Catherynne M. Valente

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  • Bibliography:
    42 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 2001
  • Latest Book:
    October 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Fairyland

1 - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (May-2011)
1.5 - The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland--For a Little While (Aug-2011)
2 - The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two (Oct-2013)
3 - The Boy Who Lost Fairyland (Mar-2015)
4 - The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home (Mar-2016)

Melancholy of Mechagirl

1 - The Melancholy of Mechagirl (Jul-2013)

The Omikuji Project Cycle

1 - This Is My Letter to the World (May-2011)

The Orphan's Tales

In the Night Garden (Nov-2006)
In the Cities of Coin and Spice (Nov-2007)

Prester John

1 - The Habitation of the Blessed (Mar-2001)
2 - The Folded World (Nov-2011)

Multi-Author Series List

Fairytale Retellings: Snow White

Six-Gun Snow White (Mar-2013)

Fairytale Retellings: Sleeping Beauty

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (May-2011)
Silently and Very Fast (Feb-2012)
The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There (Oct-2012)

Fairytale Retellings: Twelve Dancing Princesses

Speak Easy (Sep-2015)

Minecraft

The End (Dec-2019)

Book List in Order: 42 titles

  • The Habitation of the Blessed

    Prester John - 1

    This is the story of a place that never was: the kingdom of Prester John, the utopia described by an anonymous, twelfth-century document which captured the imagination of the medieval world and drove hundreds of lost souls to seek out its secrets, in...

  • The Labyrinth

    Here Monsters are hidden ...

    A lyrical anti-quest through a conscious maze without center, borders, or escape--a dark pilgrim's progress through a landscape of vicious Angels, plague houses, crocodile-prophets, tragic chess-sets, and the mind ...

  • Oracles

    The Oracles of the ancient world spoke for the gods, they spoke for the future: but they could not speak for themselves. Here, their voices bubble up from the depths, enraged and sardonic, sorrowing and wild, finding themselves on new ground -- scatt...

  • In the Night Garden

    The Orphan's Tales

    Every once in a great while a book comes along that reminds us of the magic spell that stories can cast over us -- to dazzle, entertain, and enlighten. Welcome to the Arabian Nights for our time -- a lush and fantastical epic guaranteed to spirit y...

  • The Grass-Cutting Sword

  • In the Cities of Coin and Spice

    The Orphan's Tales

    Catherynne M. Valente enchanted readers with her spellbinding In the Night Garden. Now she continues to weave her storytelling magic in a new book of Orphan's Tales--an epic of the fantastic and the exotic, the monstrous and mysterious, that will tra...

  • A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects

    A GUIDE TO FOLKTALES IN FRAGILE DIALECTS by award-winning author and poet Catherynne M. Valente is a delightful collection of poetry, short fables, and fairy tales that explore myth and wonder, ancient and modern, with an introduction by Midori Snyde...

  • Palimpsest

    In the Cities of Coin and Spice and In the Night Garden introduced readers to the unique and intoxicating imagination of Catherynne M. Valente. Now she weaves a lyrically erotic spell of a place where the grotesque and the beautiful reside and the pa...

  • Deathless

    Koschei the Deathless is to Russian folklore what devils or wicked witches are to European culture: a menacing, evil figure; the villain of countless stories which have been passed on through story and text for generations. But Koschei has never befo...



  • This Is My Letter to the World

    The Omikuji Project Cycle - 1

    For two years, acclaimed novelist Catherynne M. Valente has been sending stories out into the wild. Every month, for twenty-four months, a new tale has appeared in mailboxes all over the world. Here, for the first time, these stories have been bro...

  • The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

    Fairyland - 1
    Fairytale Retellings: Sleeping Beauty

    Twelve-year-old September lives in Omaha, and used to have an ordinary life, until her father went to war and her mother went to work. One day, September is met at her kitchen window by a Green Wind (taking the form of a gentleman in a green jacket),...

