David Farland Books in Order

Tull's mission leads toward Craal, a slave nation where young sea serpents may still be found. To protect Smilodon Bay, he must cross hostile territory and face dangers that are both human and prehistoric.

On the dangerous preserve world of Anee, Tull begins a journey shaped by ancient creatures, social division, and the threat to his homeland. This opening chapter starts the science fiction adventure later continued in Serpent Catch.

Tull's dangerous journey across Anee continues as violence, slavery, and the loss of the sea serpents threaten everything he knows. Every step toward saving his homeland brings him closer to enemies with far greater power.

The final stage of Tull's struggle on Anee brings him toward the heart of the forces threatening his people. To return with the serpents his homeland needs, he must survive a world built on fear and domination.

Bodyguard Gallen O'Day expects a simple escort job to forbidden ruins. Instead, he encounters the alien dronon and their Golden Queen, beginning a desperate flight that opens into an interstellar war.

Gallen O'Day's fight against the Golden Queen's forces carries him beyond the world he once understood. With Orick and Maggie beside him, he must navigate unfamiliar places and a war with no easy way home.

Prince Gaborn Val Orden must stand against Raj Ahten, a ruler made nearly invincible by stolen strength, beauty, and speed. In a world where human attributes can be traded, power always comes at someone else's cost.

Gaborn Val Orden has become the Earth King, but Raj Ahten remains a powerful rival. Forced to face the Reavers' return, Gaborn must lead people who need him while refusing to build his strength through cruelty.

Gaborn's victory has come at a painful cost, and the Reavers have not been defeated. As he tries to protect those depending on him, old enemies, broken powers, and monstrous forces push the war toward catastrophe.

The Runelords saga moves into a wider, more dangerous stage of its war. New characters and far-reaching threats challenge the survivors as the conflict with the Reavers grows beyond the boundaries of one kingdom.

Gaborn and his allies struggle to hold humanity together after the Reavers' assault. With enemies inside and outside their borders, the Earth King's mission becomes a grim search for a way to save even a remnant.

Ben wants a pet, but his new mouse Amber has magic and an attitude. After turning him into a mouse, she pulls him into a fight against Nightwing, an evil bat who wants control of Ben's rare power.

With the Reavers still threatening humanity, the survivors of the first great war face new losses and new demands. The Runelords saga expands as old alliances are tested and younger lives become part of the fight.

The worm lord Sebaceous Ooze enslaves mice with magical song and plans to use a volcano and his goblin armies to seize power. Amber, Ben, Thorn, and Bushmaster must stop him before his scheme swallows the world.

In a far future where Earth is forgotten, technological monsters hunt the last biological life in the galaxy. A young girl and her friend discover something that may matter before the final destruction arrives.

The war against the Reavers enters a dangerous new phase as the wyrmling horde gathers strength. Farland's heroes must confront a threat that is growing faster than the battered kingdoms can recover.

The Runelords world has been reshaped by devastating magic and war. As the remaining heroes confront a spreading threat, the struggle to preserve humanity becomes more desperate, stranger, and harder to contain.

Mouse wizard Amber and her once-human partner Ben head for a well-earned vacation after saving Oregon. But a warning about the returning Ever Shade turns their break into another race to stop an ancient evil.

In 1856, Eliza Gadd, young Bodil Mortensen, and hundreds of immigrants set out across the American wilderness with handcarts. Based on the Willie Handcart Company's journey, it is a story of faith, hardship, and survival.

A boy grows up in a colony populated entirely by women, until a life-changing decision can no longer be avoided. This science fiction story explores belonging, expectation, and the cost of choosing a future.

During the Martian invasion imagined by H. G. Wells, the story shifts to the far north and the viewpoint of Jack London. Survival becomes a dark test of what humans and Martians may become.

In 235 BC, a young Chinese man needs money and land to prove himself worthy of marriage. His journey along the new Silk Road brings desert dangers, giant elephants, and risks he never planned to face.

Sixteen-year-old Dale Fawkes meets a man claiming to be his uncle during an already unusual Christmas. The truth behind the visitor is stranger and more wondrous than Dale expects.

Sixteen-year-old foster kid Bron Jones has always been treated as strange and difficult. When a teacher reveals that he is a nightingale from a hidden nonhuman world, Bron becomes tied to secrets dangerous enough to kill for.

A short tale of danger and temptation, built around a mysterious song heard at the worst possible hour. Farland turns a classic mythic image into a tense encounter where listening may be as risky as acting.

