Steven Brust

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  • Bibliography:
    37 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1983
  • Latest Book:
    April 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Phoenix Guards

1 - The Phoenix Guards (Aug-1991)
2 - Five Hundred Years After (Apr-1994)

The Viscount of Adrilankha

1 - The Paths of the Dead (Dec-2002)
2 - The Lord of Castle Black (Aug-2003)
3 - Sethra Lavode (Apr-2004)

The Vlad Taltos Novels

1 - Jhereg (Apr-1983)
2 - Yendi (1984)
3 - Teckla (Jan-1987)
4 - Taltos (Mar-1988)
5 - Phoenix (Nov-1990)
6 - Athyra (Apr-1993)
7 - Orca (Mar-1996)
8 - Dragon (Nov-1998)
9 - Issola (Jul-2001)
10 - Dzur (Aug-2006)
11 - Jhegaala (Jul-2008)
12 - Iorich (Jan-2010)
13 - Tiassa (Apr-2011)
14 - Hawk (Oct-2014)
15 - Vallista (Oct-2017)
16 - Tsalmoth (May-2023)
17 - Lyorn (Apr-2024)

Book List in Order: 37 titles

  • Jhereg

    The Vlad Taltos Novels - 1

    THE ASSASSIN There are many ways for a young man with quick wits and a quick sword to advance in the world. Vlad Taltos chose the route of the assassin. To his other qualifications he added two things: The first was a smattering of witchcraft-badl...

  • To Reign in Hell

    The time is the Beginning. The place is Heaven. The story is the Revolt of the Angels -- a war of magic, corruption and intrigue that could destroy the universe.To Reign in Hell was Stephen Brust's second novel, and it's a thrilling retelling of the ...

  • Yendi

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    The Vlad Taltos Novels - 2

    In which Vlad Taltos and his Jhereg learn how the love of a good woman can turn a cold-blooded killer into a real mean SOB.... Vlad tells the story of his early days in the House Jhereg, how he found himself in a Jhereg war, and how he fell in lov...

  • Teckla

    The Vlad Taltos Novels - 3

    THE TECKLA WERE REVOLTING I'd always known they were. Teckla were lazy, stupid, cowardly peasants. Revolting. Old joke. But now they were revolting against the Empire. New joke. And a Jhereg crimelord, feeling the pinch, was popping the rebels....

  • The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars

    Once upon a time there was a kingdom that lived in darkness, for the sun, the moon and the stars were hidden in a box, and that box was hidden in a sow''s belly, and that sow was hidden in a troll''s cave, and that cave was hidden at the end of th...

  • Dzurlord

  • Taltos

    The Vlad Taltos Novels - 4

    JOURNEY TO THE LAND OF THE DEAD. ALL EXPENSES PAID! Not my idea of an ideal vacation, but this was work. After all, even an assassin has to earn a living. The trouble is, everyone knows that a living human cannot walk the Paths of the Dead, an...

  • Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille

    SO YOU'VE HAD A HARD DAY? YOUR PLANET''S JUST BEEN NUKED? WELCOME TO COWBOY FENG'S! ...If can find it, that is. Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille is a great place to visit, but it tends to move around bit--from Earth to the Moon to Mars to ano...

  • Phoenix

    The Vlad Taltos Novels - 5

    IN GODS WE TRUST. ALL OTHERS PAY CASH. Always a good rule if you're in my line of work, but who'd think a god would take me up on it? There I was, facing certain death, when the Demon Goddess answered my prayers for rescue. Strange she should take a...



  • The Phoenix Guards

    Phoenix Guards - 1

    SWORDS AND GLORY! A thousand years before the birth of Vlad Taltos, the Dragaeran Empire is a hotbed of intrigue, sorcery, intrigue, swashbuckling adventure, and intrigue. For those who would be heroes, it is a delightful time to be alive--and an ...

  • Athyra

    The Vlad Taltos Novels - 6

    THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN A bit of an overstatement. Minus six, actually. Which leaves one. Me Vlad Taltos, sorcerer (sometime witch) and (ex-)assassin. Plus my two faithful jhereg. Which makes three, sort of. But even we can have a hard time when we ...

  • Agyar

    From bestselling fantasy author Steven Brust comes this paranormal novel of immortality -- and its price...Born over a century ago, Agyar was once a frivolous young man, before he found unwanted immortality in a woman's blood-red lips. Now he goes fr...

  • Five Hundred Years After

    Phoenix Guards - 2

    This is the story of the conspiracy against the Empire that begins in the mean streets of Underside and flourishes in the courtly politics of the Palace where Khaavren has loyally served in the Guards this past half-millennium....

  • Orca

    The Vlad Taltos Novels - 7

    HAVE JHEREG, WILL TRAVEL Granted, walking around with two jhereg on your shoulders is not the best disguise for an ex-assassin wanted all over the Empire. But a young boy saved my life and now he needs my help. And Vlad Taltos always pays his debt...

  • Brokedown Palace

    Back in print after a decade, Brokedown Palace is a stand-alone fantasy in the world of Steven Brust's bestselling Vlad Taltos novels.Once upon a time…far to the East of the Dragaeran Empire, four brothers ruled in Fenario:King Laszlo, a good man -...

  • Drift

    in Space Opera

    Twenty original science fiction tales based on the theme of music--by such authors as Marion Zimmer Bradley, Charles de Lint, and Gene Wolfe--include the story of a singer whose ear for music helps her fight crime. Original....

  • Dragon

    The Vlad Taltos Novels - 8

    Marching through mud just isn't as much fun as they say. After years of surviving in Adrilankha by practicing the trade I know best--killing people for a living--suddenly I'm in the last place any self-respecting assassin wants to be: the army. Wo...

