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  • Bibliography:
    12 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 2015
  • Latest Book:
    April 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Contender

1 - The Chosen (May-2019)
2 - The Challenger (Aug-2020)
3 - The Champion (Aug-2021)

Summoner Trilogy

0.5 - The Outcast (May-2018)
1 - The Novice (May-2015)
2 - The Inquisition (May-2016)
3 - The Battlemage (May-2017)
Summoner: Origins (May-2015)
The Summoner's Handbook (Oct-2018)

Book List in Order: 12 titles



  • He can summon demons. But can he win a war? Fletcher is working as a blacksmith's apprentice when he discovers he has the rare ability to summon demons from another world. Chased from his village for a crime he did not commit, Fletcher must travel...



  • Set in a time before The Novice, Summoner: Origins is the perfect introduction to the world of the Summoner, and gives you a sneak peek into the action and adventure. Continue the excitement in the series prequel, The Outcast.Arcturus is just an orph...



  • Readers of The Novice, Book One in the Summoner Trilogy by Taran Matharu, will know Othello as the brave dwarven classmate of Fletcher's at Vocans Academy. How Othello got to Vocans from his village, against all odds, is detailed in this exclusive e-...



  • A year has passed since the Tournament. Fletcher and Ignatius have been locked away in Pelt's dungeons, but now they must face trial at the hands of the Inquisition, a powerful institution controlled by those who would delight in Fletcher's downfall....



  • Fletcher and his friends fight for survival in the ether, where they pursue a mortally dangerous quest to rebuild their world and broker peace. Even as hatred threatens to turn friend into foe, Fletcher must lead a small army of soldiers into batt...



  • The thrilling prequel to the New York Times-bestselling Summoner series! When stable boy Arcturus accidentally summons a demon and becomes Hominum's first common summoner, he becomes the key to a secret that the powerful overlords would do anythin...



  • The Summoner series is stocked with characters both human and supernatural. Now all those characters come to life through artwork, maps, and detailed origin stories and descriptions, and a never before seen entry from James Baker's journal. This is t...



  • Throughout history, people have vanished with no explanation. A group of teenagers are about to discover why. Cade is settling into a new boarding school, contemplating his future, when he finds himself transported to another realm. He soon discove...



  • The stakes are higher than ever in The Challenger, the second book in the Contender YA trilogy by the New York Times bestselling author of the Summoner series, Taran Matharu. The first battle is over, but the Game is just beginning... Cade Cart...






  • In Taran Matharu's The Champion, the explosive final book in the Contender trilogy, Cade and his friends wage the ultimate battle for their lives -- and the fate of Earth itself -- in the Game set by the cruel and mysterious Pantheon…Cade has manag...



  • New York Times bestselling author Taran Matharu’s debut adult fantasy series introduces an immersive story written in the tradition of the viral cultivation genre. Discover a rich world of magic, warriors, and dragons, in which a fearless orph...



  • The next installment in New York Times bestselling author Taran Matharu’s Soulbound Saga, continuing the harrowing journey of Jai as he navigates returning to his own people, growing in his magic and as a warrior, fending off attacks both...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Taran Matharu has published 12 books.

The next book by Taran Matharu, The Tainted Khan, will be published in April 2025.

The first book by Taran Matharu, The Novice, was published in May 2015.

Yes. Taran Matharu has 2 series.