Veronica Roth Books in Order
Explore Veronica Roth books in order, with short summaries, series background, reading guides, and friendly advice on where to start next.
Last updated: June 10, 2026
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Publication Order
27 books
Divergent
by Veronica Roth
2011
In a future Chicago divided by factions, Beatrice Prior must choose where she belongs. Her new life as Tris brings brutal initiation, a dangerous secret, and a society closer to collapse than anyone admits.
The World of Divergent
by Veronica Roth
2011
This short companion guide expands the Divergent world with faction material, quizzes, discussion prompts, playlists, and author Q&A. It is a bonus stop for readers who want context before or after Allegiant.
Free Four
by Veronica Roth
2012
This bonus story retells a key Divergent scene from Tobias's point of view. Four watches Tris step into danger, giving readers a sharper look at his thoughts, doubts, and early fascination with her.
Insurgent
by Veronica Roth
2012
After the violence of initiation day, Tris faces grief, guilt, and a city sliding toward war. As factions break apart, every alliance costs something and every secret threatens to change the fight.
Allegiant
by Veronica Roth
2013
With the faction system shattered, Tris and Tobias look beyond the fence for answers. What they find forces them to question everything they believed about their city, their past, and each other.
Necklace of Raindrops
by Margaret Stohl
2013
This dystopian anthology includes Roth's 'Hearken,' about gifted listeners trained to hear the music of life or death. The collection gathers dark YA stories of survival, rebellion, and fragile hope.
The Transfer
by Veronica Roth
2013
Tobias Eaton leaves Abnegation and chooses Dauntless, hoping to escape his old life. The novella follows the first steps toward becoming Four and the fears he carries into initiation.
Four
by Veronica Roth
2014
This companion collection brings together Four's stories, tracing Tobias from Abnegation to Dauntless and into the events of Divergent. It adds backstory, motives, and extra scenes from his perspective.
Inside Divergent
by Veronica Roth
2014
This illustrated movie companion takes readers into the film version of Divergent, with photos, faction details, cast material, and a visual guide to futuristic Chicago and Dauntless initiation.
The Initiate
by Veronica Roth
2014
Tobias enters Dauntless initiation, where courage is tested through violence, fear, and belonging. As he earns the name Four, he also begins to sense danger inside his new faction.
The Son
by Veronica Roth
2014
Four confronts painful revelations about his family and the faction he chose. As Dauntless leadership shows its cracks, he must decide what loyalty means and who he wants to become.
The Traitor
by Veronica Roth
2014
Set alongside Divergent, this novella follows Four as he watches Dauntless shift under dangerous leadership. Tris's arrival pushes him toward harder choices about trust, loyalty, and resistance.
Carve the Mark
by Veronica Roth
2017
Cyra is used by her tyrant brother because her currentgift causes pain. When captured Thuvhe soldier Akos enters her world, two enemies must decide whether survival means helping or destroying each other.
We Can Be Mended
by Veronica Roth
2017
This brief Divergent epilogue revisits the world years after the trilogy's end through Tobias's point of view. It offers a quiet look at grief, healing, and the possibility of moving forward.
The Fates Divide
by Veronica Roth
2018
Cyra and Akos face war, prophecy, and the return of a brutal ruler. As their fates close in, both must decide whether destiny is fixed or something worth fighting.
Ark
by Veronica Roth
2019
With Earth facing destruction from an incoming asteroid, scientist Samantha catalogs plant life for humanity's escape. Her final days on the planet become a quiet story of grief, beauty, and impossible choice.
The End and Other Beginnings
by Veronica Roth
2019
This collection brings together six futuristic stories about memory, death, friendship, revenge, and strange technology. Some tales stand alone, while others return to the Carve the Mark universe.
Chosen Ones
by Veronica Roth
2020
Years after five teenagers defeated the Dark One, Sloane Andrews and the other former heroes are still living with the cost. Fame, trauma, and a new threat pull them back into prophecy.
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021
by Veronica Roth
2021
As guest editor with John Joseph Adams, Roth helps select a wide-ranging batch of speculative stories. The anthology offers myth, space travel, magic, grief, strange futures, and sharp contemporary voices.
Poster Girl
by Veronica Roth
2022
Sonya Kantor, once the public face of a fallen surveillance regime, is offered freedom if she finds a missing girl. The search forces her through the city and into her family's secrets.
