Max Gladstone

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  • Bibliography:
    39 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2012
  • Latest Book:
    April 2024
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Full Series List in Order

The Craft Sequence

1 - Three Parts Dead (Oct-2012)
2 - Two Serpents Rise (Nov-2013)
3 - Full Fathom Five (Jul-2014)
4 - Last First Snow (Jul-2015)
5 - Four Roads Cross (Aug-2016)
6 - The Ruin of Angels (Sep-2017)

The Craft Wars

1 - Dead Country (Mar-2023)
2 - Wicked Problems (Apr-2024)

Book List in Order: 39 titles

  • Three Parts Dead

    The Craft Sequence - 1

    A god has died, and it’s up to Tara, first-year associate in the international necromantic firm of Kelethres, Albrecht, and Ao, to bring Him back to life before His city falls apart. Her client is Kos, recently deceased fire god of the city of A...

  • Two Serpents Rise

    The Craft Sequence - 2

    In Two Serpents Rise by Max Gladstone, shadow demons plague the city reservoir, and Red King Consolidated has sent in Caleb Altemoc -- casual gambler and professional risk manager -- to cleanse the water for the sixteen million people of Dresediel Le...

  • Full Fathom Five

    The Craft Sequence - 3

    On the island of Kavekana, Kai builds gods to order, then hands them to others to maintain. Her creations aren't conscious and lack their own wills and voices, but they accept sacrifices, and protect their worshippers from other gods--perfect vehicle...

  • The Angelus Guns

    During a celestial civil war, an angel-like soldier searches for her missing brother.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied....

  • A Kiss With Teeth

    From the award-winning author Max Gladstone comes a dark fantasy tale, "A Kiss with Teeth, a Tor.com Original short storyVlad has grown distant from his wife. His son has trouble at school. And he has to keep his sharp teeth hidden.At the Publisher's...

  • Last First Snow

    The Craft Sequence - 4

    Forty years after the God Wars, Dresediel Lex bears the scars of liberation―especially in the Skittersill, a poor district still bound by the fallen gods' decaying edicts. As long as the gods' wards last, they strangle development; when they fail, ...

  • Badge, Book, and Candle

    Detective Sally Brooks investigates an unusual robbery, and discovers that magic is realand hungry! NYPD Detective Sal Brooks is no rookiebut even the most hardened cop would think twice when they see their brother open a book and become . . . well...

  • Bookburners: Big Sky

  • Now and Then

    Grace’s secret history comes to light.While all the members of Team Three have their secrets, only Grace seems willing to guard hers with fists of fury. Finally fed up with being kept in the dark, Sal takes matters into her own hands and engages in...



  • Bookburners: Codex Umbra

    An epic smackdown ensues as Sal and Team Three match wits and magic with Mr. Norse in the latest thrilling adventure in everyone's favorite online urban fantasy episodic series.The stage is set for the Mr. Norse’s grand move in possessing -- The No...

  • Siege

    Questions are answered and new mysteries introduced as Season One of Bookburners, the urban fantasy episodic series from Serial Box, comes to its thrilling conclusion.With The Book of the Hand in their possession at last, Team Three can finally kick ...

  • Double Blind

    Tanya and the Host make a break for it while Gabe seeks redemption in the latest episode of The Witch Who Came in from the Cold, the spellbinding online serial that mixes conspiracy, suspense, and sorcery like a collaboration between John le Carré a...

  • Head Case

    The golem makes its move at last . . . and so does Joshua Toms in the latest pulse-pounding episode of The Witch Who Came in from the Cold, the exhilarating new series set in an alternate Cold War in which CIA and KGB are just the newest spies o...

  • Company Time

    A traitor is unmasked and the gloves come off in the fasten-your-seatbelts season finale of The Witch Who Came in from the Cold, Serial Box's alternate Cold War series that expertly mashes up magic and espionage.   When a long-buried...

  • Bookburners: Season One Volume One

    Magic is real, and hungry -- trapped in ancient texts and artifacts, only a few who discover it survive to fight back. Detective Sal Brooks is a survivor. Freshly awake to just what dangers are lurking, she joins a Vatican-backed black-ops anti-magic...

  • Bookburners: Season One Volume Two

    Magic is real, and hungry -- trapped in ancient texts and artifacts, only a few who discover it survive to fight back. Detective Sal Brooks is a survivor. Freshly awake to just what dangers are lurking, she joins a Vatican-backed black-ops anti-magic...

  • Creepy Town

    Sal and Team Three hit the ground running in the adrenaline-pumping Season 2 premier of Bookburners, the gritty Urban Fantasy presented by Serial Box. The Bookburners are back as Sal and the Societas Librium Occultorum rise from the ashes of Season ...

  • Incognita

    Old faces appear in New Shanghai in the sixth episode of Bookburners, the gritty Urban Fantasy presented by Serial Box, now in its second season. Liam and Grace travel to Shanghai to investigate a lead on the Orb -- and hopefully their own pasts. ...

  • Four Roads Cross

    The Craft Sequence - 5

    In Four Roads Cross, the great city of Alt Coulumb is in crisis. The moon goddess Seril, long thought dead, is back--and the people of Alt Coulumb aren't happy. Protests rock the city, and Kos Everburning's creditors attempt a hostile takeover of the...



