Below is the complete list of Tahereh Mafi books in order. For each series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of Shatter Me Books
Publication Order of Shatter Me: The New Republic Books
Publication Order of Shatter Me Collections Books
Publication Order of Furthermore Books
Publication Order of This Woven Kingdom Books
Publication Order of Standalone Books
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
- Quotes of Philosopher Aristotle (2017)
Quotes of Philosopher Aristotle was published in 2017 and is listed as book #1 in the Non-Fiction series.
About Tahereh Mafi
Tahereh Mafi is an Iranian American author best known for emotionally intense young adult fiction that blends romance, dystopia, fantasy, and lyrical interior narration. Her breakthrough came with Shatter Me, the 2011 novel that introduced Juliette Ferrars, a girl whose touch is lethal and whose life has been shaped by imprisonment, fear, and state control. What began as a dystopian trilogy grew into a much larger franchise, making Mafi one of the most visible YA authors of the 2010s and 2020s.
Mafi’s early career was defined by the voice of Shatter Me. The novel’s fragmented sentences, crossed-out thoughts, repetition, and heightened emotional language created an immediate sense of Juliette’s instability and isolation. That style became one of the series’ signatures. Rather than presenting dystopia only through government structure or rebellion, Mafi placed the reader inside a mind damaged by loneliness and powerlessness. The result was a series where romance, political oppression, supernatural ability, and psychological recovery developed together.
The original Shatter Me sequence expanded beyond its first three novels with additional books and novellas that deepened the relationships among Juliette, Warner, Kenji, and other central figures. The later continuation moved the story past what had once seemed like an endpoint, broadening the consequences of The Reestablishment and giving Mafi room to revisit questions of identity, trauma, leadership, and trust. The newer Shatter Me: The New Republic books, beginning with Watch Me and continuing with Release Me, carry that universe forward through a new generation and a timeline set after the original rebellion.
Outside Shatter Me, Mafi has written several distinct kinds of fiction. Furthermore and Whichwood show her working in middle-grade fantasy, using color, magic, and fairy-tale strangeness to explore grief, courage, and belonging. These books are more whimsical in surface than her dystopian work, but they still rely on outsiders trying to understand worlds that seem to reject them. Her prose remains lush and image-driven, even when the audience and tone shift younger.
A Very Large Expanse of Sea marked a major turn toward contemporary realism. Set in the aftermath of 9/11, the novel follows Shirin, a Muslim American teenager navigating racism, anger, isolation, and first love. The book drew from emotional territory close to Mafi’s own cultural background without becoming a simple autobiographical statement. It was recognized by the National Book Foundation and remains one of her most important standalone works because it shows how effectively she can write social alienation without speculative machinery. An Emotion of Great Delight continued her interest in grief, family strain, identity, and the private exhaustion of being misunderstood.
Mafi’s later fantasy work, beginning with This Woven Kingdom, moves into a Persian-mythology-inspired world of kings, jinn, prophecy, forbidden attraction, and political danger. That series brought her style into the romantasy space while retaining her interest in characters whose inner lives are shaped by secrecy, exile, power, and impossible longing. It also reinforced one of the clearest patterns in her bibliography: Mafi often writes protagonists who must learn whether the qualities that make them feared or marginalized can also become sources of strength.
Her work is best understood through its major strands: Shatter Me and its expanding dystopian universe, the Persian-inflected fantasy of This Woven Kingdom, the middle-grade fantasies, and the contemporary novels rooted in Muslim American experience. Across those forms, Mafi’s defining subject is emotional survival under pressure. Her characters are often watched, judged, confined, or misread, and her stories repeatedly ask what happens when a young woman claims language, love, power, and selfhood on her own terms.