Alexandra Bracken Books in Order
Explore Alexandra Bracken’s books in order, with guides, summaries, series background, and tips on where to start with The Darkest Minds, Passenger, and more.
Last updated: June 7, 2026
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Publication Order
16 books
Brightly Woven
by Alexandra Bracken
2010
When wizard Wayland North ends a ten‑year drought in Sydelle Mirabel’s remote village, he claims the talented weaver as his reward. Swept across a war‑torn kingdom, Sydelle must mend North’s magical cloaks, face a sinister rival mage, and uncover her own emerging power.
The Darkest Minds
by Alexandra Bracken
2012
After a mysterious illness kills most American children, surviving teens develop frightening abilities and are imprisoned in brutal “rehabilitation” camps. Sixteen‑year‑old Ruby escapes Thurmond and joins other runaways, racing toward a rumored safe haven while hiding the dangerous power she barely understands.
Never Fade
by Alexandra Bracken
2013
Now working for the Children’s League, Ruby leads dangerous missions against the regime that locked her away. When vital information about the IAAN disease surfaces on a flash drive carried by Liam, she must leave the League, find him, and decide who truly deserves her loyalty.
In The After Light
by Alexandra Bracken
2014
In the final book of the original Darkest Minds trilogy, Ruby and her friends regroup after a devastating attack to free the remaining Psi kids from government camps. Balancing fragile alliances, grief, and Clancy Gray’s manipulation, they launch a last, risky push for justice.
The Princess, the Scoundrel and the Farm Boy
by Alexandra Bracken
2015
This middle‑grade retelling of Star Wars: A New Hope follows Princess Leia, Han Solo, and Luke Skywalker in turn as they steal Death Star plans, escape Imperial prisons, and join the Rebel assault, adding extra backstory and emotion to the classic space adventure.
Through the Dark
by Alexandra Bracken
2015
This collection gathers three Darkest Minds novellas—In Time, Sparks Rise, and Beyond the Night—spotlighting bounty hunters, camp survivors, and runaways whose stories weave around Ruby’s. It deepens the world’s dystopian history and shows how far Psi kids will go to protect one another.
Passenger
by Alexandra Bracken
2016
Violin prodigy Etta Spencer is torn from her New York debut and thrown onto an eighteenth‑century privateer’s ship, discovering she descends from time travelers. Forced to hunt a powerful astrolabe with sailor Nicholas Carter, she chases clues through history while questioning who deserves to control time.
The Rising Dark
by Alexandra Bracken
2016
This Darkest Minds collection offers three short stories from fan‑favorite characters Liam, Vida, and Clancy. Set around the main trilogy, it shows brothers tested by the League, sisters scraping by on the run, and a glimpse inside the mind of the series’ most dangerous schemer.
The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding
by Alexandra Bracken
2017
Twelve‑year‑old Prosper Redding discovers a centuries‑old demon living inside him, furious at the Redding family for breaking a deadly contract. With only days to break the curse, Prosper is whisked to Salem and into a world of witches, fiends, and unsettling family secrets.
Wayfarer
by Alexandra Bracken
2017
Separated in time, Etta Spencer and privateer Nicholas Carter race across centuries to destroy the astrolabe that can rewrite history. As rival traveler factions close in and timelines fracture, both must choose between repairing the past and finding their way back to each other.
The Darkest Legacy
by Alexandra Bracken
2018
Five years after the rehabilitation camps fall, Suzume “Zu” Kimura is the face of a fragile new government. When she’s framed for a deadly attack, Zu goes on the run with two mysterious Psi teens to uncover a conspiracy threatening every powered kid left.
The Last Life of Prince Alastor
by Alexandra Bracken
2019
Prosper Redding and the fiend Alastor descend into the demon realm to rescue Prosper’s twin sister from ruthless Queen Pyra and a spreading Void. Among scheming fiends and crumbling kingdoms, boy and demon must finally decide whether they’re enemies or uneasy allies.
