Maggie Stiefvater Books in Order
See all Maggie Stiefvater books in order, with series lists, quick summaries, author bio, and simple reading order tips to help you decide where to start.
Last updated: December 23, 2025
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Publication Order
27 books
The Dream Thieves: The Graphic Novel
by Maggie Stiefvater
2026
Adapting the second Raven Cycle novel, this graphic version of The Dream Thieves focuses on Ronan’s ability to pull objects from his dreams, the hitman sent to find the Greywaren, and the way Cabeswater’s magic blurs the line between nightmare and reality.
The Raven Boys: The Graphic Novel
by Maggie Stiefvater
2025
This full color graphic novel adapts The Raven Boys, following Blue Sargent and four Aglionby students as they search for a sleeping Welsh king along a Virginia ley line. The artwork highlights the story’s haunted forests, shifting friendships, and strange magic.
The Listeners
by Maggie Stiefvater
2025
At the remote Avallon Hotel in the West Virginia mountains, manager June Porter Hudson is ordered to host detained Axis diplomats at the start of World War II. As war presses closer, she and FBI agent Tucker Minnick navigate spies, class tensions, and a mountain spring with unsettling power.
Greywaren
by Maggie Stiefvater
2022
The final Dreamer book brings the Lynch brothers’ secrets, Hennessy’s deadly Lace, and the Moderators’ prophecy to a breaking point. Old bargains, family ghosts, and dangerous dreams collide as everyone fights for a version of the future they can live with.
Bravely
by Maggie Stiefvater
2022
Years after the events of Brave, Merida of DunBroch is warned by uncanny powers that her beloved but stagnant kingdom will be destroyed in a year. To save her home and family, she undertakes a series of journeys meant to force them, and herself, to change.
Mister Impossible
by Maggie Stiefvater
2021
Ronan, Hennessy, and Bryde travel from museums to hidden safe houses trying to strengthen dreamers before the Moderators can wipe them out. As their experiments strain the ley lines, Declan, Jordan, and Adam must choose whether to stop them or help them change the world.
Swamp Thing
by Maggie Stiefvater
2020
In this graphic novel reimagining, quiet scientist Alec Holland and his outgoing twin brother Walker spend one last summer with relatives near a mysterious swamp. Alec’s plant experiment spirals out of control, forcing both brothers to confront grief, memory, and the monstrous power growing in the water.
Call Down the Hawk
by Maggie Stiefvater
2019
Dreamer Ronan Lynch can pull objects from his sleep, Hennessy survives by creating dream copies of herself, and the Moderators hunt people like them in the name of saving the world. Their intersecting paths reveal a conspiracy that makes every dream feel dangerous.
Pip Bartlett's Guide to Sea Monsters
by Maggie Stiefvater
2018
Pip and Tomas travel to the seaside town of Port Candor, where harbors and aquariums are packed with spectacular magical sea creatures. When a famous sea monster exhibit starts going wrong, Pip suspects a mystery that could sink the town’s reputation.
Opal
by Maggie Stiefvater
2018
Seen through the eyes of Opal, the dream creature living with Ronan and Adam at the Barns, this novella shows the strange, tender, and frightening ordinary days after The Raven Cycle. Her skewed view hints at new dangers gathering around the dreamers.
Pip Bartlett's Guide to Unicorn Training
by Maggie Stiefvater
2017
When a huge gathering of magical creatures comes to town, Pip must help the skittish unicorn Regent Maximus survive the show ring. Between mysterious acts of sabotage and her friend’s anxiety, she has to find a way to keep both unicorns and people safe.
All the Crooked Saints
by Maggie Stiefvater
2017
In 1960s Colorado, the Soria family can perform miracles that bring people’s inner darkness into the open, leaving pilgrims transformed but not yet healed. As saint Daniel breaks the rules and cousins Beatriz and Joaquin chase their own dreams, the desert town of Bicho Raro fills with tangled blessings and curses.
