Steven Brust Books in Order

This omnibus collects Jhereg, Yendi, and Teckla, the opening Vlad Taltos novels. It is the cleanest way to meet Vlad, Loiosh, Adrilankha, and the mix of crime, magic, and sarcasm that defines the series.

Before Earth exists, angels argue over how to survive a coming catastrophe and what they may ask others to sacrifice. Brust retells the war in Heaven as a story of politics, ethics, and betrayal.

A murder plot, a gang war, and Vlad's first meeting with Cawti collide in one elegantly tangled story. It is a sharper, twistier early caper that shows how dangerous Adrilankha's politics can be.

In far eastern Fenario, four royal brothers face a crumbling palace, family strain, and a kingdom sliding toward disaster. It reads like a self-contained legend from the wider Dragaera world.

Vlad investigates a murder tied to unrest among Easterners and Teckla, while Cawti is pulled toward revolution. The case turns painfully personal and forces him to face politics, violence, and the strain on his marriage.

This interactive adventure drops you into the world of Dragaera, where sorcery, noble Houses, and sudden violence shape every decision. It is a gamebook, so your choices matter as much as the setting.

A young artist struggles with work, love, and ambition while a Hungarian fairy tale echoes through his story. Brust ties studio life to myth and turns both into a quietly unusual quest.

Vlad tracks an ancient threat while the story loops back to his childhood and his family's arrival in the Empire. It is both an adventure and an origin story for one of fantasy's sharpest narrators.

A bar that slips through time and space becomes the center of a comic, disorienting chase across worlds. Brust mixes apocalypse, oddball humor, and science fiction into something joyfully strange.

After a desperate prayer brings help from Verra, Vlad owes the goddess a job: assassinate a king on an island where magic does not work. The hit is simple. Getting home alive is not.

Young Khaavren leaves the country for Dragaera City and finds friends, duels, and imperial intrigue. Brust recasts The Three Musketeers in Dragaera with wit, swagger, and loving excess.

A wandering gypsy leaves murder and magic in his wake, and veteran cop Stepovich keeps finding himself on the trail. As the Fair Lady closes in, folklore and police work collide.

An immortal drifter settles in a Midwestern college town and tries, for once, to build a life instead of just outlasting one. Brust turns vampire fiction inward, toward memory, desire, and self-deception.

Instead of following Vlad directly, much of this novel stays with Savn, a village boy pulled into the chaos around him. The shift in viewpoint makes the danger feel stranger, funnier, and more human.

Years after their first adventures, old friends are drawn back together as plots thicken around the Empire. Brust trades youthful swagger for harder politics, older loyalties, and a wider stage.

A financial mystery pulls Vlad into contracts, inheritance, and the Empire's merchant class. It is one of the series' cleverest puzzles, turning business itself into a battleground.

In 1849, James Cobham wakes in an inn after being presumed drowned and begins piecing together what happened. Letters, politics, magic, and family conspiracies turn the mystery into a sweeping Victorian adventure.

Vlad, to his own disbelief, ends up in the army at the Battle of Baritt's Tomb. Marching, mud, sorcery, and war push him into a role no one will fully explain.

Lady Teldra finds Vlad in hiding and pulls him into a rescue mission for Morrolan and Aliera. What starts as a missing-person case becomes a fight with the Jenoine and a major turning point for Vlad.

A missing heir to the throne sends Khaavren and his friends onto the road and into imperial trouble. Swordplay, disguises, and court politics drive the opening volume of The Viscount of Adrilankha.

Khaavren and his companions travel through plots, armies, and divided loyalties as the missing heir crisis deepens. The middle volume of The Viscount of Adrilankha broadens the adventure without losing the banter.

As imperial intrigue widens and old powers move closer to the center, Sethra Lavode steps into the foreground. The final part of The Viscount of Adrilankha mixes politics, war, and one formidable undead sorceress.

Vlad returns to Adrilankha and to the people hunting him, hoping to help Cawti and settle unfinished business. The result is part reunion, part underworld negotiation, and part sudden knife fight.

Hiding in his Eastern homeland, Vlad drifts into a small-town feud and a murder case he never meant to touch. Laying low turns into family history, local politics, and sudden violence.

When one of Vlad's closest friends falls into the Empire's courts, he gets dragged into a maze of law, loyalty, and old grudges. The book turns Dragaera into a tense legal thriller without losing Vlad's voice.

This short Dragaeran tale follows the Hawklord Daymar and a particular Morganti blade. It is a compact, sharp glimpse into the wider history and darker corners behind the Vlad Taltos books.

A silver tiassa passes from god to wanderer to con man, pulling Vlad into overlapping traps across several time periods. The novel ties together old mysteries and even brushes against Khaavren's world.

This short story offers another glimpse of the Incrementalists' world, where long memory and quiet interference shape ordinary lives. It is brief, sly, and built on the series' fascination with influence.

A secret society of near-immortals has spent forty thousand years nudging the world, one small improvement at a time. When a newcomer is drawn into their orbit, old arguments and buried agendas rise to the surface.

Back in Adrilankha to see his estranged wife and son, Vlad survives an assassination attempt and decides to stop running. What follows is a dense campaign of schemes, countermoves, and risky bargains with the Jhereg.

The final volume brings Shadow Unit's long arcs to a head. It still delivers eerie investigations and weird crimes, but the deepest payoff is watching the survivors decide who they are after everything that came before.

When Phil, one of the near-immortal Incrementalists, is shot, his allies have to solve the murder before they can truly restore him. The search reaches from modern Arizona into one of his most charged past lives.

Devera leads Vlad into a strange manor above the Great Sea, where corridors twist, doors open onto other places, and old mysteries start to move. It is one of the series' eeriest, most puzzle-like adventures.

A string of killings exposes a hidden magical world ruled by secret organizations and murky moral codes. Brust gives the story a hardboiled edge and keeps asking who, exactly, the good guys are.

Young Eremit is betrayed, imprisoned on a volcanic island for centuries, and remade by rage. Brust turns the Dragaeran world toward revenge, disguise, and the long patience of a wronged man.

A false prince, an unfit king, witches, and a sword send a band of young adventurers into a fairy-tale quest. Beneath the jokes and wordplay, the story keeps asking who gets power and why.

Set early in Vlad's career, this mystery starts with money he is owed and the murder of the man who owes it. Wedding plans, underworld ties, and old friends give the case extra bite.

Hiding in a theatre, Vlad gets caught up in a banned play and the forces trying to shut it down for good. The result mixes backstage life, politics, and knives with unusual ease.