Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The School for Good and Evil | 2013 | Soman Chainani | Buy |
| 2 | Rise of the School for Good and Evil | 2022 | Soman Chainani | Buy |
| 3 | Škola dobra a zla | 2013 | Soman Chainani | N/A |
| 4 | A World Without Princes | 2014 | Soman Chainani | Buy |
| 5 | Un Mondo senza eroi | 2014 | Soman Chainani | N/A |
| 6 | Le Dernier Conte | 2015 | Soman Chainani | N/A |
| 7 | The Last Ever After | 2015 | Soman Chainani | Buy |
| 8 | The Ever Never Handbook | 2016 | Soman Chainani | Buy |
| 9 | Quests for Glory | 2017 | Soman Chainani | Buy |
| 10 | Kryształ czasu | 2019 | Soman Chainani | N/A |
| 11 | A Crystal of Time | 2019 | Soman Chainani | Buy |
| 12 | One True King | 2021 | Soman Chainani | Buy |
| 13 | Fall of the School for Good and Evil | 2023 | Soman Chainani | Buy |
The School for Good and Evil is Soman Chainani’s flagship series, beginning with the 2013 novel of the same name. The premise is simple: every four years, two children are taken from the village of Gavaldon to attend a school where they train to become characters in fairy tales. Best friends Sophie and Agatha are separated into opposite schools — Sophie into Evil, Agatha into Good — upending both their expectations.
The series grew to include six main novels, companion books like The Ever Never Handbook, and both a prequel (Rise of the School for Good and Evil) and a conclusion (Fall of the School for Good and Evil). The books have been translated into multiple languages and were adapted into a Netflix film in 2022. Throughout, Chainani uses the fairy tale framework to ask genuine questions about identity, friendship, and whether people can escape the roles assigned to them.