Diana Gabaldon Books in Order
Explore the Diana Gabaldon crossover with Steve Berry, featuring Past Prologue, reading-order tips, and background for readers who like time-bending adventures.
Last updated: January 17, 2026
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Publication Order
31 books
Besieged
by Diana Gabaldon
2022
As he prepares to leave his post in Jamaica, Lord John Grey learns that his mother is in Havana just as a British siege is about to begin, forcing him into a risky rescue mission by sea that mixes family loyalties with cannons and spies.
A Fugitive Green
by Diana Gabaldon
2022
Seventeen-year-old rare-book dealer Minnie Rennie comes to London on a covert errand and crosses paths with grieving Duke Harold Grey; a commission to steal incriminating letters pulls them both into blackmail, politics, and an unexpected, sharp-edged courtship.
Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone
by Diana Gabaldon
2021
In 1779, Jamie and Claire are back on Fraser’s Ridge when Brianna and Roger return from the 20th century, just as war, prophecy, and old enemies converge on the settlement and force the extended family to fight for their hard-won home.
To the New World and Back Again
by Diana Gabaldon
2020
This official Outlander Kitchen cookbook collects more than one hundred recipes inspired by the later Outlander and Lord John books and the TV series, developed by chef Theresa Carle-Sanders with an introduction and world-building details from Diana Gabaldon.
Past Prologue
by Steve Berry
2019
At a Scottish castle hosting a rare book sale, Cotton Malone chases a stolen grimoire and touches a ring of ancient stones. He wakes in the eighteenth century Highlands, face to face with Jamie Fraser, and must survive long enough to find his way back—or decide not to.
Seven Stones to Stand or Fall
by Diana Gabaldon
2017
Seven Stones brings together Outlander and Lord John novellas, from young Jamie and Ian as mercenaries to Joan MacKimmie in Paris and Lord John in Jamaica and Canada, filling in backstories and quiet corners of the wider timeline.
"I Give You My Body...": How I Write Sex Scenes
by Diana Gabaldon
2016
In this concise craft guide, Diana Gabaldon explains how she approaches writing sex scenes, using examples from the Outlander books to show how emotion, sensory detail, and character choices can make intimate moments serve the story instead of feeling gratuitous.
The Outlandish Companion Volume Two
by Diana Gabaldon
2015
This second companion volume covers later Outlander books and the Lord John novels, offering detailed synopses, chronology, essays on history and writing, maps, reference lists, and extras drawn in part from Gabaldon’s work on the television adaptation.
The Official Outlander Coloring Book: An Adult Coloring Book
by Diana Gabaldon
2015
An adult coloring book featuring detailed black-and-white illustrations of scenes, characters, landscapes, herbs, and eighteenth-century clothing from the Outlander novels, inviting fans to revisit Jamie and Claire’s world with pencils instead of prose.
Written in My Own Heart's Blood
by Diana Gabaldon
2014
Set amid the American Revolution, this installment finds Claire, Jamie, and Lord John untangling a knot of marriages, loyalties, and shifting armies around Philadelphia, while Brianna and Roger confront abduction and time travel to protect their children across centuries.
The Space Between
by Diana Gabaldon
2014
Jamie and Claire’s stepdaughter Joan travels to Paris to enter a convent, escorted by widower Michael Murray, but disturbing visions, dangerous alchemy, and the not quite dead Comte St Germain turn their journey into a haunting story of faith, temptation, and time.
Virgins
by Diana Gabaldon
2013
In 1740 France, nineteen-year-old Jamie Fraser and his friend Ian Murray hire on as mercenaries escorting a Jewish merchant’s granddaughter and her dowry, confronting violence, first love, and the scars Jamie still carries from Wentworth and his father’s death.
A Plague of Zombies
by Diana Gabaldon
2013
Posted to Jamaica to help suppress a rumored slave rebellion, Lord John Grey instead confronts unsettling tales of zombies, plantation politics, and murder in the governor’s circle, where superstition may be hiding a very human and calculated threat.
A Trail of Fire
by Diana Gabaldon
2012
This collection gathers four Outlander-world tales, including Lord John adventures in Quebec and Jamaica and wartime and time-travel stories about Jerry MacKenzie and the Comte St Germain, offering compact side trips alongside the main series novels.