  • The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland--For a Little While

    Fairyland - 1.5

    This original short story tells the tale of how a girl named Mallow defeated King Goldmouth with the help of the Red Wind, Mr. Map, and many fairyland friends new and old--from Catherynne M. Valente, author of the children's fantasy sensation The Gir...

  • The Folded World

    Prester John - 2

    The Christian Patriarch of Constantinople is fighting a holy war against the forces of Islam. His attempts to rally the support of Europe fail to give him the strength he needs against the forces of Islam. Fearing defeat, he sends his appeals to the ...

  • Myths of Origin

    • Live the Myth! New York Times best-seller Catherynne M. Valente is the single most compelling voice to emerge in fantasy fiction in decades. Collected here for the first time, her early short novels explore, deconstruct, and ultimately explo...

  • Silently and Very Fast

    Fairytale Retellings: Sleeping Beauty

    Fantastist Catherynne M. Valente takes on the folklore of artificial intelligence in this brand new, original novella of technology, identity, and an uncertain mechanized future. Neva is dreaming. But she is not alone. A mysterious machine entity cal...

  • The Book of Apex: Volume 3 of Apex Magazine

    These thirty-one stories encompasses all fifteen issues of Apex Magazine edited by the Hugo Award-nominated editor and author Catherynne M. Valente. You'll find a book containing strange, compelling magics, cities that come to life, and surreal subur...

  • The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There

    Fairytale Retellings: Sleeping Beauty

    September has longed to return to Fairyland after her first adventure there. And when she finally does, she learns that its inhabitants have been losing their shadows -- and their magic -- to the world of Fairyland Below. This underworld has a new ru...

  • Six-Gun Snow White

    Fairytale Retellings: Snow White

    From New York Times bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente comes a brilliant reinvention of one the best known fairy tales of all time. In the novella Six-Gun Snow White, Valente transports the title s heroine to a masterfully evoked Old West where...

  • The Melancholy of Mechagirl

    Melancholy of Mechagirl - 1

    Science fiction and fantasy stories about Japan by the multiple-award winning author and New York Times best seller Catherynne M. Valente. A collection of some of Catherynne Valente’s most admired stories, including the Hugo Award-nominated nove...



  • The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

    Fairyland - 2

    September misses Fairyland and her friends Ell, the Wyverary, and the boy Saturday. She longs to leave the routines of home and embark on a new adventure. Little does she know that this time, she will be spirited away to the moon, reunited with her f...

  • The Bread We Eat in Dreams

    Subterranean Press proudly presents a major new collection by one of the brightest stars in the literary firmament. Catherynne M. Valente, the New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making and...

  • Indistinguishable from Magic

    In Indistinguishable from Magic, more than 60 essays by New York Times-bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente (The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland, The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland) are brought together in print for the first time, sharing Ca...

  • The Boy Who Lost Fairyland

    Fairyland - 3

    When a young troll named Hawthorn is stolen from Fairyland by the Red Wind, he becomes a changeling-a human boy-in the strange city of Chicago, a place no less bizarre and magical than Fairyland. Left with a human family, Hawthorn struggles with his ...

  • Speak Easy

    Fairytale Retellings: Twelve Dancing Princesses

    If you go looking for it, just about halfway uptown and halfway downtown, there's this hotel stuck like a pin all the way through the world. Down inside the Artemisia it's this mortal coil all over. Earthly delights on every floor. The hotel Artem...

  • Radiance

    Radiance is a decopunk pulp SF alt-history space opera mystery set in a Hollywood-and solar system-very different from our own, from Catherynne M. Valente, the phenomenal talent behind the New York Times bestselling The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairy...

  • The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home

    Fairyland - 4

    This final book in the New York Times-bestselling Fairyland series finds September accidentally crowned the Queen of Fairyland. But there are others who believe they have a fair and good claim on the throne, so there is a Royal Race―whoever wins wi...

