Francesca Lia Block

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  • Bibliography:
    40 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1993
  • Latest Book:
    July 2022
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Full Series List in Order

The Weetzie Bat Books

1 - Weetzie Bat ()
2 - Witch Baby (Jul-2004)
3 - Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys (Jul-2004)
4 - Missing Angel Juan (Nov-1993)
5 - Baby Be-Bop (Jul-2004)
6 - Necklace of Kisses (Aug-2005)

Multi-Author Series List

Fairytale Retellings: Beauty and the Beast

The Rose and the Beast (Sep-2000)

Fairytale Retellings: Snow White

The Rose and the Beast (Sep-2000)

Fairytale Retellings: Sleeping Beauty

The Rose and the Beast (Sep-2000)

Book List in Order: 40 titles

  • Ecstasia

    Calliope and Rafe, sister and brother, were born of a woman of the Desert and a man who made magic with his mind, who could fight off illness and age with his potions. But now the children have grown and their parents are gone. Now Calliope and Rafe,...

  • Missing Angel Juan

    The Weetzie Bat Books - 4

    Lonely CityA tangly-haired, purple-eyed girl named Witch Baby lives in glitzy L.A. She loves a guy named Angel Juan. When he leaves for New York she knows she must find him.Looking For LoveSo she heads for the city of glittery buildings and garbage a...

  • Primavera

    Her voice brought life to the barren desert. Her songs made water flow and flowers blossom from the very moment she was born. But even in Paradise there are dreams that cannot be fulfilled. Primavera, in love with a man who can never be hers, knows s...

  • The Hanged Man

    After the death of her father, Laurel is haunted by a legacy of family secrets, hidden shame, and shattered glass. Immersing herself in the heady rhythms of a city that is like something wild, caged, and pacing, Laurel tries to lose herself. But when...

  • I Was a Teenage Fairy

    Maybe Mab was real. Maybe not. Maybe Mab was the fury. Maybe she was the courage. Maybe later on she was the sex . . .A tiny fairy winging her way through the jasmine-scented L.A. night. A little girl caught in a grown-up glitz-and-glitter world of s...

  • Violet and Claire

    This is the story of two girls, racing through space like shadow and light. A photo negative, together they make the perfect image of a girl. Violet is the dark one, dressed in forever black, dreaming Technicolor dreams of spinning the world into her...

  • Nymph

  • The Rose and the Beast

    Fairytale Retellings: Beauty and the Beast
    Fairytale Retellings: Sleeping Beauty
    Fairytale Retellings: Snow White

    With language that is both lyrical and distinctly her own, Francesca Lia Block turns nine fairy tales inside out....

  • When I Was Your Age



  • Echo

    Maybe I would become a mermaid....I would live in the swirling blue-green currents, doing exotic underwater dances for the fish, kissed by sea anemones, caressed by seaweed shawls. I would have a dolphin as a friend. He would have merry eyes and the ...

  • Wasteland

    When you were a baby I sat very still to hold you. I could see the veins through your skin like a map to inside you. I stopped breathing so you wouldn't ... You were just a boy on a bed in a room, like a kaleidoscope is a tube full of bits of broken ...

  • Baby Be-Bop

    The Weetzie Bat Books - 5

    Dirk MacDonald, a sixteen-year-old boy living in Los Angeles, comes to terms with being gay after he receives surreal storytelling visitations from his dead father and great-grandmother....

  • Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys

    The Weetzie Bat Books - 3

    With their parents away, four young people form a rock band that becomes wildly popular, carrying them into a "freer" life than they can cope with....

  • Witch Baby

    The Weetzie Bat Books - 2

    Once upon a time in the city of Shangri-L.A., someone left a baby on a doorstep. She had wild, dark hair and purple eyes and looked at the world in a special way.The family that took her in called her Witch Baby and raised her as their own. But even ...

  • Necklace of Kisses

    The Weetzie Bat Books - 6

    Where were the kisses? Weetzie Bat wondered. And so begins a magical journey of discovery. As she turns forty and the relationship with her secret-agent lover-man Max falls apart, Weetzie packs up her lime green and bright orange bikini, orange suede...

  • Firebirds Rising

    What you hold in your hands is more than a book. It is a gateway between worlds -- from deep space to Faerie to just around the corner. The seventeen authors who have contributed original stories to Firebirds Rising have won virtually every literary ...

  • Ruby

    Francesca Lia Block, this time with co-writer Carmen Staton, introduces readers to Ruby, a Midwestern girl named for the jewel that is believed to ward off evil spirits. Ruby's special gift is a sixth sense that makes her at one with nature and gives...

  • Quakeland

    “[Francesca Lia] Block writes about the real Los Angeles better than anyone since Raymond Chandler.” -- The New York Times Book Review“[Block] uses language like a jeweled sword glittering as it cuts to the heart.” -- Kirkus ReviewsAfter endu...

  • Blood Roses

    What shall we do, all of us? All of us passionate girls who fear crushing the boys we love with our mouths like caverns of teeth, our mushrooming brains, our watermelon hearts?...



  • Psyche in a Dress

    But this is what I could not give up: I could not give up myself Psyche has known Love--scented with jasmine and tasting of fresh oranges. Yet he is fleeting and fragile, lost to her too quickly. Punished by self-doubt, Psyche yearns to be tra...

