Patricia A McKillip Books in Order

Sent to stay with relatives in an English village, Carol discovers a house beside a graveyard and a pair of restless ghosts tied to the Civil War. Solving their mystery means braving tunnels, family friction, and the past itself.

A melancholy king demands the impossible book called the Throme, and loyal Caerles is sent to find it before he can marry the king's daughter. The quest turns into a playful, word-rich adventure about stories, longing, and invention.

Sybel lives alone on Eld Mountain, summoning legendary beasts by name, until a hidden child and a brutal war pull her into human love and vengeance. It is a haunting fantasy about power, pride, and the cost of choosing sides.

After young Joe attempts suicide and is sent away to recover, his sister Barbara and her friends try to build him a room full of beauty and care. This quiet early novel is about friendship, hurt feelings, and the hard work of helping someone back.

Morgon, prince of the farming island of Hed, wins a dead king's crown in a fatal riddle game and becomes marked by three stars on his brow. Hunted by shapechangers, he sets out with the harpist Deth to find the High One.

With Morgon missing and presumed dead, Raederle of An leaves home to learn what happened to him. Her journey wakes powers in her own blood and turns the trilogy outward, into stranger lands, harsher magic, and deeper betrayals.

Morgon nears the heart of the mystery as shapechangers, the High One, and the land-law of every kingdom converge around him. This final volume turns the trilogy's riddles into a fierce, mythic reckoning.

Frances Stuart grows up moving from place to place, carrying fear, desire, and a fierce private imagination with her. Part coming-of-age story and part artist's portrait, it follows her gradual effort to claim a life of her own.

Kyreol grows up in Turtle-Crossing, restless with questions about her missing mother and the world beyond the river's edge. Her search carries her into stranger cultures and toward the Dome, where the truth behind her world waits.

Years after leaving home, Kyreol trains as a space pilot while Terje remains tied to Riverworld. When Kyreol crashes on a distant moon and Terje becomes healer at home, both must decide what belonging really means.

Convicted killer Terra Viridian sits in an orbital prison while musicians, investigators, and old griefs circle around her crime. A psychic bond and a baffling outside presence turn this into a strange, music-soaked science fiction mystery.

Peri hates the sea that took her father, so she casts three hexes against it and stirs something far older than anger. A prince, a sea dragon, and a buried royal secret pull her into a tender, eerie adventure.

Corleu of the Wayfolk is caught in an ancient struggle when mythic powers begin waking inside the world he thought was only legend. With sorceress Nyx Ro beside him, he hunts the Heart of the Cygnet before old enemies can reshape the realm.

Nyx and her cousin Meguet face a new mystery when a grieving firebird begins turning people and things into jeweled trees. To save a cursed young heir and stop an ambitious mage, they must cross desert, dragon lore, and old magic.

On a stormy Pacific Northwest coast, Megan and Jonah are pulled toward sea-born enchantment by a strange jeweler and a mermaid's song. It is a quiet, haunting fairy tale about love, temptation, and the lure of another world.

Twenty years after a wartime spell created a terrible Hunter, mage Atrix Wolfe is drawn back to the damage he left behind. Lost identities, a haunted Wood, and an unread spellbook shape this lyrical tale of guilt and release.

When the mysterious Corbet Lynn steps out of the woods and begins restoring his ruined family house, both Rois Melior and her sister Laurel fall under his spell. Rois alone senses the danger in him and the old magic gathering around the house.

The last survivor of a massacre grows up among bards before returning to the city that destroyed his house. Music becomes both weapon and memory in this revenge tale about tyranny, names, and choosing what kind of justice matters.

A knight learns his king has married an impostor and rides out to free the true bride from a tower in Skye. His quest tangles with dragons, lost kingdoms, and a quiet village girl whose threads bind the whole story together.

When the ruler of Ombria dies, a hard old noblewoman reaches for power and throws the city into fear. Exiles, scholars, and dangerous magicians move through hidden passages and shadowed streets to resist her.

Prince Ronan, shattered by grief, gives away his heart and vanishes into the woods chasing a firebird. Princess Sidonie follows into a forest full of witchcraft, stolen identities, and fairy-tale danger to bring him back.

Orphan librarian Nepenthe can read a mysterious book written in patterns of thorns, and its story may threaten her queen's realm. Court politics, hidden parentage, and a language that acts like magic drive this intricate fantasy.

Fifteen stories show McKillip working in miniature, from fairy-tale retellings to sly mysteries and dragon-haunted legends. It is a varied collection, but the through line is her gift for turning a strange image into a full emotional world.

Brenden Vetch leaves his lonely farm for Od's old magic school, where wild power no longer fits the kingdom's rules. Garden paths, court suspicion, and untamed wonder collide in one of McKillip's warmest fantasies.

Bookseller Sylva Lynn returns home for a funeral and finds the old family magic fraying at the edges. When a child is taken and a changeling left behind, she must cross into Faerie to set things right.

A phantom bell rings over a seaside town where an old house holds doors into another world. As scholars, servants, and storytellers chase the secret, local legend turns into a quiet, layered fantasy mystery.

Phelan Cle studies the legendary Bone Plain while his archaeologist father and Princess Beatrice uncover clues in the present. Poems, runes, and buried history slowly braid together in a reflective fantasy about song and memory.

This collection gathers stories of witches, water spirits, tricksters, time travelers, and other doors into the uncanny. It is a strong survey of McKillip's shorter work, with both fairy-tale retellings and stranger modern pieces.

This later collection gathers stories, an essay, and the award-winning novella Something Rich and Strange. Sea magic, odd humor, fairy-tale shadows, and brief glimpses of the uncanny make it a graceful entry to McKillip's short fiction.

In a world where knights and magic live beside cars and cell phones, Pierce Oliver leaves home in search of a larger life. An inn, a hidden family history, and a grail-like quest pull him into modern Arthuriana.

In Beagle's title tale, set in ancient Persia, a tenderhearted elephant driver's son meets a wounded beast feared as a monster. This slender fantasy volume pairs that story with another tale of enchantment and altered identity.