Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes | 2004 | Jaclyn Moriarty | Buy |
| 2 | The Whispering Wars | 2018 | Jaclyn Moriarty | Buy |
| 3 | Gravity Is the Thing | 2019 | Jaclyn Moriarty | Buy |
Moriarty’s standalone fiction shows a different side of her writing than her series work. I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes, published in 2004, is a playful and strange YA novel that shares some of the epistolary sensibility of the Ashbury/Brookfield books. Gravity Is the Thing, published in 2019, is her first novel aimed squarely at adults — a story about a woman grieving her missing brother who gets drawn into a self-help group with mysterious origins. It is warmer and more introspective than her YA work without losing her sense of humor.
The Whispering Wars, though listed here, is also connected to the Kingdoms and Empires world and serves as a companion piece to that series rather than a fully independent story. Together, these standalones show that Moriarty’s voice works across formats and age groups, even when she is not writing in a series.