A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows
by Diana Gabaldon
2012
During World War II, RAF pilot Jerry MacKenzie vanishes during a training flight and finds himself near a stone circle, while his wife Dolly endures the London Blitz, quietly revealing the true and surprising fate of Roger MacKenzie’s parents.
The Scottish Prisoner
by Diana Gabaldon
2011
In 1760, paroled Jacobite prisoner Jamie Fraser and British officer Lord John Grey are reluctantly partnered to track down stolen documents tied to an Irish conspiracy, forcing them to confront old grievances and trust each other in dangerous country.
The Exile: An Outlander Graphic Novel
by Diana Gabaldon
2010
This fully illustrated graphic novel retells the early part of Outlander from Murtagh’s point of view, pairing Jamie and Claire’s first meetings and dangers in 1743 Scotland with new scenes and visual detail for readers who like seeing the story drawn.
The Custom of the Army
by Diana Gabaldon
2010
After a fashionable London party involving an electric eel leads to a disastrous duel, Lord John Grey accepts a summons to Canada to testify at a court-martial and soon finds himself marching toward the Battle of Quebec, where honor and survival collide.
An Echo in the Bone
by Diana Gabaldon
2009
Jamie and Claire are drawn into the American Revolution and a risky voyage back to Scotland, while in the 20th century Brianna and Roger read their ancestors’ letters, confront missing Jacobite gold, and face a dangerous time traveler who has his own plans for their son.
Lord John and the Haunted Soldier
by Diana Gabaldon
2008
After being wounded in a cannon explosion, Lord John faces a board of inquiry and grieving families who suspect a cover-up, pushing him to investigate what really went wrong on the battlefield and in the foundry that cast the gun.
Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade
by Diana Gabaldon
2007
Serving in the Seven Years’ War, Lord John is confronted with new evidence about the long-ago scandal surrounding his father’s alleged treason and death, forcing him to juggle battlefield duty, a risky love affair, and a family mystery that refuses to stay buried.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
by Diana Gabaldon
2005
Revolution edges closer to Fraser’s Ridge as rumors, witchcraft accusations, and a mysterious newspaper clipping about a future house fire threaten Jamie and Claire’s settlement, forcing the family to decide what they will risk to stay together in a dangerous colony.
White Knight
by Diana Gabaldon
2004
Private investigator Thomas Kolodzi works the blistering streets and subdivisions of Phoenix, taking on a case that starts small and soon exposes buried secrets, local power, and the kind of everyday corruption he cannot quite walk away from.
Lord John and the Private Matter
by Diana Gabaldon
2003
In 1757 London, Lord John Grey quietly investigates whether his cousin’s respectable fiancé is hiding syphilis, even as he is ordered to solve a fellow officer’s murder tied to missing intelligence, drawing him into the city’s underworld and his own vulnerable secrets.
The Fiery Cross
by Diana Gabaldon
2001
Gathered with other settlers in the Carolina backcountry, Jamie is ordered to raise a militia for the Crown even as he knows rebellion is coming, pulling Fraser’s Ridge into regulator unrest, tangled loyalties, and hard choices about which side to fight for.
The Outlandish Companion
by Diana Gabaldon
1999
A companion guide to the first four Outlander novels, packed with synopses, character lists and family trees, timelines, essays on research and time travel, maps, glossaries, and behind-the-scenes commentary for readers who want to dig deeper into the series.
Lord John and the Hell-Fire Club
by Diana Gabaldon
1998
In 1756 London, Lord John Grey agrees to meet a stranger who is promptly murdered, a trail that leads him into the secretive Hellfire Club and a web of corruption that could cost him his life if he guesses wrong.
Drums of Autumn
by Diana Gabaldon
1996
Shipwrecked in the New World, Jamie and Claire push inland to build a home in North Carolina, while in the 20th century Brianna uncovers a grim notice about their fate and travels back through the stones, drawing Roger and pirate Stephen Bonnet into the family’s story.
Voyager
by Diana Gabaldon
1993
Twenty years after Culloden, Claire discovers that Jamie survived and must decide whether to leave her 20th century life to find him again, a choice that leads from an Edinburgh printshop to a perilous sea voyage and a Caribbean rescue mission.