  • The Refrigerator Monologues

    The lives of six female superheroes and the girlfriends of superheroes. A ferocious riff on women in superhero comics From the New York Times bestselling author Catherynne Valente comes a series of linked stories from the points of view of the wiv...

  • The Glass Town Game

    Charlotte and Emily must enter a fantasy world that they invented in order to rescue their siblings in this adventurous and fiercely intelligent novel. Inside a small Yorkshire parsonage, Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne Brontë have invented ...

  • Space Opera

    The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy meets Eurovision in an over-the-top galactic science fiction spectacle from bestselling author Catherynne Valente where sentient races compete for glory in a universe-wide musical contest -- where the stakes are...



  • The Future Is Blue

    Subterranean Press is thrilled to present a major new collection from one of the most dazzling, distinctive voices in the literary world. Catherynne M. Valente, the New York Times bestselling and multiple-award-winning author of The Girl Who Circumna...

  • The Future is Blue: 13 Novellas

    Subterranean Press is thrilled to present a major new collection from one of the most dazzling, distinctive voices in the literary world. Catherynne M. Valente, the New York Times bestselling and multiple-award-winning author of The Girl Who Circumna...

  • Mass Effect Andromeda: Annihilation

    An official tie-in to the hit video game Mass Effect: Andromeda, written by award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Catherynne M. ValenteAn official tie-in to the hit video game Mass Effect: Andromeda by James Tiptree Jr. and Locus Award-...

  • The Lost Ark

    With the release of a new game, Mass Effect: Andromeda, in 2017, the launch of a new series of Mass Effect novels is timely. The new game takes the story in a dramatic new direction and is set in a new region of space, with a new and deadly enemy. Ti...

  • The End

    Minecraft

    The brand-new official Minecraft novel is an epic battle for survival! When humans enter the End, a pair of endermen must decide which side they’re really on. For as long as they can remember, the twin endermen Fin and Mo have lived in the myste...

  • Color, Heat, and the Wreck of the Argo

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  • The Sin of America

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  • The Past Is Red

    “The Candide of our #@$*%?! age.” -- Ken Liu, award-winning authorCatherynne M. Valente, the bestselling and award-winning creator of Space Opera and The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland returns with The Past Is Red, the enchanting, dark, funn...

  • L'Esprit de L'Escalier

    From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland comes Catherynne M. Valente's dark fantasy tale "L’Esprit de L’Escalier", a Tor.com Original.In this provocative and rich retelling of the Greek myth, Orpheus, t...

  • Comfort Me With Apples

    Comfort Me With Apples is a terrifying new thriller from bestseller Catherynne M. Valente, for fans of Gone Girl and Spinning Silver Sophia was made for him. Her perfect husband. She can feel it in her bones. He is perfect. Their home together in ...



  • Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods

    “I loved every speck of it.” -- Kelly Barnhill, Newbery Medal"winning author of The Girl Who Drank the MoonFrom New York Times bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente comes an inventive middle grade fantasy that follows a boy journeying away ...

  • The Best of Catherynne M. Valente, Volume One

    The celebrated author of Fairyland, Space Opera, and much more, Catherynne M. Valente is also known for her stunning prose and captivating worldbuilding. From life on Mars to the zombified streets of Augusta, Maine, she has taken readers on unforgett...

  • Space Oddity

    Return to the greatest contest in the galaxy in the sequel to the hilarious USA TODAY bestseller Space Opera from New York Times bestselling author and finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Ursula K. Le Guin awards.The Metagalactic Grand ...

Award-Winning Books by Catherynne M. Valente

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
2012 Locus Award -- Young Adult
The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
2014 Locus Award -- Young Adult
Palimpsest
2009 Lambda Literary Award -- Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
Radiance
2015 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Science Fiction Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Catherynne M. Valente has published 42 books.

Catherynne M. Valente does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Space Oddity, was published in October 2024.

The first book by Catherynne M. Valente, The Habitation of the Blessed, was published in March 2001.

Yes. Catherynne M. Valente has 5 series.
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