Jo Walton

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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2000
  • Latest Book:
    September 2023
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About the Author

Jo Walton has published thirteen novels, most recently Necessity. She has also published three poetry collections and an essay collection. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2002, the World Fantasy Award for Tooth and Claw in 2004, the Hugo and Nebula awards for Among Others in 2012, and in 2014 both the Tiptree Award for My Real Children and the Locus Non Fiction award for What Makes This Book So Great. She comes from Wales but lives in Montreal where the food and books are much better. She gets bored easily so she tends to write books that are different from each other. She also reads a lot, enjoys travel, talking about books, and eating great food. She plans to live to be ninety-nine and write a book every year.

Full Series List in Order

King's Peace

1 - The King's Peace (Oct-2000)
2 - The King's Name (Dec-2001)
3 - The Prize in the Game (Dec-2002)

Small Change

1 - Farthing (Aug-2006)
2 - Ha'penny (Oct-2007)
3 - Half A Crown (Oct-2008)

Thessaly

1 - The Just City (Jan-2015)
2 - The Philosopher Kings (Jul-2015)
3 - Necessity (Jul-2016)

Book List in Order: 24 titles

  • The King's Peace

    King's Peace - 1

    Sulien ap Gwien was seventeen when the Jarnish raiders came. Had she been armed when they found her, she could have taken them all. As it was, it took six of them to subdue her. She will never forgive them. Thus begins her story--a story that will...

  • The King's Name

    King's Peace - 2

    The warrior Sulien ap Gwien and her lord King Urdo have finally united the land of Tir Tanagiri into a kingdom ruled by justice under a single code of law. But where many see a hopeful future for the land, others believe they sense the seeds of a new...

  • The Prize in the Game

    King's Peace - 3

    Set in the world of Jo Walton's previous novels, The King's Peace and The King's Name, The Prize in the Game takes us to a shining era of dark powers, legendary heroes and passionate loves-all of them ruled by the hand of Fate. When a friendly compe...

  • Tooth and Claw

    A tale of contention over love and money -- among dragonsJo Walton burst onto the fantasy scene with The King's Peace, acclaimed by writers as diverse as Poul Anderson, Robin Hobb, and Ken MacLeod. In 2002, she was voted the John W. Campbell Award fo...

  • Farthing

    Small Change - 1

    One summer weekend in 1949--but not our 1949--the well-connected "Farthing set", a group of upper-crust English families, enjoy a country retreat. Lucy is a minor daughter in one of those families; her parents were both leading figures in the group t...

  • Ha'penny

    Small Change - 2

    In 1949, eight years after the "Peace with Honor" was negotiated between Great Britain and Nazi Germany by the Farthing Set, England has completed its slide into fascist dicatorship. Then a bomb explodes in a London suburb. The brilliant but poli...

  • Half A Crown

    Small Change - 3

    In 1941 the European war ended in the Farthing Peace, a rapprochement between Britain and Nazi Germany. The balls and banquets of Britain's upper class never faltered, while British ships ferried "undesirables" across the Channel to board the cattle ...

  • Lifelode

  • Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction

    It's 1960, and the Axis powers dominate the world. Life goes on, because, as we see in "Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction," history is driven both by big events and by small temptations…Following the appearance of her first two novels, Th...



  • Among Others

    Startling, unusual, and yet irresistably readable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood, a brilliant diary of first encounters with the great novels of modern fantasy and SF, and a s...

  • What Makes This Book So Great

    As any reader of Jo Walton's Among Others might guess, Walton is both an inveterate reader of SF and fantasy, and a chronic re-reader of books. In 2008, then-new science-fiction mega-site Tor.com asked Walton to blog regularly about her re-reading --...

  • My Real Children

    It’s 2015, and Patricia Cowan is very old. “Confused today,” read the notes clipped to the end of her bed. She forgets things she should know -- what year it is, major events in the lives of her children. But she remembers things that don't see...

  • Sleeper

    History is a thing we make -- in more senses than one. And from more directions.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied....

  • The Just City

    Thessaly - 1

    "Here in the Just City you will become your best selves. You will learn and grow and strive to be excellent." Created as an experiment by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, the Just City is a planned community, populated by over ten thousa...

  • The Philosopher Kings

    Thessaly - 2

    "The Philosopher Kings," a tale of gods and humans, and the surprising things they have to learn from one another. Twenty years have elapsed since the events of "The Just City." The City, founded by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, organized...

  • The Rebirth of Pan

    Jo Walton (born December 1, 1964) is a Welsh fantasy and science fiction writer and poet. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2002 and the World Fantasy award for her novel Tooth and Claw in 2004....

  • Necessity

    Thessaly - 3

    Necessity: the sequel to the acclaimed The Just City and The Philosopher Kings, Jo Walton's tales of gods, humans, and what they have to learn from one another. More than sixty-five years ago, Pallas Athena founded the Just City on an island in th...

  • A Burden Shared

    What we do for one another is a mystery.A Tor.com original.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied....

  • Poor Relations

    An eye-opening and entertaining tale of social and financial precarity in the interplanetary future, brilliantly imagined and entirely pertinent to today. It's the twenty-fourth century. Humanity has spread throughout the solar system―but for mo...



  • Starlings

    “Starlings isn’t really a short-story collection. It’s something better: a written showreel, illustrating yet again that [Walton’s] imagination stretches to the stars (or the starlings), and that she’s endlessly inventive in finding new met...

  • An Informal History of the Hugos

    Engaged, passionate, and consistently entertaining, An Informal History of the Hugos is a book about the renowned science fiction award for the many who enjoyed Jo Walton's previous collection of writing from Tor.com, the Locus Award"winning What M...

  • Lent

    The Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award"winning author delivers a magical re-imagining of the man who remade fifteenth-century Florence.Young Girolamo’s life is a series of miracles.It’s a miracle that he can see demons, plain as day, and tha...

  • Or What You Will

    Or What You Will is an utterly original novel about how stories are brought forth from Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning author Jo Walton. He has been too many things to count. He has been a dragon with a boy on his back. He has been a...

  • Small Change

    Tor Essentials presents new editions of science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure. In 1941 the European war ended in the Farthing Peace, a rapprochement between Brit...

Award-Winning Books by Jo Walton

Among Others
2011 Nebula Award -- Novel
2011 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Fantasy Novel
2012 Hugo Award -- Novel
Farthing
2006 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Science Fiction Novel
Half A Crown
2008 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Science Fiction Novel
My Real Children
2014 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Fantasy Novel
Tooth and Claw
2004 World Fantasy Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jo Walton has published 24 books.

Jo Walton does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Small Change, was published in September 2023.

The first book by Jo Walton, The King's Peace, was published in October 2000.

Yes. Jo Walton has 3 series.
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