Anthologies#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Year’s Best SF 11 |
2006 |
Buy |
| Interfictions 2 |
2009 |
Buy |
| Wilde Stories 2011: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction |
2011 |
Buy |
| Ghosts: Recent Hauntings |
2012 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2014 |
2013 |
Buy |
| Nightmare Magazine 13: October 2013 |
2013 |
Buy |
| The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 |
2015 |
Buy |
| Luminescent Threads |
2017 |
Buy |
| A Phoenix First Must Burn |
2020 |
Buy |
| The Book of Witches |
2023 |
Buy |
| Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology |
2025 |
Buy |
Collections#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Reconstruction |
2020 |
Buy |
Short Stories/Novellas#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| What I Saw Before the War |
2025 |
Buy |
Spirit Binders Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Racing the Dark |
2007 |
Buy |
| The Burning City |
2009 |
Buy |
Standalone Novels#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Summer Prince |
2013 |
Buy |
| Love Is the Drug |
2014 |
Buy |
| Trouble the Saints |
2020 |
Buy |
| The Library of Broken Worlds |
2023 |
Buy |
Tremontaine Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The North Side of the Sun |
2015 |
Buy |
| Alive and Home Here |
2016 |
Buy |
| All that Glitters |
2016 |
N/A |
| Tremontaine: The Complete Season 3 |
2017 |
N/A |
| Tremontaine: The Complete Season 4 |
2018 |
N/A |
| The Eye of the Swan |
2016 |
N/A |
| Nine Duels |
2016 |
N/A |
| Ambition |
2017 |
Buy |
| Potential |
2018 |
Buy |
Tremontaine Collection Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Tremontaine: The Complete Season 1 |
2016 |
Buy |
| Arrivals |
2015 |
N/A |
| Go and Tell The Morning Star |
2015 |
N/A |
| A Tale of Two Ladies |
2015 |
N/A |
| Departures |
2015 |
N/A |
| The North Side of the Sun |
2015 |
N/A |
| A Wake in Riverside |
2015 |
N/A |
| The Dagger and the Sword |
2015 |
N/A |
| A Fair Hand |
2015 |
N/A |
| A City Without Chocolate |
2015 |
N/A |
| Lies in Our Stars |
2015 |
N/A |
| Convocation |
2016 |
N/A |
| In the Shadow of Riverside |
2017 |
N/A |
| Smoke and Ashes |
2017 |
N/A |
| Dissolution |
2017 |
N/A |
| Old in Mischief |
2016 |
N/A |
| Fireworks |
2016 |
N/A |
| All that Glitters |
2016 |
N/A |
| Alive, and Home Here |
2016 |
N/A |
| Blood and Silk |
2016 |
N/A |
| The Duchess Gambit |
2016 |
N/A |
| A Rushing of Wings |
2016 |
N/A |
| The Heart A Liability |
2016 |
N/A |
| Tremontaine: The Complete Season 3 |
2018 |
Buy |
| Tremontaine: The Complete Season 4 |
2018 |
Buy |
Twisted Journeys Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Time Travel Trap |
2007 |
Buy |
| Terror in Ghost Mansion |
2007 |
Buy |
| Captured by Pirates |
2007 |
Buy |
| Alien Incident on Planet J |
2008 |
Buy |
| Vampire Hunt |
2008 |
Buy |
| Nightmare on Zombie Island |
2008 |
Buy |
| Kung Fu Masters |
2009 |
Buy |
| Agent Mongoose and the Hypno-beam Scheme |
2009 |
Buy |
| Shipwrecked on Mad Island |
2009 |
Buy |
| The Goblin King |
2009 |
Buy |
| School of Evil |
2010 |
Buy |
| Attack of the Mutant Meteors |
2010 |
Buy |
| Agent Mongoose and the Attack of the Giant Insects |
2010 |
Buy |
| Detective Frankenstein |
2010 |
Buy |
| Horror in Space |
2010 |
Buy |
| The Quest for Dragon Mountain |
2010 |
Buy |
| Hero City |
2012 |
Buy |
| Peril at Summerland Park |
2012 |
Buy |
| The Fifth Musketeer: Book 19 |
2012 |
Buy |
| Escape from Pyramid X |
2013 |
Buy |
Zephyr Hollis Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Moonshine |
2010 |
Buy |
| Wicked City |
2012 |
Buy |
| The Inconstant Moon |
2012 |
Buy |
Alaya Dawn Johnson writes speculative fiction that crosses boundaries between fantasy, science fiction, and literary fiction. Her Spirit Binders duology, Racing the Dark (2007) and The Burning City (2009), is a fantasy series inspired by Pacific Island cultures. The Zephyr Hollis series, beginning with Moonshine (2010), reimagines 1920s New York City as a place where vampires and other supernatural beings live alongside humans during Prohibition.
Her standalone novels cover ambitious ground. The Summer Prince (2013) is a young adult science fiction novel set in a future Brazilian city, while Love Is the Drug (2014) is a YA thriller set in Washington, D.C. during a flu pandemic. Trouble the Saints (2020) blends 1940s New York noir with magical realism. The Library of Broken Worlds (2023) is a space opera drawing on Hindu mythology. Johnson has also contributed extensively to the Tremontaine collaborative serial fiction project and has appeared in numerous best-of-year anthologies.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has Alaya Dawn Johnson written?
Alaya Dawn Johnson has written 76 books across nine series.
What was Alaya Dawn Johnson's first book?
Alaya Dawn Johnson’s first book is Year’s Best SF 11, published in 2006.
What genre does Alaya Dawn Johnson write?
Alaya Dawn Johnson writes speculative fiction spanning fantasy, science fiction, and young adult literature. Her work often features diverse characters and explores themes of race, power, and social justice within genre frameworks. She won a Nebula Award for her short story ‘A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i.’