Publication Order of Shadow and Bone Trilogy Books
Shadow and Bone
2012
Siege and Storm
2013
Ruin and Rising
2014
Publication Order of Six of Crows Books
Six of Crows
2015
Crooked Kingdom
2016
Six of Crows: A Darker Shore
2026
Publication Order of King of Scars Books
King of Scars
2019
Rule of Wolves
2021
Publication Order of Grishaverse Companion Books
The Language of Thorns
2017
The Lives of Saints
2020
Publication Order of Alex Stern Books
Ninth House
2019
Hell Bent
2023
Dead Beat
2026
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Wonder Woman: Warbringer
2017
The Familiar
2024
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
The Witch of Duva
2012
The Tailor
2013
The Too-Clever Fox
2013
Little Knife
2014
Publication Order of Children’s Books
The Invisible Parade (With: John Picacio)
2025
Better Pets (With: Liz Climo)
2026
Publication Order of Graphic Novels
Demon in the Wood (With: Dani Pendergast)
2022
About Leigh Bardugo
Leigh Bardugo is an American fantasy author, born in Jerusalem in 1975 and raised in Los Angeles. She is best known for the Grishaverse novels, which began with “Shadow and Bone” in 2012, and for the Alex Stern books for adults, which opened with “Ninth House” in 2019 and concluded with “Dead Beat” in 2026.
Bardugo was brought up by her grandparents and studied English at Yale University, graduating in 1997. Before her first novel was published she worked in copywriting and journalism, and in makeup and special effects.
“Shadow and Bone” follows Alina Starkov, a teenage orphan in the Russia-inspired land of Ravka who discovers a power she never knew she had. The novel reached number eight on the New York Times bestseller list, and “Siege and Storm” and “Ruin and Rising” completed the trilogy. “Six of Crows” and “Crooked Kingdom” moved the setting to the city of Ketterdam, where the criminal Kaz Brekker leads a crew of thieves in a plot to break into a high-security prison. “King of Scars” and “Rule of Wolves” then returned to Ravka, told from the viewpoints of Nikolai Lantsov, Zoya Nazyalensky and Nina Zenik. Netflix adapted the books as the series “Shadow and Bone”, which ran for two seasons between 2021 and 2023.
“Ninth House” was her first novel for adults. Its heroine, Alex Stern, is a high school dropout who can see ghosts and is offered a place at Yale to monitor the occult rituals of its secret societies. The book won the 2019 Goodreads Choice Award for fantasy, and “Hell Bent” followed in 2023. Amazon Studios announced a television adaptation in 2019, with Bardugo as an executive producer.
Her other fiction includes “Wonder Woman: Warbringer” (2017), written for the DC Icons series, and “The Familiar” (2024), a standalone historical fantasy set in Spain during the Spanish Golden Age. “The Invisible Parade” (2025), illustrated by John Picacio, was followed in 2026 by the picture book “Better Pets”, with illustrations by Liz Climo, and by “Six of Crows: A Darker Shore”, an illustrated Grishaverse story told through letters and documents and set after “Crooked Kingdom”. Bardugo received an Inkpot Award in 2019 and lives in Los Angeles.
