Vera Nazarian Books in Order
Explore Vera Nazarian books in order, with short summaries, series guides, reading paths, and helpful advice on where to start.
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Vera Nazarian books in publication order
33 books
Dreams of the Compass Rose
by Vera Nazarian
2002
A web of linked fantasy tales unfolds across deserts, impossible islands, dreams, and unnamed cities. Warriors, servants, rulers, and lovers face truth, illusion, and destinies that connect across generations in this story-shaped mythic novel.
Lords of Rainbow
by Vera Nazarian
2003
In a world without color, warrior Rahne pledges herself to a mysterious nobleman bound for the City of Dreams. Their journey leads into court intrigue, dangerous loyalties, and a romantic struggle over power, freedom, and a life beyond the limits she knows.
The Clock King and the Queen of the Hourglass
by Vera Nazarian
2005
In Earth's far future, Liaei is the only fertile human in a society of sterile post-humans. Raised to meet the Clock King and restore humanity's future, she must confront isolation, desire, and the role everyone has chosen for her.
Totally Charmed
by Vera Nazarian
2005
An essay collection edited by Jennifer Crusie, Totally Charmed gathers smart, funny pieces about the TV series Charmed, exploring its witchy sisters, demons, and San Francisco setting through the lenses of pop culture, storytelling, and feminist romance.
Mayhem at Grant-Williams High
by Vera Nazarian
2006
Two comic horror adventures take students Jimmy and Emily Ross through a school where finals bring literal monsters. During Hell Week and Halloween, vampires, ghouls, werewolves, and worse turn Grant-Williams High into a very dangerous place to get an education.
Salt of the Air
by Vera Nazarian
2006
A fantasy story collection spanning two decades of Vera Nazarian's work. Its tales draw on myths, fairy tales, strange futures, love, and moral choices, offering many different entry points into her imaginative worlds.
The Duke in His Castle
by Vera Nazarian
2008
Rossian, the Duke of Violet, is trapped within his own castle by an ancient magical punishment. When the mysterious Izelle arrives carrying a box of bones, she challenges his despair and draws him into a dangerous search for freedom.
Mansfield Park and Mummies
by Vera Nazarian
2009
Fanny Price's uneasy life at Mansfield Park gets stranger when Egyptian artifacts, ancient curses, and mummies enter the household. This playful Austen remix keeps the social tension and romance while adding a full dose of supernatural mayhem.
After the Sundial
by Vera Nazarian
2010
A collection of science fiction stories that ranges across future societies, unusual technologies, and human questions that remain stubbornly familiar. These shorter works showcase Nazarian's interest in ideas, emotion, and worlds tilted just beyond reality.
Northanger Abbey and Angels and Dragons
by Vera Nazarian
2010
Catherine Morland heads toward Northanger Abbey expecting Gothic thrills, but this version gives her real demons, ghosts, ogre suitors, angels, and a dangerous dragon. A comic remix of Austen's story, it lets Catherine's wild imagination meet genuine monsters.
The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
by Vera Nazarian
2010
A compact book of prompts and reflections for readers looking to make room for thought, creativity, and daily inspiration. Rather than a novel, it offers short entries meant to be revisited whenever a fresh idea or pause is needed.
The Young Woman in a House of Old
by Vera Nazarian
2011
A standalone fantasy novelette that brings an unsettling old house and its buried past into focus. Nazarian uses a compact, fable-like form to explore memory, fear, and the difficult things people inherit from those who came before.
Old Farts
by Vera Nazarian
2012
A short standalone speculative story with a sharp, comic title and an offbeat premise. It offers a quick visit to Nazarian's more compact fiction, where humor and strange ideas can sit side by side.
Pride and Platypus
by Vera Nazarian
2012
Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy still have pride, prejudice, and terrible timing to overcome, but Darcy is also hiding a bizarre supernatural secret. This monster-filled Austen parody mixes courtship comedy with clues, danger, and an extremely unusual platypus.
The Witch Who Made Adjustments
by Vera Nazarian
2012
A standalone fantasy novelette about a witch whose practical adjustments have consequences beyond the ordinary. It is a concise, imaginative tale for readers who enjoy magic treated as both a solution and a source of unexpected trouble.
