Piers Anthony Books in Order

Space traveller Aton Five is condemned to the subterranean prison Chthon for loving the dangerous Minionette. Interwoven scenes from his past and imprisonment explore their relationship as he seeks a way out and answers about his punishment.

Young Hari leaves his village to seek spiritual enlightenment, unaware that his pilgrimage has become a wager between immortals. Mohini and the demon Ravana compete over his journey, bringing divine interference into his search for wisdom.

A hurricane carries the Baldwin family from the ordinary world into Xanth, while Demon Xanth undertakes a wager in the form of Nimby. His partnership with Chlorine becomes bound up with the effort to confront the dangerous storm.

Forrest Faun wants to save the tree left vulnerable when his friend disappears into the Void. Following Humfrey’s advice, he journeys with Mare Imbri to Ptero, seeking another faun without abandoning the tree he guards himself.

Recurring families and lovers struggle through successive periods of human history, from Africa’s ancient beginnings to an imagined future in the Andes. Their lives intersect with figures including Boudica and King Herod as they seek to overcome humanity’s violence.

Humanity’s pollution and relentless demands on the ocean produce a terrifying creature from its depths. An eight-legged sea monster emerges from ecological damage, confronting people with a dangerous consequence of treating the sea as an inexhaustible dumping ground.

During the Second World War, a Nazi SS officer becomes romantically involved with his American friend’s fiancée, a pacifist Quaker. Their forbidden relationship places conflicting loyalties and beliefs within a story shaped by war and its consequences.

Nola and Tina endure painful lives without knowing that their dreams can create reality. When their weakening hopes threaten a fantasy world, a winged unicorn and a prince enter the ordinary world seeking the dreamers’ help.

A fallen star brings a new and terrible evil to Infinitera, threatening the Realm beyond its familiar enemies. High Bishop Marcus Alanda and a band of travellers undertake a perilous journey connected with the weapon needed to oppose it.

Newcomer Breanna gains the unwanted attention of Xeth, king of Xanth’s zombies, who wants her as his queen. Fleeing his advances, she sets out with unusual companions and the guidance of Justin Tree to seek another future.

Three women’s experiences trace the role of human creativity through successive historical settings, from ancient Egypt to modern warfare and beyond. The novel examines arts of building, healing and survival alongside talents for seduction, violence and destruction.

An older couple rents a remarkable city house whose back door opens onto unexpected places in time and space. Calling in their grandchildren to investigate, Penn and Chandelle begin a family adventure involving unfamiliar worlds and strange visitors.

A climatic catastrophe threatens to flood Xanth, requiring ordinary humans to investigate its origins in the past. Pia and Edsel exchange places with Nimby and Chlorine through a magical computer network, linking adventures on Earth with Xanth’s survival.

Part-human, part-dragon Becka asks Humfrey where she belongs and is sent to assist the Dastard. His power to erase events lets him destroy other people’s happiness, making her promised service a dangerous journey across Xanth.

Blues guitarist Slim Chance enters an alternate world where music carries magical power. With musician Progress Hornsby and his daughter Nadine, he sets out to recover a stolen guitar whose loss threatens the future of music and magic.

Bored plant-human Herb Moss begins corresponding with Spring, mistaking her wish for a botanical pen pal for romantic interest. When an evil sorcerer pursues the secrets connected with her, Spring turns to Herb for refuge.

Emperor Ddwng fears Colene’s growing abilities and sends a Mind Monster to overpower her. To defend herself and her companions, she must travel back to Earth, confront her deepest fears and prepare to challenge the emperor’s control.

In this second autobiography, Anthony revisits his early life and describes the years following Bio of an Ogre. Personal experiences, correspondence with readers and conflicts with the publishing industry shape his account of an increasingly ambitious writing career.

Cynthia Centaur visits Humfrey with a personal question and unexpectedly receives responsibility for saving Xanth. Demon Earth has disappeared, taking gravity with him, and Cynthia’s companions must find the mysterious Swell Foop before their worlds unravel.

