Book Of The Ice Books in Order

The Book of the Ice trilogy returns to Abeth, the same dying world as Book of the Ancestor, but looks at it from a colder angle. Instead of the narrow green Corridor where Nona Grey grows up, these books begin far out on the ice with the tribes who survive in the open.

Yaz, the protagonist, belongs to the Ictha, one of the hardest of those ice tribes. Life there is brutal and tightly controlled. Every few years a regulator examines the children and casts the ones he deems “broken” into the Pit of the Missing, a hole in the ice that no one is meant to survive. Yaz has always suspected that she will be thrown, and when that finally happens she discovers a whole hidden world beneath the ice.

The Girl and the Stars follows her fall and her struggle to find her younger brother Zeen. In the tunnels and caverns below, cast off children, ancient machines and strange creatures all compete to survive. Yaz learns more about her own bloodline, the “Missing” people who left their mark on Abeth, and the wider fight over the planet’s future.

In The Girl and the Mountain, Yaz and her companions climb toward the Black Rock, the mountain fortress of the priests who rule the tribes above. Their Hidden God, their hoarded iron and their control of the testing all turn out to be part of a much deeper story about power and belief. Yaz’s dream of reaching the Corridor and seeing a world that is not all ice pulls her further south.

The Girl and the Moon finally brings her to the greenbelt and the Convent of Sweet Mercy, tying the Ice books directly into the events readers know from Book of the Ancestor. Old enemies are still hunting her, the focus moon that keeps the Corridor alive is failing and the Ark of the Missing under the emperor’s palace holds the key to the planet’s survival.

Across the trilogy, Lawrence mixes claustrophobic cave crawls with wide open frozen wastes, and quiet conversations about identity with set pieces that shift the fate of nations. This page shows you how the three books fit together, how they brush up against Nona’s story and what order to follow if you want to experience Abeth’s history unfolding on both sides of the ice.