Three Names of the Hidden God
by Vera Nazarian
2012
A standalone fantasy novelette that follows a young hero into a world of gods, names, and hidden truths. The story combines mythic stakes with a coming-of-age challenge, asking what bravery means when belief itself is uncertain.
Vampires Are from Venus, Werewolves Are from Mars
by Vera Nazarian
2012
This comic paranormal dating guide imagines supernatural species as cosmic personality types. With mock compatibility advice, a playful quiz, and monsters searching for soul mates, it cheerfully spoofs vampire romance, werewolf drama, and relationship manuals.
Cobweb Bride
by Vera Nazarian
2013
When Death refuses to take another soul until his missing bride is found, the world becomes a prison for the dying. Village girl Percy joins the search, entering a Renaissance-like land of undead armies, court plots, and impossible responsibility.
Cobweb Empire
by Vera Nazarian
2013
Percy continues her search for Death's missing bride as the consequences of a deathless world worsen. With the undead still rising and whole places beginning to disappear, she and the Black Knight Beltain face enemies who want to control her unusual power.
Cobweb Forest
by Vera Nazarian
2013
The broken world of Lethe edges toward collapse as Percy pushes deeper into the mystery of Death's bride. Old powers, vanishing lands, undead armies, and divided loyalties converge in the final chapter of the Cobweb Bride Trilogy.
Lore of Rainbow
by Vera Nazarian
2013
A short companion tale set in the colorless fantasy world of Lords of Rainbow. It offers another glimpse of the setting's myths, strange rules, and sense of wonder, making it a good extra for readers who want to return after the novel.
Life, Inc.
by Vera Nazarian
2014
Norman J. Jones dies and begins a baffling journey through the afterlife. This philosophical fantasy fable uses his strange new situation to ask what identity, purpose, and existence might mean once ordinary life is over.
Qualify
by Vera Nazarian
2014
With an asteroid about to destroy Earth, sixteen-year-old Gwen Lark must earn rescue by passing the Atlanteans' brutal tests. A brilliant but unathletic student, she enters the competition to save her family and discovers the price of being chosen.
Compete
by Vera Nazarian
2015
Gwen reaches the colony planet Atlantis after escaping Earth's destruction, only to find a beautiful, tightly controlled society. As she weighs friendship, love, and a future in the Fleet, her rare Logos voice makes her valuable to powerful people.
Win
by Vera Nazarian
2017
On Atlantis, Gwen must face the lethal Games of the Atlantis Grail while political forces close in around her. Her unusual abilities make her both a weapon and a threat, and winning may be the only way to protect everyone she loves.
Streets Running Like a River
by Vera Nazarian
2018
In a future where nations are sealed behind impenetrable walls and swords have replaced guns, an aging master swordswoman returns to old Venice. She must face the noble house she serves in a violent, swashbuckling world of strict borders.
Survive
by Vera Nazarian
2020
Gwen has learned how to qualify, compete, and win. Now she must survive as the conflict between Earth and Atlantis reaches an apocalyptic breaking point, forcing her to confront war, power, and the future of both worlds.
Aeson: Blue
by Vera Nazarian
2021
Before Gwen Lark, young Crown Prince Aeson Kassiopei leaves imperial isolation for Fleet Cadet School. Learning friendship, independence, and first love changes him, while his bonds with future allies begin to shape the person he will become.
The Atlantis Grail Companion
by Vera Nazarian
2021
A reference guide for Atlantis Grail readers who want more detail on the setting. It gathers places, terms, maps, food, language notes, and other worldbuilding material that helps make Atlantis easier to explore after the novels.
Aeson: Black
by Vera Nazarian
2022
This mature Atlantis Grail companion revisits key events through Aeson Kassiopei's eyes. As the imperial prince confronts his growing feelings for Earth refugee Gwen Lark, readers see the conflict between his duty, fear, and desire from inside.
People of the Atlantis Grail
by Vera Nazarian
2023
A character guide for readers navigating the large cast of the Atlantis Grail universe. This dramatis personae companion helps track friends, rivals, families, officials, and other figures after you have completed the main story.
