Tahereh Mafi Books in Order
Explore all Tahereh Mafi books in order, with series overviews, summaries, reading order tips, and guidance on where to start with Shatter Me and beyond.
Last updated: June 7, 2026
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Publication Order
24 books
Shatter Me
by Tahereh Mafi
2011
Juliette Ferrars has been locked in solitary confinement for months because her touch can kill. When the brutal regime known as the Reestablishment pulls her out to use as a weapon, she must choose between becoming their monster or fighting for her own freedom.
Destroy Me
by Tahereh Mafi
2012
Told from Warner’s viewpoint, this novella follows him after Juliette’s escape and the bullet she left in his shoulder. As he hides a growing rebellion from his tyrannical father and discovers Juliette’s journal, his obsession with her begins to look dangerously like understanding.
Fracture Me
by Tahereh Mafi
2013
Set during the climactic battle at the end of Unravel Me, this novella switches to Adam’s point of view. While Omega Point prepares for war, Adam is torn between the mission, his brother James, and Juliette, and learns that love alone may not be enough.
Unravel Me
by Tahereh Mafi
2013
Now hiding with other gifted rebels at Omega Point, Juliette struggles to control her powers and stop seeing herself as a monster. As the Reestablishment closes in and Adam’s secret ability threatens their relationship, she’s forced to rethink who she trusts—and who she loves.
Ignite Me
by Tahereh Mafi
2014
Juliette wakes to find Omega Point destroyed and the rebels scattered, with only Warner standing between her and total defeat. To overthrow the Reestablishment, she must finally embrace her power, rally the survivors, and decide which future—and which boy—she’s willing to fight for.
Unite Me
by Tahereh Mafi
2014
This companion volume collects the novellas Destroy Me and Fracture Me, along with pages from Juliette’s journal. It fills in what Warner and Adam were thinking between the early books and offers extra glimpses of the battles and heartbreak leading up to Ignite Me.
Furthermore
by Tahereh Mafi
2016
Twelve‑year‑old Alice Alexis Queensmeadow lives in Ferenwood, where color is magic and she has none. When her beloved father vanishes, she joins slippery classmate Oliver on a perilous journey into the topsy‑turvy land of Furthermore to find him and discover her own kind of power.
Quotes of Philosopher Aristotle
by Tahereh Mafi
2017
This compact non‑fiction collection gathers inspirational and motivational quotations attributed to Aristotle. Arranged for quick reference, it offers bite‑size reflections on ethics, happiness, learning, and how to live a more thoughtful, examined life.
Whichwood
by Tahereh Mafi
2017
In the frozen town of Whichwood, thirteen‑year‑old Laylee is the last girl tasked with washing the dead and sending their souls on. Exhausted, half‑silvered, and invisible to her neighbors, she’s startled when Alice and Oliver arrive from Ferenwood determined to help her save herself.
A Very Large Expanse of Sea
by Tahereh Mafi
2018
Set in 2002, this contemporary novel follows Shirin, a sixteen‑year‑old Muslim girl who’s fed up with the racism and violence she faces for wearing hijab. Breakdancing with her brother is her escape—until kind, popular Ocean insists on getting past her walls.
Restore Me
by Tahereh Mafi
2018
With the old regime toppled, Juliette is suddenly Supreme Commander of North America and expected to unite a world she barely understands. As foreign delegates arrive and buried truths about her past surface, her new government, her mental health, and her relationship with Warner all start to fracture.
Defy Me
by Tahereh Mafi
2019
After the catastrophe at the symposium, Juliette wakes in a strange facility with her memories in pieces and her enemies claiming to be family. As long‑buried secrets about her origins and childhood with Warner come to light, the war against the Reestablishment turns brutally personal.
Find Me
by Tahereh Mafi
2019
Find Me binds together the novellas Shadow Me and Reveal Me in print, centering Kenji Kishimoto’s point of view. It traces his role in protecting Juliette, managing politics at the Sanctuary, and stumbling into a tender, complicated romance with Nazeera amid the series’ biggest crises.
Reveal Me
by Tahereh Mafi
2019
Picking up after Defy Me, this novella keeps the focus on Kenji as the rebels lick their wounds at the Sanctuary. While Juliette and Warner are missing, he battles loneliness, leadership pressure, and his deepening connection to Nazeera, all against the backdrop of an approaching final fight.
Shadow Me
by Tahereh Mafi
2019
This novella, told through Kenji’s eyes, unfolds around the high‑stakes Continental Symposium that caps Restore Me. Juggling security, diplomacy, and his confusing feelings for Nazeera, Kenji watches Juliette’s public image crumble and senses that something far worse is coming.
Imagine Me
by Tahereh Mafi
2020
Juliette—now remembering herself as Ella Sommers—has been remade into a perfect weapon under the supreme commanders’ control. As her friends race to rescue her and tear down what remains of the Reestablishment, she has to fight from the inside to reclaim her mind, her name, and her future.
An Emotion of Great Delight
by Tahereh Mafi
2021
In 2003, Shadi’s brother is dead, her father is seriously ill, her mother is unraveling, and the U.S. has gone to war with Iraq. As Islamophobia rises around her, she tries to stay silent and small—until grief, first love, and family fractures force her to speak.
