Garth Nix Books in Order

When his sister Julia is trapped inside the twisted mind of the Ragwitch, quiet Paul has to cross into a dangerous otherworld to save her. It is a creepy, fast-moving fantasy about courage, family, and strange magic.

Lives on both sides of the Wall come crashing together when Sabriel learns her father is trapped in Death. With Mogget and the freed Touchstone beside her, she must enter the Old Kingdom and face a necromancer's war.

In a brutal future where children are harvested before they can reach adulthood, four runaways join the mysterious Shade. Their fight for survival turns into a revolt against the Overlords, and against the secrets of the man leading them.

Mulder and Scully investigate a string of violent deaths surrounding a young boy and a terrified family. Ancient Romanian ritual, poltergeist fear, and one deeply unsettling child make this a quick, creepy X-Files case.

Tal and Milla enter Aenir, a shifting dream realm where every wrong step can trap or kill. To escape, they must find the Codex before darker forces claim it first.

Tal and Milla reach the shining Castle, but it offers danger instead of safety. Old enemies, suspicious nobles, and secrets in the dark force them to keep moving if they want to survive.

When a sea serpent starts frightening Bubber Point, super-smart Serena Smith volunteers to deal with it. What she finds is stranger, funnier, and kinder than the town's fear suggests.

Tal climbs the Red Tower to steal a Sunstone and save his family, then plunges into an unknown world of ice, warriors, and hidden magic. His fall begins a much larger fight for the truth about his world.

Tal and Milla join rebel Underfolk as the truth about the Castle comes closer to the surface. With shadows strengthening and loyalties fraying, their search grows more dangerous than ever.

War closes in from every side as Tal, Milla, the Underfolk, and the Icecarls are all pulled toward the Castle. Hidden evil steps into the open, and the whole dark world is at risk.

Awkward, lonely Lirael feels out of place among the Clayr, and still lacks their Sight. Then a darker threat rises, and with the Disreputable Dog at her side she is forced toward the destiny she never wanted.

Ancient war erupts into the open as Tal and Milla make their last push toward the Seventh Tower. Illusion, corruption, and old powers collide in a finale with everything at stake.

The Destroyer is close to freedom, Sabriel is missing, and the Old Kingdom is sliding toward catastrophe. Lirael, Sameth, Mogget, and the Disreputable Dog race across a broken land to stop the final unbinding.

Arthur Penhaligon is supposed to die young, until a strange key saves his life and drags him into the House. To stop a plague and a terrifying new enemy, he must become a hero fast.

Arthur is pulled from his hospital bed onto a ship bound for the Border Sea, where pirates, storms, and creatures of Nothing await. To save the Secondary Realms, he has to claim the Third Key.

Arthur barely has time to recover before Grim Tuesday's servants begin wrecking both the House and his own world. To stop them, he must return to the Lower House and face a nastier, greedier foe.

This collection opens with an Old Kingdom coda about Nicholas Sayre, then ranges through eerie fairy tales, myth riffs, and sharp fantasy twists. It is a good sampler of how many different shapes Garth Nix's stories can take.

Six months after the fall of the Destroyer, Nicholas Sayre is still haunted by the Old Kingdom. A polite country-house visit goes badly wrong when a Free Magic creature is loosed, and Nick has to face danger without hiding.

A witch knight and his sorcerous puppet companion cross dangerous lands hunting gods and other things that should not exist. These linked adventures mix swordplay, dry wit, and a world that feels old, odd, and dangerous.

Arthur comes home from the Border Sea only to find a double living his life, while he is drafted into the Architect's army. Between military training and a spreading invasion, he has to win the Fourth Key.

Arthur has defeated four Trustees, but the House is still unraveling and people back home are missing. Lady Friday offers a tempting deal, and Arthur has to decide whether it is rescue, trap, or both.

A War Child anthology for younger readers, Midnight Feast assembles short fiction, extracts, illustrations, and a Jamie Oliver mini-pizza recipe from prominent children’s writers. Its pieces range through fantasy, comedy, mystery, and spooky adventure.

This younger-reader collection gathers four brisk fantasy and science fiction tales, from sea monsters to inventors and stranger things still. Each story is short, playful, and built to be read in a sitting.

Arthur has five Keys, but the House is still crumbling and the most powerful Trustee is waiting above. To stop Superior Saturday, he must break into the Upper House before everything falls apart.

With six Keys in hand and the House collapsing, Arthur faces his final and strongest opponent. The last book turns the whole strange week into a race to save every world at once.

