Naomi Novik Books in Order
See all Naomi Novik books in order, with quick summaries and guidance on where to start with Temeraire, Scholomance, and her standalone novels.
Last updated: June 7, 2026
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Publication Order
18 books
Black Powder War
by Naomi Novik
2006
Diverted from home, Laurence and Temeraire trek overland from China toward Istanbul to collect three precious dragon eggs for Britain. Ambushes, shifting alliances, and the vengeful dragon Lien drag them into a brutal campaign on the fringes of the Napoleonic war.
His Majesty's Dragon
by Naomi Novik
2006
Captain Will Laurence seizes a French ship and finds a rare dragon egg that hatches in his hands, bonding him to the dragon Temeraire. Drawn into the disreputable Aerial Corps, he must learn airborne warfare as Napoleon prepares an invasion of Britain.
Throne of Jade
by Naomi Novik
2006
After saving Britain, Laurence and Temeraire are sent by sea to Imperial China so diplomats can argue over who truly owns a Celestial dragon. The long voyage, political intrigue, and attempts on Laurence's life test their loyalty to each other and to their country.
Empire of Ivory
by Naomi Novik
2007
Back in England, a mysterious disease is killing the dragons of the Aerial Corps, leaving the country almost defenseless. Laurence and Temeraire travel to Africa in search of a cure and discover a very different relationship between dragons, humans, and empire.
Victory of Eagles
by Naomi Novik
2008
Condemned for treason and separated by their own government, Laurence and Temeraire watch as Napoleon invades and occupies parts of Britain. To fight back, they must build a ragged dragon army from castoffs and prove that loyalty to country is not blind obedience.
Tongues of Serpents
by Naomi Novik
2010
Exiled to the penal colony of New South Wales, Laurence, Temeraire, and a small group of officers are ordered to establish a new covert and escort dragon eggs inland. Colonial power struggles and the theft of an egg send them deep into dangerous, unmapped Australia.
Will Supervillains Be On the Final?
by Naomi Novik
2011
Sixteen year old Leah Taymore dreams of being a hero, but staying enrolled at Liberty Vocational might be challenge enough. As she fumbles through classes, crushes, and terrifying exams, she has to decide what using her volatile powers responsibly really means.
Crucible of Gold
by Naomi Novik
2012
Restored to duty, Laurence and Temeraire are sent from Australia to South America to keep France from winning new allies. Caught between the Inca, the Portuguese court in exile, and the powerful Tswana empire, they must negotiate peace before the war spreads further.
Blood of Tyrants
by Naomi Novik
2013
A shipwreck leaves Laurence in Japan with no memory of Temeraire or his years in the Aerial Corps. While he struggles to understand who he has become, Temeraire pushes on through China and Russia, as new alliances and old grudges shape the next phase of the war.
Uprooted
by Naomi Novik
2015
Agnieszka is taken from her quiet valley to serve the cold wizard known as the Dragon, who protects their land from a corrupt, hungry Wood. As she discovers her own wild magic, she is drawn into a fight that reaches from village feuds to royal courts.
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League of Dragons
by Naomi Novik
2016
The defeat of Napoleon's army in Russia has not ended the war, and the emperor still courts dragons across Europe with promises of better treatment. Chasing a stolen egg and a shifting battlefield, Laurence and Temeraire face final choices about duty, justice, and home.
Golden Age and Other Stories
by Naomi Novik
2017
This collection of Temeraire stories revisits key moments and explores what might have been, including an alternate first meeting between Laurence and his dragon. Side adventures, fan inspired tales, and brief vignettes deepen the sense of a wide, dragon filled world.
Spinning Silver
by Naomi Novik
2018
Miryem, the daughter of an impoverished moneylender, learns to turn silver into gold with ruthless focus, drawing the attention of a cold fairy king. Her fate tangles with that of a noblewoman and a village girl as winter deepens and monsters move behind palace walls.
A Deadly Education
by Naomi Novik
2020
At the Scholomance, a sentient school for young wizards, monsters lurk everywhere and half the students will never graduate. Galadriel Higgins, burdened with a dark prophecy and a talent for destructive magic, tries to survive without becoming the villain everyone fears.
