Garth Nix Reading Order

39 books (1999–2026)

Start with Fantastic Worlds, the first of 39 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Fantastic Worlds 1999Buy 🇺🇸
2	Love and Sex 2001Buy 🇺🇸
3	Firebirds 2003Buy 🇺🇸
4	Gothic!: Ten Original Dark Tales 2004Buy 🇺🇸
5	Kids' Night In 2005Buy 🇺🇸
6	Midnight Feast 2007Buy 🇺🇸
7	Top Stories 2 2007Buy 🇺🇸
8	Wizards / Dark Alchemy 2007Buy 🇺🇸
9	Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition 2008Buy 🇺🇸
10	Fast Ships, Black Sails 2008Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 22 2008Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2009 2008Buy 🇺🇸
13	Twenty-First Annual Collection 2008Buy 🇺🇸
14	Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, Volume 4 2008Buy 🇺🇸
15	Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd 2009Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Dragon Book 2009Buy 🇺🇸
17	Legends of Australian Fantasy 2010Buy 🇺🇸
18	Ghosts by Gaslight 2011Buy 🇺🇸
19	Happily Ever After 2011Buy 🇺🇸
20	Teeth: Vampire Tales 2011Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities 2011Buy 🇺🇸
22	After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia 2012Buy 🇺🇸
23	Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron 2012Buy 🇺🇸
24	Fearie Tales 2013Buy 🇺🇸
25	Rogues 2014Buy 🇺🇸
26	The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Nine 2014Buy 🇺🇸
27	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven 2015Buy 🇺🇸
28	The Starlit Wood 2016Buy 🇺🇸
29	Infinity Wars 2017Buy 🇺🇸
30	The Book of Swords: Part 1 2017Buy 🇺🇸
31	The Unicorn Anthology 2017Buy 🇺🇸
32	Three Sides of a Heart 2017Buy 🇺🇸
33	The Book of Magic: A Collection of Stories 2018Buy 🇺🇸
34	Edited By 2020Buy 🇺🇸
35	Tor.com Short Fiction Winter 2020 2020Buy 🇺🇸
36	Relics, Wrecks and Ruins 2021Buy 🇺🇸
37	Shapers of Worlds Volume II 2021Buy 🇺🇸
38	The Book of Witches 2023Buy 🇺🇸
39	All Hallows Eve 2026Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1998–2005)

Start with Nathan And The Ice Rockets(By: Debra Oswald), the first of 4 books in the Aussie Bites series.

#	Title
1	Nathan And The Ice Rockets(By: Debra Oswald) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
2	Frank & The Emergency Joke(By: Debra Oswald) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
3	Serena and the Sea Serpent 2000Buy 🇺🇸
4	Frank and the Secret Club(By: Debra Oswald) 2005Buy 🇺🇸

18 books (2009–2025)

Start with The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One, the first of 18 books in the Best Horror of the Year series.

#	Title
1	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One 2009Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two 2010Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three 2011Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four 2012Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five 2013Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six 2014Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven 2015Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight 2016Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine 2017Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten 2018Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction 2018Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven 2019Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve 2020Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen 2021Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen 2022Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen 2024Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Sixteen 2024Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seventeen 2025Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2017–2018)

Start with Have Sword, Will Travel and read in order.

7 books (2022–2022)

Start with Out of the Mirror, Darkness, the first of 7 books in the Into Shadow series.

2 books (2020–2023)

Start with The Left-Handed Booksellers of London and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Left-Handed Booksellers of London 2020Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Sinister Booksellers of Bath 2023Buy 🇺🇸

9 books (1995–2021)

Start with Sabriel, the first of 9 books in the Old Kingdom series.

