Judith Tarr

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  • Bibliography:
    49 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1985
  • Latest Book:
    October 2017
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Full Series List in Order

Alexander the Great

1 - Queen of the Amazons (Mar-2004)
2 - Bring Down the Sun (Jun-2008)

Avaryan Rising

1 - The Hall of the Mountain King (Dec-1986)
2 - The Lady of Han-Gilen (Apr-1987)
3 - A Fall of Princes (Apr-1988)
Arrows of the Sun (1993)
Avaryan Rising: The Hall of the Mountain King, the Lady of H (Dec-1993)
Tides of Darkness (Oct-2002)

Hound and the Falcon Trilogy

1 - The Isle of Glass (Feb-1985)
2 - The Golden Horn (Sep-1985)
3 - The Hounds of God (Jan-1986)

William the Conqueror

1 - Rite of Conquest (Oct-2004)
2 - King's Blood (Oct-2005)

Multi-Author Series List

Valdemar

Widdershins (Dec-2008)

Books in Order: 49 titles

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  • Dragons in the Earth

    Dragons sleep in the earth here. Claire is barely scraping a living on her friend's ranch near Tucson, Arizona. She looks after the long-abandoned horse facility, makes occasional attempts to resuscitate her acade...

  • Dragon Winter

    The winter field was planted, the seedstones buried to the depth of a woman's wrist. Any deeper and they might decline to sprout. Any shallower and.... Well. There were tales enough of that. Children stayed up all night for the terror of them. ...

  • Women in Practical Armor

    If women in fantasy are capable and intelligent enough to lead in battle, wouldn't they also be intelligent enough to protect their abdomens, tier their hair back, and cover their faces in battle? Edited by Ed Greenwood and Gabrielle Harbowy, this an...

  • Forgotten Suns

    I am no one. I pass from dark into dark. I hunt a track gone cold as stone. For five thousand Earthyears, the planet called Nevermore has been empty. Its cities are deserted, with every trace of their inhabitants erased. Only a handful of nomadic tri...

  • Nine White Horses

    Nine stories of horses and their people. Nine tales of magic and enchantment.Horses of the ancient world, horses of the Middle Ages and the Arabian Nights, horses of the present and the future, even horses (and not quite horses) of a world that never...

  • Death and the Lady

    A story set in the world of The Hound and the Falcon: In the midst of the Black Death, in a nation constantly at war, the women of Sency have found ways to survive and even to thrive. They live well enough in their men’s absence, with their faces t...

  • Living in Threes

    Three lives. Three worlds. Three times. Three young women, past, present, and future, come together to solve an age-old mystery and save a world. Meredith is just settling in for a long and lazy summer, when her mother announces that she’s sending ...

  • The Dagger and the Cross

    In the time of the Crusades, in a world at war, a prince of immortal lineage and a spirit of fire who was once an Assassin prepare to celebrate a royal wedding. But he is Christian and she is Muslim, and there are those who hate them not only for the...

  • Widdershins

    in Moving Targets and Other Tales of Valdemar
    Valdemar

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  • Bring Down the Sun

    Alexander the Great - 2

    Alexander the Great ruled the greatest Empire of the ancient world, but he was ruled by his mother, called Olympias. There are as many legends about this powerful Queen as there are of her famous son, and the stories began long before she even met Ph...

  • King's Blood

    William the Conqueror - 2

    The national bestselling author of Rite of Conquest continues the saga of a Britain torn between ancient magic and religious doctrine -- and the turbulent lives of the two sons of William the Conqueror. William the Conqueror is dead. The Norman king ...

  • Penthesilia

    in The Enchanter Completed

    For seven decades, L. Sprague de Camp was a giant in both science fiction and fantasy, renowned for his fast-moving action-adventure tales with a strong humorous element. Now, Hugo-winner and best-selling author Harry Turtledove has gathered together...

  • Measureless to Man

    in Alternate Generals III
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    GREAT LEADERS MAKE HISTORY-- BUT NOT HISTORY AS WE KNOW IT History shows that leadership is crucial in war, but there are other factors at work. What if history were given a twist or two, and great commanders on land and sea fought their greatest ...

  • Rite of Conquest

    William the Conqueror - 1

    National bestselling author Judith Tarr's House of War was hailed as a "beautifully researched, masterfully written fantasy" (Booklist). Now she tells the tale of a land in turmoil and a young man who would be king... For five hundred years the Sa...

