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  • Bibliography:
    38 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2012
  • Latest Book:
    April 2024
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Full Series List in Order

The Craft Sequence

1 - Three Parts Dead (Oct-2012)
2 - Two Serpents Rise (Nov-2013)
3 - Full Fathom Five (Jul-2014)
4 - Last First Snow (Jul-2015)
5 - Four Roads Cross (Aug-2016)
6 - The Ruin of Angels (Sep-2017)

The Craft Wars

1 - Dead Country (Mar-2023)
2 - Wicked Problems (Apr-2024)

Book List in Order: 38 titles



  • A god has died, and it’s up to Tara, first-year associate in the international necromantic firm of Kelethres, Albrecht, and Ao, to bring Him back to life before His city falls apart. Her client is Kos, recently deceased fire god of the city of A...



  • In Two Serpents Rise by Max Gladstone, shadow demons plague the city reservoir, and Red King Consolidated has sent in Caleb Altemoc -- casual gambler and professional risk manager -- to cleanse the water for the sixteen million people of Dresediel Le...



  • On the island of Kavekana, Kai builds gods to order, then hands them to others to maintain. Her creations aren't conscious and lack their own wills and voices, but they accept sacrifices, and protect their worshippers from other gods--perfect vehicle...



  • During a celestial civil war, an angel-like soldier searches for her missing brother.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied....



  • From the award-winning author Max Gladstone comes a dark fantasy tale, "A Kiss with Teeth, a Tor.com Original short storyVlad has grown distant from his wife. His son has trouble at school. And he has to keep his sharp teeth hidden.At the Publisher's...



  • Forty years after the God Wars, Dresediel Lex bears the scars of liberation―especially in the Skittersill, a poor district still bound by the fallen gods' decaying edicts. As long as the gods' wards last, they strangle development; when they fail, ...



  • Detective Sally Brooks investigates an unusual robbery, and discovers that magic is realand hungry! NYPD Detective Sal Brooks is no rookiebut even the most hardened cop would think twice when they see their brother open a book and become . . . well...





  • Grace’s secret history comes to light.While all the members of Team Three have their secrets, only Grace seems willing to guard hers with fists of fury. Finally fed up with being kept in the dark, Sal takes matters into her own hands and engages in...






  • An epic smackdown ensues as Sal and Team Three match wits and magic with Mr. Norse in the latest thrilling adventure in everyone's favorite online urban fantasy episodic series.The stage is set for the Mr. Norse’s grand move in possessing -- The No...



  • Questions are answered and new mysteries introduced as Season One of Bookburners, the urban fantasy episodic series from Serial Box, comes to its thrilling conclusion.With The Book of the Hand in their possession at last, Team Three can finally kick ...



  • Tanya and the Host make a break for it while Gabe seeks redemption in the latest episode of The Witch Who Came in from the Cold, the spellbinding online serial that mixes conspiracy, suspense, and sorcery like a collaboration between John le Carré a...



  • The golem makes its move at last . . . and so does Joshua Toms in the latest pulse-pounding episode of The Witch Who Came in from the Cold, the exhilarating new series set in an alternate Cold War in which CIA and KGB are just the newest spies o...



  • A traitor is unmasked and the gloves come off in the fasten-your-seatbelts season finale of The Witch Who Came in from the Cold ,Serial Box's alternate Cold War series that expertly mashes up magic and espionage. When a long-buried mole comes to lig...



  • Magic is real, and hungry -- trapped in ancient texts and artifacts, only a few who discover it survive to fight back. Detective Sal Brooks is a survivor. Freshly awake to just what dangers are lurking, she joins a Vatican-backed black-ops anti-magic...



  • Magic is real, and hungry -- trapped in ancient texts and artifacts, only a few who discover it survive to fight back. Detective Sal Brooks is a survivor. Freshly awake to just what dangers are lurking, she joins a Vatican-backed black-ops anti-magic...



  • The Bookburners are back as Sal and the Societas Librium Occultorum rise from the ashes of Season 1. Changes are underway at the Vatican but out the world, the mischief of demons is on the rise. When a town in New England goes missing behind a myster...



  • Old faces appear in New Shanghai in the sixth episode of Bookburners, the gritty Urban Fantasy presented by Serial Box, now in its second season. Liam and Grace travel to Shanghai to investigate a lead on the Orb -- and hopefully their own pasts. ...



  • In Four Roads Cross, the great city of Alt Coulumb is in crisis. The moon goddess Seril, long thought dead, is back--and the people of Alt Coulumb aren't happy. Protests rock the city, and Kos Everburning's creditors attempt a hostile takeover of the...






