Jim C Hines Books in Order

Eileen Greenwood arrives at college hoping distance will free her from a history of abuse. Instead, memory, anger, and the need to understand what happened force her into a painful search for truth and recovery.

Bullied goblin Jig is forced to guide a band of adventurers through deadly tunnels in search of the Rod of Creation. It is a classic fantasy quest told from the point of view of the goblin everyone expects to die first.

Jig wants a quiet life with his forgotten god and his pet fire-spider, but goblin politics have other plans. Sent into ogre territory to face a magical threat, he becomes the wrong goblin in exactly the wrong quest.

Jig has survived dragons, necromancers, and goblin politics, but war finally reaches his mountain home. As humans invade the lair, the reluctant goblin hero is dragged into a conflict far bigger than survival.

This paired retelling of Little Red Riding Hood tells the story from both Red's side and the wolf's. The result is a playful, darker look at how perspective can change a fairy tale.

Cinderella's wedding is barely over when Prince Armand is kidnapped and Danielle learns the fairy-tale version of her life left out a lot. With Talia and Snow, she heads into danger to rescue him and herself.

A diplomatic meeting with the merfolk goes disastrously wrong when the truth behind a famous mermaid legend surfaces. Danielle, Talia, and Snow are pulled into a sea-borne conflict driven by grief, rage, and old lies.

Roudette, the feared Lady of the Red Hood, hunts an ancient fairy threat and the woman she has been hired to kill, Sleeping Beauty. Old stories and old grudges crash together in this darker fairy-tale adventure.

Five linked short stories return to Jig's world and the other goblins around him. The collection adds humor, trouble, and a few smaller adventures that flesh out the series beyond the novels.

This collection gathers six lighter fantasy stories, including the title piece. It is a good snapshot of Hines's shorter work, full of humor, odd magic, and characters who keep stumbling into trouble.

A shattered mirror releases a demon that twists love into hatred and turns Snow White into its first victim. Danielle, Talia, and their allies face a final mission where magic, old wounds, and fairy politics all collide.

Librarian Isaac Vainio can pull objects out of books, a gift that becomes much less fun when vampires attack. With dryad Lena Greenwood and his fire-spider Smudge, he hunts a killer and the missing Johannes Gutenberg.

These six fantasy stories lean more serious than some of Hines's other short fiction. The collection explores grief, danger, and transformation without losing the clarity and humanity of his voice.

Isaac Vainio, Lena Greenwood, and Nidhi Shah head to Tamarack after a murdered wendigo turns up. Their investigation uncovers ancient enemies, dangerous secrets, and a magical war that could start in Michigan and spread everywhere.

A large fantasy collection drawing from Hines's shorter work, this book brings together goblin stories, standalone pieces, and other favorites. It is the broadest single look at the worlds and themes he returns to most.

This anthology collects personal essays on representation in science fiction and fantasy. It is thoughtful, direct, and often deeply personal about what it means to find yourself in stories, or not find yourself at all.

Hines shares the first novel he finished, then cheerfully annotates its excesses. Elf hero Nakor the Purple joins a vampire, pixies, and a young thief to stop an ancient evil in a knowingly rough first adventure.

Long before the main series, young Nicola Pallas meets an injured magical creature at her father's veterinary clinic. That first chupacabra pulls her into a hidden world of poachers, danger, and life-changing choices.

In Albion's darkest age, four newly united Heroes investigate arson, smugglers, and a growing conspiracy around Brightlodge and Grayrock. Their first shared quest may decide whether a new age of heroes survives long enough to begin.

A follow-up to Invisible, this collection brings together essays about representation in speculative fiction. The contributors tackle identity, visibility, and belonging with candor, frustration, humor, and hope.

Stripped of his magic and cut off from the Porters, Isaac Vainio dives into black-market sorcery to save Jeneta and stop Meridiana. The deeper he goes, the clearer it becomes that nobody gets through this war untouched.

A year after magic went public, Isaac Vainio finds himself hunted by both governments and magical extremists. To stop a growing war, he and his allies must outrun betrayal and reshape libriomancy itself.

This anthology gathers essays and poems about representation in science fiction and fantasy. It looks at who gets seen, who gets ignored, and why those choices matter to readers, writers, and the genre itself.

When a bioweapon attack leaves most of a spaceship's humans feral, sanitation chief Mops and her crew become the last sane people on board. To survive, they must fly the ship, cure their crewmates, and expose a conspiracy.

Teen libriomancer Jeneta Aboderin is ready to unveil a magical ship that could reach Mars in hours. When sabotage twists her spell and an unseen attacker invades her mind, she must fight for her future and her sanity.

Four months after learning the truth about Earth's fall, Mops returns to a ruined planet in search of answers. A secret Krakau lab and a weapon that could reshape the war turn the mission into a desperate gamble.

After roller derby practice, twelve-year-old Tamora Carter finds goblins behind the rink and a portal to something far stranger. As she searches for her missing best friend Andre, she stumbles into a dangerous magical mystery.

Captain Mops and the Pufferfish crew head to the ringed world of Tuxatl as war with the Prodryans worsens. Contact with the Jynx and long-buried secrets could decide humanity's future, if Mops can keep everyone alive.

Amelia Sand is a student at Ainsworth Academy in Umbra, where humans want nonhumans to be obedient and civilized. To stop them, she recruits help through a world-gate and gets two elderly women instead of the heroes she expected.

Widowed Nial Sarnin sends a spirit kite into the sky and discovers powers that make her a rare Kitemaster. Swept aboard the kiteship Midnight Rain, she must help stop a queen who plans to conquer the skies.

Three retired Chosen Ones run a quiet bookstore in Salem, Massachusetts, until local magic starts going very wrong. To save their home and their hard-won peace, they have to step back into the apocalypse business.