Kendare Blake Books in Order
Browse Kendare Blake books in order, from Anna Dressed in Blood to Three Dark Crowns and Buffy, with quick summaries and easy where-to-start advice.
Last updated: July 13, 2026
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Kendare Blake books in publication order
21 books
Sleepwalk Society
by Kendare Blake
2010
In 2002, Violet Monroe expects one last wild summer with her two best friends. Instead, family damage, buried desires, and the long shadow of 9/11 force all three teens to face growing up.
Anna Dressed in Blood
by Kendare Blake
2011
Cas Lowood hunts murderous ghosts, until he meets Anna Korlov, a blood-soaked spirit who should have killed him on sight. Their encounter turns a routine haunting into a dangerous mystery with real feeling underneath the gore.
Girl of Nightmares
by Kendare Blake
2012
Anna vanished into Hell to save Cas, but he cannot stop seeing her in dreams and waking visions. To bring her back, he and his friends must step deeper into curses, fear, and the supernatural.
Antigoddess
by Kendare Blake
2013
Athena and Hermes thought gods lived forever, until sickness starts destroying them from the inside out. Their search for answers leads them to Cassandra, a seemingly ordinary girl with an old role in a new war.
Mortal Gods
by Kendare Blake
2014
War among the dying Olympians is no longer avoidable. Athena wants the gods ended, Cassandra wants vengeance, and their uneasy alliance may be the only thing standing between the world and total ruin.
When Gods and Vampires Roamed Miami
by Kendare Blake
2014
Athena, immortal and badly misunderstood, is taken for a vampire by a desperate boy in Miami. This short Goddess War tale mixes dark humor with the strange loneliness of being a dying god.
The Dogs of Athens
by Kendare Blake
2015
In this Goddess War prequel story, Artemis returns to modern Athens and crosses paths with Actaeon, the mortal she once destroyed. Old grudges flare fast, and the past proves every bit as dangerous as memory.
Ungodly
by Kendare Blake
2015
The assault on Olympus leaves the gods scattered, weakened, and running out of time. Athena, Hermes, and their allies must challenge the Fates themselves if they want any chance of ending the curse behind the war.
Three Dark Crowns
by Kendare Blake
2016
On Fennbirn, triplet sisters Mirabella, Katharine, and Arsinoe are raised to kill one another for the crown. Each has a different magic, but the deadly ritual is more complicated, and more personal, than it first appears.
One Dark Throne
by Kendare Blake
2017
Ascension Year is underway, and the sisters are no longer playing by the old rules. Katharine returns changed, Arsinoe hides a dangerous secret, and Mirabella finds herself under attack from enemies she cannot easily see.
The Young Queens
by Kendare Blake
2017
Before the killing began, Mirabella, Arsinoe, and Katharine were still sisters first. This prequel novella shows their brief childhood closeness and the moment Fennbirn's brutal traditions start pulling them apart.
Queens of Fennbirn
by Kendare Blake
2018
This companion volume gathers two Fennbirn novellas in print, tracing the triplets' childhood and the fall of the last Oracle Queen. It adds history, heartbreak, and fresh context to the main series.
The Oracle Queen
by Kendare Blake
2018
Long before the current queens, the last ruler born with the gift of sight rises and falls on Fennbirn. This prequel novella follows a queen who cannot stop the catastrophe coming for her throne.
Two Dark Reigns
by Kendare Blake
2018
Katharine finally wears the crown, but victory brings rebellion, rumors, and sisters who may not be gone after all. As new threats stir across Fennbirn, the fight shifts from succession to survival.
Five Dark Fates
by Kendare Blake
2019
After a shattering battle, the rebellion is broken, Mirabella is missing, and Arsinoe is desperate to save Jules and the island itself. Final loyalties are tested as Fennbirn's buried history comes roaring back.
All These Bodies
by Kendare Blake
2021
In 1958, a string of bloodless murders grips the Midwest, and fifteen-year-old Marie Catherine Hale is found covered in blood at the latest scene. When she agrees to talk only to Michael Jensen, truth turns slippery and unsettling.
In Every Generation
by Kendare Blake
2022
Frankie Rosenberg, Willow's daughter, would rather worry about school and the planet than slaying demons. But after an attack wipes out the Slayer gathering, she may be the world's first Slayer-Witch, and Sunnydale needs her fast.
Champion of Fate
by Kendare Blake
2023
Reed has spent her life training to join the Aristene, women who guide heroes to glory from the shadows. Her first assignment pairs her with the fierce Hestion and exposes secrets at the heart of her order.
One Girl in All the World
by Kendare Blake
2023
Frankie is still learning how to be a slayer-witch when signs point to surviving slayers, reopened portals, and a new evil called the Darkness. The mystery grows as New Sunnydale starts feeling dangerous again.
Against the Darkness
by Kendare Blake
2024
The Scooby gang is splintered, the surviving slayers are trapped, and Buffy is still out of reach. Frankie has to lead without waiting for rescue as the Darkness closes in for a final showdown.