  • The Book of Jhereg

    The first three fantastical adventures of assassin Vlad Taltos -- now in one volume.A welcome addition to any fantasy fan's library, The Book of Jhereg follows the antics of the wise-cracking Vlad Taltos and his dragon-like companion through their fi...

  • Issola

    The Vlad Taltos Novels - 9

    Okay, so maybe I've been living in the woods too long, where you can't even get a decent cup of klava first thing in the morning. So who should turn up but Lady Teldra, the courtly servant of my old friend the Dragonlord Morrolan? Teldra wants my he...



  • The Paths of the Dead

    The Viscount of Adrilankha - 1

    Two hundred years ago, Adron's Disaster destroyed Dragaera City, killed the reigning Emperor, and deprived the entire Dragaeran Empire of the ability to use the simplest low-level sorcery. Its been a rough Interregnum. The children of those great ...

  • The Lord of Castle Black

    The Viscount of Adrilankha - 2

    The Interregnum is over. To everyone's astonishment, Zerika, a young Phoenix, has coolly emerged from the Paths of the Dead, carrying with her the Orb, which everyone had thought was lost in Adron's Disaster. The Orb is the heart of the Dragaeran Emp...

  • Sethra Lavode

    The Viscount of Adrilankha - 3

    Sethra Lavode is the sequel to The Paths of the Dead and The Lord of Castle Black, and the culmination of the bestselling epic begun with The Phoenix Guards. The oldest person in the Dragaeran Empire. A military genius and master of sorcery whose s...

  • Dzur

    The Vlad Taltos Novels - 10

    When you're a short-statured, short-lived human in an Empire of tall, long-lived Dragaerans, you've got to hold on to your wits. Long ago, I made a good living as a captain of the Jhereg, the noble house that runs the rackets in the Imperial city. B...

  • Jhegaala

    The Vlad Taltos Novels - 11

    Fresh from the collapse of his marriage, and with the criminal Jhereg organization out to eliminate him, Vlad decides to hide out among his relatives in faraway Fenario. All he knows about them is that their family name is Merss and that they live in...

  • Iorich

    The Vlad Taltos Novels - 12

    House Jhereg, Dragaera's organized crime syndicate, is still hunting Vlad Taltos. There's a big price on his head on Draegara City. Then he hears disturbing news. Aliera--longtime friend, sometime ally--has been arrested by the Empire on a charge of ...

  • The Desecrator

    "The Desecrator" is an original short story from the Draegaran Empire, by bestselling author Stephen Brust. This is a tale of the Hawklord Daymar, and of a particular Morganti blade. Vlad Taltos fans will enjoy new insight into Stephen Brust's fantas...

  • Tiassa

    The Vlad Taltos Novels - 13

    Long ago, one of the gods fashioned an artifact called the silver tiassa. To Devera the Wanderer, it was a pretty toy to play with. To Vlad Taltos, it was a handy prop for a con he was running. To the Empire, it was a tool to be used against their gr...

  • The Book of Dragon

    The first seven of Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos fantasy novels have long been in print from Ace Books in a set of three trade paperback omnibuses. Now Tor, publisher of the series from book eight on, continues the series of omnibuses with The Book of D...

  • Shadow Unit 15

    From Book 1: The FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit hunts humanity's worst nightmares. But there are nightmares humanity doesn't dream are real.

    The BAU sends those cases down the hall. There, Stephen Reyes and his team pursue criminals transforme...



  • Hawk

    The Vlad Taltos Novels - 14

    Years ago, Vlad Taltos came to make his way as a human amidst the impossibly tall, fantastically long-lived natives of the Dragaeran Empire. He joined the Jhereg, the Dragaeran House (of which there are seventeen) that handles the Empire's vices: gam...

  • Spells of Binding

    "Portrait of Vengeance" by Kara Dalkey"The Skin and Knife Game" by Lee Barwood and Charles de Lint"Strings Attached" by Nathan A. Bucklin"The Tale of the Stuffed Levar" by Jane Yolen"An Act of Love" by Steven Brust, Gregory Frost, and Megan Lindholm"...

  • Vallista

    The Vlad Taltos Novels - 15

    Full of swordplay, peril, and swashbuckling flair, Steven Brust's Vallista is a treat for longtime fans of this popular fantasy series, a deep dive into the mysteries of Dragaera and all within it. Vlad Taltos is an Easterner―an underprivileged ...

  • Good Guys

    A snarky, irreverent tale of secret magic in the modern world, the first solo standalone novel in two decades from Steven Brust, the New York Times bestselling author of the Vlad Taltos series Donovan was shot by a cop. For jaywalking, supposedly....

  • The Baron of Magister Valley

    From the vaults of Dragaeran history and the mind of master fantasist Steven Brust--a tale of betrayal and vengeance that is not at all a retelling of The Count of Monte CristoReader, you will undoubtedly have had the misfortune of consuming the rott...

  • Tsalmoth

    The Vlad Taltos Novels - 16

    Tsalmoth is the next installment in Steven Brust’s bestselling Vlad Taltos series -- hold on to your hats and get ready for another swashbuckling adventure!First comes love. Then comes marriage…Vlad Taltos is in love. With a former assassin who m...

  • Lyorn

    The Vlad Taltos Novels - 17

    All The World's A Happy Stage. Until the knives come out... Lyorn is the next adventure in Steven Brust’s bestselling Vlad Taltos seriesAnother Opening…Another Cataclysm?Vlad Taltos is on the run. Again. This time from one of the most powerful fo...

  • My Own Kind Of Freedom

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    Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to publications@publicdomain.org.uk This book is found as a ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Steven Brust has published 37 books.

Steven Brust does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Lyorn, was published in April 2024.

The first book by Steven Brust, Jhereg, was published in April 1983.

Yes. Steven Brust has 3 series.
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