The Raven King
by Maggie Stiefvater
2016
Henrietta is unraveling, a demon is loose on the ley line, and every vision points toward Gansey’s prophesied death. Blue, Gansey, Adam, Ronan, and their uneasy allies must decide what they are willing to sacrifice to end the unmaking of their world.
The Anatomy of Curiosity
by Maggie Stiefvater
2015
Three longer stories from Stiefvater, Tessa Gratton, and Brenna Yovanoff are paired with candid commentary on idea, draft, and revision. It reads as part anthology, part writing workshop, showing exactly how each author shapes a raw concept into finished fiction.
Pip Bartlett's Guide to Magical Creatures
by Maggie Stiefvater
2015
Pip Bartlett can talk to magical animals, but no one believes her until a unicorn stampede ruins Career Day. Sent to her aunt’s veterinary clinic, she teams up with allergy prone Tomas to stop an infestation of combustible Fuzzles from burning the town.
Sinner
by Maggie Stiefvater
2014
Cole St Clair heads to Los Angeles to restart his music career and win back Isabel, starring in a reality show that wants to exploit his werewolf past. Under bright lights, he has to decide whether he can be more than his own worst impulses.
Hunted
by Maggie Stiefvater
2014
Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan race across Erdas after a boy who has swallowed a dangerous substance that forces a spirit animal bond. To stop the Conquerors' new weapon, they must face a former friend whose power may destroy them all.
Blue Lily, Lily Blue
by Maggie Stiefvater
2014
Blue’s mother has vanished underground in pursuit of a hidden king, and new caves, psychics, and sleepers crowd the map. While the group digs deeper into Henrietta’s secrets, they awaken something far older and darker than any of them expected.
The Dream Thieves
by Maggie Stiefvater
2013
Ronan Lynch can pull impossible things out of his dreams, a secret that attracts a hitman, a rival dreamer, and anyone hunting the mysterious Greywaren. As Cabeswater falters, the group discovers that Ronan’s gift might save their quest or destroy Henrietta.
The Raven Boys
by Maggie Stiefvater
2012
Blue Sargent has grown up hearing that if she kisses her true love, he will die. When she falls in with four Aglionby boys obsessed with finding a buried Welsh king, prophecy, ghosts, and ley line magic twist their lives together.
The Curiosities
by Maggie Stiefvater
2012
This anthology collects eerie, witty, and experimental short stories from Maggie Stiefvater, Tessa Gratton, and Brenna Yovanoff, complete with handwritten notes in the margins that reveal how each piece was built, revised, and occasionally rescued from disaster.
The Scorpio Races
by Maggie Stiefvater
2011
Every November on the island of Thisby, riders race bloodthirsty water horses along a deadly beach. Champion Sean Kendrick and determined newcomer Puck Connolly each enter the Scorpio Races for reasons they cannot walk away from, even if it kills them.
Forever
by Maggie Stiefvater
2011
Authorities plan a final hunt that will wipe out the wolves of Mercy Falls for good. Sam, Grace, Cole, and Isabel scramble for a way to save the pack and themselves, knowing that any choice they make could cost lives on either side.
Linger
by Maggie Stiefvater
2010
Sam is newly human, Grace is growing mysteriously ill, and the wolf pack has welcomed troubled musician Cole St Clair. As winter shifts to spring, their intertwined stories test the limits of the cure, loyalty to the pack, and the future they imagine.
Shiver
by Maggie Stiefvater
2009
In Mercy Falls, Grace has spent years watching the wolves behind her house, especially one with yellow eyes. When that wolf appears on her porch as a wounded boy named Sam, their fragile love is threatened by hunters, cold weather, and time itself.
Ballad
by Maggie Stiefvater
2009
At a prestigious music conservatory, piper James Morgan’s talent catches the eye of Nuala, a faerie muse who inspires artists and then feeds on their lives. While James and Nuala compose together, old powers rise and Halloween brings a deadly confrontation.
