Jim C. Hines

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  • Bibliography:
    32 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2004
  • Latest Book:
    April 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse

1 - Terminal Alliance (Nov-2017)
2 - Terminal Uprising (Feb-2019)
3 - Terminal Peace (Aug-2022)

The Legend of Jig Dragonslayer

1 - Goblin Quest (2004)
2 - Goblin Hero (May-2007)
3 - Goblin War (Mar-2008)

Magic Ex Libris

1 - Libriomancer (Aug-2012)
2 - Codex Born (Aug-2013)
3 - Unbound (Jan-2015)
4 - Revisionary (Feb-2016)

Princess Novels

1 - The Stepsister Scheme (Jan-2009)
2 - The Mermaid's Madness (Oct-2009)
3 - Red Hood's Revenge (Jul-2010)
4 - The Snow Queen's Shadow (Jul-2011)

Sword and Sorceress

21 - Spell of the Sparrow (Nov-2004)

Multi-Author Series List

Fable

Blood of Heroes (Aug-2015)

Fairytale Retellings: Snow White

The Stepsister Scheme (Jan-2009)
The Mermaid's Madness (Oct-2009)
Red Hood's Revenge (Jul-2010)
The Snow Queen's Shadow (Jul-2011)

Fairytale Retellings: Cinderella

The Stepsister Scheme (Jan-2009)
The Mermaid's Madness (Oct-2009)
Red Hood's Revenge (Jul-2010)
The Snow Queen's Shadow (Jul-2011)

Fairytale Retellings: Red Riding Hood

Red Hood's Revenge (Jul-2010)

Fairytale Retellings: Sleeping Beauty

The Stepsister Scheme (Jan-2009)
The Mermaid's Madness (Oct-2009)
Red Hood's Revenge (Jul-2010)
The Snow Queen's Shadow (Jul-2011)
Sister of the Hedge & Other Stories (Jun-2012)

Fairytale Retellings: The Little Mermaid

The Mermaid's Madness (Oct-2009)

Fairytale Retellings: The Snow Queen

The Snow Queen's Shadow (Jul-2011)

Book List in Order: 32 titles

  • Goblin Quest

    The Legend of Jig Dragonslayer - 1

    Jig is a scrawny little nearsighted goblin-a runt even among his puny species. Captured by a party of adventurers searching for a magical artifact, and forced to guide them, Jig encounters every peril ever faced on a fantasy quest....

  • Spell of the Sparrow

    in Sword and Sorceress XXI
    Sword and Sorceress - 21

    Featuring contributions by Diana L. Paxson, Rosemary Edghill, and Leslie Fish, among others, a powerful collection of original stories introduces a heroic cast of brave, strong-willed, and fiercely independant female characters, including a girl who ...

  • Goblin Hero

    The Legend of Jig Dragonslayer - 2

    THEY CALL HIM JIG DRAGONSLAYER -- and who is he to deny a legend. After all, common sense -- something in very short supply among goblins -- has a lot to do with Jig's continued existence. Though he's been captured by adventurers and dragged unwillin...

  • Goblin War

    The Legend of Jig Dragonslayer - 3

    If you think it’s hard being a hobgoblin or a human, try living a goblin’s life for a while. In fact, try imagining what it’s like to be the runtiest goblin in the caves, the lone worshiper of a god who’s been forgotten for a good reason, and...

  • Untrained Melody

    in Misspelled

    LESLEY D. LIVINGSTOY* KRTSTINE SMITH KEVIN G. MACLEAN * JANET ELIZABETH CHASE MARC MACKAY * KRISTEN BRITAIN KENT POLLARD * KELL BROWN * JOHN ZAKOUR ROB ST. MARTIN * S.W. MAYSE * DORANNA DURGIN MORGAN S. BRILLIANT * KATE PAULK NATHAN AZINGER * J...

  • The Faery Taile Project

    Is it good to be bad? Or is it bad to be good? This snarky and fun retelling of the classic fairy tale 'Little Red Riding Hood and The Big Bad Wolf' will have you laughing out loud as you turn the pages. The stories are printed opposite one another s...

