Gregory Maguire

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  • Bibliography:
    39 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1983
  • Latest Book:
    April 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Another Day

1 - The Brides of Maracoor (Oct-2021)
2 - The Oracle of Maracoor (Oct-2022)
3 - The Witch of Maracoor (Oct-2023)

The Hamlet Chronicles

1 - Seven Spiders Spinning (Aug-1994)
2 - Six Haunted Hairdos (Nov-1997)
3 - Five Alien Elves (Oct-1998)
4 - Four Stupid Cupids (Oct-2000)
5 - Three Rotten Eggs (Mar-2002)
6 - A Couple of April Fools (Jun-2004)
7 - One Final Firecracker (Jun-2005)

The Wicked Years

1 - Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Nov-1995)
2 - Son of a Witch (Oct-2005)
3 - A Lion Among Men (Oct-2008)
4 - Out of Oz (Oct-2011)

Multi-Author Series List

Fairytale Retellings: Snow White

Mirror Mirror (Oct-2003)

Fairytale Retellings: Cinderella

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (Nov-1999)

Book List in Order: 39 titles

  • The Dream Stealer

  • I Feel Like the Morning Star

  • Lucas Fishbone

  • Missing Sisters

    Alice's life is about to change.She's a skinny orphan. She's never been able to hear too well. And she can't speak too well, either. The only person who seems to care for her -- one of the nuns at the orphanage -- gets taken away from Alice in a frea...

  • Seven Spiders Spinning

    The Hamlet Chronicles - 1

    Kiss of the Siberian Snow Spider It's the discovery of the century: seven baby Siberian snow spiders frozen in a glacier. But as the spectacular chunk of ice is being trucked for analysis, the tiny tarantulas defrost -- and escape. And when their ...

  • Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

    The Wicked Years - 1

    When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch -- nemesis, the mysterious witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what i...

  • Oasis

    Thirteen-year-old Hand faces a difficult time when his father dies of a heart attack, his uncle has AIDS, and his mother returns from a three-year absence to take charge, in a story that focuses on the courage it takes for one teenager to work throug...

  • Six Haunted Hairdos

    The Hamlet Chronicles - 2

    In this sequel to Seven Spiders Spinning, the rivalry between the boys and girls in Miss Earth's class takes a ghostly turn when the girls transform themselves into the Six Haunted Hairdos, but the whole class will have to cast aside their ri...

  • Five Alien Elves

    The Hamlet Chronicles - 3

    On the night before Christmas, something is flying over Hamlet, Vermont, but it isn't a sleigh with reindeer. It's a UFO bearing five aliens on a mission: to free this planet from its evil dictator, a fat man in a red suit and a long white beard. Dis...



  • The Good Liar

    Now an old man living in the United States, Marcel recalls his childhood in German-occupied France, especially the summer that he and his older brother Rene befriended a young German soldier. By the author of Five Alien Elves. ...

  • Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

    Fairytale Retellings: Cinderella

    We all have heard the story of Cinderella, the beautiful child cast out to slave among the ashes. But what of her stepsisters, the homely pair exiled into ignominy by the fame of their lovely sibling? What fate befell those untouched by beauty . . . ...

  • Crabby Cratchitt

  • Four Stupid Cupids

    The Hamlet Chronicles - 4

    What makes boys fidget, girls sigh, and everybody a little loopy? When four reckless mythical flying babies break loose from the ancient urn Fawn's aunt sent her from Greece, the boys in Fawn's class squirm in their seats -- and the girls start sche...

  • Three Rotten Eggs

    The Hamlet Chronicles - 5

    Trouble arrives in Hamlet, Vermont in the form of Thud Tweed, a new kid with a nasty demeanor, who trifles with the outcome of the spring egg hunt, which leads to disaster and the emergence of three genetically manipulated eggs, forcing all of the ch...

  • Lost

    Winifred Rudge, a bemused writer struggling to get beyond the runaway success of her mass -- market astrology book, travels to London to jump -- start her new novel about a woman who is being haunted by the ghost of Jack the Ripper. Upon her arrival,...

  • Mirror Mirror

    Fairytale Retellings: Snow White

    The year is 1502, and seven-year-old Bianca de Nevada lives perched high above the rolling hills and valleys of Tuscany and Umbria at Montefiore, the farm of her beloved father, Don Vicente. But one day a noble entourage makes its way up the winding ...

  • Leaping Beauty

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    Once upon a time...Nothing was as it seemed! What if Sleeping Beauty were actually a frog princess, doomed to be Weeping Beauty forever? What if the Three Chickens had to outwit Goldifox? What if Cinder-Elephant lost her glass plate slipper? Then ...

  • A Couple of April Fools

    The Hamlet Chronicles - 6

    It's April Fool's Day, and the rival girls' and boys' clubs of Miss Earth's class are each eager to come up with a good practical joke. But pranks soon lose their appeal when the students' beloved teacher goes missing.

    Has the mysterious cre...

  • One Final Firecracker

    The Hamlet Chronicles - 7

    It's the end of the school year for Miss Earth's class. Everyone is sad to leave their favorite teacher, but there's also a lot to celebrate: the circus is in town, Miss Earth and Mayor Grass are getting married, and Fourth of July celebrations are a...