As Jack and Jaide try to master their Gifts, signs of fresh Evil activity appear all around Portland. A suspicious developer, a new friend, and a living Ward turn their training into a race against time.

Twins Jack and Jaide Shield arrive in Portland expecting a quiet stay with Grandma X. Instead they discover family secrets, strange powers, and a hidden fight against a force called the Evil.

Prince Khemri expects power, luxury, and immortality, not a crash course in how dangerous his Empire really is. A secret mission and a meeting with Raine force him to question everything he has been taught.

When a dragon hidden beneath a major city begins to die, heat, smoke, and panic rise fast. This short story turns an old pact and an urban emergency into a sharp burst of fantasy suspense.

When her family's magical emerald is stolen, Lady Truthful disguises herself as a young man and heads into Regency London to get it back. The hunt brings duels, deception, sorcery, and an inconvenient attraction.

With Grandma X out of action, Jack and Jaide must recover a lost Golden Card hidden inside Rourke Castle. Secret passages, old betrayals, and a dangerous new Gift make this one of their trickiest missions yet.

War is closing in on Erdas, and Meilin is done waiting. As she heads into enemy territory with Jhi, her friends race after her, and the spirit animal bond is tested under real battlefield pressure.

Clariel wants nothing more than freedom from city politics and an unwanted marriage. But when a dangerous creature stalks Belisaere and court plots close in, she is drawn toward forbidden power with lasting consequences.

Jack and Jaide face a rival troubletwister and their darkest journey yet. To win, they must brave the Evil dimension and untangle painful truths from their own family history.

Led by an Old Kingdom novella about a young cadet named Morghan, this collection moves through fantasy, horror, mystery, and science fiction. It is a broader, darker showcase of Nix at short-story length.

Lirael is now Abhorsen-in-Waiting, with a gilded Charter-made hand and a new burden of responsibility. When Nicholas is left tainted by Free Magic, she must seek help while a fresh enemy moves against the Old Kingdom.

Princess Anya can break curses with a kiss, which would be useful if her kingdom were not falling apart around her. On the run from a wicked usurper, she heads into a fairy-tale quest full of frogs and trouble.

Best friends Odo and Eleanor dig up a talking sword while fishing for eels. Suddenly knighted and sent on a quest, they have to find out why their river is dying before dragon trouble gets much worse.

Odo, Eleanor, and Biter are back, and the dragon problem is only getting bigger. Their journey pushes them deeper into a world of old grudges, dangerous creatures, and hard lessons about courage.

More than a century after a ruined city fell, Liliath wakes and resumes her obsession with an archangel. Four young people become tangled in her plan, and angelic magic turns faith, ambition, and love into real danger.

This short science fiction story leans into warped space, isolation, and the unnerving feeling that the usual rules of movement and distance are no longer reliable.

When Sir Magnus Holmes and Almost-Doctor Susan Shrike investigate a knight in the cellar of a London pub, logic quickly gives way to myth. This short occult detective story is witty, creepy, and brisk.

In 1983 London, Susan Arkshaw's search for the father she has never met drops her into a family of magical booksellers. With Merlin and Vivien, she has to untangle murders, old powers, and her own hidden inheritance.

Tamara is dragged into a dangerous Game and forced into the role of Merlin. To keep the world from breaking, she has to protect a stolen baby who may become the next Arthur.

Long before Sabriel's birth, young Abhorsen-in-Waiting Terciel and sheltered Elinor are thrown together by an ancient enemy. Their journey across the Wall becomes a fight against the Dead, dark magic, and a fate neither expected.

A hard-edged fixer at a silent-film studio learns the shadows behind the bright lights are more than metaphor. This noir-tinged short story mixes old Hollywood glamour with something much darker.

In a weird, war-torn corner of fantasy, the sisters of Saint Nicola prepare to take the fight to the Lurch. Nix turns warrior nuns, strange science, and grim devotion into a short story with real bite.

Merlin is in trouble again, and Susan Arkshaw is pulled back into the booksellers' dangerous work. A sorcerous map, deadly statues, and an ancient sovereign turn Bath into the center of another Old World mystery.

When Kim's brilliant younger sister finds a strange object in the woods, her gifts become something much more dangerous. He may be the only person who can save her, and everyone else, before her new power takes over.

One burst of anger leaves a man dealing with a shapeshifting demon that has problems of its own. This short fantasy is strange, funny, and dangerous in equal measure.

Ship Leader Parnell Shi-Sawahla and the crew of the Sassafras ride sentient mountain-ships between the stars and straight into war. Asking why the Massifs carry humanity at all may be more dangerous than any battle.