Carrie Vaughn Reading Order

82 books (2004–2025)

Start with All Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories, the first of 82 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	All Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories 2004Buy 🇺🇸
2	Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2007 2007Buy 🇺🇸
3	Weird Tales: The Twenty-First Century, Vol. 1 2007Buy 🇺🇸
4	Fast Ships, Black Sails 2008Buy 🇺🇸
5	Spicy Slipstream Stories 2008Buy 🇺🇸
6	Wolfsbane and Mistletoe 2008Buy 🇺🇸
7	Ravens in the Library 2009Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance 2009Buy 🇺🇸
9	Dark and Stormy Knights 2010Buy 🇺🇸
10	Running with the Pack 2010Buy 🇺🇸
11	Songs of Love and Death 2010Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Best of Talebones 2010Buy 🇺🇸
13	Warriors 2010Buy 🇺🇸
14	Down These Strange Streets 2011Buy 🇺🇸
15	Halloween: Magic, Mystery, and the Macabre 2011Buy 🇺🇸
16	Lightspeed: Year One 2011Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities 2011Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Urban Fantasy Anthology 2011Buy 🇺🇸
19	Warriors 3 2011Buy 🇺🇸
20	Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire 2012Buy 🇺🇸
21	Lightspeed Magazine, November 2012 2012Buy 🇺🇸
22	After the End 2013Buy 🇺🇸
23	Best New SF 26 2013Buy 🇺🇸
24	Dangerous Women 2013Buy 🇺🇸
25	Heiresses of Russ 2013 2013Buy 🇺🇸
26	Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2013 Edition 2013Buy 🇺🇸
27	Steampunk Trails #1 2013Buy 🇺🇸
28	Super Stories of Heroes and Villains 2013Buy 🇺🇸
29	The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination 2013Buy 🇺🇸
30	The Time Traveler's Almanac 2013Buy 🇺🇸
31	The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2014 2013Buy 🇺🇸
32	Clarkesworld: Year Six 2014Buy 🇺🇸
33	Fantasy For Good: A Charitable Anthology 2014Buy 🇺🇸
34	Lightspeed Magazine, February 2014 2014Buy 🇺🇸
35	Lightspeed Magazine, July 2014 2014Buy 🇺🇸
36	Lightspeed Magazine, June 2014: Women Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue 2014Buy 🇺🇸
37	Lightspeed Magazine, October 2014 2014Buy 🇺🇸
38	Rogues 2014Buy 🇺🇸
39	The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women 2014Buy 🇺🇸
40	The Mammoth Book of Steampunk Adventures 2014Buy 🇺🇸
41	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition 2014Buy 🇺🇸
42	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection 2014Buy 🇺🇸
43	Zombies: More Recent Dead 2014Buy 🇺🇸
44	Ad Astra 2015Buy 🇺🇸
45	Blood Sisters 2015Buy 🇺🇸
46	New Cthulhu 2: More Recent Weird 2015Buy 🇺🇸
47	Operation Arcana 2015Buy 🇺🇸
48	The Doll Collection 2015Buy 🇺🇸
49	The End Has Come 2015Buy 🇺🇸
50	The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk 2015Buy 🇺🇸
51	Warrior Women 2015Buy 🇺🇸
52	Colorado State of Mind 2016Buy 🇺🇸
53	Last Night, a Superhero Saved My Life 2016Buy 🇺🇸
54	Lightspeed Magazine, July 2016 2016Buy 🇺🇸
55	Swords v. Cthulhu 2016Buy 🇺🇸
56	The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume One 2016Buy 🇺🇸
57	The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine, Year Seven 2016Buy 🇺🇸
58	Behind the Mask: A Superhero Anthology 2017Buy 🇺🇸
59	Georgetown Haunts and Mysteries 2017Buy 🇺🇸
60	Infinity Wars 2017Buy 🇺🇸
61	Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2016 Edition 2017Buy 🇺🇸
62	The Unicorn Anthology 2017Buy 🇺🇸
63	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection 2017Buy 🇺🇸
64	The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2017 2017Buy 🇺🇸
65	Mechanical Animals 2018Buy 🇺🇸
66	Nightmare Magazine, Issue 75 2018Buy 🇺🇸
67	Worlds Seen in Passing 2018Buy 🇺🇸
68	Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 105, February 2019 2019Buy 🇺🇸
69	Unfettered III: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy 2019Buy 🇺🇸
70	Burn the Ashes 2020Buy 🇺🇸
71	Ignorance Is Strength 2020Buy 🇺🇸
72	Nevertheless She Persisted 2020Buy 🇺🇸
73	Or Else the Light 2020Buy 🇺🇸
74	Tor.com Short Fiction Winter 2020 2020Buy 🇺🇸
75	Shapers of Worlds Volume II 2021Buy 🇺🇸
76	Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2020 Edition 2021Buy 🇺🇸
77	The Year's Top Tales of Space and Time 2021Buy 🇺🇸
78	Some of the Best of Tor.com 2021 2022Buy 🇺🇸
79	Someone in Time 2022Buy 🇺🇸
80	Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 153, February 2023 2023Buy 🇺🇸
81	George R. R. Martin Presents Wild Cards: Sleeper Straddle in Stories 2024Buy 🇺🇸
82	Clarkesworld Issue 229 2025Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2017–2018)