  • Son of a Witch

    The Wicked Years - 2

    Ten years after the publication of Wicked, beloved novelist Gregory Maguire returns at last to the land of Oz. There he introduces us to Liir, an adolescent boy last seen hiding in the shadows of the castle after Dorothy did in the Witch. Bruised, co...

  • What-the-Dickens

    From the author of the best-selling WICKED, a transporting tale-within-a-tale about the strange world of skibbereen -- aka tooth fairies -- and the universal need to believe. A terrible storm is raging, and ten-year-old Dinah is huddled by candlel...

  • A Lion Among Men

    The Wicked Years - 3

    While civil war looms in Oz, Brrr -- the Cowardly Lion -- surrenders the story of his life to a tetchy oracle named Yackle. Abandoned as a cub, Brrr's path from infancy in the Great Gillikan Forest is no Yellow Brick Road. Seeking to redress an early...

  • Matchless

    The beloved author of "Wicked" reimagines Hans Christian Andersen's classic story "The Little Match Girl" for modern readers in this charming, beautifully illustrated gift book Each year, National Public Radio asks a writer to compose a story with...

  • The Next Queen of Heaven

    With the new millennium approaching, the eccentric town of Thebes grows even stranger. Mrs. Leontina Scales begins speaking in tongues after being clocked by a Catholic statuette. Her daughter, Tabitha, and her sons scheme to save their mother or sur...

  • Happily Ever After

    Happily Ever After is a star-studded book of fairy tales, featuring an introduction by Bill Willingham (Fables) and stories by Gregory Maguire, Susanna Clarke, Karen Joy Fowler, Charles de Lint, Holly Black, Garth Nix, Kelly Link, Peter Straub, Neil ...

  • Out of Oz

    The Wicked Years - 4

    The stunning conclusion to the smash New York Times bestselling series the Wicked Years Hailed as "bewitching," "remarkable," "extraordinary," "engrossing," "amazing," and "delicious," Gregory Maguire's Wicked Years series -- a sophisticated fanta...

  • Tales Told in Oz

  • Egg & Spoon

    Elena Rudina lives in the impoverished Russian countryside, and there is no food. But then a train arrives in the village, a train carrying a cornucopia of food, untold wealth, and a noble family destined to visit the Tsar in Saint Petersburg -- a fa...

  • After Alice

    From the multi-million-copy bestselling author of Wicked comes a magical new twist on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Lewis’s Carroll’s beloved classic. When Alice toppled down the rabbit...



  • Hiddensee

    From the author of the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller WICKED, the magical story of a toymaker, a nutcracker, and a legend remade... Gregory Maguire returns with an inventive novel inspired by a timeless holiday legend, intertwining the story...

  • A Wild Winter Swan

    After brilliantly reimagining the worlds of Oz, Wonderland, Dickensian London, and the Nutcracker, the New York Times bestselling author of Wicked turns his unconventional genius to Hans Christian Andersen's "The Wild Swans," transforming...

  • The Brides of Maracoor

    Another Day - 1

    Multimillion-copy bestselling author Gregory Maguire unveils the first in a three-book series spun off the iconic Wicked Years, featuring Elphaba’s granddaughter, the green-skinned Rain. Ten years ago this season, Gregory Maguire wrapped up the ...

  • Cress Watercress

    A lavishly illustrated woodland tale with a classic sensibility and modern flair -- from the fertile imagination behind Wicked Gregory Maguire turns his trademark wit and wisdom to an animal adventure about growing up, moving on, and finding communit...

  • The Oracle of Maracoor

    Another Day - 2

    Multimillion-copy bestselling author Gregory Maguire brings us the enchanting second novel in the series Another Day, returning to the world he first created in Wicked. The Oracle of Maracoor, the second in the trilogy called Another Day, continue...

  • The Witch of Maracoor

    Another Day - 3

    The multimillion-copy bestselling story of Wicked comes full circle in The Witch of Maracoor, the final installment of Gregory Maguire’s Another Day seriesFollowing a confrontation with her reclusive great-grandfather, the onetime Wizard of Oz, Rai...

  • Elphie: A Wicked Childhood

    This Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition features unique stenciled edges, a designed case stamp, color illustrated endpapers, and a ribbon marker.What happened to young Elphaba before her witchy powers took hold in Wicked? Almost 30 years after the...

  • Wicked: The Graphic Novel Part I

    Experience the magic of Oz as you’ve never seen it before with this brand-new graphic novel adaptation of Gregory Maguire’s masterpiece Wicked, the inspiration for the Broadway show and major motion picture -- the first in a two-pa...

  • Elphie

    What happened to young Elphaba before her witchy powers took hold in Wicked? Almost 30 years after the publication of the original novel, for the first time Gregory Maguire reveals the story of prickly young Elphie, the future Wicked Witch of th...

  • Lights on the Lake

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    Lonely Daniel Rider, living with his parents in his dead grandmother's house in the Adirondack Mountains, becomes involved with a young poet grieving for a dead friend and a mysterious black bird that reveals other people's dreams....



Award-Winning Books by Gregory Maguire

Egg & Spoon
2015 Audies -- Teen


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Gregory Maguire has published 39 books.

The next book by Gregory Maguire, Elphie, will be published in April 2025.

The first book by Gregory Maguire, The Dream Stealer, was published in June 1983.

Yes. Gregory Maguire has 3 series.
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