Seanan McGuire books

Seanan McGuire is a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning American author of urban fantasy, horror, and science fiction, known for the October Daye, Wayward Children, and InCryptid series, and writing as Mira Grant for the Newsflesh zombie trilogy.

Age Of X-Man Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
NextGen 2019 Buy
Prisoner X 2019 Buy
The Amazing Nightcrawler 2019 Buy
Apocalypse and the X-Tracts 2019 Buy
Collection of multiple comics. Includes contributions from several authors and artists. - N/A

Anthologies

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Ravens in the Library 2009 Buy
The Living Dead 2 2010 Buy
The Book of Apex: Volume 2 of Apex Magazine 2010 Buy
After Hours: Tales from the Ur-Bar 2011 Buy
Night-Mantled: The Best of Wily Writers 2011 Buy
Whedonistas 2011 Buy
Apex Magazine - June 2011 2011 Buy
Home Improvement: Undead Edition 2011 Buy
Chicks Unravel Time: Women Journey Through Every Season of Doctor Who 2012 Buy
Westward Weird 2012 Buy
The Modern Fae’s Guide to Surviving Humanity 2012 Buy
A Fantasy Medley 2 2012 Buy
The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination 2013 Buy
Oz Reimagined 2013 Buy
Carniepunk 2013 Buy
Glitter & Mayhem 2013 Buy
Hex in the City 2013 Buy
The End is Nigh 2014 Buy
Speculative Fiction 2013 2014 Buy
Robot Uprisings 2014 Buy
Dead But Not Forgotten 2014 Buy
Dead Man’s Hand 2014 Buy
Lightspeed Magazine, June 2014: Women Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue 2014 Buy
The End is Now 2014 Buy
Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2014 Edition 2015 Buy
Operation Arcana 2015 Buy
The Doll Collection 2015 Buy
Mermaids and Other Mysteries of the Deep 2015 Buy
The End Has Come 2015 Buy
Press Start to Play 2015 Buy
Letters to Tiptree 2015 Buy
Temporally Out of Order 2015 Buy
Loosed Upon the World 2015 Buy
Seize the Night 2015 Buy
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 2015 Buy
The Gods of HP Lovecraft 2015 Buy
Warrior Women 2015 Buy
Unbound 2016 Buy
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume One 2016 Buy
The Starlit Wood 2016 Buy
Shadowed Souls 2016 Buy
Unfettered II: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy 2016 Buy
Lightspeed Magazine, February 2017 2017 Buy
Little Green Men—Attack! 2017 Buy
Dark Cities 2017 Buy
Behind the Mask: A Superhero Anthology 2017 Buy
Indigo 2017 Buy
Hath No Fury 2017 Buy
Submerged 2017 Buy
New York Fantastic: Fantasy Stories from the City that Never Sleeps 2017 Buy
Robots vs. Fairies 2018 Buy
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten 2018 Buy
Rocket Fuel 2018 Buy
Unidentified Funny Objects 7 2018 Buy
Hark! the Herald Angels Scream 2018 Buy
Chiral Mad 4 2018 Buy
A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers 2019 Buy
Unfettered III: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy 2019 Buy
Kaiju Rising II 2019 Buy
Infinite Stars 2019 Buy
The Best of Uncanny 2019 Buy
Shattering Glass 2020 Buy
Ignorance Is Strength 2020 Buy
Burn the Ashes 2020 Buy
Or Else the Light 2020 Buy
When Things Get Dark 2021 Buy
Body Shocks 2021 Buy
The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen 2021 Buy
99 Tiny Terrors 2021 Buy
Someone in Time 2022 Buy
The Hitherto Secret Experiments of Marie Curie 2023 Buy
Lofty Mountains 2023 Buy
Lesbians In Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before 2025 Buy
Waterborne 2026 Buy
The Big Bad Book of Kaiju 2026 Buy

