Harry Connolly books

Harry Connolly is an American fantasy and horror author known for the Twenty Palaces urban fantasy series and the epic fantasy trilogy The Great Way.

Anthologies

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Don’t Read This Book 2012 Buy
Tales of the Emerald Serpent: Ghosts of Taux 2012 Buy
Unbound 2016 Buy

City of Fallen Gods

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One Man 2019 Buy

Collections

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Bad Little Girls Die Horrible Deaths and Other Tales of Dark Fantasy 2011 Buy

Standalone Novels

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A Key, an Egg, an Unfortunate Remark 2014 Buy

The Great Way Reading Order

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The Way into Chaos 2014 Buy
The Way into Magic 2015 Buy
The Way into Darkness 2015 Buy

Twenty Palaces Reading Order

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Twenty Palaces 2011 Buy
Child of Fire 2009 Buy
Game of Cages 2010 Buy
Circle of Enemies 2011 Buy
The Twisted Path: A Twenty Palaces Novella 2017 N/A
The Iron Gate 2022 Buy
The Twisted Path 2017 Buy
The Flood Circle 2022 Buy

Harry Connolly is an American author who writes dark fantasy and urban fantasy. His first published novel, Child of Fire (2009), launched the Twenty Palaces series with Del Rey Books. The series follows Ray Lilly, an ex-convict pressed into service as a “wooden man” (expendable helper) for the Twenty Palace Society, a secret organization that hunts down predatory magic.

After the Twenty Palaces series was dropped by its publisher, Connolly self-published additional books in the series and turned to epic fantasy with The Great Way trilogy (2014-2015). He also wrote One Man (2019), a secondary-world fantasy noir set in a city of fallen gods, and the standalone A Key, an Egg, an Unfortunate Remark (2014). His short fiction has appeared in several multi-author anthologies.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many books has Harry Connolly written?

Harry Connolly has written seventeen books across six series.

What was Harry Connolly's first book?

Harry Connolly’s first book is Child of Fire, published in 2009.

What is Harry Connolly best known for?

Connolly is best known for the Twenty Palaces series, an urban fantasy series starting with Child of Fire (2009). The books follow Ray Lilly, an ex-convict who works as a disposable assistant for a powerful sorcerer hunting down supernatural predators.

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