Guy Gavriel Kay Books in Order

Five University of Toronto students are drawn through magic into Fionavar, the first world, where a kingdom faces drought and an ancient evil stirs. As alliances form, one of them must choose a sacrificial path on the Summer Tree.

In the final volume of The Fionavar Tapestry, war against the Dark god reaches its breaking point. As armies gather on the Plain and long-laid prophecies come due, each of the five must decide what they are willing to give up to save Fionavar.

Months after their first journey to Fionavar, the five friends return to a world locked in unnatural winter. Ancient powers awaken, Arthurian legend walks again, and the price of fighting the Dark falls heavily on love, faith and friendship.

On the Peninsula of the Palm, a tyrant sorcerer has erased the name of the conquered province of Tigana from memory. A scattered band of exiles risks betrayal and ruin to reclaim their homeland’s identity as well as its freedom.

Blaise, a hard-bitten mercenary from warlike Gorhaut, takes service in Arbonne, a southern land of troubadours and a goddess’s worship. Caught between clashing faiths and noble feuds, he must choose loyalties as a holy war looms.

In Al‑Rassan, a peninsula poised for holy war, a Kindath physician, a Jaddite cavalry captain and an Asharite poet-warrior form deep, fragile bonds. When faith and politics ignite, their friendships and loyalties are tested against the cost of conquest.

Master mosaicist Caius Crispus, shattered by the loss of his family, is summoned from the western city of Varena to glittering Sarantium to adorn a new sanctuary. His road east leads into court intrigue, street politics and whispers of older gods.

Now working high on the great dome in Sarantium, Crispin finds his art tied to the fate of emperor and empress. As a foreign physician-spy arrives and plots deepen, both men must decide how far they’ll bend for survival or principle.

This collection of poems ranges from elegies and love lyrics to pieces rooted in myth and history. Kay explores memory, desire and loss in condensed, precise language that will feel familiar to readers of his richly textured fiction.

Set in a world echoing Viking‑age Britain, the lives of an exiled Erling raider, a grieving Cyngael prince and a reforming Anglcyn king collide. Raids, old magic and shifting loyalties shape a story about revenge, change and difficult forgiveness.

On a working trip to Provence with his photographer father, fifteen-year-old Ned Marriner stumbles into an age‑old triangle of lovers who reappear across history. As past and present blur, he must help decide how their dangerous story ends this time.

Shen Tai, son of a famed Kitan general, earns a gift of two hundred and fifty priceless Sardian horses for honouring the dead on a remote battlefield. That reward draws assassins, courtiers and rebels, pulling him into an empire’s looming civil war.

Centuries after Under Heaven, the empire of Kitai has grown cautious and brittle. Ren Daiyan, an outlawed soldier, and Lin Shan, a gifted poet, each struggle to shape their fates as war on the northern border threatens to break the realm.

In a world inspired by the Adriatic at the dawn of the modern age, a Senjan raider, an ambitious painter, a disgraced noblewoman and a wary merchant sail east together. Spying, piracy and shifting faiths entwine their choices in rising imperial conflict.

In Batiara, young Guidanio Cerra rises from tailor’s son to court insider and crosses paths with rival warlords and the assassin Adria Ripoli. Decades later he looks back on how choices, desire and chance altered empires and his own life.

Rafel ben Natan, a Kindath merchant and sometime corsair, and Nadia, a former slave remade as Lenia Serrano, take on a perilous assassination along the Mediterranean coast. The fallout draws them into the heart of wars over faith, trade and old griefs.

Thierry Villar, a gifted but reckless tavern poet in Ferrieres, botches a midnight theft and is dragged into probing a duke’s murder. As civil war and foreign invasion threaten, his words and loyalties begin to matter far more than he ever expected.