  • Girl Goddess #9

    Meet Tweetie Sweet Pea and Peachy Pie, Jacaranda and Rave and Desiree...Meet Lady Ivory and Alabaster Dutchess, who interview their favorite rock star, Nick Agate, only to discover the magic and power in themselves. Meet Tuck Budd, who is happy livin...

  • How to (Un)cage a Girl

    A celebration of girls and women in a three part poetry collection that is powerful, hopeful, authentic, and universal....

  • The Waters and the Wild

    When Bee woke up, there was a girl standing in her room. "You are me," the girl said. Then she was gone. I am a thirteen-year-old double Gemini. I get bad grades, write poetry with my left hand, dance in my room, surf the net. I Google images of ...

  • Pretty Dead

    People pity me, but mostly they feel envy. I have all the luxury and freedom a girl my age could want. Something is happening to Charlotte Emerson. Like the fires that are ravaging the hills of Los Angeles, it consumes her from the inside out. But...

  • House of Dolls

    In a little house from another time, with lace curtains in every window and paintings hung in gold doily frames, Wildflower, Rockstar, and Miss Selene live a warm and cozy life. They wear fancy dresses, bake play-dough cakes, and spend their days enj...

  • The Frenzy

    Love is a werewolf, influenced by the moon and terror, and always about to change. Liv has a secret. Something happened to her when she was thirteen. Something that changed everything. Liv knows she doesn't belong anymore -- not in her own skin...

  • Love Magick

    Francesca Lia Block does it again!  This time, she has brought together a powerful, talented, impeccable group of writers, in her first venture into publishing, with the e-book anthology LOVE MAGICK.  She has been playing with the idea of publishin...

  • Pink Smog

    The girl in the mirror wasn't who I wanted to be, and her life wasn't the one I wanted to have. Despite how much Louise insists, no one will call her Weetzie. It's her dad's nickname for her, but it won't stay put. Neither will her dad. Charlie le...

  • The Elementals

    From a star YA author Francesca Lia Block -- an adult novel about a student, haunted by the disappearance of a friend, who must face the truth The Elementals is on one level an intriguing coming-of-age novel about a young woman, Ariel Silverman, f...



  • Love in the Time of Global Warming

    Seventeen-year-old Penelope (Pen) has lost everything -- her home, her parents, and her ten-year-old brother. Like a female Odysseus in search of home, she navigates a dark world full of strange creatures, gathers companions and loses them, finds lov...

  • Teen Spirit

    Francesca Lia Block, critically acclaimed author of Weetzie Bat, brings this eerie and redemptive ghost story to life with her signature, poetic prose. It's perfect for fans of supernatural stories with a touch of romance like the Beautiful Creatures...

  • The Island of Excess Love

    In "The Island of Excess Love," Pen has lost her parents. She's lost her eye. But she has fought Kronen; she has won back her fragile friends and her beloved brother. Now Pen, Hex, Ash, Ez, and Venice are living in the pink house by the sea, getting ...

  • Beyond the Pale Motel

    Maternal, sexy Catt and her beautiful, daring best friend Bree are hairdressers at an L.A. salon called Head Hunter, and work out at a gym called Body Farm. They have over a decade of sobriety behind them and are getting close to living the lives the...

  • The Dragon

    Powerful, riveting, and real. Sixteen celebrated authors bring us raw, insightful stories that explore guns and teens in a fiction collection that is thought provoking and emotionally gripping. For fans of Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock and Give a Boy a...

  • Rough Magick

    In Rough Magick, we have gathered together a collection of haunting, sometimes chilling, short stories and poems about the darker side of love and sex. Some of the stories are magical; some are more realistic and the “magic” comes through in l...

  • Sick Pleasure

    in Summer Days and Summer Nights

    Maybe it's the long, lazy days, or maybe it's the heat making everyone a little bit crazy. Whatever the reason, summer is the perfect time for love to bloom. Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories, written by twelve bestselling young a...

  • My Miserable Life

    Ben Hunter has a miserable life -- M-I-S-E-R-A-B-L-E! His sister will only talk to him through text messages, his mom won't let him eat sugar or even go for a bike ride unchaperoned, and a bully at school steals all of his friends. Told in Ben's voic...

  • Lost Children

    After the loss of her mother, a woman returns to the San Fernando Valley only to uncover a haunting secret about her childhood friend. A visiting professor at a charming but strange California liberal arts college must face her past in order to ...

  • House of Hearts

    Izzy Ames lives with her high school sweetheart, Cyrus Rivera, in the Salton Sea. They cling to each other and to their close friends Nephy and Seth to cope with the trauma of their pasts. Until the morning Izzy awakes to find Cyrus has vanished...



  • Weetzie Bat

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    The Weetzie Bat Books - 1

    “Transcendent.” -- New York Times Book Review“Magnificent.” -- Village Voice“Sparkling.” -- Publishers WeeklyFrancesca Lia Block’s dazzling debut novel, Weetzie Bat, is not only a genre-shattering, critically acclaimed gem, it's also...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Francesca Lia Block has published 40 books.

Francesca Lia Block does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, House of Hearts, was published in July 2022.

The first book by Francesca Lia Block, Ecstasia, was published in May 1993.

Yes. Francesca Lia Block has 1 series.
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