The Last Graduate
by Naomi Novik
2021
Now a senior, El finally has allies, but the Scholomance itself seems determined to kill her before graduation. Relentless attacks, impossible course loads, and a risky plan to get her entire year out alive force her to decide how much she is willing to sacrifice.
The Golden Enclaves
by Naomi Novik
2022
After the shocking graduation, El discovers that saving one class did not fix the wizarding world. As enclaves begin to fall and old bargains unravel, she travels through the wider magical community to uncover the truth about the Scholomance and the cost of real change.
Buried Deep and Other Stories
by Naomi Novik
2024
Thirteen stories span many of Novik's worlds, from Temeraire's sky battles to the haunted corners of her fairy tale settings and beyond. The collection offers new glimpses of familiar characters, sharp standalones, and a first look at the setting of her next epic.
The Summer War
by Naomi Novik
2025
As a furious child, Celia curses her beloved older brother to a life without love and is horrified when the words become real magic. Years later, with their homeland locked in a long war against immortal summerlings, she searches for a way to break both curse and conflict.
Where should I start?
If you want a fairy tale feel: Uprooted → Spinning Silver → The Summer War
If you want dragons and history: His Majesty's Dragon → Throne of Jade → Black Powder War
If you want a dark magic school: A Deadly Education → The Last Graduate → The Golden Enclaves
If you like shorter, varied stories: Golden Age and Other Stories → Buried Deep and Other Stories
If you want superhero campus drama: Will Supervillains Be On the Final?
Author bio
Naomi Novik was born in New York City in 1973 and grew up in the Long Island suburb of Roslyn Heights, the first member of her Lithuanian Jewish and Polish Catholic family to be born in the United States. She was the kind of child who finished the trilogy The Lord of the Rings at six, went back to reread it, and then fell in love with Jane Austen not long after.
That early mix of epic fantasy and sharp social comedy shaped her taste. She went on to study English literature at Brown University, then earned a graduate degree in computer science at Columbia, expecting to build a career in technology.
After school, Novik joined the team on a fantasy role-playing game expansion and discovered how much she liked building worlds, quests, and characters. Somewhere in the middle of debugging game code she realized she was more excited about the stories than the software, and she turned that energy toward writing fiction full time.
The project that took hold was Temeraire, an alternate version of the Napoleonic War with an air force of dragons and the complicated partnership between Captain Will Laurence and the dragon who chooses him.
His Majesty's Dragon, the first Temeraire novel, appeared in 2006 and introduced readers to that world of aerial corps, politics, and friendship under fire. The book won the Compton Crook Award for best first novel and helped earn Novik the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer the following year. Over nine volumes Laurence and Temeraire travel across Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas, and the series steadily widens from battlefield adventure to questions about empire, slavery, and the rights of dragons themselves.
Between Temeraire books, Novik began writing standalone fairy-tale novels. Uprooted draws on Polish folklore to tell the story of a village girl and a corrupted, sentient forest, while Spinning Silver reworks the Rumpelstiltskin legend into a wintry tale of debt, power, and three young women trying to change the rules that bind them. These novels picked up major fantasy awards, including the Nebula, Locus, Mythopoeic, British Fantasy, and Alex Awards, and brought many new readers to her work.
Her next large project was the Scholomance trilogy, beginning with A Deadly Education and followed by The Last Graduate and The Golden Enclaves. The books follow Galadriel, often called El, Higgins through a deadly, adult free magic school suspended in the Void, where the curriculum is survival as much as spellcraft. El's dry, furious voice, the predatory school, and the deep look at class and safety in wizard society give the series a very different feel from her earlier historical work while still keeping the focus on loyalty, hard choices, and found family.
Novik also writes shorter work. The collection Golden Age and Other Stories returns to the Temeraire universe in a set of stories often inspired by fan art, while Buried Deep and Other Stories gathers thirteen pieces that range across her different settings and hint at worlds still to come. Her novella The Summer War offers a more intimate fantasy about a young witch who accidentally curses her brother and spends her life trying to undo the damage.
Outside of her own books, Novik has been deeply involved in fan culture. She was a founding board member of the non profit Organization for Transformative Works and helped create the open source archive software that powers a major online fan fiction collection, reflecting her long standing belief that readers and fans build communities as important as any single story.
She lives in New York City with her family and more computers than strictly necessary, and she continues to move between epic battles, intimate fairy tales, and the strange spaces in between.
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