Philip Reeve

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  • Bibliography:
    40 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2003
  • Latest Book:
    November 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Fever Crumb

1 - Fever Crumb (May-2009)
2 - A Web of Air (Oct-2011)
3 - Scrivener's Moon (Nov-2012)

The Hungry City Chronicles

1 - Mortal Engines (Oct-2003)
2 - Predator's Gold (Sep-2004)
3 - Infernal Devices (Jun-2006)
4 - A Darkling Plain (Jun-2007)

Larklight

1 - Larklight (Sep-2006)
2 - Starcross (Oct-2007)
3 - Mothstorm (Oct-2008)

Not-So-Impossible Tale

1 - Oliver and the Sea Monkeys (Jul-2016)
2 - Carnival in a Fix (Feb-2017)

Book List in Order: 40 titles

  • Mortal Engines

    The Hungry City Chronicles - 1

    LONDON IS HUNTING The great Traction City lumbers after a small town, eager to strip its prey of all assets and move on. Resources on the Great Hunting Ground that once was Europe are so limited that mobile cities must consume one another to survi...

  • Predator's Gold

    The Hungry City Chronicles - 2

    TOM AND HESTER ARE IN DANGER Pursued by the grim aviators of the Green Storm, they stumble onto the ice city of Anchorage just in time. But Anchorage is not a safe refuge: devastated by plague and haunted by thieves or ghosts, the city is barely lur...

  • Infernal Devices

    The Hungry City Chronicles - 3

    HELL HATH NO FURY LIKE A RUNAWAY TEEN Nearly twenty years after the events of Mortal Engines and Predator's Gold, Tom and Hester have finally settled down. The wild adventures of their past are now little more than stories to tell their daughter, Wr...

  • Larklight

    Larklight - 1

    It was just another normal morning in space when disaster struck. My sister Myrtle (who is quite irritating, as girls generally are) and I faced the most awful peril, and we hadn't even had breakfast. A Mr. Webster was coming to visit. Visitors to...

  • A Darkling Plain

    The Hungry City Chronicles - 4

    The once-great traction city of London is now just a radioactive wreck, a ruin haunted by electrical discharges and the dashed hopes of the people who once called it home--people like Tom Natsworthy. Twenty years after he fled, intending never to ret...

  • Starcross

    Larklight - 2

    There is an old saying: if something is too good to be true, it probably is. Take the holiday that Art Mumby, his irritating younger sister Myrtle, and their mother take to Starcross, the finest sea-bathing resort in the entire Asteroid Belt. The fac...

  • Here Lies Arthur

    This is a brand new novel from a leading children's author. Gwyna is just a small girl, a mouse, when she is bound in service to Myrddin the bard - a traveller and spinner of tales. But Myrdin transfroms her - into a lady goddess, a boy warrior, and ...

  • Mothstorm

    Larklight - 3

    When the festive season arrives at Larklight, so does some unsettling news. A sinister-looking cloud is fast approaching the outskirts of the Known Universe. The closest planet, Georgium Sidus, has but two human inhabitants: the missionary Rev Cruet ...

  • Fever Crumb

    Fever Crumb - 1

    Fever Crumb is a girl who has been adopted and raised by Dr. Crumb, a member of the order of Engineers, where she serves as apprentice. In a time and place where women are not seen as reasonable creatures, Fever is an anomaly, the only female to serv...



  • No Such Thing As Dragons

    Ansel is a mute boy whose master is a dragon slayer. Even though Ansel has never seen an actual dragon, Brock has the shining armor and the scars to prove his heroic stories. Ansel wants to be brave and learn all he can from his master, but he suspec...

  • A Web of Air

    Fever Crumb - 2

    Two years ago, Fever Crumb escaped the war-torn city of London in a traveling theater. Now, she arrives in the extraordinary city of Mayda, where buildings ascend the cliffs on funicular rails, and a mysterious recluse is building a machine that can ...

  • Traction City

    In a dangerous future world where gigantic, traction-powered cities attack and devour each other, London hunts where no other predator dares. Hidden in its vast superstructure is a murderous creature that severs the right hands of its victims. A rebe...

  • Scrivener's Moon

    Fever Crumb - 3

    FEVER CRUMB returns to London . . . but the city that she'd known is gone. This new London, created by her own parents, squats motionless and vast, tiers of steel resting on enormous caterpillar treads, nearly ready for travel. Fever has never fel...

  • Goblins Vs Dwarves

    The reawakening of ancient sorcery is bringing new creatures to the world of Clovenstone. A network of tunnels is sneaking into the heart of goblin territory. Skarper and his friends try to halt this underground invasion, but the dwarves - ruthless, ...

  • The Roots of Evil

    When the Fourth Doctor takes Leela to visit an immense tree space station known as the Heligan Structure, little do they know that the tree has been asleep for centuries, dreaming of vengeance against a man in a blue box ... As the tree awakes, the T...

  • Goblins

    From the renowned author of Here Lies Arthur and No Such Thing As Dragons, the adventures of a goblin outcast who must save his world from the rise of a dangerous dark magic... Welcome to a wild world of magical creatures and heroic adventure! ...

  • Oliver and the Seawigs

    Get ready for moving islands! Mischievous monkeys! And a splashy adventure with illustrations on almost every page. When Oliver’s explorer parents go missing, he sets sail to find them with some new friends. There’s a grumpy albatross, a ne...