Best Horror of the Year Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One 2009 Buy
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two 2010 Buy
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three 2011 Buy
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four 2012 Buy
The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five 2013 Buy
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six 2014 Buy
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven 2015 Buy
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight 2016 Buy
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine 2017 Buy
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten 2018 Buy
The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction 2018 Buy
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven 2019 Buy
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve 2020 Buy
The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen 2021 Buy
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen 2022 Buy
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen 2024 Buy
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Sixteen 2024 Buy
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seventeen 2025 Buy

Deadlands Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
The Plague of the Undead 2014 N/A
Ghostwalkers 2015 Buy
Thunder Moon Rising 2016 Buy
Boneyard 2017 Buy

Ghost Roads Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Good Girls go to Heaven 2010 N/A
Sparrow Hill Road 2014 Buy
Coins of Chaos 2013 N/A
The Ghosts of Bourbon Street 2014 N/A
The Girl in the Green Silk Gown 2018 Buy
Angel of the Overpass 2021 Buy

Ghost-Spider (2019) Graphic Novels Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Ghost-Spider, Vol. 1: Dog Days Are Over 2020 Buy
Ghost-Spider, Vol. 2: Party People 2020 Buy

Graphic Novels

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Fearless 2019 Buy
Mealtime Mayhem 2019 Buy

InCryptid Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
One Hell of a Ride 2012 N/A
No Place Like Home 2012 N/A
Married in Green 2013 N/A
Sweet Poison Wine 2013 N/A
The First Fall 2013 N/A
Loch and Key 2013 N/A
The Way Home 2015 N/A
Target Practice 2017 N/A
Discount Armageddon 2012 Buy
Midnight Blue-Light Special 2013 Buy
Black as Blood 2014 N/A
White as a Raven’s Wing 2014 N/A
Half-Off Ragnarok 2014 Buy
The Ghosts of Bourbon Street 2014 N/A
Waking Up In Vegas 2016 N/A
My Last Name 2017 N/A
Pocket Apocalypse 2015 Buy
Chaos Choreography 2016 Buy
Magic for Nothing 2017 Buy
Tricks for Free 2018 Buy
That Ain’t Witchcraft 2019 Buy
Imaginary Numbers 2020 Buy
Calculated Risks 2021 Buy
Spelunking Through Hell 2022 Buy
Backpacking Through Bedlam 2023 Buy
Aftermarket Afterlife 2024 Buy
Installment Immortality 2025 Buy
Butterfly Effects 2026 Buy

InCryptid Short Stories/Novellas Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
The Flower of Arizona 2012 N/A
One Hell of a Ride 2012 N/A
No Place Like Home 2012 N/A
Married in Green 2013 N/A
Sweet Poison Wine 2013 N/A
The First Fall 2013 N/A
Bad Dream Girl 2013 Buy
Loch and Key 2013 N/A
We Both Go Down Together 2013 N/A
Black as Blood 2014 N/A
Blocked 2014 N/A
The Ghosts of Bourbon Street 2014 N/A
Stingers and Strangers 2014 Buy
IM 2014 N/A
Oh Pretty Bird 2014 N/A
Bury Me In Satin 2014 N/A
Snakes and Ladders 2014 N/A
White as a Raven’s Wing 2014 N/A
Broken Paper Hearts 2015 N/A
The Star of New Mexico 2015 N/A
The Way Home 2015 N/A
Snake in the Glass 2015 N/A
Swamp Bromeliad 2016 N/A
Waking Up In Vegas 2016 N/A
My Last Name 2017 N/A
The Lay of the Land 2017 N/A
Target Practice 2017 N/A
Follow the Lady 2020 N/A
Singing the Comic-Con Blues 2021 N/A

Indexing Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Indexing 2013 Buy
Reflections 2016 Buy

Journey To Star Wars: The Last Jedi Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Phasma 2017 Buy
Star Wars Annual 2018 2017 Buy
Star Wars Kirigami 2017 Buy
Stormtroopers: Beyond the Armor 2017 Buy
The Legends of Luke Skywalker 2017 Buy
The Rebel Files: Collected Intelligence of the Alliance 2017 Buy
Captain Phasma 2017 Buy
Canto Bight 2017 Buy