  • The Stepsister Scheme

    Princess Novels - 1
    Fairytale Retellings: Cinderella
    Fairytale Retellings: Sleeping Beauty
    Fairytale Retellings: Snow White

    What would happen if an author went back to the darker themes of the original fairy tales for his plots, and then crossed the Disney princesses with Charlie's Angels? What's delivered is The Stepsister Scheme?a whole new take on what happened to Cind...

  • The Red Path

    in Terribly Twisted Tales

    Fairy tales are among the earliest fantasies we are exposed to when we are young and impressionable children. In one way or another they stay with us throughout our lives, whether in their original versions, or filtered through cartoon retellings. ...

  • The Mermaid's Madness

    Princess Novels - 2
    Fairytale Retellings: Cinderella
    Fairytale Retellings: Sleeping Beauty
    Fairytale Retellings: Snow White
    Fairytale Retellings: The Little Mermaid

    There is an old story -- you might have heard it -- about a young mermaid, the daughter of a king, who saved the life of a human prince and fell in love. So innocent was her love, so pure her devotion, that she would pay any price for the chance to b...



  • The Creature in Your Neighborhood

    in Strip Mauled

    HOWLY TERRORS Werewolves and the suburbs are a natural go-together. Okay, so they're not the Obligatory/Iconic Suburban Golden Retriever or Chocolate Labrador, but they've got a much better chance of taking home the Best in Show ribbon than their Un...

  • Red Hood's Revenge

    Princess Novels - 3
    Fairytale Retellings: Cinderella
    Fairytale Retellings: Red Riding Hood
    Fairytale Retellings: Sleeping Beauty
    Fairytale Retellings: Snow White

    Roudette's story was a simple one. A red cape. A wolf. A hunter. Her mother told her she would be safe. so long as she kept to the path. But sometimes the path leads to dark places. Roudette is the hunter now, an assassin known throughout the world ...

  • Goldfish Dreams

    Eileen Greenwood's first year at Southern Michigan University means freedom: freedom from the brother who molested her, freedom from the father who refused to believe her, and freedom from the sister who turned her back on it all. Eileen desperately ...

  • Goblin Tales

    <font face="Arial" size="2">A vengeful ghost trapped in a goblin's ear ... a flaming spider who must help stop a goddess from conquering a science fiction convention ... a goblin nursery worker who finds herself trapped in t...

  • The Snow Queen's Shadow

    Princess Novels - 4
    Fairytale Retellings: Cinderella
    Fairytale Retellings: Sleeping Beauty
    Fairytale Retellings: Snow White
    Fairytale Retellings: The Snow Queen

    A broken mirror. A stolen child. A final mission to try to stop an enemy they never dreamed they would face. When a spell gone wrong shatters Snow White's enchanted mirror, a demon escapes into the world. The demon's magic distorts the vision of all...

  • Kitemaster and Other Stories

    A werewolf with a taste for puppets ... a modern-day bard whose power flows from the bellows of her accordion ... a magical dagger with an extremely unusual power. This collection features six lighter fantasy tales from the award-winning author of GO...

  • Sister of the Hedge & Other Stories

    Fairytale Retellings: Sleeping Beauty

    In the world war against the Elf King, what is the cost of victory ... a dryad vigilante in Tuscon fights an enemy more dangerous than any other: her own nature ... a grim look at the true cost of Sleeping Beauty's curse. This collection features six...

  • Libriomancer

    Magic Ex Libris - 1

    Isaac Vainio is a Libriomancer, a member of the secret organization founded five centuries ago by Johannes Gutenberg. Libriomancers are gifted with the ability to magically reach into books and draw forth objects. When Isaac is attacked by vampires ...

  • Codex Born

    Magic Ex Libris - 2

    Five hundred years ago, Johannes Gutenberg discovered the art of libriomancy, allowing him to reach into books to create things from their pages. Gutenberg's power brought him many enemies, and some of those enemies have waited centuries for revenge....

