Robin McKinley Books in Order

When her father angers a Beast by taking a rose, Beauty offers herself in his place. McKinley's debut turns a familiar fairy tale into a warm, thoughtful story about courage, kindness, and love growing slowly.

This collection brings together four fairy tales, two original and two retold. Princesses, enchanted creatures, hidden worlds, and old curses give the book the feeling of stepping through a small door into faerie.

Orphaned Harry Crewe arrives in a colonial outpost on the edge of Damar and is carried off by the Hillfolk king Corlath. As she learns their world, she discovers magic, purpose, and a war she cannot stand aside from.

Aerin, the awkward daughter of Damar's king, is treated like an outsider at court. Her stubborn fight against dragons becomes the first step toward a far greater battle, and the making of a legend.

Edited by McKinley, this fantasy anthology gathers stories set in fully invented worlds. The pleasures are variety and atmosphere, from strange landscapes and old magic to the sense that every tale opens onto a larger realm.

McKinley retells Anna Sewell's classic in a form younger readers can enter easily. Black Beauty's life moves through kind hands and cruel ones, keeping the story's sympathy for horses and its plea for gentleness.

Robin is driven into Sherwood Forest after a deadly clash with the sheriff's men. McKinley turns the Robin Hood legend into a grounded story of friendship, resistance, and Marian's equally important part in the fight.

Sara knows her father through photographs, stories, and letters, but hardly remembers him for herself. When his ship finally comes home, this gentle picture book turns reunion into a small, deeply felt emotional moment.

A child who did not know she wanted a dog suddenly knows exactly what she wants. This tender picture book follows the choosing of a whippet puppy, and the nervous, hopeful first night in a new home.

After devastating violence shatters her life, Princess Lissar flees her father's court with only her dog beside her. In exile she must survive, heal, and slowly reclaim her name, memory, and future.

Five stories mix fairy-tale wonder with sharp emotion, including healers, curses, sacrifices, and a modern girl who finds unsettling magic in her new home. It is a strong sampler of McKinley's shorter fiction.

Beauty and her sisters lose their old life and begin again in a small, overgrown cottage. As roses bloom and the old tale closes in, Beauty must face the Beast and the cost of loving what frightens her.

Set in Damar, this novella blends romance and old magic in a quieter key than the main novels. An encounter with a stone fey changes a young woman's sense of love, choice, and the life ahead of her.

McKinley reshapes Sleeping Beauty into a bigger, stranger fairy tale. When a baby princess is cursed, magic-worker Katriona hides her away in the countryside, where growing up safely proves harder than anyone expects.

In this collaborative collection with Peter Dickinson, six fantasy stories revolve around the pull of water. Sea magic, mysterious beings, and quietly uncanny adventures link the tales, with one story returning to the world of Damar.

Baker Rae Seddon wants a quiet afternoon by the lake, not a run-in with vampires. Her capture pulls her into New Arcadia's dangerous balance between humans and Others, and awakens powers she never meant to use.

Jake lives on a dragon preserve where the creatures are rare, protected, and never meant to be pets. When he finds a dead dragon mother and one living hatchling, he risks everything to raise the baby in secret.

After the deaths of her rulers, beekeeper Mirasol is chosen as the new Chalice of Willowlands. To heal the land, she must work with a fire priest turned Master, a man whose touch can burn flesh.

This story collection, written with Peter Dickinson, builds five fantasies around the element of fire. Dragons, spirits, graveyard mysteries, and dangerous magic give the book a lively, varied spark.

Princess Sylviianel expects her ceremonial bond with the pegasus Ebon to be formal and distant. Instead they can speak mind to mind, a miracle that threatens the old alliance between humans, pegasi, and the magicians who stand between them.

Maggie knows her new stepfather is hiding something, especially the jagged shadows that seem to follow him everywhere. In a Newworld that trusts science and bans magic, his secrets drag her toward a crisis only both forces might solve.