  • Queen of the Amazons

    Alexander the Great - 1

    Judith Tarr returns to the always fascinating character of Alexander the Great in this fantasy novel that springs from the legend that the Queen of the Amazons came to meet him in Persia, and became his friend.

    Hippolyta was Penthesilea, or ...

  • Avaryan Resplendent

    Avaryan Resplendent
    Arrows of the Sun
    The Spear of Heaven
    The Tides of Darkness

    Here in a single volume is the second trilogy of Judith Tarr’s novels about the world of Avaryan, and the Sun God’s children who rule it.

    The S...

  • House of War

    It is the dawn of the thirteenth century, and Richard the Lionheart has grown in strength and wisdom since he was crowned King of Jerusulem -- and dispatched the scheming sorcerer Sinan, who once endangered his very soul. But now the Old Man of the M...

  • The Devil's Bargain

    National bestselling author of Pride of Kings and World Fantasy Award nominee conjures a fascinating world of sorcerers and warriors in this dramatically powerful tale.  Led by Richard the Lionheart, king of the English and count of Anjou, the ...

  • Tides of Darkness

    Avaryan Rising

    A stunning new fantasy adventure in the acclaimed Avaryan Chronicles

    Hailed as "a sweeping saga, spiced with exciting, unexpected plot twists" (Publishers Weekly), Judith Tarr's richly imagined Avaryan fantasy series has gained a broad and dev...



  • Pride of Kings

    National bestselling author and World Fantasy Award nominee Judith Tarr delivers a powerful epic of a glorious battle against magic unbound…

    At the coronation of the new king of England, two crowns are offered to Richard the Lionheart: the mortal...

  • Daughter of Lir


    In this sequel to White Mare's Daughter, the people of the horse goddess once more face the threat of war.

    Generations ago, the people of the White Mare migrated westward, through the great forests, until they met and clashed with the peop...

  • Kingdom of the Grail

    World Fantasy Award nominee and critically claimed author Judith Tarr has created a fantastic legend inspired by the epic poem The Song of Roland and the mythical history of Merlin.... Centuries after the fall of Camelot and the disappearance of Kin...

  • Household Gods

    Nicole Gunther Perrin is a modern young professional, proud of her skills but weary of childcare, sexist law partners, and her deadbeat ex-husband. Following a ghastly day of dealing with all three, she falls into bed, and awakens the next morning to...

  • Lady of Horses

    Journey back into the deep mists of time, enter the lives of a savage people whose rituals include human sacrifice and ritual cannibalism; a superstitious people who fear the magic of the Shamans who live among them; a patriarchal people who forbid w...

  • The Shepherd Kings


    The Kingdom of Lower Egypt has been occupied for a hundred years by the Shepherd Kings, the Hyksos, conquerors from the East who came with horses and dreadful war chariots to crush the foot soldiers of Pharoah. All of Lower Egypt is occupied by f...

  • White Mare's Daughter

    An epic tale of adventure and romance follows a beautiful, headstrong young priestess named Samara, whose white horse is the incarnation of a goddess on Earth and whose fateful clash with a city where women still rule changes the course of history. R...

  • Queen of Swords

    An epic adventure telling the forgotten tale of the princess of the Crusades and matriarch of twelfth-century Jerusalem, by the author of The Eagle's Daughter.Queen in all but name, one woman's battle to rule her kingdom, from the Court of Jerusalem ...

  • King & Goddess

    A fictional portrait of Queen Hatshepsut, a woman who loved her land too much to see it in the hands of one weak king after another, describes how she made a commoner her chief servant, her architect, and her secret paramour, and how she became phara...

  • Pillar of Fire

    Brought in chains as a slave girl to the court of ancient Egypt, Nofret knew intimately the key players in an extraordinary era: The Pharaoh Akhenaten, who defied the ancient Egyptian deities to worship the One True God, and his beautiful queen Nefer...



  • The Eagles's Daughter

    "The Holy Roman Empire is the setting for [this] historical romance . . . focusing on the Byzantine princess who ruled as regent for her son, Otto III." -- Kirkus Reviews   The powerful story of the tenth-century Byzan...

  • Throne of Isis

    Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt She was the most powerful woman of the ancient Mediterranean, and the only person standing between Rome and its dominion over the world. She was wife to Julius Caesar, and bore his only son. After his death she took Marc ...

