Below is the complete list of Maggie Stiefvater books in order. For this series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of Gathering Of Faerie Books
- Lament (2008)
Lament was published in 2008 and is listed as book #1 in the Gathering Of Faerie series. - Ballad (2009)
Published in 2009, Ballad is listed as book #2 in the Gathering Of Faerie series.
Publication Order of The Wolves of Mercy Falls Books
- Shiver (2009)
Shiver was published in 2009 and is listed as book #1 in the The Wolves of Mercy Falls series. - Linger (2010)
Published in 2010, Linger is listed as book #2 in the The Wolves of Mercy Falls series. - Forever (2011)
Forever is a 2011 release and appears as book #3 in the The Wolves of Mercy Falls series. - Sinner (2014)
In the The Wolves of Mercy Falls series, Sinner is book #4 and was published in 2014.
Publication Order of The Raven Cycle Books
- The Raven Boys (2012)
The Raven Boys was published in 2012 and is listed as book #1 in the The Raven Cycle series. - The Dream Thieves (2013)
Published in 2013, The Dream Thieves is listed as book #2 in the The Raven Cycle series. - Blue Lily, Lily Blue (2014)
Blue Lily, Lily Blue is a 2014 release and appears as book #3 in the The Raven Cycle series. - 300 Fox Way Holiday Piece (2014)
In the The Raven Cycle series, 300 Fox Way Holiday Piece is book #4 and was published in 2014. - A Minor Raven Boys Holiday Drabble (2015)
A Minor Raven Boys Holiday Drabble was first published in 2015; within the The Raven Cycle series, it is listed as book #5. - The Raven King (2016)
The Raven King was published in 2016 and is listed as book #6 in the The Raven Cycle series. - Opal (2018)
Published in 2018, Opal is listed as book #7 in the The Raven Cycle series. - A Very Declan Christmas (2018)
A Very Declan Christmas is a 2018 release and appears as book #8 in the The Raven Cycle series.
Publication Order of Spirit Animals Books
- Wild Born (2013)
(By Brandon Mull)
Wild Born was published in 2013 and is listed as book #1 in the Spirit Animals series. - Hunted (2014)
Published in 2014, Hunted is listed as book #2 in the Spirit Animals series. - Blood Ties (2014)
(By Garth Nix, Sean Williams)
Blood Ties is a 2014 release and appears as book #3 in the Spirit Animals series. - Fire and Ice (2014)
(By Shannon Hale)
In the Spirit Animals series, Fire and Ice is book #4 and was published in 2014. - Against the Tide (2014)
(By Tui T. Sutherland)
Against the Tide was first published in 2014; within the Spirit Animals series, it is listed as book #5. - Rise and Fall (2014)
(By Eliot Schrefer)
Rise and Fall was published in 2014 and is listed as book #6 in the Spirit Animals series. - The Evertree (2015)
(By Marie Lu)
Published in 2015, The Evertree is listed as book #7 in the Spirit Animals series.
Pip Bartlett Books
with Jackson Pearce
- Pip Bartlett’s Guide to Magical Creatures (2015)
Pip Bartlett's Guide to Magical Creatures was published in 2015 and is listed as book #1 in the Pip Bartlett Bookswith Jackson Pearce series. - Pip Bartlett’s Guide to Unicorn Training (2017)
Published in 2017, Pip Bartlett's Guide to Unicorn Training is listed as book #2 in the Pip Bartlett Bookswith Jackson Pearce series. - Pip Bartlett’s Guide to Sea Monsters (2018)
Pip Bartlett's Guide to Sea Monsters is a 2018 release and appears as book #3 in the Pip Bartlett Bookswith Jackson Pearce series.
Publication Order of Dreamer Trilogy Books
- Call Down the Hawk (2019)
Call Down the Hawk was published in 2019 and is listed as book #1 in the Dreamer Trilogy series. - Mister Impossible (2021)
Published in 2021, Mister Impossible is listed as book #2 in the Dreamer Trilogy series. - Greywaren (2022)
Greywaren is a 2022 release and appears as book #3 in the Dreamer Trilogy series.
Publication Order of Standalone Novels Books
- The Scorpio Races (2011)
The Scorpio Races was published in 2011 and is listed as book #1 in the Standalone Novels series. - All the Crooked Saints (2017)
Published in 2017, All the Crooked Saints is listed as book #2 in the Standalone Novels series. - Swamp Thing: Twin Branches (2020)
Swamp Thing: Twin Branches is a 2020 release and appears as book #3 in the Standalone Novels series. - Bravely (2022)
In the Standalone Novels series, Bravely is book #4 and was published in 2022. - The Listeners (2025)
The Listeners was first published in 2025; within the Standalone Novels series, it is listed as book #5.
Publication Order of Graphic Novels Books
- The Raven Boys: The Graphic Novel (2025)
(With StephanieWilliams)
The Raven Boys: The Graphic Novel was published in 2025 and is listed as book #1 in the Graphic Novels series. - The Dream Thieves: The Graphic Novel (2026)
Published in 2026, The Dream Thieves: The Graphic Novel is listed as book #2 in the Graphic Novels series.
The Curiosities Books
with Brenna Yovanoff, Tessa Gratton
- The Curiosities (2012)
The Curiosities was published in 2012 and is listed as book #1 in the The Curiosities Bookswith Brenna Yovanoff, Tessa Gratton series. - The Anatomy of Curiosity (2015)
Published in 2015, The Anatomy of Curiosity is listed as book #2 in the The Curiosities Bookswith Brenna Yovanoff, Tessa Gratton series.
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.