  • Asanti goes on trial the climactic finale of Bookburners Season Two, the gritty Urban Fantasy presented by Serial Box. The day of reckoning has arrived for both Asanti the Archivist and the the entire Societas Librorum Occultorum. Adapt or die; stay...



  • The critically acclaimed urban fantasy about a secret team of agents that hunts down dangerous books containing deadly magic -- previously released serially online by Serial Box, now available in print for the first time! Magic is real, and hungry...



  • This is the 2nd episode in the second season of The Witch Who Came In From The Cold, a 13-episode serial from Serial Box Publishing. This episode written by Max Gladstone.The Cold War gets magical when spies brush shoulders with sorcerers in this gen...



  • A stranger claiming knowledge of realms beyond the known world attempts to stop a war.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied....



  • This is the 8th episode in the second season of The Witch Who Came In From The Cold, a 13-episode serial from Serial Box Publishing. This episode written by Max Gladstone. The Cold War gets magical when spies brush shoulders with sorcerers in this g...



  • This is the 11th episode in the second season of The Witch Who Came In From The Cold, a 13-episode serial from Serial Box Publishing. This episode written by Max Gladstone. The Cold War gets magical when spies brush shoulders with sorcerers in this ...



  • Magic is real, and hungry--trapped in ancient texts and artifacts. Only a few who discover it survive to fight back.Join Detective Sal Brooks, newest recruit to a black-ops magic hunting team backed by the Vatican, as she travels the world to keep th...



  • This is the 1st episode in the third season of Bookburners, a 13-episode serial from Serial Box Publishing. This episode written by Max Gladstone. Magic is real . . . and hungry. Sal and Liam run into trouble at the Lascaux caves . . . and find thems...



  • This is the 6th episode in the third season of Bookburners, a 13-episode serial from Serial Box Publishing. This episode written by Max Gladstone. Magic is real…and hungry. Grace and Menchú have been called to China to help investigate a source of...



  • The God Wars destroyed the city of Alikand. Now, a century and a half and a great many construction contracts later, Agdel Lex rises in its place. Dead deities litter the surrounding desert, streets shift when people aren't looking, a squid-like towe...






  • A contemporary Lovecraftian tale of art, obsession, and elder gods.There were no monsters at first, only “Arthur Dufresne Crispin,” who met me on the front steps of his apartment in the Village: towheaded, tall, and lean, with long spidery finger...



  • This is the 13th episode in the third season of Bookburners, a 13-episode serial from Serial Box Publishing. This episode written by Max Gladstone. Magic is real…and hungry. The Bookburners thought they had seen some strange things in their time, b...



  • <b><i>This is the 1st episode in the fourth season of <i>Bookburners</i>, a 10-episode serial from Serial Box Publishing. This episode written by Max Gladstone.</b> <b><i>Supernatural</i> meets <i>...



  • A covert mission in Shanghai reunites Kusanagi with a wartime rival amid shifting loyalties. The infiltration of an anti-cyberization cult calls for Section 9’s most “human” members to do things the old-fashioned way. A deep dive into the mind ...



  • For over 25 years, the Wild Cards universe has been entertaining readers with stories of superpowered people in an alternate history. "Fitting In" by Max Gladstone shows how everyday people can step up to become extraordinary.Robin Ruttiger tries -- ...



  • From the co-author of the viral New York Times bestseller This is How Your Lose the Time War. “A classic space opera...a universe we’ve never seen before.” -- Delilah S. Dawson, New York Times bestselling author From Hugo Award finalist Max Gl...



  • Fresh from winning the Hugo and Nebula Awards, Max Gladstone weaves elements of American myth -- the muscle car, the open road, the white-hatted cowboy -- into Last Exit, a deeply emotional tale where his characters must find their own truths if they...



  • From the co-author of the viral New York Times bestseller This is How You Lose the Time War.Discover the destiny of the Craft in Dead Country, the standalone entry point to Max Gladstone's beloved fantasy epic. BOOK ONE OF THE CRAFT WARS SERIES Since...



  • From the co-author of the viral New York Times bestseller This is How You Lose the Time War.Gods and lawyers battle for the soul of the world in the action-packed second volume of Max Gladstone's Craft Wars, an epic fantasy like no other.A deadly for...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Max Gladstone has published 38 books.

The next book by Max Gladstone, Wicked Problems, will be published in April 2024.

The first book by Max Gladstone, Three Parts Dead, was published in October 2012.

Yes. Max Gladstone has 2 series.