Believe Me
by Tahereh Mafi
2021
Set after the main Shatter Me novels, this novella follows Warner as he tries to marry Juliette in a world that still needs their leadership. Every attempt at a simple ceremony is derailed by politics, security risks, and the lingering scars of everything they’ve survived together.
This Woven Kingdom
by Tahereh Mafi
2022
Alizeh is a Jinn queen in hiding, working as a servant and secret seamstress in the human kingdom of Ardunia. When crown prince Kamran witnesses her quiet strength and learns of a prophecy that links her icy blood to his grandfather’s death, their fates—and their hearts—become dangerously entangled.
These Infinite Threads
by Tahereh Mafi
2023
With King Zaal dead and Ardunia in chaos, Alizeh has been taken to Tulan by Cyrus, who plans to marry her and crown her Jinn queen to pay his debt to the devil. As Kamran fights to reach her, Alizeh must balance destiny, vengeance, and divided loyalties.
All This Twisted Glory
by Tahereh Mafi
2024
Now recognized as queen of the Jinn, Alizeh accepts Cyrus’s offer of marriage in exchange for his kingdom and, one day, his death. Bound by a forbidden blood oath and surrounded by unrest, she has to decide whom to trust as Kamran arrives hungry for both justice and her heart.
Every Spiral of Fate
by Tahereh Mafi
2025
The fourth Woven Kingdom novel opens on Alizeh and Cyrus’s enchanted wedding day, with a blood oath and prophecy hanging over them. As Kamran and rival forces close in, every move they make pulls Jinn and human worlds tighter into a spiral of love, sacrifice, and looming war.
Watch Me
by Tahereh Mafi
2025
Ten years after Juliette and Warner toppled the Reestablishment, James Anderson infiltrates Ark Island, the regime’s last refuge, to prove himself—and is promptly captured. There he collides with Rosabelle Wolff, a precision‑trained assassin, and their uneasy partnership may determine whether the new world survives its reborn enemy.
Release Me
by Tahereh Mafi
2026
In this sequel to Watch Me, James, Rosabelle, and Warner face the fallout from Ark Island’s experiments and plots. Rosabelle is desperate to rescue her sister and dismantle the system that made her a weapon, while James gambles his future on convincing the New Republic she’s worth trusting.
Where should I start?
If you’re new to her dystopian world: Shatter Me → Unravel Me → Ignite Me.
If you loved the first trilogy and want more: Restore Me → Defy Me → Imagine Me → Believe Me → Watch Me → Release Me.
If you like lush, romantic fantasy: This Woven Kingdom → These Infinite Threads → All This Twisted Glory → Every Spiral of Fate.
If you’re choosing for a younger reader (~9–13): Furthermore → Whichwood.
If you prefer contemporary, character‑driven stories: A Very Large Expanse of Sea → An Emotion of Great Delight.
Author bio
Tahereh Mafi was born in a small town in Connecticut to Iranian parents who had recently made the United States their home. The youngest of five children and the only girl, she grew up surrounded by four older brothers, hearing stories from Iran while navigating life as a kid in suburban America.
Her family moved west when she was a preteen, first to Northern California and then to Orange County. Those years in public schools, split between cultures and coastlines, helped shape the way she writes about outsiders, belonging, and the feeling of being looked at before you’re really seen.
After graduating from University High School in Irvine, she studied at Soka University of America, spent a semester immersed in Spanish literature in Barcelona, and picked up varying degrees of eight different languages along the way.
Mafi didn’t arrive in publishing overnight. Before Shatter Me ever hit shelves, she wrote several complete manuscripts while working full‑time, taught herself the business from scratch, and weathered hundreds of rejections from agents and editors. That long, quiet apprenticeship sharpened both her voice and her stubbornness.
When Shatter Me was finally released in 2011, readers met Juliette Ferrars, a girl whose lethal touch made her both weapon and prisoner in a crumbling future world. The book grew into a six‑novel, five‑novella saga about revolution, mental health, and messy, consuming love, and it turned Mafi into a mainstay of YA dystopian romance.
Even while building the Shatter Me universe, she kept reaching for other audiences. Her middle‑grade fantasies Furthermore and Whichwood trade ruined cities for color‑drenched forests and ghostly washing houses, but they circle the same concerns: lonely kids, complicated parents, and the hard work of finding your place in a world that doesn’t quite understand you.
With A Very Large Expanse of Sea and An Emotion of Great Delight, she turned toward realist fiction drawn closely from her own life as a hijab‑wearing Muslim teenager in post‑9/11 America. Those books follow Iranian American girls facing racism, grief, first love, and the pressure of trying to stay whole when the world keeps asking them to explain themselves. The first of the two was longlisted for a major national book award, signaling how strongly it resonated beyond her existing fantasy readership.
More recently, the This Woven Kingdom series has let her weave Persian mythology, court politics, and Jinn lore into an expansive romantasy about a hidden queen and the princes and kings whose futures are bound to hers. It’s a different kind of world from Shatter Me’s blasted cities, but the heartbeat is familiar: characters haunted by history who are still trying to choose kindness and connection.
Mafi lives in Southern California with her husband, fellow author Ransom Riggs, their daughter, and extended family close by. She’s talked about coffee, language, and fashion—especially the hijab she describes as a kind of armor—as everyday joys that feed her creativity, and her readers often note how that mixture of vulnerability and strength comes through on the page.
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