Arch-Conspirator
by Veronica Roth
2023
This futuristic Antigone retelling follows Antigone after her parents' deaths, as her uncle Kreon tightens his grip on the last city on Earth. Family loyalty becomes a dangerous act of defiance.
Void
by Veronica Roth
2023
Ace works aboard the Redundancy, a ship traveling outside ordinary time. When a passenger is found dead, the investigation becomes a compact space mystery about distance, grief, and connection.
When Among Crows
by Veronica Roth
2024
Dymitr, a monster hunter on a secret mission, seeks Baba Jaga in Chicago's hidden Slavic underworld. To survive, he must bargain with Ala, a cursed zmora he was raised to fear.
To Clutch a Razor
by Veronica Roth
2025
Called back for a funeral rite, Dymitr sees a chance to steal a book of curses that could settle his debt to Baba Jaga. His old family and new loyalties collide.
Seek the Traitor's Son
by Veronica Roth
2026
Soldier Elegy Ahn is pulled into a prophecy linking her to Rava Vidar, a feared enemy general. One will lead their nation to victory, but neither knows which fate is theirs.
The Sixth Faction
by Veronica Roth
2026
In this alternate-universe return to Divergent, Beatrice Prior faces the familiar faction choice but takes a different path. Her decision pulls her toward rebellion, secrets, and a boy known only by a number.
The Sixth Faction #2
by Veronica Roth
2027
The second Sixth Faction book continues Roth's alternate-universe Divergent duology, following Beatrice's changed path through faction politics, rebellion, and dangerous loyalties. Read it after The Sixth Faction.
Where should I start?
For the original YA dystopian arc: Divergent → Insurgent → Allegiant.
For more of Tobias/Four: The Transfer → The Initiate → The Son → The Traitor → Four.
For space fantasy and political stakes: Carve the Mark → The Fates Divide.
For adult speculative fiction: Chosen Ones → Poster Girl → Arch-Conspirator.
For folklore and newer fantasy: When Among Crows → To Clutch a Razor → Seek the Traitor's Son.
Author bio
Veronica Roth was born in New York City in 1988 and grew up in Barrington, Illinois, a suburb northwest of Chicago. Chicago would later become more than a place on a map for her. It became the cracked, dangerous, familiar stage for the book that changed her life.
She was a reader and a writer early on, then studied creative writing at Northwestern University. During her senior year, she wrote Divergent over winter break. By spring 2010 she had an agent, and the book was on its way to publication.
That was the start.
Divergent introduced Beatrice Prior, later Tris, a sixteen-year-old in a future Chicago where every person is sorted by a chosen virtue. The setup was easy to grasp and hard to stop thinking about: one choice, one public identity, one system that claims to know who you are. Insurgent and Allegiant widened the conflict, pushed Tris and Tobias into harder moral ground, and helped make the trilogy a major YA phenomenon. The books were later adapted into films starring Shailene Woodley and Theo James.
Roth did not stay inside that one world. Carve the Mark and The Fates Divide moved into space fantasy, with rival nations, painful gifts, family loyalty, and questions about whether fate is a sentence or just a story people tell about power. The duology showed her interest in characters who are useful to violent systems and have to decide whether survival is enough.
Her adult books often begin after the heroic pose has already cracked. Chosen Ones asks what happens when teenage saviors grow up and the world expects them to keep smiling for the cameras. Poster Girl follows a woman raised inside a surveillance state who has to face the damage her family helped create. Arch-Conspirator reshapes Antigone into a spare future where family, control, and the survival of humanity are tangled together.
Roth also likes the short form. The End and Other Beginnings collects futuristic stories about memory, grief, bodies, and change, while Ark, Void, When Among Crows, and To Clutch a Razor show how much story she can fit into a novella-length frame.
A lot of her work circles the same plain question: what do you do after someone else tells you who you are?
That question can appear in a faction test, a prophecy, a family curse, a government file, or a body changed by magic. Roth tends to write people caught inside systems with rules that sound clean until real life gets involved. Her characters are often angry, loyal, bruised, funny at odd moments, and trying to choose well when every option costs something.
She lives in Chicago, Illinois, and her bibliography keeps moving between YA dystopia, adult speculative fiction, fantasy, and compact, sharp-edged novellas.
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