  • Spear of Heaven

    Obtaining permission to accompany a powerful mage on a quest to a high mountain kingdom, willful heiress Daruya is horrified when her kingdom is threatened by evil forces on the eve of her departure. Reprint....

  • Bloodfeuds

  • Avaryan Rising: The Hall of the Mountain King, the Lady of H

    Avaryan Rising

    The classic series now in one volume for the first time!

    He appeared out of the northern mountain fastness, wielding powerful magics and claiming to be the Sun God's own child. His burning desire was to rule the entire world, and he inspired t...

  • His Majesty's Elephant

    When Rowan, the emperor’s youngest daughter, discovers a magical plot to kill her father, she must overcome her fear of magic to save him. “An appealing work, lightly touched with genuine period detail but focusing more on a prickly preadolescent...

  • The Hound and the Falcon

    Alfred of St. Ruan's Abbey is a monk and a scholar, a religious man whose vocation is beyond question. But Alfred is also, without a doubt, one of the fair folk, for though he is more than seventy years old by the Abbey's records, he seems to be o...

  • Lord of the Two Lands

    In 336 B.C., Egypt lay under the yoke of Persia, ruled by Governors appointed by the King of Kings in Persia. And in the Temple of Amon in Thebes dwelt the only living child of Nectanebo, the last fully Egyptian Pharaoh. But from the nort...

  • Arrows of the Sun

    Avaryan Rising

    Estarion, the embittered heir to the Endros empire, grieves over the murder of his father while journeying to the Golden Palace of Asanion, where conspirators wait to kill Estarion before he can claim the throne. Reprint....

  • The Dagger and the Cross: A Novel of the Crusades



  • Alamut

    Return to a time when magic ruled the world, when people lived and died in the name of honor and risked all in the honor of love. Alamut is the tale of two great and timeless beings: Prince Aidan, born of a royal human father and an immortal sorceres...

  • Ars Magica

    Gerbert was a farmer's son in an obscure town in France, but his gifts of mind and intellect were so remarkable that even in the feudal world of the tenth century, he could rise far above his station. Princes and prelates courted him; emperors cal...

  • A Wind in Cairo

    The Prince: Spoiled, reckless, heedless of any wants or needs but his own, sentenced to a terrible fate for his sins against man, woman, and God The Stallion: Equally spoiled, equally reckless, bound until death to a bitter servitude The Turk'S Heir:...

  • A Fall of Princes

    Avaryan Rising - 3

    A DARK DESTINY Friends by chance, enemies by birth, Hirel of Keruvarian and Sarevan of Asanion were bound together by circumstances that made them hostages in the war that brewed between their two empires. Each prince was heir to a throne, and nei...

  • The Lady of Han-Gilen

    Avaryan Rising - 2

    ELIAN, LADY OF HAN-GILEN Fiery-tressed, strong-willed, she was deter-mined from an early age to live on her own terms, bowing to nobody. When unwanted and unavoidable Imperial marriage loomed, she escaped, fleeing to join the army of her childhood...

  • The Hall of the Mountain King

    Avaryan Rising - 1

    The Kingdom of [anon was without an heir until the arrival of the young wandering priest with the look of the departed princess in his face and the disk of the sun in his palm. Mirain announced he was the son of the princess and the Sun-God Avaryan h...

  • The Hounds of God

    Hound and the Falcon Trilogy - 3

    The Hounds of God, the minions of the early Inquisition, threaten to annihilate both Alfred, now the Lord Chancellor of Rhiyana, and his Kingdom, a challenge that leads to a final confrontation with the Pope himself...

  • The Golden Horn

    Hound and the Falcon Trilogy - 2

    Constantinople, A.D. 1203: a great army camps outside the City of Cities, and threatens it with conquest. Within the City, a Greek witch and a renegade monk who is also a white enchanter do their utmost to hold back the tides of war. But even thei...

  • The Isle of Glass

    Hound and the Falcon Trilogy - 1

    Alfred of St. Ruan's Abbey in Ynys Witrin was content to live, as he had for decades, as a quiet monk among his brethren, who did not remark on his fair face, his ageless body, his ability to heal...no one at St. Ruan's would think of asking Brother ...

  • Hound and the Falcon: Three Novels in One Volume, the Isle o

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Judith Tarr has published 49 books.

Judith Tarr does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Dragons in the Earth, was published in October 2017.

The first book by Judith Tarr, The Isle of Glass, was published in February 1985.

Yes. Judith Tarr has 4 series.
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