  • The End of the Day

    Asanti goes on trial the climactic finale of Bookburners Season Two, the gritty Urban Fantasy presented by Serial Box. The day of reckoning has arrived for both Asanti the Archivist and the the entire Societas Librorum Occultorum. Adapt or die; stay...

  • Bookburners

    The critically acclaimed urban fantasy about a secret team of agents that hunts down dangerous books containing deadly magic -- previously released serially online by Serial Box, now available in print for the first time! Magic is real, and hungry...

  • Complicating Factors

    This is the 2nd episode in the second season of The Witch Who Came In From The Cold, a 13-episode serial from Serial Box Publishing. This episode written by Max Gladstone.The Cold War gets magical when spies brush shoulders with sorcerers in this gen...

  • The Craft Sequence

    This ebundle of The Craft Sequence includes: Three Parts Dead, Two Serpents Rise, Full Fathom Five, Last First Snow, Four Roads Cross, The Ruin of Angels“Stunningly good. Stupefyingly good.” -- Patrick RothfussSet in a phenomenally-built world i...

  • The Scholast in the Low Waters Kingdom

    A stranger claiming knowledge of realms beyond the known world attempts to stop a war.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied....

  • What's Gone, What's Left Behind

    This is the 8th episode in the second season of The Witch Who Came In From The Cold, a 13-episode serial from Serial Box Publishing. This episode written by Max Gladstone. The Cold War gets magical when spies brush shoulders with sorcerers in this g...

  • Absent Friends

    This is the 11th episode in the second season of The Witch Who Came In From The Cold, a 13-episode serial from Serial Box Publishing. This episode written by Max Gladstone. The Cold War gets magical when spies brush shoulders with sorcerers in this ...

  • Bookburners: The Complete Season 2

    Magic is real, and hungry--trapped in ancient texts and artifacts. Only a few who discover it survive to fight back.Join Detective Sal Brooks, newest recruit to a black-ops magic hunting team backed by the Vatican, as she travels the world to keep th...

  • Bubbles of Earth

    This is the 1st episode in the third season of Bookburners, a 13-episode serial from Serial Box Publishing. This episode written by Max Gladstone. Magic is real . . . and hungry. Sal and Liam run into trouble at the Lascaux caves . . . and find thems...

  • Oracle Bones

    This is the 6th episode in the third season of Bookburners, a 13-episode serial from Serial Box Publishing. This episode written by Max Gladstone. Magic is real…and hungry. Grace and Menchú have been called to China to help investigate a source of...



  • The Ruin of Angels

    The Craft Sequence - 6

    The God Wars destroyed the city of Alikand. Now, a century and a half and a great many construction contracts later, Agdel Lex rises in its place. Dead deities litter the surrounding desert, streets shift when people aren't looking, a squid-like towe...

  • Crispin's Model

    A contemporary Lovecraftian tale of art, obsession, and elder gods.There were no monsters at first, only “Arthur Dufresne Crispin,” who met me on the front steps of his apartment in the Village: towheaded, tall, and lean, with long spidery finger...

  • Live in London

    This is the 13th episode in the third season of Bookburners, a 13-episode serial from Serial Box Publishing. This episode written by Max Gladstone. Magic is real…and hungry. The Bookburners thought they had seen some strange things in their time, b...

  • Body Problems

    <b><i>This is the 1st episode in the fourth season of <i>Bookburners</i>, a 10-episode serial from Serial Box Publishing. This episode written by Max Gladstone.</b> <b><i>Supernatural</i> meets <i>...

  • The Ghost in the Shell: Global Neural Network

    A covert mission in Shanghai reunites Kusanagi with a wartime rival amid shifting loyalties. The infiltration of an anti-cyberization cult calls for Section 9’s most “human” members to do things the old-fashioned way. A deep dive into the mind ...

  • Fitting In

    For over 25 years, the Wild Cards universe has been entertaining readers with stories of superpowered people in an alternate history. "Fitting In" by Max Gladstone shows how everyday people can step up to become extraordinary.Robin Ruttiger tries -- ...

  • Empress of Forever

    From the co-author of the viral New York Times bestseller This is How Your Lose the Time War. “A classic space opera...a universe we’ve never seen before.” -- Delilah S. Dawson, New York Times bestselling author From Hugo Award finalist Max Gl...

  • Last Exit

    Fresh from winning the Hugo and Nebula Awards, Max Gladstone weaves elements of American myth -- the muscle car, the open road, the white-hatted cowboy -- into Last Exit, a deeply emotional tale where his characters must find their own truths if they...

  • Dead Country

    The Craft Wars - 1

    From the co-author of the viral New York Times bestseller This is How You Lose the Time War.Discover the destiny of the Craft in Dead Country, the standalone entry point to Max Gladstone's beloved fantasy epic. BOOK ONE OF THE CRAFT WARS SERIES Since...

  • Wicked Problems

    The Craft Wars - 2

    From the co-author of the viral New York Times bestseller This is How You Lose the Time War.Gods and lawyers battle for the soul of the world in the action-packed second volume of Max Gladstone's Craft Wars, an epic fantasy like no other.A deadly for...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Max Gladstone has published 39 books.

Max Gladstone does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Wicked Problems, was published in April 2024.

The first book by Max Gladstone, Three Parts Dead, was published in October 2012.

Yes. Max Gladstone has 2 series.
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