  • The Goblin Master's Grimoire

    A heroic goblin? Who ever heard of such a thing? Jim Hines did. And in this collection, you’ll meet the intelligent, brave, scrawny, smart-mouthed, and reluctantly heroic goblin, Jig. From shortly after Jig’s birth to his unusual leadership of a...



  • Rise of the Spider Goddess

    In 2006, DAW Books published Jim C. Hines’ debut novel Goblin Quest. But before Jig the goblin, before fairy tale princesses and magic librarians and spunky fire-spiders, there was Nakor the Purple, an elf who wanted nothing more than to stand arou...

  • Unbound

    Magic Ex Libris - 3

    For five hundred years, the Porters have concealed the existence of magic from the world. Now, old enemies have revealed the Porters’ secrets, and an even greater threat lurks in the shadows. The would-be queen Meridiana, banished for a thousand...

  • Fable

    Deep in Albion's darkest age, long before once upon a time ...Heroes are thought to be gone from the land. So why have the bards begun singing of them once more? For Fable newcomers and dedicated fans alike, Blood of Heroes delves into a never-before...

  • Blood of Heroes

    Fable

    The official companion novel to the videogame Fable® Legends Deep in Albion’s darkest age, long before once upon a time . . . Heroes are thought to be gone from the land. So why have the bards begun singing of them once more? For Fable newcomer...

  • Chupacabra's Song

    In the Magic ex Libris series, Nicola Pallas is one of the most powerful magic-users in the world, able to overpower her enemies with little more than a whistle. She's also known for raising chupacabras in her barn.This 5000-word short story introduc...

  • Revisionary

    Magic Ex Libris - 4

    When Isaac Vainio helped to reveal magic to the world, he dreamed of a utopian future, a new millennium of magical prosperity. One year later, things aren’t going quite as he’d hoped.   An organization known as Vanguard, made up of magical cre...

  • Terminal Alliance

    Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse - 1

    In his hilarious new sci-fi series, Jim C. Hines introduces the unlikely heroes that may just save the galaxy: a crew of space janitors. The Krakau came to Earth to invite humanity into a growing alliance of sentient species. However, they happene...

  • Imprinted

    Jeneta’s magic could give us the stars…or destroy everyone she cares about.Seventeen-year-old libriomancer Jeneta Aboderin is a prodigy, determined to move on from the horrors she’s faced and use her power to create a better future. To show the...

  • Terminal Uprising

    Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse - 2

    Human civilization didn’t just fall. It was pushed. The Krakau came to Earth in the year 2104. By 2105, humanity had been reduced to shambling, feral monsters. In the Krakau’s defense, it was an accident, and a century later, they did come ba...

  • Tamora Carter: Goblin Queen

    One night after roller derby practice, twelve-year-old Tamora Carter discovers a pair of goblins digging through the dumpster behind the rink.The scruffy pair passed through a magical portal into our world, and they're not alone. Do these creatures k...



  • Terminal Peace

    Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse - 3

    The third and final book of the Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse follows a group of unlikely heroes trying to save the galaxy from a zombie plague.Marion “Mops” Adamopoulos and her team were trained to clean spaceships. They were absolutely not tr...

  • Amelia Sand and the Silver Queens

    Amelia Sand is a student at Ainsworth Academy, where nonhumans are taught to be civilized. But for the rulers of Umbra—humans who came through a world-gate from Earth and now sit upon the thrones—that's not enough. When Amelia discovers...

  • Kitemaster

    Nial Sarnin is only twenty-one years old, far too young to have lost her beloved Jika. She lives on a world where the winds never stop, and we find Nial at the beginning of the book preparing to launch the spirit kite, sewn from the shirt he wore at ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jim C. Hines has published 32 books.

The next book by Jim C. Hines, Kitemaster, will be published in April 2025.

The first book by Jim C. Hines, Goblin Quest, was published in January 2004.

Yes. Jim C. Hines has 5 series.
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