Spirit recounts the events surrounding her brother Hope’s rise and fall as Jupiter’s ruler. Returning to the period covered in the earlier Space Tyrant novels, her perspective reveals experiences and events that occurred while the siblings were apart.

An errant delivery of ordinary mail provokes Demon Jupiter to send his destructive Red Spot toward Xanth. Umlaut and his companions must tackle the threat while the young man also confronts the mystery of his own origins.

Cube wants to become beautiful and sets out across Xanth seeking a way to change her appearance. Her quest draws unusual companions into an adventure that reaches beyond their world and threatens its inhabitants.

Havoc rules Charm, but the assassin who killed his predecessor still threatens his reign. As magical powers and political dangers grow, he must navigate the forces shaping his kingdom while protecting the people around him.

Havoc's ability to sense danger wins him a dragon's reward and an unexpected appointment as king. Leaving his village, he enters a society of shifting magical powers where his predecessor's assassin remains a threat.

Gross discovers that the woman meant for him is in danger, although he does not know who she is. His search takes him through Fartingale, a magical realm where bodily gas has extraordinary powers.

Clio, Xanth's Muse of History, discovers that her historical records require information she cannot obtain at home. She sets out to find the necessary currant, turning her usually quiet work into an unfamiliar adventure.

Havoc and his companions investigate the mysterious loom associated with Charm's magical altars. Their journey takes them through Counter-Charm and its deceptive landscapes, where unfamiliar powers complicate their efforts to understand the world they inhabit.

Goody Goblin must find a home for an insulting bird that copies other people's voices. Accompanied by Hannah, he discovers that this troublesome assignment coincides with a robot threat spreading through Xanth.

This collection explores romantic and sexual relationships through stories about people confronting desire, identity and difficult personal choices. Its characters face situations ranging from ordinary emotional conflicts to stranger circumstances that test their connections with others.

Surprise Golem's baby is withheld because of a stork's delivery problem. She and Umlaut set out to locate their child, following a search that takes them into alternate versions of Xanth with unfamiliar dangers.

When Hugo's wife vanishes, Wira joins the search despite her blindness. Their investigation unfolds alongside Debra's struggle with a curse and the troubles of storm spirits, bringing several quests into a larger mystery within Xanth.

Piers Anthony recounts the life of his father, Alfred Jacob, through the perspectives of women who knew him. This biography approaches its subject through personal relationships, bringing different accounts together to describe the same man.

A rebuilt Earth sends a ship to reclaim its long-lost colony on Charm, carrying a weapon capable of destroying the planet. Havoc faces a demand that places his children's freedom against his world's survival.

Seven stories examine love, passion and the choices people make within their relationships. Moving among fantasy, science fiction and contemporary settings, the collection considers different forms of intimacy and the complications that arise between its characters.

Lonely Rowan discovers that gopher tortoises lead intelligent lives beyond the human world. As he makes unexpected friends, hunters and construction threaten the creatures and the passage connecting their hidden society to his own.

Kerena studies magic in the time of King Arthur, but her mentor's disappearance sends her searching beyond her familiar surroundings. Her journey becomes entangled with immortal powers and competing efforts to preserve an alternate timeline.

An invading machine civilization threatens Charm after destroying other worlds. It wants Havoc's daughter Voila and her magic, offering humanity safety at a cost that forces his family to confront the fate of other civilizations.

College student Jack answers an advertisement for a summer job serving as Knave to four queens associated with playing cards. His interviews introduce unusual demands, with the Queen of Hearts posing a particularly difficult challenge.

Ragna Roc plans to rule Xanth and make opponents disappear. Humfrey recruits Cyrus, a cyborg playwright, whose traveling theatrical company provides cover for an effort to investigate the magical bird and undermine his scheme.

Juliet witnesses a car crash and rushes to help a badly injured man while waiting for medical assistance. Their encounter creates an unexpected emotional attachment, drawing her into a relationship with consequences beyond the immediate emergency.