Start with Bannerless and read in order.

#	Title
1	Bannerless 2017Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Wild Dead 2018Buy 🇺🇸
3	Where Would You Be Now? 2018Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2019–2024)

Start with Badlands Witch, the first of 6 books in the Cormac and Amelia series.

2 books (2011–2014)

Start with After the Golden Age and read in order.

#	Title
1	After the Golden Age 2011Buy 🇺🇸
2	Dreams of the Golden Age 2014Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2020–2026)

Start with Sinew and Steel and What They Told, the first of 6 books in the Graff series.

5 books (2012–2016)

Start with Heiresses of Russ 2012, the first of 5 books in the Heiresses of Russ series.

#	Title
1	Heiresses of Russ 2012 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	Heiresses of Russ 2013 2013Buy 🇺🇸
3	Heiresses of Russ 2014 2014Buy 🇺🇸
4	Heiresses of Russ 2015 2015Buy 🇺🇸
5	Heiresses of Russ 2016 2016Buy 🇺🇸

18 books (2005–2020)

Start with Kitty and the Midnight Hour, the first of 18 books in the Kitty Norville series.

#	Title
1	Kitty and the Midnight Hour 2005Buy 🇺🇸
2	Kitty Goes to Washington 2006Buy 🇺🇸
3	Kitty Takes a Holiday 2007Buy 🇺🇸
4	Kitty and the Silver Bullet 2008Buy 🇺🇸
5	Kitty Raises Hell 2009Buy 🇺🇸
6	Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand 2009Buy 🇺🇸
7	Kitty's House of Horrors 2009Buy 🇺🇸
8	Kitty Goes to War 2010Buy 🇺🇸
9	Kitty's Big Trouble 2011Buy 🇺🇸
10	Kitty’s Zombie New Year 2011Buy 🇺🇸
11	Kitty Steals the Show 2012Buy 🇺🇸
12	Kitty Rocks the House 2013Buy 🇺🇸
13	Kitty in the Underworld 2013Buy 🇺🇸
14	Low Midnight 2014Buy 🇺🇸
15	Paranormal Bromance 2014Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Arcane Art of Misdirection 2014Buy 🇺🇸
17	Kitty Saves the World 2015Buy 🇺🇸
18	Kitty's Mix-Tape 2020Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2011–2011)

#	Title
1	Kitty's Greatest Hits 2011Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2020–2020)

Start with The Ghosts of Sherwood and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Ghosts of Sherwood 2020Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Heirs of Locksley 2020Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2013–2016)

Start with The Best We Can and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Best We Can 2013Buy 🇺🇸
2	Amaryllis 2016Buy 🇺🇸
3	That Game We Played During the War 2016Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2011–2023)

Start with Straying From the Path, the first of 4 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Straying From the Path 2011Buy 🇺🇸
2	Amaryllis and Other Stories 2016Buy 🇺🇸
3	Real City 2016Buy 🇺🇸
4	Water Fire Fae 2023Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (2010–2021)

Start with Discord's Apple, the first of 5 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Discord's Apple 2010Buy 🇺🇸
2	Steel 2011Buy 🇺🇸
3	Martians Abroad 2017Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Immortal Conquistador 2019Buy 🇺🇸
5	Questland 2021Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2020–2020)

Start with Burn the Ashes and read in order.

2 books (2024–2025)

Start with The Naturalist Society and read in order.

15 books (2010–2024)

Start with The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition, the first of 15 books in the The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror series.