Warrior of Legend
by Kendare Blake
2024
Reed has earned her place among the Aristene, but the role comes with a grim cost. A new mission, an old enemy, and Hestion's return force her to choose between duty, love, and the future of the order.
Where to start with Kendare Blake
If you want gothic horror: Anna Dressed in Blood → Girl of Nightmares
If you want dark fantasy and court intrigue: Three Dark Crowns → One Dark Throne → Queens of Fennbirn → Two Dark Reigns → Five Dark Fates
If you want Greek myth in the modern world: Antigoddess → Mortal Gods → Ungodly
If you want Buffy with a new lead: In Every Generation → One Girl in All the World → Against the Darkness
If you want epic fantasy with romance: Champion of Fate → Warrior of Legend
Kendare Blake sub-series and character series
Anna (Kendare Blake) books in order
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Antigoddess
by Kendare Blake
2013Goddess War, Book 1
Mortal Gods
by Kendare Blake
2014Goddess War, Book 3
When Gods and Vampires Roamed Miami
by Kendare Blake
2014Goddess War, Book 2
The Dogs of Athens
by Kendare Blake
2015Goddess War, Book 4
Ungodly
by Kendare Blake
2015Goddess War, Book 5
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Explore this seriesThree Dark Crowns books in order
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Three Dark Crowns
by Kendare Blake
2016Three Dark Crowns, Book 1
One Dark Throne
by Kendare Blake
2017Three Dark Crowns, Book 2
The Young Queens
by Kendare Blake
2017Three Dark Crowns, Book 3
Queens of Fennbirn
by Kendare Blake
2018Three Dark Crowns, Book 4
The Oracle Queen
by Kendare Blake
2018Three Dark Crowns, Book 5
Two Dark Reigns
by Kendare Blake
2018Three Dark Crowns, Book 6
Five Dark Fates
by Kendare Blake
2019Three Dark Crowns, Book 7
Three Dark Crowns books in chronological order

Three Dark Crowns
by Kendare Blake
2016Three Dark Crowns, Book 1
One Dark Throne
by Kendare Blake
2017Three Dark Crowns, Book 2
The Young Queens
by Kendare Blake
2017Three Dark Crowns, Book 3
Queens of Fennbirn
by Kendare Blake
2018Three Dark Crowns, Book 4
The Oracle Queen
by Kendare Blake
2018Three Dark Crowns, Book 5
Two Dark Reigns
by Kendare Blake
2018Three Dark Crowns, Book 6
Five Dark Fates
by Kendare Blake
2019Three Dark Crowns, Book 7
Standalone Kendare Blake books
Author bio
Kendare Blake was born in Seoul, South Korea, and brought to the United States as an infant by her adoptive parents. She was raised in Cambridge, Minnesota, far from the haunted islands and dying gods that would later fill her fiction, but the taste for dark stories was already there.
She has been writing since seventh grade.
One of her earliest novel-length efforts was a story about a boy and his horse, which tells you two useful things right away. First, she started young. Second, she was already happiest when following a story for hundreds of pages. She studied at Ithaca College, and later earned an MA in creative writing from Middlesex University in northern London.
London seems to have stuck with her. In her current bio, she jokes that she is still chasing the perfect packet of fish and chips. That kind of plain, offbeat humor fits her books too, even when they are at their bloodiest.
Her first major published novel, Anna Dressed in Blood, arrived in 2011 and quickly introduced the version of Blake many readers still love best: scary, funny, fast-moving, and unexpectedly tender. Its sequel, Girl of Nightmares, keeps the horror high but also digs into grief, obsession, and what happens when love makes a person reckless.
She rarely writes safe, tidy worlds.
The Three Dark Crowns books go bigger, building a whole island kingdom where triplet sisters with different magical gifts are raised to kill one another for the throne. In the Goddess War novels, Greek gods stumble through the modern world while sickness and old grudges tear them apart. Blake likes big premises, but she keeps bringing them back to intimate things: sisters, loyalty, jealousy, hunger, and the awful cost of power.
That is true even when she changes lanes. All These Bodies turns a 1958 murder case into a tense historical mystery with supernatural dread around the edges. In Every Generation opens up a new corner of the Buffy world through Frankie Rosenberg, a teen who becomes the first Slayer-Witch. Champion of Fate heads into epic fantasy with immortal women who shape heroes from the shadows. Across all of them, readers tend to come for the sharp pacing and stay for the complicated girls, the dangerous magic, and the feeling that nobody gets out unchanged.
Her books return again and again to the same questions. What does violence do to the people asked to carry it? What happens when duty and love point in opposite directions? How much of a person is fate, and how much is choice? Even in the middle of ghosts, queens, and monsters, her characters still have to deal with friendship, attraction, loneliness, and being young before they are ready.
Now Blake lives and writes in Gig Harbor, Washington, with her husband and a very full household of cats and dogs. The official version of her bio notes that her work is dark, usually violent, and often includes passages about food when she is writing hungry. That feels fair. Her stories may be full of monsters, but they are grounded by appetite, wit, and people who keep going anyway.
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