Patricia A. McKillip

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  • Bibliography:
    35 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1974
  • Latest Book:
    June 2016
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Full Series List in Order

Cygnet

1 - The Sorceress and the Cygnet (1991)
2 - The Cygnet and the Firebird (Sep-1993)

Kyreol

1 - Moon-Flash (Mar-2005)
2 - The Moon and the Face (Oct-1986)

Riddle-Master trilogy / Morgon

1 - The Riddle-Master of Hed (Aug-1976)
2 - Heir of Sea and Fire (Nov-1978)
3 - Harpist in the Wind (1979)

Multi-Author Series List

Fairytale Retellings: Sleeping Beauty

The Bell at Sealey Head (Sep-2008)

Magicquest

1 - The Throme of the Erril of Sherill (Aug-1987)

Book List in Order: 35 titles

  • The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

    WORLD FANTASY AWARD WINNER SPECIAL 50TH ANNIVERSARY HARDCOVER EDITION “Rich and regal.” -- The New York Times New introduction by Marjorie Liu (The Tangleroot Palace) New illustrations by Stephanie Law (Shadowscapes) Fifty years ago, the soon-to...

  • The Riddle-Master of Hed

    Riddle-Master trilogy / Morgon - 1

    THREE STARS OF DESTINY Long ago, the wizards had vanished from the world, and all knowledge was left hidden in riddles. Morgon, prince of the simple farmers of fled, proved himself a master of such riddles when he staked his life To win a crown fr...

  • Heir of Sea and Fire

    Riddle-Master trilogy / Morgon - 2

    THE QUEST OF DESTINY By the vow of her father and her own desire, Raederie was pledged to Morgon, Riddle-Master of Hed. But a year had passed since Morgon disappeared on his search for the High One at Erlenstar Mountain, and rumors claimed he was ...

  • Harpist in the Wind

    Riddle-Master trilogy / Morgon - 3

    THE FINAL QUEST Though Morgon the Riddle-Master was reunited with his beloved Raederle, his purpose in life and the reason for the stars on his forehead remained a mystery. All around him, the realm shook with war and disaster as mysterious shape-...

  • Stepping from the Shadows

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  • The Quest of the Riddlemaster

  • The Moon and the Face

    Kyreol - 2

  • Fool's Run

    Terra Viridian is a young woman who obeyed a vision, took a laser assault rifle, and turned fifteen hundred innocents into light. She was captured, convicted, and sentenced to the orbital prison called the Underworld. Forever. Seven years later: a b...

  • The Throme of the Erril of Sherill

    Magicquest - 1

    Caerles must obtain the legendary Throme, a book of incredibly beautiful songs, in order to win the daughter of the King of Everywhere, and Ryd Yarrow faces a dragon that brings twelve months of winter...



  • The Sorceress and the Cygnet

    Cygnet - 1

    From the World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Bards of Bone Plain.The Wayfolk are a dark-haired, wandering people who shun doors and walls. Corleu is Wayfolk, albeit with hair the color of the moon. But when his companions and his own true love ...

  • The House on Parchment Street

    Carol Christopher puffed her cheeks, sighed, and sat down on her suitcases in the middle of Parchment Street. The street was old and worn; it ended abruptly, running into a broad empty field in front of her. On one of the street was a graveyard. On t...

  • The Cygnet and the Firebird

    Cygnet - 2

    Following The Sorceress and the Cygnet, Patricia A. McKillip returns with the sorceress Nyx and her niece Meguet. Together, the duo must face down a pair of mysterious magicals: a mage hell-bent on stealing a hidden treasure, and a firebird who trans...

  • Something Rich and Strange

  • The Book of Atrix Wolfe

    In wolf shape, among the wolves, he had scented danger sweeping toward the mountains he loved ... So begins The Book of Atrix Wolfe, the story of a man who lived among wolves, hiding from the mistakes of his past ... and the woman who offered him ...

  • Winter Rose

    Sorrow and trouble and bitterness will bound you and yours and lbe children of yours ... Some said the dying words of Nial Lynn, murdered by his own son, were a wicked curse. To others, it was a winter's tale spun by firelight on cold, dark nights...

  • Song for the Basilisk

    Something half-woke in him, and he froze on the threshold, seeing misshapen faces billow in the flames. As a child, Rook had been taken in by the bards of Luly, and raised as one of their own. Of his past he knew nothing--except faint memories of ...

  • Riddle-Master

    For over twenty years, World Fantasy Award winner Patricia A. McKillip has captured the hearts and imaginations of thousands of readers. Now at last her renowned Riddle-Master trilogy"The Riddle-Master of Hed, Heir of Sea and Fire, and Harpist...