Lament
by Maggie Stiefvater
2008
Shy harp prodigy Deirdre Monaghan discovers she is a cloverhand, someone who can see faeries, after meeting mysterious flutist Luke Dillon. As her music draws the attention of the Faerie Queen and her assassins, Deirdre must choose whom she can trust.
Where should I start?
If you want modern magic and found family: The Raven Boys → The Dream Thieves → Blue Lily, Lily Blue → The Raven King → Opal.
If you prefer a romantic werewolf saga: Shiver → Linger → Forever → Sinner.
If you like intense stand alone fantasy: The Scorpio Races → All the Crooked Saints → Bravely → The Listeners.
For younger middle grade readers (8-12): Pip Bartlett's Guide to Magical Creatures → Pip Bartlett's Guide to Unicorn Training → Pip Bartlett's Guide to Sea Monsters → Hunted.
If you are coming from The Raven Cycle and want more: Call Down the Hawk → Mister Impossible → Greywaren.
Author bio
Maggie Stiefvater was born in Harrisonburg, Virginia in 1981 and grew up as a voracious reader who also drew, played music, and loved fast cars. Home schooled for part of her childhood, she spent her teens filling notebooks with stories and by sixteen was already mailing finished manuscripts to publishers.
At the same age she legally changed her first name from Heidi to Margaret, the version that appears on her books. After high school she studied history at Mary Washington College in Virginia, and by the time she graduated she had drafted dozens of practice novels in genres ranging from historical adventure to high fantasy.
Before turning to fiction full time, Stiefvater taught calligraphy, played music at weddings, worked as a technical editor, and made her living as a portrait artist, often drawing horses in colored pencil.
Her first published novel, Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception, arrived in 2008 and introduced readers to her mix of Celtic folklore, modern teens, and dangerous magic. A companion novel, Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie, shifted the focus to a wisecracking piper whose talent attracts a soul hungry faerie muse. Together they set up themes she returns to often, like the price of ambition and the thin line between gift and curse.
Stiefvater reached a far wider audience with The Wolves of Mercy Falls series, beginning with Shiver, about a Minnesota girl and the boy who turns into a wolf when the temperature drops. The trilogy, later joined by the companion novel Sinner, blended romance, winter woods, and questions about identity, and spent many weeks on bestseller lists. In 2011 she published The Scorpio Races, a standalone set on a windswept island where riders race carnivorous water horses each November, a book that earned a Printz Honor and showcased her gift for atmospheric, place driven fantasy.
A year later she launched The Raven Cycle, the four book series about Blue Sargent, a house full of psychics, and a group of rich private school boys hunting a sleeping Welsh king beneath the hills of Virginia. Across The Raven Boys, The Dream Thieves, Blue Lily, Lily Blue, and The Raven King she braided ley lines, fast cars, found family, and haunted forests into a single long story that became a number one New York Times bestselling series. She later returned to that world with the Dreamer Trilogy, beginning with Call Down the Hawk, which follows dreamer Ronan Lynch and a new cast of artists, visionaries, and hunters whose choices might reshape the world.
Alongside those series, Stiefvater has kept experimenting. She has written All the Crooked Saints, about a family of Mexican American miracle workers in 1960s Colorado, and Bravely, which continues Merida's story from the film Brave. With Jackson Pearce she co wrote the middle grade Pip Bartlett books about a girl who can talk to magical creatures, and with artist Morgan Beem she created Swamp Thing: Twin Branches, a graphic novel that reframes the classic DC character as a strange, emotional coming of age story.
Cars, music, and mythology keep showing up in her work because they are the things she never stopped loving.
In 2010 she gave a TEDx talk for NASA about growing from a self described bad teen into a working artist, and in 2025 she published The Listeners, her first novel for adults, set in a West Virginia luxury hotel commandeered by the U.S. government during World War II. She now lives in Virginia with her husband, their two children, several dogs, and at least one beloved old car, and still splits her days between writing, drawing, playing music, and occasionally talking about how stories get made.
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