Joe Abercrombie

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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 2007
  • Latest Book:
    May 2025
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Full Series List in Order

The Age of Madness

1 - A Little Hatred (Sep-2019)
2 - The Trouble With Peace (Sep-2020)
3 - The Wisdom of Crowds (Sep-2021)

First Law

1 - The Blade Itself (Sep-2007)
2 - Before They Are Hanged (Mar-2008)
3 - Last Argument Of Kings (Mar-2008)
3.5 - Sharp Ends (May-2016)

Shattered Sea

1 - Half a King (Jul-2014)
2 - Half the World (Feb-2015)
3 - Half a War (Aug-2015)

Book List in Order: 16 titles

  • The Blade Itself

    First Law - 1

    The first novel in the First Law Trilogy and debut fantasy novel from New York Times bestseller, Joe Abercrombie.Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he's on the verge of becoming a dead bar...

  • Before They Are Hanged

    First Law - 2

    Superior Glokta has a problem. How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when your allies can by no means be trusted, and your predecessor vanished without a trace? It’s enough to make a torturer want to run " if h...

  • Last Argument Of Kings

    First Law - 3

    The final novel in the First Law Trilogy by New York Times bestseller Joe Abercrombie. Logen Ninefingers might only have one more fight in him -- but it's going to be a big one. Battle rages across the North, the king of the Northmen still stands fir...

  • Best Served Cold

    Springtime in Styria. And that means war. There have been nineteen years of blood. The ruthless Grand Duke Orso is locked in a vicious struggle with the squabbling League of Eight, and between them they have bled the land white. While armies march...

  • The Heroes

    They say Black Dow's killed more men than winter, and clawed his way to the throne of the North up a hill of skulls. The King of the Union, ever a jealous neighbour, is not about to stand smiling by while he claws his way any higher. The orders have ...

  • Red Country

    They burned her home. They stole her brother and sister. But vengeance is following. Shy South hoped to bury her bloody past and ride away smiling, but she'll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back, and she's not a woman to ...

  • Half a King

    Shattered Sea - 1

    “I swore an oath to avenge the death of my father. I may be half a man, but I swore a whole oath.” Prince Yarvi has vowed to regain a throne he never wanted. But first he must survive cruelty, chains, and the bitter waters of the Shattered Se...

  • Half the World

    Shattered Sea - 2

    Sometimes a girl is touched by Mother War. Thorn is such a girl. Desperate to avenge her dead father, she lives to fight. But she has been named a murderer by the very man who trained her to kill. Sometimes a woman becomes a warrior. She f...

  • Half a War

    Shattered Sea - 3

    Words are weapons. Princess Skara has seen all she loved made blood and ashes. She is left with only words. But the right words can be as deadly as any blade. If she is to reclaim her birthright, she must conquer her fears and sharpen her wits to...



  • Unbound

    Like Unfettered before it, the contributing writers of Unbound were allowed to submit the tales they wished fans of genre to read―without the constraints of a shackling theme.

    The result is magical. Twenty-three all-original stories are su...

  • Sharp Ends

    First Law - 3.5

    Sharp Ends is the ultimate collection of award winning tales and exclusive new short stories from the master of grimdark fantasy, Joe Abercrombie. Violence explodes, treachery abounds, and the words are as deadly as the weapons in this rogue's galler...

  • A Little Hatred

    The Age of Madness - 1

    From New York Times bestselling author Joe Abercrombie comes the first book in a new blockbuster fantasy trilogy where the age of the machine dawns, but the age of magic refuses to die. The chimneys of industry rise over Adua and the world seethes...

  • The Trouble With Peace

    The Age of Madness - 2

    A fragile peace gives way to conspiracy, betrayal, and rebellion in this sequel to the New York Times bestselling A Little Hatred from epic fantasy master Joe Abercrombie. Peace is just another kind of battlefield . . . Savine dan Glokta, once ...

  • The Wisdom of Crowds

    The Age of Madness - 3

    From the New York Times bestselling author of A Little Hatred comes a stunning fantasy novel that finds the world in an unstoppable revolution where heroes have nothing left to lose as darkness and destruction overtake everything.

    Chaos. Fur...

  • The Great Change (and Other Lies)

    The Great Change (and Other Lies) is a novella-length collection that gathers four short stories related to Joe Abercrombie's The Age of Madness, featuring old friends and new: from smugglers to kings, from diamond-cutters to dress-makers, from the m...

  • The Devils

    A brand-new epic fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Joe Abercrombie, featuring a notorious band of anti-heroes on a delightfully bloody and raucous journeyHoly work sometimes requires unholy deeds.Brother Diaz has been summoned to the Sac...

Award-Winning Books by Joe Abercrombie

Half the World
2016 Alex Award -- Adult/For Young Adults


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Joe Abercrombie has published 16 books.

The next book by Joe Abercrombie, The Devils, will be published in May 2025.

The first book by Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself, was published in September 2007.

Yes. Joe Abercrombie has 3 series.
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