Waverley Books in Order

Young English officer Edward Waverley is drawn into the 1745 Jacobite rising after a visit to Scotland changes his loyalties. Part romance, part war story, it launched Scott's long run of historical novels.

After witnessing a murder, young Harry Bertram is kidnapped and lost to his family for years. Scott turns his return into a lively tale of smugglers, prophecies, and inheritance in Galloway.

A mysterious young man calling himself Lovel falls in with Jonathan Oldbuck, a comic, stubborn collector of the past. Secrets of birth, family pride, and a dangerous Scottish coastline drive the story forward.

Frank Osbaldistone leaves his father's business world and stumbles into Highland politics, family treachery, and the orbit of Rob Roy MacGregor. The novel mixes Jacobite tension, romance, and one of Scott's most vivid Scottish settings.

Disinherited knight Wilfred of Ivanhoe returns to a divided England shaped by Saxon-Norman rivalry, crusader legend, and court intrigue. Tournaments, sieges, and the fates of Rowena and Rebecca give the novel its lasting pull.

Roland Graeme is drawn into the dangerous world around Mary, Queen of Scots, at Lochleven Castle. It is a brisk historical tale of loyalty, disguise, and the struggle over Scotland's future.

In the Scottish Borders during the Reformation, the Glendinning brothers are caught between old faith, new politics, and their love for Mary Avenel. Scott adds mystery and folklore through the eerie White Lady of Avenel.

Amy Robsart's secret marriage to the Earl of Leicester turns into a trap when ambition and court politics take over. Scott uses Elizabethan spectacle and private heartbreak to build one of his darkest English novels.

Julian Peveril is swept from Derbyshire into Restoration intrigue shaped by the Popish Plot. It is a sprawling novel of divided loyalties, secret identities, and political suspicion under Charles II.

Nigel Olifaunt comes to London to recover money owed by the crown and finds himself tangled in the chaotic court of King James. Scott balances satire, danger, and city life with a sharp portrait of power and debt.

On the far edge of Shetland, Mordaunt Mertoun becomes entangled with a charismatic pirate, two rival sisters, and the strange seer Norna. Sea weather, isolation, and old Norse atmosphere give the book its power.

A poor Scottish archer seeks his fortune at the court of Louis XI and ends up guarding the heiress Isabelle de Croye. The novel blends travel, warfare, and ruthless late medieval politics.

A fashionable spa town becomes the stage for old secrets, social ambition, and the painful return of Francis Tyrrel. Scott trades battlefield history for gossip, pressure, and emotional ruin in modern Scotland.

When Darsie Latimer disappears, his friend Alan Fairford is pulled into a shadowy Jacobite plot in southwest Scotland. Letters, disguises, and buried family ties make this one of Scott's strangest late novels.

Set during the Commonwealth, this novel follows royalists, parliamentarians, and the hidden movements of the future Charles II around Woodstock. Politics, loyalty, and touches of the uncanny shape the suspense.

Two English exiles travel in disguise across Switzerland and Burgundy on a mission tied to the Wars of the Roses. Mountain scenery, court intrigue, and Anne herself give the novel a restless continental energy.

Scott's unfinished last novel turns to the Knights of St John and the Ottoman siege of Malta. What survives mixes romance, military history, and the sense of a grand project left incomplete.