October Daye Books in Order
Part ofSeanan McGuire Books in OrderBrowse the October Daye books in order by Seanan McGuire, with quick summaries, faerie-world background, and help choosing where to start.
Last updated: June 30, 2026
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October Daye books in publication order
21 books
Rosemary and Rue
by Seanan McGuire
2009
Self-exiled changeling October Daye is pulled back into Faerie when an old friend is murdered. Solving the case means facing a world she tried to escape, and enemies who would rather see her dead.
A Local Habitation
by Seanan McGuire
2010
Toby heads to the County of Tamed Lightning to check on a missing fae noblewoman. What looks routine turns into a locked-room nightmare where magic, technology, and murder make a lethal mix.
An Artificial Night
by Seanan McGuire
2010
When Blind Michael starts stealing children Toby loves, she has no choice but to go after him. The rescue sends her deep into one of Faerie's oldest and cruelest nightmares.
Late Eclipses
by Seanan McGuire
2011
Old enemies return, old lies crack open, and Toby's place in Faerie grows much harder to ignore. She has to untangle truth from manipulation before the people she cares about pay the price.
One Salt Sea
by Seanan McGuire
2011
The heirs to the Undersea are missing, and Toby has three days to stop a war between land and sea. To save them, she will have to go deeper into Faerie than ever before.
Ashes of Honor
by Seanan McGuire
2012
Grieving and off balance, Toby takes on the search for a missing girl and finds roads that should have stayed closed. The case turns into a race through dangerous in-between places where children can vanish for good.
Chimes at Midnight
by Seanan McGuire
2013
Goblin fruit is poisoning changelings across San Francisco, and Toby cannot look away. The deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes that the rot reaches into the very heart of the Mists.
The Winter Long
by Seanan McGuire
2014
Long-buried truths finally start coming due, and Toby learns how much has been hidden from her. It is a turning-point book, packed with revelations, old debts, and painful choices.
A Red-Rose Chain
by Seanan McGuire
2015
War threatens when Toby is sent into the Kingdom of Silences as part of a diplomatic mission. She is badly out of her depth, and one wrong move could ignite a bloodier conflict.
Full of Briars
by Seanan McGuire
2016
Toby and Tybalt finally try to define what their relationship means in a novella that mixes romance with danger. Because in Toby's life, even a first real date can end in bloodshed.
Once Broken Faith
by Seanan McGuire
2016
A murder at a gathering of Faerie's powers throws Toby into high politics and a conspiracy aimed at the Mists. The stakes are wider now, and trust is getting harder to come by.
The Brightest Fell
by Seanan McGuire
2017
When loved ones vanish, Toby is forced into some of the darkest corners of Faerie and her own family history. The search pushes her toward truths that have been waiting a very long time.
Night and Silence
by Seanan McGuire
2018
Toby's lost daughter Gillian returns to her life, but not in any simple or comforting way. Family, memory, and old damage collide as Toby tries to reach her before someone else does.
The Unkindest Tide
by Seanan McGuire
2019
To marry Tybalt, Toby has to survive a set of deadly trials in the Undersea. Love and politics are tangled together here, and failure could cost far more than a wedding.
A Killing Frost
by Seanan McGuire
2020
As celebrations and old blood feuds collide, Toby finds herself dealing with betrayals that cut close to home. It is another reminder that Faerie never lets happiness go unchallenged.
When Sorrows Come
by Seanan McGuire
2021
Toby and Tybalt are finally getting married, which means of course someone is trying to ruin everything. Wedding chaos turns deadly fast in a book that balances joy, nerves, and knives.
Be the Serpent
by Seanan McGuire
2022
Toby is finally married and trying to adjust to normal, which in this series is always a bad sign. An old ally's betrayal turns her brief peace into a fight for everything she trusts.
Sleep No More
by Seanan McGuire
2023
Toby wakes in a perfect Faerie where she is the dutiful changeling daughter of pureblood parents. The trouble is that the whole world has been rewritten by Titania, and every comforting detail is a lie.
The Innocent Sleep
by Seanan McGuire
2023
With Toby trapped inside Titania's false reality, Tybalt has to reach the woman he loves and convince her the world is wrong. It is one of the series' most personal rescue missions.