  • Cakes in Space

    Get ready for killer cupcakes! Deadly donuts! And an outer space adventure with illustrations on almost every page. Astra’s family is moving -- to a whole new planet. And what does any kid need on moving day? Snacks! But when Astra asks her s...

  • Pugs of the Frozen North

    With a little luck and a pack of pugs, anything is paws-ible!   When True Winter comes, it’s time for the Great Northern Race! The best sled teams in the world must reach a mysterious man called the Snowfather. He will grant one wish to the winn...



  • Railhead

    The Great Network is an ancient web of routes and gates, where sentient trains can take you anywhere in the galaxy in the blink of an eye. Zen Starling is a nobody. A petty thief from the filthy streets of Thunder City who aimlessly rides the rails o...

  • Oliver and the Sea Monkeys

    Not-So-Impossible Tale - 1

    Get ready for mischievous monkeys! Moving islands! And a splashy adventure with illustrations on almost every page.   When Oliver’s explorer parents go missing, he sets sail to find them with some new friends. There’s a grumpy albatross, a nea...

  • Carnival in a Fix

    Not-So-Impossible Tale - 2

    Journey to an amusement park on a moon! Funfair Moon, the outer space amusement park where Emily lives, has the highest roller coasters, the most dizzying Tilt-A-Whirls, and the scariest ghost train in the galaxy. Normally, Emily’s heroes Jinks...

  • Jinks & O'Hare Funfair Repair

    The highly-anticipated fourth scintillating adventure from the amazingly talented team of Reeve and McIntyre.Emily loves living on Funfair Moon - especially when she gets to help Jinks and O''Hare, the extraordinary repair team. But when chaos strike...

  • Black Light Express

    With superb world building, gripping action, and ruthless political intrigue, Black Light Express delivers a breathtaking adventure into the darkest depths of space and is sure to please sci-fi fans and foes alike.   At the edge of the Great Net...

  • The Legend of Kevin

    Max is a young boy living in an ordinary tower block. He longs for adventure in his life - then one day - DOOF! - a flying pony called Kevin crashes into his flat, blown in by a magical storm! The storm causes a huge flood and soon Max's town submerg...

  • Night Flights

    Return to the world of Mortal Engines in this new book of short stories about the rebellious young aviatrix, Anna Fang, illustrated by Ian McQue. A key character in the Mortal Engines book and upcoming film produced by Peter Jackson (December 2018), ...

  • The Illustrated World of Mortal Engines

    It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed ofthe old North Sea. So begins Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines, the first book in his epic post-apocalyptic series of giant mo...

  • Station Zero

    What happens after the adventure of a lifetime? For Zen, it's a safe, comfortable life of luxury. But it's not what Zen wants. He misses the thrill of riding the rails, of dodging danger, and of breathing the air of different planets. Most of all of ...

  • Goblin Quest



  • Kevin's Great Escape

    When famous pop star Misty Twiglet moves to Bumbleford she wants to meet roly-poly flying pony, Kevin - it''s so exciting - she promised him biscuits!But when Kevin is captured in Misty''s back garden, things become serious and there isn''t a biscuit...

  • Kevin and the Biscuit Bandit

    Welcome to another brilliantly quirky adventure story from creative powerhouse Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre.Bumbleford has been hit by a series of biscuit thefts. All the clues lead straight to the only roly-poly flying pony in town, and Max''s be...

  • Predator Cities x 4 and The Traction Codex

  • Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

  • Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild

  • Otter Chaos

    Witty and heartwarming, with a gentle eco-conscious message, this vividly illustrated series delivers just enough danger and excitement to engage and enchant readers. Drawing guides and maps are an added bonus! Young Pedro is determined to find ...

  • Mermouse Mystery

    Witty and heartwarming, with a gentle eco-conscious message, this vividly illustrated series delivers just enough danger and excitement to engage and enchant readers. Drawing guides and maps are an added bonus! Mermice may be the stuff of legend...

  • Utterly Dark and the Tides of Time

  • Mice on the Ice

    The Mouse Islands are getting ready for the Frost Fair! It’s the most wonderful time of the year, with ice skating, hot chocolate, and yummy treats. Pedro and the Adventuremice can’t wait! But there’s so much ice that the Fair might...

  • Mice on the Moon

    The heroic ADVENTUREMICE have been summoned by an inventor mouse! Millie’s Uncle Bernie has built a rocket, and he wants the brave and clever Adventuremice to fly it. BOOM! Pedro and his friends blast off into outer space, where they become the...



  • Thunder City

    An edge-of-your seat adventure set in the iconic world of Mortal Engines!Tamzin Pook is a fighter in the Amusement Arcade. And what she does best is killing Revenants.All she knows is survival, having arrived in the Arcade as a small child. She pushe...

Award-Winning Books by Philip Reeve

A Darkling Plain
2006 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize -- Children's Fiction
2007 L.A. Times Book Prize -- Young Adult Literature
Here Lies Arthur
2008 Carnegie Medal -- Children's


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Philip Reeve has published 40 books.

Philip Reeve does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Thunder City, was published in November 2024.

The first book by Philip Reeve, Mortal Engines, was published in October 2003.

Yes. Philip Reeve has 4 series.
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