Guy Gavriel Kay

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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1984
  • Latest Book:
    June 2025
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Full Series List in Order

The Fionavar Tapestry

1 - The Summer Tree (1984)
2 - The Wandering Fire (1986)
3 - The Darkest Road (1986)

Sarantine Mosaic

1 - Sailing to Sarantium (Mar-1999)
2 - Lord of Emperors (Mar-2000)

Under Heaven

1 - Under Heaven (May-2010)
2 - River of Stars (Apr-2013)

Book List in Order: 17 titles

  • The Summer Tree

    The Fionavar Tapestry - 1

    It all began with a lecture that introduced five university students to a man who would change their lives, a wizard who would take them from Earth to the heart of the first of all worlds--Fionavar. And take them Loren Silvercloak did, for his need--...

  • The Darkest Road

    The Fionavar Tapestry - 3

    And so the time of prophecy has come at last, the final days for those who dwell in Fionavar, first of all worlds. Even as the Unraveller's armies march to battle, even as his rain of death unleashes plague upon the lands, the warriors of Light are c...

  • The Wandering Fire

    The Fionavar Tapestry - 2

    The ice of eternal winter has reached out to enshroud Fionavar, the first of all worlds. For the Unraveller has broken free after millennia enchained--and now his terrible vengeance has begun to take its toll on mortals and immortals, mages and warri...

  • Tigana

    This is that rare, spellbinding novel in which myth comes alive and magic reaches out to touch us. Tigana is the magical story of a beleaguered country struggling to be free. It is the tale of a people so cursed by the dark sorceries of the tyrant ki...

  • A Song for Arbonne

    It began with love, both courtly and forbidden, and with kingdoms endlessly opposed, one dominated by male rulers and their male god, the other in which women and their goddess held a share of earthly power. For the Northern mercenary called Blaise, ...

  • The Lions of Al-Rassan

    Over the centuries, the once stern rulers of Al-Rassan have been seduced by sensuous pleasures. Now King Almalik of Cartada is on the ascendancy, adding city after city to his realm, aided by his friend and advisor, the notorious Ammar ibn Khairan--p...

  • Sailing to Sarantium

    Sarantine Mosaic - 1

    Crispin is a mosaicist, a layer of bright tiles. Still grieving for the family he lost to the plague, he lives only for his arcane craft. But an imperial summons from Valerius the Trakesian to Sarantium, the most magnificent place in the world, is di...

  • Lord of Emperors

    Sarantine Mosaic - 2

    Beckoned by the Emperor Valerius, Crispin, a renowned mosaicist, has arrived in the fabled city of Sarantium. Here he seeks to fulfill his artistic ambitions and his destiny high upon a dome that will become the emerror's magnificent sanctuary and le...

  • The Last Light of the Sun

    A powerful, moving saga evoking the Celtic, Anglo-Saxon and Norse cultures of a thousand years ago from the acclaimed author of The Fionavar Tapestry.“A historical fantasy of the highest order, the work of a man who may well be the reigning master ...



  • Ysabel

    Saint-Saveur Cathedral of Aix-en-Provence is an ancient structure of many secrets-a perfect monument to fill the lens of a celebrated photographer, and a perfect place for the photographer's son, Ned Marriner, to lose himself while his father works. ...

  • Beyond This Dark House

    Before Guy Gavriel Kay became known for his groundbreaking works of speculative fiction, establishing himself as one of the world's most respected writers in that genre, he was an accomplished poet, his work appearing in major literary journals such ...

  • Under Heaven

    Under Heaven - 1

    It begins simply. Shen Tai, son of an illustrious general serving the Emperor of Kitai, has spent two years honoring the memory of his late father by burying the bones of the dead from both armies at the site of one of his father's last great battle...

  • River of Stars

    Under Heaven - 2

    In his critically acclaimed novel Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay told a vivid and powerful story inspired by China’s Tang Dynasty. Now, the international bestselling and multiple award-winning author revisits that invented setting four centuries lat...

  • Children of Earth and Sky

    The bestselling author of the groundbreaking novels Under Heaven and River of Stars, Guy Gavriel Kay is back with a new book, set in a world inspired by the conflicts and dramas of Renaissance Europe. Against this tumultuous backdrop the lives of men...

  • A Brightness Long Ago

    International bestselling author Guy Gavriel Kay's latest work is set in a world evoking early Renaissance Italy and offers an extraordinary cast of characters whose lives come together through destiny, love, and ambition. In a chamber overloo...

  • All the Seas of the World

    Returning triumphantly to the brilliantly evoked near-Renaissance world of A Brightness Long Ago and Children of Earth and Sky, international bestselling author Guy Gavriel Kay deploys his signature ‘quarter turn to the fantastic’ to tell a story...

  • Written on the Dark

    From the internationally bestselling author of Tigana, All the Seas of the World, and A Brightness Long Ago comes a sweeping new novel of love and war that brilliantly evokes the drama and turbulence of medieval France....

Award-Winning Books by Guy Gavriel Kay

Ysabel
2008 World Fantasy Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Guy Gavriel Kay has published 17 books.

The next book by Guy Gavriel Kay, Written on the Dark, will be published in June 2025.

The first book by Guy Gavriel Kay, The Summer Tree, was published in January 1984.

Yes. Guy Gavriel Kay has 3 series.
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