Victoria Aveyard Books in Order
Browse Victoria Aveyard's books in order, with reading guides, summaries, series backgrounds, and advice on where to start with Red Queen and Realm Breaker.
Last updated: December 23, 2025
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Publication Order
11 books
Fate Breaker
by Victoria Aveyard
2024
With her blade shattered and her friends scattered, Corayne flees with Taristan's stolen Spindleblade, the last weapon that can stop him from tearing open more portals. As Erida and Taristan move to unleash their god, the Companions race to reunite for a final stand.
Blade Breaker
by Victoria Aveyard
2022
After sealing one Spindle, Corayne and her companions must cross seas and war-torn kingdoms as Taristan and Queen Erida march with undead armies and open new gates. The fellowship struggles to rally allies and stay united while the danger to Allward keeps rising.
Realm Breaker
by Victoria Aveyard
2021
Across Allward, ancient portals called Spindles are opening again, unleashing monsters and a vengeful god's influence. Seventeen-year-old Corayne an Amarat learns she is the last of a bloodline that can close them and joins a mismatched band of companions to stop her uncle Taristan.
Broken Throne
by Victoria Aveyard
2019
Broken Throne gathers novellas, scenes, and worldbuilding extras from the Red Queen universe. The collection revisits key characters before and after the main saga, fills in political history, and offers a more reflective look at the costs of revolt and fragile peace.
War Storm
by Victoria Aveyard
2018
War Storm hurls Mare, Cal, Maven, and their rivals into a final, sprawling conflict for control of Norta and its neighbors. Sea battles, sieges, and fragile treaties force every faction to choose between personal loyalties and the chance to remake a brutal world.
King's Cage
by Victoria Aveyard
2017
Captured by King Maven and stripped of her lightning, Mare lives as a tightly controlled prisoner and living trophy. Beyond the palace, newbloods, Reds, and uneasy Silver allies rally around Cal, preparing a rebellion that could either free her or plunge Norta into ruin.
Steel Scars
by Victoria Aveyard
2016
Captain Diana Farley travels across Norta carrying coded orders for the Scarlet Guard, recruiting smugglers and rebels for an attack on the capital. Her mission tests her faith in the cause and leads to a crucial connection with Shade and Mare Barrow.
Glass Sword
by Victoria Aveyard
2016
On the run after a palace coup, Mare Barrow joins the Scarlet Guard to find other Reds with Silverlike abilities before King Maven can claim them. As she builds a newblood army and leaves more bodies behind, she worries she is becoming the monster she fights.
Cruel Crown
by Victoria Aveyard
2016
This bind-up pairs the novellas Queen Song and Steel Scars, revealing Norta's past through the eyes of Queen Coriane and rebel captain Farley. Together they show how fragile queens and hard edged soldiers helped set the stage for the uprising in Red Queen.
Red Queen
by Victoria Aveyard
2015
In a world divided by blood, lowly Reds serve superpowered Silvers who rule from glittering palaces. Mare Barrow, a Red thief, discovers a lightning ability and is forced to live as a false Silver princess while secretly aiding a dangerous Red rebellion.
Queen Song
by Victoria Aveyard
2015
Queen Coriane, first wife of King Tiberias, records her life in a secret diary as she rises from overlooked noble girl to Norta's young queen. The novella traces her love story, quiet ambitions, and the growing menace of whispers inside the palace.
Where should I start?
If you want her signature YA fantasy with politics and twists: Red Queen → Glass Sword → King's Cage → War Storm → Broken Throne.
If you like starting with character backstory and novellas: Queen Song → Steel Scars → Red Queen → Cruel Crown.
If you want a sprawling epic quest in a new world: Realm Breaker → Blade Breaker → Fate Breaker.
If you just want a quick taste of her style: Red Queen → Realm Breaker.
Author bio
Victoria Aveyard grew up in East Longmeadow, a small town in western Massachusetts, and built a career out of the kind of big, twisty fantasy stories she once hunted for in her local library. Today she is known for the Red Queen novels and the epic Realm Breaker trilogy, which blend magic, politics, and complicated young heroes.
From early on she read widely, watched a lot of movies, and paid close attention to how big fantasy tales balanced character moments with huge, cinematic stakes.
Her parents were public school teachers, and she has spoken about how that shaped her sense of work and community. At eighteen she left Massachusetts for the University of Southern California, where she earned a BFA in screenwriting and learned the nuts and bolts of writing for film.
Near the end of college she imagined a scene that would not let go, a girl about to be executed who kills her executioner with lightning. That image became the spark for Red Queen. After graduating in 2012 she moved back home, living with her family and wrestling with student loans while she taught herself how to turn that idea into a full novel.
A general meeting with a manager in Los Angeles opened an unexpected door. Instead of going through years of cold queries, Aveyard found representation after that early champion passed her manuscript to agent Suzie Townsend, and in 2013 Red Queen sold to HarperTeen in a multi book deal while Universal Pictures optioned the film rights.
Red Queen came out in 2015 and quickly found a worldwide audience. The book reached the top of bestseller lists, won the Goodreads Choice Award for Debut Author, and received Germany's Buxtehude Bull prize. Aveyard followed it with Glass Sword, King's Cage, War Storm, several prequel novellas, and the collection Broken Throne, all set in a world where blood, power, and rebellion collide.
Alongside the novels she has continued to work in screen media. Sony partnered with her on the spec screenplay Eternal, and she later joined the writers developing a Red Queen series for television, adapting her own story for a new format.
In 2021 she moved into a new universe with Realm Breaker, the first in a high fantasy trilogy about Corayne an Amarat and a ragtag fellowship racing to close magic portals before a vengeful god consumes their world. The sequels Blade Breaker and Fate Breaker deepen that story with more points of view, wider battles, and a strong focus on found family.
Aveyard now writes full time in California, building playlists for each project and treating every book as a new sandbox where she can push herself, her characters, and her readers into uncharted territory.
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