Silver and Lead
by Seanan McGuire
2025
Back in the real world at last, Toby is trying to recover from Titania's attack and prepare for motherhood. Faerie has other plans, and trouble does not stay patient for long.
A Divided Duty
by Seanan McGuire
2026
An upcoming October Daye novel that promises more dangerous balancing acts between family, obligation, and Faerie politics. Toby rarely gets to choose only one duty, and that is the problem.
October Daye books in chronological order

Rosemary and Rue
by Seanan McGuire
2009October Daye, Book 1
A Local Habitation
by Seanan McGuire
2010October Daye, Book 2
An Artificial Night
by Seanan McGuire
2010October Daye, Book 3
Late Eclipses
by Seanan McGuire
2011October Daye, Book 4
One Salt Sea
by Seanan McGuire
2011October Daye, Book 5
Ashes of Honor
by Seanan McGuire
2012October Daye, Book 6
Chimes at Midnight
by Seanan McGuire
2013October Daye, Book 7
The Winter Long
by Seanan McGuire
2014October Daye, Book 8
A Red-Rose Chain
by Seanan McGuire
2015October Daye, Book 9
Full of Briars
by Seanan McGuire
2016October Daye, Book 10
Once Broken Faith
by Seanan McGuire
2016October Daye, Book 11
The Brightest Fell
by Seanan McGuire
2017October Daye, Book 12
Night and Silence
by Seanan McGuire
2018October Daye, Book 13
The Unkindest Tide
by Seanan McGuire
2019October Daye, Book 14
A Killing Frost
by Seanan McGuire
2020October Daye, Book 15
When Sorrows Come
by Seanan McGuire
2021October Daye, Book 16
Be the Serpent
by Seanan McGuire
2022October Daye, Book 17
Sleep No More
by Seanan McGuire
2023October Daye, Book 18
The Innocent Sleep
by Seanan McGuire
2023October Daye, Book 19
Silver and Lead
by Seanan McGuire
2025October Daye, Book 20
A Divided Duty
by Seanan McGuire
2026October Daye, Book 21
Series background & context
The October Daye books are Seanan McGuire's longest-running fantasy series, and they reward readers who like watching a world expand without losing sight of the person getting dragged through it. October, or Toby, Daye is a changeling, half human and half fae, raised badly by both sides and trusted by almost no one when the series begins. She has spent years trying to stay out of Faerie's business. Naturally, that plan fails almost immediately.
That is the basic engine.
The early books read like urban fantasy mysteries. Toby gets hired, somebody is dead or missing, and the answer is tangled up in old fae politics, older grudges, and rules that are only helpful if you already know them. But the series does not stay small for long. What starts in San Francisco streets, hidden knowes, and private investigations grows into court intrigue, family revelations, war, diplomacy, prophecy, and one of the more patiently built found-family stories in modern fantasy.
Setting matters a lot here. McGuire places Faerie over Northern California rather than off in some separate fantasy realm, so the books are always moving between bus stops, corner stores, shorelines, and impossible kingdoms layered right on top of them. That overlap gives the series its feel. Magic is not distant. It is in the alley, under the hill, beneath the water, and waiting behind a door you were sure was ordinary.
Toby is the reason it works.
She is not polished, chosen, or especially diplomatic. She is stubborn, bruised, funny in a dry way, and constitutionally unable to leave a bad situation alone if someone vulnerable is going to pay the price. Around her, the supporting cast keeps deepening. Tybalt, Quentin, the Luidaeg, May, Sylvester, and many others stop feeling like side characters and start feeling like part of a living social world with its own loyalties and damage.
The tone shifts with the stakes, but the core stays steady. These are books about bargains, bloodlines, names, transformation, and the dangerous business of caring too much. They get bigger as they go, yet they keep returning to the same question: what do you owe the people who become your home?
So this page is best used in order. Rosemary and Rue is absolutely the right starting point, even if later books get bigger and smoother. October Daye is a series built on accumulation. The mystery of book one matters. The heartbreak matters. The little details matter. McGuire plays a very long game here, and the fun is watching it pay off.
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