#	Title
1	Sabriel 1995Buy 🇺🇸
2	Lirael 2001Buy 🇺🇸
3	Abhorsen 2003Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Creature in the Case 2005Buy 🇺🇸
5	Clairel 2014Buy 🇺🇸
6	To Hold the Bridge 2015Buy 🇺🇸
7	Doctor Crake Crosses the Wall 2016Buy 🇺🇸
8	Goldenhand 2016Buy 🇺🇸
9	Terciel and Elinor 2021Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (1997–1997)

#	Title
1	Shade's Children 1997Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2013–2025)

Start with Fire Above, Fire Below, the first of 6 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

4 books (2005–2015)

Start with Across the Wall: Tales of the Old Kingdom and Beyond, the first of 4 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Across the Wall: Tales of the Old Kingdom and Beyond 2005Buy 🇺🇸
2	Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz 2006Buy 🇺🇸
3	One Beastly Beast: Two Aliens, Three Inventors, Four Fantastic Tales 2007Buy 🇺🇸
4	To Hold the Bridge 2015Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (2013–2015)

Start with Wild Born(By: Brandon Mull), the first of 7 books in the Spirit Animals series.

#	Title
1	Wild Born(By: Brandon Mull) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
2	Against the Tide(By: Tui T. Sutherland) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
3	Blood Ties(With: Sean Williams) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
4	Fire and Ice(By: Shannon Hale) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
5	Hunted(By: Maggie Stiefvater) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
6	Rise and Fall(By: Eliot Schrefer) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Evertree(By: Marie Lu) 2015Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (1990–2026)

Start with The Ragwitch, the first of 7 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	The Ragwitch 1990Buy 🇺🇸
2	A Confusion of Princes 2012Buy 🇺🇸
3	Newt's Emerald 2013Buy 🇺🇸
4	Frogkisser! 2017Buy 🇺🇸
5	Angel Mage 2019Buy 🇺🇸
6	We Do Not Welcome Our Ten-Year-Old Overlord 2024Buy 🇺🇸
7	Massif 2026Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (2003–2010)

Start with Mister Monday, the first of 7 books in the The Keys to the Kingdom series.

#	Title
1	Mister Monday 2003Buy 🇺🇸
2	Drowned Wednesday 2004Buy 🇺🇸
3	Grim Tuesday 2004Buy 🇺🇸
4	Sir Thursday 2006Buy 🇺🇸
5	Lady Friday 2007Buy 🇺🇸
6	Superior Saturday 2008Buy 🇺🇸
7	Lord Sunday 2010Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2000–2001)

Start with Aenir, the first of 6 books in the The Seventh Tower series.

#	Title
1	Aenir 2000Buy 🇺🇸
2	Castle 2000Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Fall 2000Buy 🇺🇸
4	Above the Veil 2001Buy 🇺🇸
5	Into Battle 2001Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Violet Keystone 2001Buy 🇺🇸

16 books (1996–2000)

Start with Bad Sign(By: Neal Shusterman), the first of 16 books in the The X-Files: Young Adult series.

#	Title
1	Bad Sign(By: Neal Shusterman) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
2	Control(By: Cliff Nielsen,Everett Owens) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
3	Empathy(By: Ellen Steiber) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
4	Eve(By: Ellen Steiber) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
5	Fresh Bones(By: Les Martin) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
6	Our Town(By: Eric Elfman) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Calusari 1997Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Host(By: Les Martin) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
9	Howlers(By: Everett Owens) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
10	Hungry Ghosts(By: Ellen Steiber) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
11	Dark Matter(By: Easton Royce) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
12	Grotesque(By: Ellen Steiber) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
13	Quarantine(By: Les Martin) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
14	Regeneration(By: Everett Owens) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
15	Haunted(By: Ellen Steiber) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
16	Miracle Man(By: Terry Bisson) 2000Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2011–2014)

Start with The Monster, the first of 4 books in the Troubletwisters series.

#	Title
1	The Monster 2011Buy 🇺🇸
2	Troubletwisters 2011Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Mystery 2013Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Missing 2014Buy 🇺🇸