Terri Windling Reading Order

46 books (1985–2013)

Terri Windling edited this 45-book anthology series spanning from 1985 to 2013, featuring fantasy and young adult stories collected across multiple themed volumes. The series is now complete and should be read in publication order, beginning with Faery! and progressing through the annually-themed collections and special volumes like Borderland, Snow White Blood Red, and Black Thorn White Rose. These anthologies showcase diverse fantasy tales and darker supernatural fiction curated throughout nearly three decades of publication.

Start with Faery!, the first of 45 books in the Anthologies series.

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1	Faery! 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Borderland 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Bordertown 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Demons & Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Horror 1 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	First Annual Collection 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Third Annual Collection 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Third Annual Collection 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Fourth Annual Collection 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Life on the Border 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fourth Annual Collection 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Fifth Annual Collection 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Snow White, Blood Red 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Black Thorn, White Rose 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Seventh Annual Collection 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Eighth Annual Collection 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	The Armless Maiden 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Tenth Annual Collection 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Black Swan, White Raven 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Eleventh Annual Collection 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Mirror, Mirror on the Wall 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	The Essential Bordertown 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	Silver Birch, Blood Moon 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	Twelfth Annual Edition 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	A Wolf at the Door 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	Black Heart, Ivory Bones 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	Mr. Simonelli or the Fairy Widower 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	Thirteenth Annual Collection 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	Fourteenth Annual Collection 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	Meditations on Middle-Earth 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	Fifteenth Annual Collection 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
36	Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
37	The Book of Ballads 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
38	The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
39	Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original Tales of Fantasy 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
40	The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
41	Troll's-Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
42	Ravens in the Library 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
43	The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
44	Teeth: Vampire Tales 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
45	After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
46	Queen Victoria's Book of Spell 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1981–1982)

The Elsewhere series is a three-book fantasy collection published between 1981 and 1982, now complete. These volumes should be read in publication order, beginning with the first installment. Edited by Terri Windling, the series features contributions from notable authors and represents a notable entry in Young Adult fantasy literature from this era.

Start with Elsewhere(By: W.B. Yeats) and read in order.

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1	Elsewhere(By: W.B. Yeats) 1981Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Elsewhere Vol. II 1982Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Elsewhere Vol. III(By: Ian McDonald) 1982Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1999–2003)

The Old Oak Woods series is a complete fantasy collection of three books co-authored by Terri Windling and Wendy Froud, published between 1999 and 2003. These richly illustrated young adult titles should be read in publication order, beginning with A Midsummer Night's Faery Tale, followed by The Winter Child, and concluding with The Faeries of Spring Cottage. The series blends literary storytelling with visual artistry to create an immersive faery experience across its three standalone yet interconnected tales.

Start with A Midsummer Night's Faery Tale(With: Wendy Froud) and read in order.

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1	A Midsummer Night's Faery Tale(With: Wendy Froud) 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Winter Child(With: Wendy Froud) 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Faeries of Spring Cottage(With: Wendy Froud) 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2020–2020)

2 books (1995–1996)

Terri Windling's two standalone fantasy novels for young adults should be read in their publication order, beginning with The Changeling in 1995 and continuing with The Wood Wife in 1996. Both books are complete works that can be enjoyed independently, though reading them in sequence provides the fullest experience of the author's imaginative worlds. This short series represents Windling's contributions to fantasy literature during the mid-1990s.

Start with The Changeling and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Changeling 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Wood Wife 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

5 books (1999–2001)

The Voyage of the Basset is a complete five-book fantasy series for young adults published between 1999 and 2001, with each installment written by a different author. The series follows a consistent cast of characters across standalone adventures, so readers should follow the publication order beginning with Islands in the Sky by Tanith Lee. Subsequent entries are The Raven Queen, Journey to Otherwhere by Sherwood Smith, Thor's Hammer by Will Shetterly, and Fire Bird by Mary Frances Zambreno.

Start with Islands in the Sky(By: Tanith Lee), the first of 5 books in the Voyage of the Basset series.

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1	Islands in the Sky(By: Tanith Lee) 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Raven Queen 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Journey to Otherwhere(By: Sherwood Smith) 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Thor's Hammer(By: Will Shetterly) 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Fire Bird(By: Mary Frances Zambreno) 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible