bones, the first book in The Mortal Instruments. The novel introduced Clary Fray, Jace Wayland, the Shadowhunters, Downworlders, demons, runes, parabatai bonds, and the hidden supernatural life of New York City. The Mortal Instruments became the foundation of Clare’s career, but it was only the opening movement of a much larger fictional architecture. Later Shadowhunter series expanded the world backward, sideways, and forward, giving the mythology a rare sense of generational depth.
The Infernal Devices, beginning with Clockwork Angel, is one of Clare’s most admired achievements. Set in Victorian London, it connects romance, machinery, demon magic, and Shadowhunter politics through Tessa Gray, Will Herondale, and Jem Carstairs. The trilogy showed that Clare’s world could work outside the contemporary setting while deepening family lines and emotional histories that echo into later books. The Dark Artifices, beginning with Lady Midnight, shifted the focus to the Los Angeles Institute and explored forbidden love, grief, faerie politics, and institutional corruption. The Last Hours then returned to Edwardian London through the children of characters from The Infernal Devices, strengthening the sense that Shadowhunter history is built across generations rather than isolated adventures.
Clare has also written companion and co-written projects within the same universe, including stories centered on Magnus Bane, Simon Lewis, and the Shadow Market. These books help explain why her bibliography can seem complicated at first glance. The Shadowhunter Chronicles are not a single straight series, but a network of linked arcs, families, timelines, and recurring magical laws. Readers often follow publication order because the emotional revelations, family connections, and historical callbacks are designed to unfold gradually.
Outside the Shadowhunter world, Clare moved into adult fantasy with The Chronicles of Castellane, beginning with Sword Catcher and continuing with The Ragpicker King. This series shows a different side of her imagination: a secondary-world fantasy of court intrigue, body doubles, forbidden magic, criminal underworlds, and divided social orders. It retains her interest in loyalty, secrets, power, and romance, but speaks to an older fantasy readership and is not part of the Shadowhunter universe.
Cassandra Clare’s career is best understood through her ability to build emotionally driven fantasy worlds that reward long-term reading. Her books are full of romance and danger, but their lasting appeal comes from families, friendships, betrayals, legacies, and the feeling that every generation inherits both love and unfinished trouble from the one before it.