Lev Grossman Books in Order

Recent graduate Hollis Kessler drifts through days of reading, drinking, and aimless conversation with equally unsettled friends. An elaborate imagined world of starships and adventure challenges him to confront the direction of his ordinary adult life.

Banker Edward Wozny is asked to inventory an aristocratic couple's library and locate a mysterious medieval manuscript. Working with a skeptical graduate student, he follows multiplying clues that entangle scholarly discovery with competing interests and personal danger.

Disenchanted teenager Quentin Coldwater enters a secret college of magic, hoping sorcery will give life meaning. Rigorous training and complicated friendships lead him toward the discovery that the fantasy world he loved in childhood actually exists.

Restless despite ruling the magical land of Fillory, Quentin sets sail with Julia to investigate a mystery at the kingdom's edge. Their journey becomes a larger quest whose choices threaten both their home and magic itself.

A cross-genre anthology edited by George RR Martin and Gardner Dozois, built around women who are dangerous in different ways. The lineup ranges from fantasy and science fiction to historical and crime tales, each centered on agency, risk, and consequences.

Exiled from Fillory, Quentin returns to Brakebills and becomes entangled with a young magician carrying her own secrets. Meanwhile, Fillory's remaining rulers confront failing defenses, drawing his search for a new purpose toward the endangered magical world.

Dean Fogg admits hedge magicians to Brakebills for the first time, unsettling students trained in its established traditions. As the rival groups struggle to prove their abilities, a hidden threat places everyone at the school in danger.

Brakebills’ traditional students and newly admitted hedge magicians face disaster when their first encounter ends in a deadly accident. Concealing what happened forces the competing groups into cooperation, binding their uneasy alliance to a secret with dangerous consequences.

The third Unfettered anthology collects original stories from many fantasy authors, including a return to Osten Ard from Tad Williams, new tales by Mark Lawrence, Brian Herbert, Anna Smith Spark, and others, all in support of a fund that helps writers facing medical debt.

Five students chosen to study battle magic confront the consequences of their actions and the danger facing Brakebills. Rising tensions divide the traditional students from the newly admitted hedge magicians, threatening cooperation just as their shared future grows uncertain.

Carnage in the Brakebills library exposes a threat greater than the conflict between traditional magicians and hedge witches. Dean Fogg must confront the reason he opened the school to outsiders as sinister forces endanger the students’ future.

The truth behind Brakebills’ decision to admit hedge witches reveals a greater danger than its students expected. Bound by a secret enforced through magic and blood, students and adults approach a gathering crisis without understanding what awaits them.

Eleven-year-old Kate receives a steam locomotive from her eccentric uncle and sets off with her brother Tom along magical railways. Talking animals become their fellow travelers as the children discover that their unexpected adventure may help protect the world.

Seventeen-year-old Mark enjoys spending an endlessly repeated summer day reading until he discovers Margaret is trapped with him. Their search for the day’s most beautiful moments draws them together while leading toward the secret behind their shared time loop.

With Uncle Herbert missing and more animals needing rescue, Kate takes the Silver Arrow on an unauthorized mission. A mysterious rival train complicates her search, forcing her to question the railway’s purpose and her own efforts to restore nature’s balance.

Collum arrives at Camelot hoping to become a knight, only to learn that Arthur is dead. Joining the Round Table’s overlooked survivors and Nimue, he tries to restore a fractured kingdom while old gods and fairies return to Britain.

As the sun god prepares to end the day, she discovers that the god of sleep has disappeared. Her search introduces an assortment of unusual characters as she tries to bring peaceful rest back to the waiting world.