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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)

Book List in Order: 49 titles



  • 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 ...



  • 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 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 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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:...



  • 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...







  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 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...




  • 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....



  • 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 ...



  • The powerful story of the tenth-century Byzantine princess Theophano, who was sent to be the wife and Empress of Otto II, son of Otto the Great, the Holy Roman Emperor.It is a long journey from the surviving Roman Empire in the East to the devastated...






  • 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...



  • 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...



  •   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 o...



  • 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...




  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...




  • 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...



  • 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...






  • In 1191 in the Holy Land, the crusaders under the command of Richard the Lionheart battle the armies of Saladin for control of the holy city of Jerusalem, while in Cyprus, Richard's mother Eleanor strikes a devil's bargain to ensure her son's victory...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



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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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...






  • Sixteen original stories set in mercedes lackey's valdemar universe Includes a new novella by Mercedes Lackey! Today's hottest fantasy authors visit Mercedes Lackey's bestselling world of Valdemar, adding their own special touches to the ancien...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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. ...



  • 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...






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.