Mark Lawrence Books in Order

Rue sells herself to the Academy of Kindness, a brutal school that turns girls into living instruments of revenge, knowing that only a handful will survive a decade of training. A lifetime later, war arrives at her quiet home, forcing her to reckon with what the academy made of her.

The final volume of the Library trilogy sees Livira journey through the library’s distant past with those determined to save it, while Evar is pulled deeper into its shifting halls by those who want it destroyed. As her living book tears at reality, every side must decide what to preserve.

In the second Library trilogy novel, Evar is driven out of the great library by an implacable foe, while Livira is trapped in a ghost world and must recover the dangerous book she wrote. As factions clash over the library’s future, both fight to protect the people they love.

Tales of Abeth collects three short stories tied to the Book of the Ancestor trilogy, letting readers revisit Nona Grey and her friends between and after the main books. Together they add quieter, heartfelt moments and extra worldbuilding to Lawrence’s ice locked world.

Paired with the story Returns, About Pain follows a boy who once loathed a classic novel and the decades long conversation he has with that book, Livira and a faithful dog. As his life changes, so does what he sees in its pages.

Livira, an orphan from the Dust, is brought to Crath City and given a place in an ancient, near endless library. Evar has been raised inside that library with four adopted siblings and no way out. Their paths cross across time and reality as war and politics close in outside.

A companion story to the Library trilogy, Overdue follows the mysterious librarian Yute and giant cat Wentworth as they trace uncanny links between far flung bookshops. It is a quiet, clever tale about inspiration, readers and the strange ways stories echo between places.

Yaz finally reaches the green Corridor and the Convent of Sweet Mercy, only to find new dangers waiting. Hunted by old enemies and tied to forces that control the moon, she is drawn into a last battle over Abeth’s future that stretches from the ice walls to the emperor’s Ark.

The first Visitor story introduces Lawrence’s corner of the Wild Cards world, originally appearing in Knaves Over Queens. It marks the debut of the enigmatic Visitor among British aces and jokers and sets the stage for the later tale The Visitor: Kill or Cure.

Having survived the depths below the ice, Yaz climbs toward the Black Rock, home of the priests who have long ruled the tribes. To save her scattered friends and challenge the Hidden God’s grip, she must scale a dangerous mountain and confront truths buried deep in Abeth’s past.

This collection brings together three short stories from Mark Lawrence’s interconnected worlds: a Nona tale set between Red Sister and Grey Sister, a post Red Queen’s War episode for Jalan, and a Snorri story from before that trilogy, offering sharp, character driven glimpses around the main novels.

Set in the Wild Cards universe, this story follows Ruby Johnson, an ace nicknamed the Dragon who can generate intense heat and works as an assassin. When she is hired to deal with a benevolent healer, she badly underestimates both his power and what that encounter will cost her.

On the frozen planet Abeth, Yaz of the ice tribe knows she is different and fears the day the regulator will cast her into the Pit of the Missing. When that judgment comes, she falls into a hidden world beneath the ice, full of cast off children, relics and deadly secrets.

The third Unfettered anthology collects original stories from many fantasy authors, including a return to Osten Ard from Tad Williams, new tales by Mark Lawrence, Brian Herbert, Anna Smith Spark, and others, all in support of a fund that helps writers facing medical debt.

In 1986 London, fifteen year old maths prodigy Nick Hayes is diagnosed with cancer and then approached by a stranger who claims to be his future self. As Nick and his Dungeons & Dragons group try to protect their friend Mia from a violent threat, they are drawn into an impossible time loop.

Now a student at Cambridge, cancer survivor Nick Hayes wants a normal life but keeps finding creases in time that threaten catastrophe. Pulled between versions of himself and haunted by what he knows is coming, he must fix the timeline without losing Mia or breaking the world.

In the final Book of the Ancestor novel, Nona Grey must carry a stolen shipheart across the ice while an empire wide war closes in on Sweet Mercy. As ice and armies press together, she has to decide how far she will go to save her friends and world.

Years after first meeting his future self, Nick Hayes is a researcher racing toward the moment when everything began. Mia’s fateful accident and the closed loop of his own life are fast approaching, and a new discovery suggests he may have been lying to himself all along.

Now a Mystic Class novice, Nona Grey juggles deadly lessons, a demon sharing her mind and the hunt for the stolen shipheart. When the Inquisition and the emperor’s sister turn their attention to Sweet Mercy, Nona is forced out of the convent and into open danger.

Set between Grey Sister and Holy Sister, this novella sees Nona, Ara and their friends drawn into an investigation of noble murders just beyond Sweet Mercy’s walls. As war looms, loyalties are tested and Nona’s growing powers tangle with a quieter, more personal tangle of love and duty.

This collection gathers ten short stories set around The Broken Empire, many focused on the “brothers” who ride with Jorg Ancrath. The tales mix brutal battles, black humour and brief flashes of grace, deepening our understanding of the men behind the prince and the world that shaped them.

Saved from the noose by Abbess Glass, peasant girl Nona Grey is taken to the Convent of Sweet Mercy, where girls with rare bloodlines train as warriors and mystics. Amid knife edged classes and noble grudges, Nona hides a deadly secret that could change Abeth’s fate.

This anthology gathers twenty original fantasy stories by a wide range of writers, including a contribution from Mark Lawrence, with all proceeds used to help authors facing medical debt and to support cancer research. Each tale stands alone, offering a different corner of the genre.

As the Wheel of Osheim turns and reality starts to fray, Jalan Kendeth is dragged toward the heart of an ending world. With Snorri’s fate entwined with his own and enemies both mortal and undead closing in, Jal has to decide whether he will finally stand and fight or keep running.

Jalan and Snorri possess Loki’s key, an artefact able to open any door, even the one into death itself. Snorri is determined to use it to reach his murdered family, while Jal dreams of escape, but the Dead King and other powers will stop at nothing to seize it first.

Prince Jalan Kendeth prefers wine and wagers to war, but a botched magical trap leaves him bound to Snorri ver Snagason, a grim Norse warrior. Forced into a journey across the Broken Empire, the cowardly Jal finds himself facing undead horrors, Builder relics and his formidable grandmother’s schemes.

The rulers of the Broken Empire gather in Vyene to elect an emperor, and Jorg Ancrath intends to win their votes. Standing in his way is the Dead King, master of the undead, whose plans could end the world if Jorg cannot finally face his past and his own capacity for sacrifice.

Now a king, eighteen year old Jorg must defend his hard won realm against a rival with overwhelming strength. As a massive army marches on his fortress, flashbacks reveal the ruthless bargains, ancient technology and betrayals he has used to give himself even a slim chance to survive.

At thirteen, Jorg Ancrath leads a band of bloodthirsty outlaws across a war torn landscape, intent on avenging the slaughter of his mother and brother. Returning to the castle he once fled, he sets his sights on the throne, no matter how much of the world he breaks on the way.

In a poor corner of London’s East End, a boy grows up alongside his little sister, who insists she can see dancers and angels everywhere. Her illness and visions leave marks that the family carries for the rest of their lives in this quiet, devastating short story.