Brightly Woven
by Alexandra Bracken
2020
In this graphic‑novel retelling, fourteen‑year‑old weaver Sydelle Mirabil leaves her occupied village with young wizard Wayland North to deliver a message that could avert war. As freak storms and a dark sorcerer close in, Sydelle uncovers surprising magic of her own.
Lore
by Alexandra Bracken
2021
Every seven years, nine Greek gods are hunted on New York’s streets, and killing one means stealing its power. Former hunter Lore Perseous is dragged back into the Agon when a wounded Athena and a long‑lost friend ask for her help.
Silver in the Bone
by Alexandra Bracken
2023
Tamsin Lark survives Boston’s magical underground as a Hollower, stealing cursed relics despite having no magic of her own. When rumors surface of a ring that could break her brother Cabell’s deadly curse, she joins rival Emrys on a perilous quest into a corrupted Avalon.
The Mirror of Beasts
by Alexandra Bracken
2024
After Avalon’s fall, Tamsin and her found family race to stop Lord Death from unleashing an army of the dead. Hunting the legendary Mirror of Beasts, they cross dangerous otherlands, confront betrayals, and face the secrets Tamsin has tried hardest to bury.
Where should I start?
If you want to start with her signature YA dystopia: The Darkest Minds → Never Fade → In The After Light → The Darkest Legacy
If you love time‑travel romance and history: Passenger → Wayfarer
If fast, myth‑heavy standalones appeal most: Lore
For spooky middle grade with demons and curses: The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding → The Last Life of Prince Alastor
If you want her newest dark fantasy series: Silver in the Bone → The Mirror of Beasts
Author bio
Alexandra Bracken was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and grew up nearby in the desert suburbs, where summers were hot and book stacks were high. Her dad collected Star Wars toys, so she spent a lot of weekends at conventions, wandering aisles of stormtroopers and paperbacks and quietly falling in love with stories.
She wrote fan fiction, drafted her own stories in school notebooks, and graduated from Chaparral High School in 2005 before heading east to the College of William & Mary in Virginia to study history and English.
In college she finished an early, unsold novel, then started what became her debut, Brightly Woven, as a birthday present for a close friend. She revised it between classes and exams, signed with an agent on her twenty‑first birthday, and sold the book while she was still a senior.
After graduating magna cum laude in 2009, Bracken moved to New York City and took a job in children’s publishing, first as an editorial assistant and later in marketing. During the day she handled other people’s books; at night and on weekends she worked on her own, teaching herself to protect a few quiet hours for drafting even when she was exhausted.
Out of that schedule came The Darkest Minds, a near‑future series about American teens who develop dangerous abilities and are locked away in camps. Bracken has described those powers as a way of talking about how much force and energy young people really carry, and how often adults underestimate them. The books spent weeks on bestseller lists and eventually became a 2018 feature film.
Her love of history shaped the next big project, the Passenger duology. In Passenger and Wayfarer, a modern violinist and an eighteenth‑century sailor fall in love while racing through time to stop a powerful artifact from rewriting history. The books let Bracken mix her favorite eras—Revolutionary America, imperial Russia, ancient Carthage—with questions about who gets to decide what the “right” version of the past looks like.
Alongside her young adult work, she moved into middle grade with the spooky‑fun Prosper Redding duology, where a very unlucky boy is stuck sharing his body with a furious demon. She also wrote a novelization of Star Wars: A New Hope for younger readers and later returned to stand‑alone fantasy with Lore, a contemporary story about Greek gods being hunted through the streets of New York.
Most recently, her Silver in the Bone books dive into Arthurian legend, following a magic‑less relic hunter clawing her way through Boston’s occult underworld and a ruined Avalon. Across all of these worlds, Bracken tends to circle the same ideas: found family, inherited secrets, the pressure of other people’s expectations, and what it costs to choose your own path.
After several years in New York, she eventually moved back to Arizona, where she now writes full‑time with her small dog, Tennyson, and an ever‑growing tower of books for company. She’s open about the years of rejection and revision behind every “overnight” success and often tells aspiring writers that the hardest, most important part of the job is simply beginning—and then stubbornly coming back to the page.
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