#	Title
1	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition 2010Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition 2011Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition 2012Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition 2013Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition 2014Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2015 Edition 2015Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2016 Edition 2016Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2017 Edition 2017Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2018 Edition 2018Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2019 Edition 2020Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 1 2020Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 2 2021Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, Volume 3 2022Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 4 2023Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 5 2024Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2009–2017)

Start with Voices of Dragons and read in order.

#	Title
1	Voices of Dragons 2009Buy 🇺🇸
2	Refuge of Dragons 2017Buy 🇺🇸

49 books (1986–2025)

Start with Wild Cards(By: George R.R. Martin), the first of 49 books in the Wild Cards series.

#	Title
1	Wild Cards(By: George R.R. Martin) 1986Buy 🇺🇸
2	Aces High(By: Melinda M. Snodgrass) 1987Buy 🇺🇸
3	Jokers Wild(By: Melinda M. Snodgrass) 1987Buy 🇺🇸
4	Aces Abroad(By: Melinda M. Snodgrass) 1988Buy 🇺🇸
5	Down and Dirty(By: Melinda M. Snodgrass) 1988Buy 🇺🇸
6	Ace in the Hole(By: George R.R. Martin) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
7	Dead Man's Hand(By: George R.R. Martin) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
8	Jokertown Shuffle(By: Melinda M. Snodgrass) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
9	One-Eyed Jacks(By: Melinda M. Snodgrass) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
10	Dealer's Choice(By: George R.R. Martin) 1992Buy 🇺🇸
11	Double Solitaire(By: Melinda M. Snodgrass) 1992Buy 🇺🇸
12	Turn of the Cards(By: George R.R. Martin,Victor Milán) 1993Buy 🇺🇸
13	Deuces Down(By: Melinda M. Snodgrass) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
14	Death Draws Five(By: George R.R. Martin,John J. Miller) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
15	Busted Flush(By: George R.R. Martin,Melinda M. Snodgrass,Caroline Spector) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
16	Inside Straight(By: Melinda M. Snodgrass) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
17	Suicide Kings(By: Melinda M. Snodgrass) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
18	Ghost Girl Takes Manhattan 2010Buy 🇺🇸
19	Fort Freak(By: George R.R. Martin,Melinda M. Snodgrass,David Anthony Durham) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Button Man and the Murder Tree(By: Cherie Priest) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Elephant in the Room(By: George R.R. Martin,Paul Cornell) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
22	Lowball(By: George R.R. Martin,Melinda M. Snodgrass,David Anthony Durham) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
23	Nuestra Señora de la Esperanza 2014Buy 🇺🇸
24	Prompt. Professional. Pop!(By: Walter Jon Williams) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
25	Discards(By: David D. Levine) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
26	High Stakes(By: Melinda M. Snodgrass) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
27	The Thing about Growing Up in Jokertown(By: George R.R. Martin) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
28	The Atonement Tango(By: Stephen Leigh) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
29	When the Devil Drives(By: Melinda M. Snodgrass) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
30	Evernight(By: Victor Milán) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
31	Knaves Over Queens(By: George R.R. Martin) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
32	The Flight of Morpho Girl(By: George R.R. Martin,Caroline Spector) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
33	Long is the Way(By: George R.R. Martin) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
34	Naked, Stoned, and Stabbed(By: Bradley Denton) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
35	The City That Never Sleeps(By: Walton Simons) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
36	Wild Cards X: Double Solitaire(By: Melinda M. Snodgrass) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
37	American Hero(By: George R.R. Martin) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
38	Three Kings(By: George R.R. Martin,Melinda M. Snodgrass) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
39	Joker Moon(By: George R.R. Martin) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
40	Ripple Effects(By: Laura J. Mixon) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
41	Skin Deep(By: Alan Brennert) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
42	Full House(By: George R.R. Martin) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
43	Grow 2022Buy 🇺🇸
44	Hearts of Stone(By: Emma Newman) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
45	Now & Then 2023Buy 🇺🇸
46	Pairing Up(By: George R.R. Martin,Melinda M. Snodgrass,David Anthony Durham,Kevin Andrew Murphy,Gwenda Bond,Marko Kloos,Christopher Rowe,Bradley Denton,Peter Newman) 2023Buy 🇺🇸
47	Sleeper Straddle(With: Stephen Leigh,Mary Anne Mohanraj,Cherie Priest,Walter Jon Williams,Christopher Rowe,Max Gladstone) 2024Buy 🇺🇸
48	Ante Up(By: John Jos. Miller) 2025Buy 🇺🇸
49	House Rulesin Stories(By: George R.R. Martin) 2025Buy 🇺🇸