Sarah Prineas Books in Order
Browse Sarah Prineas books in order, with short summaries, series guides, reading order help, and simple advice on where to start across her fantasy and sci-fi novels.
Last updated: July 11, 2026
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Sarah Prineas books in publication order
16 books
The Magic Thief
by Sarah Prineas
2008
Street thief Conn survives touching a wizard's locus stone, which should have killed him. Taken on as Nevery's apprentice, he must find his own magic while helping save Wellmet from whatever is draining the city's power.
Lost
by Sarah Prineas
2009
Conn is still apprenticed to Nevery, but dangerous explosions and strange murmurs keep pulling him toward forbidden fire magic. When no one listens, he investigates alone and runs straight into betrayal and a threat stalking Wellmet.
Found
by Sarah Prineas
2010
Exiled from Wellmet and fresh out of prison, Conn should run. Instead he heads toward the danger threatening the city and finds himself caught up in a quest, a looming dragon, and the question of whether he is truly wizard or thief.
Winterling
by Sarah Prineas
2012
Fer has always felt the pull of the woods more strongly than the ordinary world around her. After she saves a strange boy named Rook, she crosses into a dangerous realm of oaths, winter magic, and long-buried family secrets.
Moonkind
by Sarah Prineas
2013
Fer's victory has consequences, and broken oaths are spreading a deadly stillness through the magical lands. To save her realm, she must work with Rook again even as trust between them starts to crack.
Summerkin
by Sarah Prineas
2013
Fer has won the Summerlands, but keeping it is another matter. Distrusted by powerful rulers and tested in a series of challenges, she must prove she can lead while deciding how much she can trust the puck Rook.
Thrice Sworn
by Sarah Prineas
2013
This prequel turns to Rook's past, showing how he became thrice bound to the Mór. It also reveals how Phouka, later known as Finn, ended up trapped in horse form.
A Proper Wizard
by Sarah Prineas
2014
Young apprentice Verent comes to Wellmet seeking Conn's help with his city's magical troubles and is not impressed by the famous wizard-thief. Their uneasy partnership turns into a quick side adventure about trust, magic, and earning respect.
Home
by Sarah Prineas
2014
Conn is back in Wellmet as a new wizard, but many still see only a former thief. When locus stones start vanishing and spells go wrong across the city, he has to uncover who is behind it before home falls apart.
Ash & Bramble
by Sarah Prineas
2015
Pin wakes in the Godmother's fortress with no memory of her old life and only a mysterious thimble to guide her. As Story pushes her toward Cinderella's fate, she and Shoe fight to escape the ending chosen for them.
Rose & Thorn
by Sarah Prineas
2016
Rose has spent her life hidden away to delay the three curses laid on her at birth. When her protection fails, she flees with Griff and Quirk and heads straight toward the Sleeping Beauty story she is trying to avoid.
Heart of the Land
by Sarah Prineas
2017
Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan are hailed as heroes, then suddenly put on trial as suspected traitors. When a leader is murdered and the four are framed, they have to run, investigate, and keep the war from getting worse.
The Scroll of Kings
by Sarah Prineas
2018
Alex dreams of becoming a librarian, then discovers the royal library is full of books that can attack, infect, and kill. Teaming up with young Queen Kenneret, he must stop a dangerous Lost Book before a usurper takes the throne.
Dragonfell
by Sarah Prineas
2019
Rafi Bywater has always been drawn to the old dragon lair above his village, and other people have always found him unsettling. When hunters come for him, he flees with young scientist Maud to learn the truth about dragons and himself.
Trouble in the Stars
by Sarah Prineas
2021
Trouble is a shapeshifter on the run, with no clear memory of what they are escaping. Stowed away on a starship full of misfits, they start to find home just as the StarLeague closes in.
Asking for Trouble
by Sarah Prineas
2022
Settled at last aboard the Hindsight, Trouble wants a quiet life, but Electra plans a risky rescue at the StarLeague academy. When Electra disappears, Trouble goes undercover and discovers a new danger rising from deep space.
Where to start with Sarah Prineas
If you want a fast fantasy gateway: The Magic Thief → Lost → Found → Home
If you like wild faerie lands and nature magic: Winterling → Summerkin → Moonkind
If you want darker fairy-tale retellings: Ash & Bramble → Rose & Thorn
If you want a bookish fantasy mystery: The Scroll of Kings
If you want dragons or space adventure: Dragonfell or Trouble in the Stars → Asking for Trouble
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Author bio
Sarah Prineas grew up in Lyme, Connecticut, and she still sounds amused by the fact that the town gave its name to Lyme disease. She later went to college in Minnesota, earned a PhD in English literature, and eventually made her home in Iowa.
Writing fiction came to her a little sideways. In the early 2000s, while she was working on her dissertation and raising a young child, she began writing fantasy for adults. By her own telling, fiction started as a way to procrastinate and still feel productive, which is a pretty believable origin story for a novelist.
Then The Magic Thief changed the direction of everything.
She began that book in late 2005 after seeing a young reader ask for more wizard stories. What started as a chapter grew into a novel, then into a series, and it turned Prineas into a children's author almost before she had planned on becoming one. Her debut arrived in 2008 and introduced Connwaer, a quick-fingered street thief who becomes apprentice to the wizard Nevery in a city whose magic is running out.
That mix of danger, humor, and found family runs through a lot of her work. Readers who like clever magical systems often start with The Magic Thief, Lost, Found, and Home, where Conn keeps stumbling into bigger problems and bigger responsibilities. The books move fast, but they also make room for friendship, loyalty, and the question of who gets to belong.
Prineas did not stay in one corner of fantasy for long.
In the Winterling books, beginning with Winterling, she turns toward wild landscapes, oaths, and faerie politics, following Fer as she crosses into a dangerous otherworld and learns where she truly comes from. In Ash & Bramble and Rose & Thorn, she goes older and darker, using fairy-tale shapes like Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty while pushing back against the idea that anyone should have to live inside a story somebody else chose for them.
She also likes to change gears completely. The Scroll of Kings is a castle-and-library adventure where books can turn hostile, Dragonfell is a dragon story with a village boy searching for the truth about himself, and Trouble in the Stars heads into space with a shapeshifting runaway looking for home. Across all of them, Prineas tends to write young characters who are brave, prickly, funny, and a little out of step with the world around them.
Before novels took over, she wrote adult fantasy short stories, and for a time she also worked with high-achieving students through the University of Iowa Honors Program. That mix, academic training on one side and imaginative worldbuilding on the other, helps explain why her books often feel carefully built without losing their sense of fun.
These days she lives in Iowa with her family and keeps close to the things that show up in her books: reading, writing, nature, and dragons. She has written about working at her kitchen table, loving the Iowa landscape, and having a soft spot for dragon figures and dragon lore. Her stories may range from wizard cities to faerie realms to starships, but they keep returning to the same human questions about identity, loyalty, and finding a place to belong.
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