Order of Catherynne M. Valente
Catherynne M. Valente is an American author of fantasy and science fiction novels, short stories and poetry. She writes the Fairyland series and is a New York Times bestselling author. She has won the Andre Norton, Tiptree, Mythopoeic, Rhysling, Lambda, Locus and Hugo awards. Cathrynne was born in Seattle, where she lived until she was 13, when she moved to California. She graduated from high school when she was 15 and went onto UC San Diego and Edinburgh University, earning a B.A. in Classics with an emphasis in Ancient Greek Linguistics. She has worked as a professional fortune teller, telemarketer, private tutor, librarian, waitress, bartender, actress and statistician. Cat lives on a small island off the coast of Maine with her partner and a growing menagerie of animals.
Catherynne M. Valente made her debut as a novelist in 2006 with The Labyrinth. She had published a couple of poetry collections the year prior. Below is a list of Catherynne M. Valente’s books in order of when they were originally released:
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Publication Order of A Dirge for Prester John Books
The Habitation of the Blessed | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Folded World | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Fairyland Books
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland - For a Little While | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Boy Who Lost Fairyland | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Beasts Who Fought for Fairyland Until the Very End and Further Still | (2016) | Info. |
Publication Order of Leningrad Diptych Books
Deathless | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of The Orphan's Tales Books
In the Night Garden | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
In the Cities of Coin and Spice | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Space Opera Books
Space Opera | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Space Oddity | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
The Grass Cutting Sword | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Labyrinth | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Yume No Hon | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Palimpsest | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Radiance | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Past Is Red | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Under in the Mere | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Silently and Very Fast | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Fade to White | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Speak Easy | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Sin of America | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
L'Espirit de L'Escalier | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Comfort Me With Apples | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Difference Between Love and Time | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Oracles | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Apocrypha | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
This Is My Letter To The World | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Ventriloquism | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Myths of Origin | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Six-Gun Snow White | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Melancholy of Mechagirl | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Bread We Eat in Dreams | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Indistinguishable from Magic | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Refrigerator Monologues | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Future is Blue | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Children's Books
Smoky and the Feast of Mabon | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Glass Town Game | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Mass Effect: Andromeda Books
Nexus Uprising | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Initiation | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Annihilation | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Minecraft Books
Publication Order of Clockwork Phoenix Books
Clockwork Phoenix | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Clockwork Phoenix 2 | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Clockwork Phoenix 3: New Tales of Beauty and Strangeness | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Clockwork Phoenix 4 | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
Clockwork Phoenix 5 | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of The WisCon Chronicles Books
The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 2 | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
The Wiscon Chronicles, Vol.3: Carnival of Feminist SF | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 4 | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
The Wiscon Chronicles Volume 5 | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 6: Futures of Feminism and Fandom | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
The Wiscon Chronicles Vol 7: Shattering Ableist Narratives | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
The WisCon Chronicles, Vol.9 | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
The WisCon Chronicles 11 | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Anthologies
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