Karla Pacheco Graphic Novels Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Inspector Pancakes Helps the President of France Solve the White Orchid Murders 2015 Buy
Fearless 2019 Buy
Bettie Page: Hollywood Adventures on Murder Island! 2022 Buy
Agnez Mo Presents: Don’t Wake Up 2024 Buy

Katharine Duckett Short Story Collections

Title Published Buy on Amazon
In Our Own Worlds #2 2020 Buy

King In Black Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Planet of the Symbiotes 2021 Buy
King in Black: Namor 2021 Buy
Thunderbolts 2021 Buy
Gwenom vs. Carnage 2021 Buy
Avengers 2021 Buy

Magic: The Gathering: War of the Spark Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Ravnica 2019 Buy
Forsaken 2019 Buy
Strixhaven: Omens of Chaos 2026 Buy

Marvel’s What If…? Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
What If… Loki Was Worthy? 2024 Buy
What If… Wanda Maximoff and Peter Parker Were Siblings? 2024 Buy
What If… Marc Spector Was Host to Venom? 2024 Buy
Marvel: What If . . . Wanda Maximoff and Peter Parker Were Siblings? 2025 Buy
What If…Kitty Pryde Stole the Phoenix Force? 2025 Buy

Middlegame Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Middlegame 2019 Buy
Seasonal Fears 2022 Buy
Tidal Creatures 2024 Buy
Inkpot Gods 2026 Buy

Mira Grant Short Stories/Novellas Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers 2017 N/A
Final Girls 2017 Buy
Kingdom of Needle and Bone 2018 Buy
Unbreakable 2023 Buy

Mira Grant Short Story Collections

Title Published Buy on Amazon
When Will You Rise 2012 Buy

Newsflesh Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Feed 2010 Buy
Deadline 2011 Buy
Blackout 2012 Buy
San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats 2012 Buy
Feedback 2016 Buy

Newsflesh Short Stories/Novellas Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers 2017 N/A
Apocalypse Scenario #683: The Box 2011 Buy
Countdown 2011 Buy
Fed 2012 N/A
How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea 2013 Buy
The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell 2014 Buy
Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus 2015 Buy
All the Pretty Little Horses 2017 Buy
Coming to You Live 2018 Buy

Non-Fiction

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Letters to the Pumpkin King 2014 Buy
Overwatch: Declassified 2023 Buy

October Daye Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Rosemary and Rue 2009 Buy
A Local Habitation 2010 Buy
An Artificial Night 2010 Buy
Late Eclipses 2011 Buy
One Salt Sea 2011 Buy
In Sea-Salt Tears 2012 N/A
Ashes of Honor 2012 Buy
Chimes at Midnight 2013 Buy
Forbid the Sea 2013 N/A
The Fixed Stars 2014 N/A
The Winter Long 2014 Buy
No Sooner Met 2015 N/A
A Red-Rose Chain 2015 Buy
Full of Briars 2016 Buy
Heaps of Pearl 2016 N/A
Once Broken Faith 2016 Buy
Of Things Unknown 2017 N/A
The Brightest Fell 2017 Buy
Night and Silence 2018 Buy
The Unkindest Tide 2019 Buy
A Killing Frost 2020 Buy
When Sorrows Come 2021 Buy
And With Reveling 2021 N/A
Be the Serpent 2022 Buy
Candles and Starlight 2023 N/A
Sleep No More 2023 Buy
The Innocent Sleep 2023 Buy
Suffer a Sea-Change 2018 N/A
Silver and Lead 2025 Buy
Never Shines The Sun 2021 N/A
A Divided Duty 2026 Buy

Parasitology Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Parasite 2013 Buy
Symbiont 2014 Buy
Chimera 2015 Buy

Rolling In The Deep Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Rolling in the Deep 2015 Buy
Into the Drowning Deep 2017 Buy

Short Stories/Novellas

Title Published Buy on Amazon
In Sea-Salt Tears 2012 N/A
Rat-Catcher 2012 Buy
Midway Relics and Dying Breeds 2014 Buy
Final Girls 2017 Buy
Kingdom of Needle and Bone 2018 Buy
Any Way the Wind Blows 2019 Buy
Tangles 2021 N/A
Unbreakable 2023 Buy
In Sea-Salt Tearsis available for free at https://www.seananmcguire.com/. - N/A