Amrevet Days One
by Vera Nazarian
2025
After the original Atlantis Grail series, Gwen and Aeson take an Atlantean honeymoon journey across their planet. This explicit adult follow-up mixes intimacy, travel, ancient landmarks, and new revelations, and is best read after Survive.
Xelio: Red
by Vera Nazarian
2026
A companion novella in the Atlantis Grail universe that turns attention toward Xelio and the history surrounding the Atlantean cast. It is best approached after the core novels, when the world's relationships and stakes already carry weight.
Where to start with Vera Nazarian
For a big YA science fiction adventure: Qualify → Compete → Win → Survive
For romantic alternate-history fantasy: Cobweb Bride → Cobweb Empire → Cobweb Forest
For mythic, interconnected fantasy tales: Dreams of the Compass Rose → Salt of the Air
For witty monster-filled Austen remixes: Mansfield Park and Mummies → Northanger Abbey and Angels and Dragons → Pride and Platypus
Vera Nazarian sub-series and character series
Atlantis Grail books in order
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Explore this seriesCobweb Bride Trilogy books in order
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Explore this seriesThe Atlantis Grail Novella books in order
Explore this seriesThe Atlantis Grail Superfan Extras books in order
Explore this seriesVera Nazarian collections, short stories, and related book types
Non-Fiction Books
Short Stories/Novellas

The Clock King and the Queen of the Hourglass
by Vera Nazarian
2005
The Duke in His Castle
by Vera Nazarian
2008
The Young Woman in a House of Old
by Vera Nazarian
2011
The Witch Who Made Adjustments
by Vera Nazarian
2012
Three Names of the Hidden God
by Vera Nazarian
2012
Old Farts
by Vera Nazarian
2012
Life, Inc.
by Vera Nazarian
2014
Streets Running Like a River
by Vera Nazarian
2018
Standalone Vera Nazarian books
Author bio
Vera Nazarian was born in Moscow in 1966 and left the Soviet Union as a child with her parents during the Cold War. Her family reached the United States in 1976 by way of Lebanon, Greece, and Italy, carrying only a couple of suitcases. That early journey, and the mix of Armenian and Russian culture she grew up with, later fed the myths, languages, old worlds, and big questions in her fiction.
She settled in Southern California, graduated from Immaculate Heart High School in Hollywood in 1984, and studied English and psychology at Pomona College. After earning her degree in 1988, she spent more than a decade working in high tech.
But writing had started much earlier.
Nazarian began writing in English as soon as she learned the language, and she kept at it through school. At 17, she sold her first short story to the second Sword and Sorceress anthology. For years, she balanced a day job with writing, making art, and music in the evenings. It was a demanding schedule, but it built the foundation for a wide-ranging body of work.
Her first novel, Dreams of the Compass Rose, arrived in 2002. It is a connected, story-shaped fantasy set across deserts, islands, dreams, and places that often feel half remembered. A year later came Lords of Rainbow, an epic romantic fantasy in a world without color. Both books show her interest in fairy-tale logic, ancient history, desire, and the ways people make sense of a strange world.
Then she took a hard turn into playful territory.
The Supernatural Jane Austen books, including Mansfield Park and Mummies, Northanger Abbey and Angels and Dragons, and Pride and Platypus, remix Austen-style social comedy with monsters, curses, and absurd complications. Nazarian has also written collections such as Salt of the Air and After the Sundial, along with short fiction that moves between fantasy, science fiction, myth, and fable.
Her largest ongoing fictional world is The Atlantis Grail. Beginning with Qualify, the series follows teenage scholar Gwenevere Lark as an asteroid threatens Earth and the descendants of Atlantis offer a narrow route to survival. The books combine competition, space travel, political pressure, romance, family loyalty, and an enormous amount of Atlantean history. Later volumes include Compete, Win, and Survive, plus companion novellas and reference books for readers who want to stay in that universe.
Across all these projects, Nazarian returns to questions about identity, freedom, love, duty, death, and the stories people inherit. Her characters may face monsters, royal courts, dying worlds, or impossible rules, but they still have to decide what kind of person they want to be.
She is also an artist, musician, and publisher. After many years in Los Angeles, she moved to a small town in Vermont, where she lives with cats and continues to write.
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