Jumper, a spider transformed into a man, becomes involved in a quest after a demon battle severs the connection between Xanth and Mundania. He and his companions must navigate interference from powerful magical beings.

Militia targets men, but her encounter with Newton Oswald brings her into contact with another dangerous criminal. Newton and Maria, one of her former victims, recognize the threat and prepare for her next move.

Recurring characters pass through different eras of human history, confronting drought, disease and changing environments. Their relationships and struggles trace humanity's dependence on nature, linking ancient survival problems with the dangers of a possible future.

Wenda Woodwife seeks Humfrey's help with the mood swings troubling her marriage to Prince Charming. The magician has a problem that only she can address, sending her and a group of companions into another quest.

Tod Timmins follows a mysterious trail out of his ordinary working life and into different times and realities. Meeting strange companions along the way, he must understand an all-pervading amoeba and distinguish allies from enemies.

A virtual reality competition offers large cash prizes through romantic challenges broadcast to an audience. Participants pursue the rewards while testing their personal boundaries, confronting the uneasy relationship between the game's demands and their own feelings.

Mark in Albany and Kelsie in Beijing discover paths into the same mysterious park. As their encounters lead toward a magical forest, they must investigate the place's origins and the creatures connecting their distant lives.

Abner Slate survives a murderous child's attack on his family and discovers a wider threat from children without souls. Joining other victims, he travels across the country as they search for a way to stop it.

Picka Bones, a walking skeleton, sets out with three musical pets and becomes involved with a princess's romantic troubles. Their journey brings music into a struggle against monstrous dangers and a spreading plague of puns.

Elasa seeks the Awares, beings so attuned to their surroundings that they can disappear from view. She needs their unusual abilities to confront enormous telepathic creatures whose threat extends to Earth and across the galaxy.

Mona exchanges bodies with a pregnant woman on a colony planet, leaving her familiar life behind. Work involving a lamb that can foresee events brings unexpected consequences, complicating her experience in another person's body.

An elderly man named Bryce arrives in Xanth with a young body and becomes caught in a demon's wager involving Princess Harmony. A magical tablet aids a quest complicated by pressure to choose a bride.

Exchange student Shep takes another person's body on a colony planet and becomes a shepherd. His encounters with telepathic sheep and their ability to foresee danger draw him into a society governed by deadly rules.

Elasa, a humanoid robot with consciousness, wants legal recognition as a woman so she can marry the man she loves. Her struggle turns an intimate relationship into a question about personhood and the rights of artificial beings.

An alien inhabiting a human body learns about human society and relationships, but the host's immune system rejects her brain. Finding a replacement becomes urgent as another alien complicates her marriage and family life.

Kandy wishes for adventure and romance, but a misunderstood word transforms her into a wooden board. She joins Ease on a quest involving Humfrey, strange companions and a virus that threatens Xanth's puns.

Kody wakes after hospital treatment to find himself in Xanth, where a spell has reversed people's preferences and affections. Apparently unaffected, he must work out how to undo the change before the disorder spreads further.

An unusual college entrance examination takes the form of an online game in a partly virtual world. Candidates face alien monsters and portals to other realms, with free tuition and board promised to those who qualify.

Quincy faces a rare illness that threatens his brain, and an alien offers an unusual means of survival. Exchanging bodies creates new challenges for him and his wife as they try to preserve their relationship.

Stories, essays and reflections explore unsettling ideas about childhood, love, marriage, religion and sexuality. Fantasy and science fiction provide the settings for characters confronting taboo desires and disturbing situations, alongside the author’s opinions about their subjects.

Astrid Basilisk-Cockatrice seeks homes for five children from Xanth's future while helping fight a virus that destroys puns. Her dangerous gaze and poisonous touch complicate a mission meant to protect the magical world's future.

Shape-shifting private detective Philemon accepts a witch's request to investigate a warlock's murder. More supernatural beings are killed, sending him through strange businesses and demonic attractions as he changes form to survive the investigation.