Short Story Collections

Title Published Buy on Amazon
When Will You Rise 2012 Buy
Laughter at the Academy 2019 Buy
Dying with Her Cheer Pants On 2020 Buy
The Proper Thing and Other Stories 2024 Buy

Spider-Gwen Graphic Novels Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider, Vol. 1: Spider-Geddon 2019 Buy
Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider, Vol. 2 2019 Buy

Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Spider-Geddon 2019 N/A
Edge of Spider-Verse 2023 Buy
Weapon of Choice 2024 Buy

Standalone Novels

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day 2017 Buy
In the Shadow of Spindrift House 2019 Buy
Square³ 2021 Buy
Overgrowth 2025 Buy

The Dystopia Triptych Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
The End is Nigh 2014 N/A
Ignorance Is Strength 2020 Buy
The End is Now 2014 N/A
Burn the Ashes 2020 Buy
The End Has Come 2015 N/A
Or Else the Light 2020 Buy

Up-and-Under Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Over the Woodward Wall 2020 Buy
Along the Saltwise Sea 2021 Buy
Into the Windwracked Wilds 2022 Buy
Under the Smokestrewn Sky 2023 Buy

Velveteen Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Velveteen vs. The Junior Super Patriots 2012 Buy
Velveteen vs. The Early Adventures 2024 Buy
Velveteen vs. The Multiverse 2013 Buy
Velveteen vs. The Seasons 2016 Buy

Wayward Children Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Every Heart a Doorway 2016 Buy
כל לב הוא דלת 2016 N/A
De brindilles et d’os 2017 N/A
Down Among the Sticks and Bones 2017 Buy
Beneath the Sugar Sky 2018 Buy
Sob o céu açucarado 2018 N/A
In an Absent Dream 2019 Buy
В небивал сън 2019 N/A
Juice Like Wounds 2020 N/A
Come Tumbling Down 2020 Buy
Across the Green Grass Fields 2021 Buy
In Mercy, Rain 2022 Buy
Skeleton Song 2022 Buy
Where the Drowned Girls Go 2022 Buy
Lost in the Moment and Found 2023 Buy
Mislaid in Parts Half-Known 2024 Buy
Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear 2025 Buy
Through Gates of Garnet and Gold 2026 Buy

Seanan McGuire is one of the most prolific and decorated authors working in speculative fiction. Since 2009, she has published over 300 works across urban fantasy, horror, science fiction, children’s fiction, comics, and short stories. Her October Daye series, beginning with Rosemary and Rue (2009), follows a half-fae private investigator through more than 30 novels and novellas. The Wayward Children series, starting with the Hugo-winning Every Heart a Doorway (2016), explores what happens to children who find portal worlds and then must return to reality.

Under the pen name Mira Grant, she wrote the Newsflesh trilogy — Feed, Deadline, and Blackout — which reimagined zombie fiction through the lens of journalism and blogging. The Parasitology trilogy examined parasites engineered to maintain human health that gain consciousness. Her InCryptid series follows a family of cryptozoologists who protect supernatural creatures, and the Middlegame series explores alchemy and destiny. McGuire has also written Marvel comics including Spider-Gwen and Ghost-Spider, contributed to over 75 anthologies, and published numerous standalone novels and short fiction collections. She has won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards multiple times.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many books has Seanan McGuire written?

Seanan McGuire has written 312 books across 34 series.

What was Seanan McGuire's first book?

Seanan McGuire’s first book is Ravens in the Library, published in 2009.

Does Seanan McGuire write under other names?

Yes, Seanan McGuire writes science fiction horror under the pen name Mira Grant, best known for the Newsflesh trilogy (Feed, Deadline, Blackout) and the Parasitology trilogy. She also writes Marvel comics including Spider-Gwen and Ghost-Spider. Under both names combined, she has published over 300 works since 2009.

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