  • The Tower at Stony Wood

    She saw the knight in the mirror at sunset…

    During the wedding festivities of his king, Cyan Dag, a knight of Gloinmere, is sought out by a mysterious bard and told a terrifying tale: that the king has married a false queen -- a lie cloaked in an...

  • Ombria in Shadow

    When Ombria’s prince, Royce Greve, breathes his last -- in palace rooms high above the city -- he leaves his young son and mistress at the mercy of his ancient and powerful great-aunt, Domina Pearl. Meanwhile, in a dreamlike underworld peopled by O...



  • Changeling Sea

    World Fantasy Award winner Patricia A. McKillip tells "an enchanting fantasy that is tinged with realism and romance." (School Library Journal)Since the day her father's fishing boat returned without him, Peri and her mother have mourn...

  • In the Forests of Serre

    In the tales of World Fantasy Award-winning author Patricia McKillip, nothing is ever as it seems. A mirror is never just a mirror; a forest is never just a forest. Here, it is a place where a witch can hide in her house of bones and a prince can bar...

  • Alphabet of Thorn

    Deep inside a palace on the edge of the world, the orphan Nepenthe pores over books in the royal library, translating their languages and learning their secrets. Now sixteen, she knows little of the outside world -- except for the documents the trad...

  • The Gorgon in the Cupboard

    in To Weave a Web of Magic

    Four stories of fantasy and exquisite romance... A romantic fantasy anthology with four novellas from renowned authors of romance and fantasy... USA Today best-selling author Claire Delacroix gives readers a revisionist version of the medieval...

  • The Kelpie

    in The Fair Folk

    SOME ARE FAIR. SOME ARE FOUL. ALL ARE FANTASTIC... Here are six stories from some of the most famous names in fantasy, all with one common thread -- The Fair Folk. In "The Kelpie," by Patricia A. McKillip, a bohemian artist is confronted by a w...

  • Moon-Flash

    Kyreol - 1

    This omnibus edition combines the acclaimed Patricia A. McKillip's two science-fiction novels, Moon-Flash and The Moon and the Face.Kyreol's small world begins at the Face, a high rock cliff, and ends at Fourteen Falls, a series of rapids. Each year,...

  • Od Magic

    Brenden Vetch has a gift. With an innate sense he cannot explain to himself or describe to others, he connects to the agricultural world, nurturing gardens to flourish and instinctively knowing the healing properties each plant and herb has to offer....

  • Harrowing the Dragon

    A fantasist without equal, Patricia A. McKillip has created worlds of intricate beauty and unforgettably nuanced characters. For 25 years, she's drawn readers into her spell, spinning modern-day fables with a grace rarely seen.Now she presents a book...

  • Solstice Wood

    No stranger to the realms of myth and magic, World Fantasy Award-winning author Patricia A. McKillip presents her first contemporary fantasy in many years-a tale of the tangled lives mere mortals lead, when they turn their eyes from the beauty and my...

  • The Bell at Sealey Head

    Fairytale Retellings: Sleeping Beauty

    An “elegant” (Library Journal) fantasy from the World Fantasy Award-winning author of Solstice Wood Sealey Head is a small town on the edge of the ocean, a sleepy place where everyone hears the ringing of a bell no one can see. On the outskirts...



  • The Bards of Bone Plain

    Scholar Phelan Cle is researching Bone Plain-which has been studied for the last 500 years, though no one has been able to locate it as a real place. Archaeologist Jonah Cle, Phelan's father, is also hunting through time, piecing history together fro...

  • Wonders of the Invisible World

    [STARRED REVIEW] “Endlessly astonishing and impressive fantasist McKillip (The Bards of Bone Plain) travels the shadowy twilight realm between worlds and returns with the raw stuff of dreams.” ?Publishers Weekly Pass through fairy tales into the ...

  • The Riddle-Master's Game

  • Kingfisher

    In the new fantasy from the award-winning author of the Riddle-Master Trilogy, a young man comes of age amid family secrets and revelations, and transformative magic. Hidden away from the world by his mother, the powerful sorceress Heloise Oliver...

  • Dreams of Distant Shores

    Featuring an original introduction by Peter S. Beagle, author of The Last Unicorn. Bestselling author Patricia A. McKillip (The Riddle-Master of Hed) is one of the most lyrical writers gracing the fantasy genre. With the debut of her newest work, Dre...

  • The Night Gift

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Award-Winning Books by Patricia A. McKillip

The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
1975 World Fantasy Award -- Novel
Harpist in the Wind
1980 Locus Award -- Fantasy Novel
Ombria in Shadow
2003 World Fantasy Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Patricia A. McKillip has published 35 books.

Patricia A. McKillip does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Dreams of Distant Shores, was published in June 2016.

The first book by Patricia A. McKillip, The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, was published in January 1974.

Yes. Patricia A. McKillip has 3 series.
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