Dragonfly in Amber
by Diana Gabaldon
1992
Framed by Claire’s return to Scotland in the 1960s, the story follows her earlier life in Paris and the Highlands as she and Jamie try to infiltrate Bonnie Prince Charlie’s circle and derail the doomed Jacobite Rising she knows will destroy the clans.
Outlander
by Diana Gabaldon
1991
Former World War II combat nurse Claire Randall steps through a circle of standing stones in the Scottish Highlands and lands in 1743, where clan politics, Jacobite unrest, and a forced marriage to Jamie Fraser change her loyalties and life forever.
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Where should I start?
If you want the core time travel saga: Outlander → Dragonfly in Amber → Voyager → Drums of Autumn → The Fiery Cross → A Breath of Snow and Ashes
If you prefer to join the story in America: Drums of Autumn → The Fiery Cross → A Breath of Snow and Ashes → An Echo in the Bone → Written in My Own Heart's Blood → Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone
If you love historical mysteries: Lord John and the Private Matter → Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade → The Scottish Prisoner → the Lord John novellas in Seven Stones to Stand or Fall
If you are curious about the Steve Berry crossover: Outlander → Voyager → Past Prologue → Written in My Own Heart's Blood
Author bio
Diana Gabaldon was born on January 11, 1952, in the railroad town of Williams, Arizona, and grew up a little farther north in Flagstaff. Her family life mixed Mexican and English heritage, small‑town politics, and a lot of books, which left her equally at home with desert landscapes and library stacks.
Her father, Tony Gabaldon, taught school before serving for years as an Arizona state senator and later a county supervisor. Her mother, Jacqueline Sykes, brought Yorkshire roots and a love of stories. Gabaldon went on to earn three science degrees: a B.S. in zoology from Northern Arizona University, an M.S. in marine biology from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and a PhD in behavioral ecology back at Northern Arizona.
Before anyone had heard of Outlander, she built a career in academia. At Arizona State University’s Center for Environmental Studies, she became an early specialist in scientific computation, using computers to solve questions in fields like ecology and physiology. She founded and edited the journal Science Software Quarterly, wrangled data and databases, and taught university courses in subjects that ranged from anatomy to behavioral science.
On the side, she wrote. During the 1980s Gabaldon produced software reviews and technical pieces for computer magazines, popular‑science articles, and even scripts for Disney comics starring characters like Scrooge McDuck. That mix of precision and playfulness shows up later in her fiction: careful research, told with a wink.
Fiction started as an experiment. In 1988, wanting to “learn how to write a novel” without intending to show it to anyone, she sat down after her day job and began drafting what would become Outlander. She chose historical fiction because she trusted her research skills more than her imagination, and settled on 18th‑century Scotland after seeing a rerun of Doctor Who that featured a young Scot in a kilt. That image helped spark James Fraser; the practical voice of Claire, a 20th‑century woman dropped into that world, arrived on the page almost uninvited.
Gabaldon wrote scenes out of order, stitching the story together nights and weekends. When she posted a fragment on an early CompuServe writers’ forum, it caught the attention of another novelist, who introduced her to literary agent Perry Knowlton. He agreed to represent the book even though it was unfinished. Published in 1991, Outlander (originally titled Cross Stitch in the U.K.) went on to win a major romance award, gain a devoted readership, and launch a sprawling series.
Since then she has followed Claire and Jamie through eight more big novels, from Dragonfly in Amber and Voyager to Drums of Autumn, Written in My Own Heart’s Blood, and Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone. Along the way she has spun off Lord John Grey into his own historical mysteries, beginning with Lord John and the Private Matter, and filled in the gaps with novellas and collections such as Seven Stones to Stand or Fall.
Gabaldon also writes about her own process. The two volumes of The Outlandish Companion unpack the research, characters, and timelines behind the books, while I Give You My Body... looks closely at how she builds intimate scenes on the page. She has scripted a graphic novel, The Exile, and consults on the television adaptation of Outlander, even contributing a teleplay and making a brief on‑screen cameo.
She and her husband, Doug Watkins, live in Scottsdale, Arizona. Their three adult children include fantasy writer Sam Sykes, which means storytelling has become something of a family trade. For readers, Gabaldon’s work offers exactly what her own life has balanced for decades: rigorous curiosity, a taste for the odd corners of history, and a willingness to follow a story wherever it decides to go.
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