A magical young woman seeks justice for the wrongs done to her and discovers a startling connection to Merlin. Her search for vengeance becomes a deeper confrontation with family, power, and the past.

A short fantasy tale centered on an immortal unicorn and the complicated pull of memory, love, and loss. Farland uses a mythic premise to ask what remains when a life has stretched beyond ordinary human time.

A science fiction novel about people confronting an unfamiliar future and the difficult choices needed to survive it. Farland combines a sweeping premise with characters trying to hold onto connection in changing circumstances.

A Runelords installment that returns to the vast conflict surrounding Mystarria and its threatened peoples. With old wars leaving deep scars, the story follows characters facing fresh dangers in a world built on borrowed power.

A dark fantasy story that begins with plague and pushes its characters toward disturbing moral choices. Farland uses a provocative premise to explore fear, desire, and the danger of treating another person's suffering as a solution.

A brief speculative story in which Charley faces a strange event carried in on the wind. The mystery grows through an intimate, human-scale situation, asking what can be believed when ordinary life suddenly shifts.

A writing guide about using resonance, the echoes between stories, experiences, and details, to give fiction more impact. Farland shows how familiar patterns can deepen a story without making it feel predictable.

Gallen, Maggie, and Orick face the next stage of the interstellar conflict set loose by the Golden Queen. Their survival depends on confronting enemies whose plans stretch across worlds and beyond ordinary human experience.

A gritty short story drawn from childhood memories and Farland's experiences as a prison guard. It focuses on harsh realities rather than easy escape, finding tension in the damage people carry with them.

Henretta Bloom hates nearly everyone around her, and she is not especially interested in changing. This strange, sharply observed story blends everyday resentment with fantasy elements that make her world feel increasingly unstable.

A short, unsettling tale about an encounter with a figure whose friendliness cannot be trusted. Farland builds suspense around the gap between a reassuring smile and the danger that may be hiding behind it.

After Princess Teneriel is kidnapped, her mother curses her with a face no man can love, hoping to protect her. But a prince able to see past appearance may change the cruel logic of the curse.

Long before the Runelords rule Mystarria, an Inkarran boy named Dval rises against threats on every side. He faces war among his own people, a mad foreign king, and the terrifying toth.

A hands-on guide to making author events run smoothly. It covers alternative venues, publicity, timing, checklists, and preparation, helping writers turn a signing into a better experience for both themselves and their readers.

Farland explains how to study an audience and build a novel outline with stronger momentum and broader appeal. It focuses on planning character arcs, escalation, and payoffs before the drafting process gets underway.

Thirty-one short lessons for writers tackling a month-long novel draft. Farland addresses plotting, character creation, scenes, pacing, exhaustion, and motivation, offering a useful prompt for each day of the challenge.

A straightforward guide for writers who want to turn an idea into a finished novel. Farland offers practical advice on story development, characters, scenes, and the persistence needed to keep a draft moving.

Young Dval has saved Averan, but their dangers are only beginning. As the toth and the mad King Harrill close in, the two children must survive a brutal earlier age in the world of the Runelords.

One hundred short writing tips designed to keep a writer thinking, working, and improving. The entries offer practical encouragement on craft, motivation, storytelling choices, and the daily habits that support a long project.

A practical guide for authors planning book-signing events. Farland covers preparation, publicity, venue choices, and the small details that can help an appearance feel organized and welcoming to readers.

A compact speculative story about people trapped together in a situation where judgment, loyalty, and survival collide. Farland uses the closed setting to build pressure as the characters learn what their companions are capable of.

A short story that brings an ominous presence into an otherwise recognizable world. Its tension comes from the characters' need to decide whether the strange thing before them is a threat, a trick, or something worse.

A science fiction short story set where distance and isolation make every threat more dangerous. Farland combines a frontier mood with high-stakes trouble, forcing its characters to respond when help is far away.

A collaborative nonfiction account of the operation that brought down the Silk Road online marketplace. It follows the investigators, technical challenges, and legal pressure behind a case that changed how many people viewed cybercrime.

A Runelords prequel that returns to Mystarria's violent past. As old dangers gather around Dval and Averan, the story adds another chapter to the hard-won history that comes before the main saga.

A Runelords prequel about a royal messenger whose work carries him into a dangerous world of power and conflict. The story broadens Mystarria's history while showing how perilous a king's orders can become.

A concise craft guide about creating the feeling of surprise, discovery, and possibility in fiction. Farland examines what makes wonder work on the page and offers ways to make imaginative stories feel bigger and more alive.