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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 2008
  • Latest Book:
    September 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Fly

1 - Fly by Night (Feb-2008)
2 - Fly Trap (Jun-2011)

Book List in Order: 14 titles



  • The award-winning author of The Lie Tree “has created a distinctly imaginative world full of engaging characters, robust humor, and true suspense” (School Library Journal, starred review).Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong b...



  • “Deliciously shiver-inducing . . . Fans of dark fantasies such as Neil Gaiman’s Coraline will find this tale irresistible” -- from the award-winning author (School Library Journal).Verdigris (n.): a blue-green rust that...



  • From the award-winning author, “a breathtaking journey of revenge and redemption that pits a stubborn, devoted girl against an unknown evil” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).On Gullstruck Island, legend has it that the mountain ranges and volcano...



  • On an island of sandy beaches, dense jungles, and slumbering volcanoes, colonists seek to apply archaic laws to a new land, bounty hunters stalk the living for the ashes of their funerary pyres, and a smiling tribe is despised by all as traitorous...



  • Ryan and his friends don't think twice about stealing some money from a wishing well. After all, who's really going to miss a few tarnished coins?

    The well witch does.

    And she demands payback: Now Ryan, Josh, and Chelle must serve her...



  • Having barely escaped the revolution they had a huge (if accidental) part in causing, sharp-eyed orphan Mosca Mye; her guard goose, Saracen; and their sometimes-loyal companion, the con man Eponymous Clent, must start anew. All too quickly, they f...



  • Mosca Mye and Eponymous Clent are in trouble again. Escaping disaster by the skin of their teeth, they find refuge in Toll, the strange gateway town where visitors may neither enter nor leave without paying a price. By day, the city is well-mannered ...



  • An amnesiac girl explores an enchanting underground world filled with sinister secrets in this YA fantasy from the award-winning author of The Lie Tree. In the underground city of Caverna, the world’s most skilled craftspeople toil in the darkness ...



  • “Full of rich language that is reminiscent of an old fairy tale. . . . [a] spine-chilling, creative work [and] a well-wrought fantasy.” -- School Library Journal (starred review)   Following a mysterious incident that leaves ...






  • Costa Book of the Year: This novel of science, magic, murder, and a determined Victorian-era teenager is a “heady concoction . . . absolutely unforgettable” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Faith Sunderly leads a double life. To m...



  • A Skinful of Shadows is a dark YA historical fantasy set in the early part of the English Civil War. Makepeace is an illegitimate daughter of the aristocratic Fellmotte family, and as such, she shares their unique hereditary gift: the capacity to be ...



  • “Equal parts dazzling fantasy, swashbuckling adventure, and tender coming-of-age tale” from the author of the Costa Book of the Year, The Lie Tree (Publishers Weekly, starred review).   The gods are dead. Fifty years ago, they turned on one ...



  • Unraveller is a dark YA fantasy about learning to use your power and finding peace, from award-winning author Frances Hardinge.   In a world where anyone can create a life-destroying curse, only one person has the power to unravel them.   ...



  • Part gothic thriller and part coming-of-age story, a new illustrated middle-grade fantasy from award-winning author Frances Hardinge and acclaimed illustrator Emily Gravett about a strange island filled with ghosts and long-buried secrets A remarkabl...


Award-Winning Books by Frances Hardinge

The Lie Tree
2015 Costa Book Award -- Book of the Year
2015 Costa Book Award -- Children's
2016 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award -- Fiction & Poetry


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Frances Hardinge has published 14 books.

Frances Hardinge does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Island of Whispers, was published in September 2024.

The first book by Frances Hardinge, Fly by Night, was published in February 2008.

Yes. Frances Hardinge has 1 series.