Order of Lloyd Alexander Books
Lloyd Alexander (1924-2007) was an American author of fantasy novels for young adults and children. He is best known for his Chronicles of Prydain series and is also the author of the Vesper Holly series and Westmark Trilogy. He won the Newbery Medal for his 1969 novel The High King.
Lloyd Alexander wanted to be a writer ever since he was 15. He realized this dream in 1955 with the novel And Let the Credit Go, an autobiographical satire of his experiences as a bank messenger. His final novel was The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio and was published in 2007. Below is a list of Lloyd Alexander’s books in order of when they were first published:
Publication Order of The Chronicles of Prydain Books
| The Book of Three | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Black Cauldron | (1965) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Castle of Llyr | (1966) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Taran Wanderer | (1967) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The High King | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Westmark Trilogy Books
| Westmark | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Kestrel | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Beggar Queen | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Vesper Holly Books
| The Illyrian Adventure | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The El Dorado Adventure | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Drackenberg Adventure | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Jedera Adventure | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Philadelphia Adventure | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Xanadu Adventure | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| And Let the Credit Go | (1955) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| My Five Tigers The Cats in My Life | (1956) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Time Cat | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fifty Years in the Doghouse | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Send for Ryan! | (1965) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The King's Fountain | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Four Donkeys | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Cat Who Wished to Be a Man | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Wizard in the Tree | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The First Two Lives of Lukas-Kasha | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Prydain Chronicles | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Arkadians | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The House Gobbaleen | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Iron Ring | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Gypsy Rizka | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| How the Cat Swallowed Thunder | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Fantastical Adventures of the Invisible Boy / The Gawgon and the Boy | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Lloyd Alexander Collection | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Rope Trick | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dream-of-Jade | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Town Cats and Other Tales | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Picture Books
| Coll and His White Pig | (1965) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Truthful Harp | (1967) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Fortune-Tellers | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| August Bondi: Border Hawk | (1958) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Aaron Lopez: The Flagship Hope | (1960) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| My Cats and Me: The Story of an Understanding (A Blank Journal) | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Wand in the Word | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Note: The Gawgon and the Boy was published in the UK as The Fantastical Adventures of the Invisible Boy.
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Lloyd Alexander Synopsis: The Fortune Tellers is a picture book by Lloyd Alexander and illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman. It’s the story of a young man who becomes the village fortune teller.
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