Quiti, dying of cancer, saves a telepathic alien ball of hair and asks it to restore her lost locks. Its gift brings healing and extraordinary abilities, but also attracts people who want to exploit her powers.

Quiti and the Hair Suits establish an alien embassy, only to face competing cyborgs seeking control of Earth. When a third species threatens the planet, the rivals must cooperate despite their conflicting ambitions and intergalactic politics.

Hapless can conjure musical instruments but cannot play them well. Hoping to find one he can master, he follows the Good Magician's instructions to seek a wish-granting orb guarded by the mysterious goddess Isis.

A reporter facing prison and a young woman entangled with a drug gang accept a lucrative investigation into a blind orphan’s service goat. Rumors of extraordinary powers and extraterrestrial visitors draw them toward a secret operation.

Five stories explore dangerous illusions, concealed government activity, and magical temptation. Ordinary people become targets of mysterious experiments, a reporter pursues a suburban scandal, and a woman's discovery of unusual fruit brings desire and demonic risk.

Young were-unicorn Wetzel flees his village when people threaten his life to obtain his valuable horn. Seeking a future on the Amoeba's trail, he joins Tod Timmins and a group of outcasts on another quest.

A rogue Night Colt and a human writer force Xanth's residents to act out unwanted stories. Tartan and Tara enter the magical land through a painting and join an effort to stop the pair's dream-making scheme.

Poor mountain boy Benny falls in love with Virtue, a kindly vampire whose bite carries unusual power. Together they face threatening evil, testing whether their bond and her abilities can protect them from what lies ahead.

Benny and Virtue reunite with former enemy Dale Beranger and his orc companion for a journey across Pakk. Their outing uncovers a plot threatening the whole land, forcing the unlikely allies to confront a new enemy.

This collection explores desire and unequal relationships through mainstream fiction, erotic stories, and fantasy adventures. Tales of lovers from different generations sit alongside encounters with a fearsome god and a brief essay about the author's writing.

Young Lydell and grandmother Grania ask the Good Magician to make their dull lives more exciting. He sends them across Xanth in a flying fireboat, where cryptic clues and unusual passengers turn a delivery into adventure.

Quiti and Idola help a lost alien child they call Flower. The rescue draws them into disputes involving a people unwelcome on many planets and dangerous Worms that can change time, making peace increasingly urgent.

Benny Clout and his companions race a new enemy to the ancient Frost Dwarf city of Alfen Gulfadex. The scattered Kudgel army has found another leader, and failure could unleash an even greater threat upon Pakk.

Cursed to be taken seriously by nobody, Jess joins showman Magnus on a quest for a flying fireboat. The Good Magician cannot remember their assignment, leaving them to unravel a mystery involving dreams and Xanth's future.

Squid and her Demon boyfriend Chaos face a future in which his human host is murdered before their wedding. To protect their chance at a life together, they must travel through time on one last mission.

Three short tales connect a lonely girl, a lost skeleton boy, and a man whose inner child falls for an apparition. An unsettling new playmate brings these characters together in a small collection of supernatural encounters.

Alien cuttlefish Squid leads a mission against a foreign Demon threatening Xanth. Traveling aboard the Fire Boat as a disguised dance troupe, she and her companions must rely on friendship and shape-shifting to navigate the dangers ahead.

Prince Ion and his twin Hilda want an adventure beyond their comfortable royal lives. Learning that six princesses remain imprisoned in crystal, they and their partners prepare a rescue quest requiring their parents' and the Good Magician's approval.

Prince Nolan Naga seeks a wife before taking the throne and is directed toward Apoca, whose kiss can enslave men. Together they confront a curse giving every newborn in Xanth the same magical talent.

Three nymphs escape their secluded retreat and discover the unfamiliar demands of life in Xanth. Their journey toward the Queendom of Thanx becomes a mission to confront five powerful Elements, including the mysterious Void.

Aura Lips and the telepathic bug PedAnt travel through Limbo, where Xanth's history unfolds without the usual limits of time. Joined by unlikely companions, they pursue love, help strangers, and face dragons threatening humanity.