All Souls Books in Order

The All Souls series follows Diana Bishop, a historian and reluctant witch, and Matthew Clairmont, a centuries‑old vampire, as they uncover the secrets of a bewitched manuscript and the hidden politics of a world where witches, vampires, daemons, and humans live side by side. It’s contemporary fantasy threaded through with academic life, European history, and a long, complicated love story.

In A Discovery of Witches, Diana is trying hard to live as an ordinary scholar when she calls up Ashmole 782, an alchemical manuscript long thought lost, in Oxford’s Bodleian Library. The book wakes powers she has tried to suppress and draws other creatures to her, pushing her into an uneasy alliance with Matthew as they try to understand why the manuscript matters and why the ruling body known as the Congregation is so afraid of it.

By the end of that first book, their partnership has become both a romance and a direct challenge to the ancient Covenant that forbids relationships between different creature species.

Shadow of Night sends Diana and Matthew back to 1590s Europe, where they adopt Matthew’s old identity and move among spies, playwrights, alchemists, and courtiers in Elizabethan London and Prague while searching for a witch willing to teach Diana her rare weaver’s magic and for clues to Ashmole 782. The Book of Life brings them home to the present, now married and expecting twins, and forces them to confront blood‑rage, political vendettas, and dangerous genetic secrets as they hunt for the manuscript’s missing pages and try to remake the rules that keep creatures apart.

Alongside the main storyline, Harkness has built a larger All Souls universe of companion and spin‑off books.

The All Souls Real-Time Reading Companion lets readers follow the original trilogy day by day with extra notes and timelines, while The World of All Souls gathers maps, character sketches, recipes, and essays that unpack the history, science, and folklore behind the novels. Time’s Convert shifts the spotlight to Matthew’s vampire son Marcus and his partner Phoebe, braiding Marcus’s eighteenth‑century transformation during the American Revolution with Phoebe’s modern‑day rebirth and the everyday chaos of Diana and Matthew raising magically gifted twins in France. The Black Bird Oracle returns to Diana’s point of view as the Congregation demands that her seven‑year‑old children be tested, ravens arrive with an invitation from a hidden branch of her family, and she travels to the ancestral home of Ravenswood to study higher magic and confront the shadows in her own past, all while the long arc of creature politics continues to unfold.