Daniel Abraham Books in Order (Updated August 6, 2026)

Daniel Abraham is an American fantasy and science fiction writer known for the Long Price Quartet, The Dagger and the Coin, and the Kithamar Trilogy.

He also writes urban fantasy as M. L. N. Hanover. With Ty Franck, he writes science fiction under the shared pen name James S. A. Corey, including The Expanse and The Captive’s War.

Those names create the main difficulty in arranging his bibliography. A Daniel Abraham reading list can mean only the books carrying his real name, or it can include the novels, novellas, comics, and licensed fiction published under his collaborative and pseudonymous identities.

This guide covers all three:

• Daniel Abraham: Solo fantasy, short fiction, collaborations, and comics adaptations.
• M. L. N. Hanover: The Black Sun’s Daughter urban fantasy series.
• James S. A. Corey: The Expanse, The Captive’s War, and licensed Star Wars fiction written with Ty Franck.

The Best Starting Book Depends on the Reader

1. A Shadow in Summer (2006): Start here for character-driven fantasy built around political negotiation, personal betrayal, and magical beings created from abstract ideas.
2. The Dragon’s Path (2011): Start here for a larger epic involving banking, war, propaganda, religious manipulation, and several viewpoint characters.
3. Age of Ash (2022): Start here for an urban fantasy trilogy in which three novels examine the same year in one city from different perspectives.
4. Leviathan Wakes (2011): Start here for space opera, political tension across the solar system, a missing-person investigation, and the first stage of The Expanse.
5. The Mercy of Gods (2024): Start here for a newer science fiction series about humanity’s subjugation by a vast alien empire.
6. Unclean Spirits (2008): Start here for contemporary urban fantasy published under the name M. L. N. Hanover.

For Daniel Abraham’s solo fantasy, A Shadow in Summer is the best first book. For the complete body of work associated with him, Leviathan Wakes is the most widely accessible entry.

Daniel Abraham’s Series at a Glance

The principal continuities are:

1. The Long Price Quartet
2. The Dagger and the Coin
3. The Kithamar Trilogy
4. The Black Sun’s Daughter, as M. L. N. Hanover
5. The Expanse, as James S. A. Corey
6. The Captive’s War, as James S. A. Corey

These series are entirely separate. The andat of the Long Price books do not exist in the world of The Dagger and the Coin, and neither fantasy setting connects to Kithamar.

The Expanse and The Captive’s War are also separate science fiction universes.

The Long Price Quartet Books in Order

The Long Price Quartet follows the cities of the Khaiem, whose economic and political power depends on the andat. Each andat is an abstract idea given human form and bound to a poet.

The books cover several decades. Characters age, alliances change, and decisions made in youth continue shaping nations and families many years later.

1. A Shadow in Summer (2006): Otah Machi rejects the life chosen for him while his former friend Maati trains to control the andat Seedless, whose power has made the city of Saraykeht wealthy and vulnerable to conspiracy.
2. A Betrayal in Winter (2007): Otah is drawn back into the politics of Machi after the Khai’s sons begin dying, while Maati investigates a succession struggle that threatens the city and everyone tied to its ruling family.
3. An Autumn War (2008): The expansionist nation of Galt launches a campaign against the Khaiem, using a weapon capable of breaking the system that has protected the eastern cities for generations.
4. The Price of Spring (2009): Fifteen years after the war, Otah attempts to rebuild civilization while Maati pursues a dangerous plan to restore the andat and reverse the losses that reshaped both men’s lives.

The quartet is complete. Publication order is also chronological order.

Each novel reaches a meaningful stopping point, but the consequences carry forward. The Price of Spring assumes full knowledge of the war, the destroyed institutions, and the personal history established in the first three books.

Why the Long Price Quartet Should Stay Together

The series is not structured as four separate adventures with a recurring cast. It follows the long-term cost of political and personal choices.

A Shadow in Summer introduces the andat through one city and one economic conflict. The later books broaden that premise into questions about war, reproduction, historical memory, and whether a damaged civilization should restore the power that once sustained it.

Skipping a volume would remove part of the causal chain.

Long Price Quartet Omnibus Editions

The four novels have also been published in two collected volumes.

1. Shadow and Betrayal (2010): This omnibus contains A Shadow in Summer and A Betrayal in Winter, covering Otah and Maati’s early lives and the first political crises of the Khaiem.
2. The Price of War (2010): This omnibus contains An Autumn War and The Price of Spring, completing the military conflict and its long aftermath.

The omnibuses contain the full quartet. Readers who own both do not need the four individual editions.

The Dagger and the Coin Books in Order

The Dagger and the Coin is a five-book epic fantasy about war, finance, nationalism, religious certainty, and the use of stories to control public belief.

The main cast includes Cithrin bel Sarcour, a young banker; Marcus Wester, a veteran soldier; Geder Palliako, an awkward nobleman who gains political power; and Clara Kalliam, an aristocrat forced to reconsider her family and society.

1. The Dragon’s Path (2011): Cithrin attempts to save a bank’s wealth during the fall of Vanai, while Marcus accepts a protection job and Geder’s humiliation pushes him toward decisions with enormous political consequences.
2. The King’s Blood (2012): Geder rises within Antea and becomes increasingly dependent on a priesthood that offers certainty, while Cithrin learns how banking can become a weapon against military power.
3. The Tyrant’s Law (2013): Geder’s rule expands through war and religious persecution as Marcus searches for a weapon capable of opposing the spider priests behind the imperial campaign.
4. The Widow’s House (2014): Clara begins quietly resisting the regime her family helped create, while Cithrin develops a financial strategy intended to weaken Antea without meeting its armies directly.
5. The Spider’s War (2016): The surviving characters bring military force, banking, espionage, and disputed history together in a final attempt to stop Geder and the priesthood guiding him.

The series is complete. All five books should be read in order.

What Makes The Dagger and the Coin Different

The title refers to two kinds of power.

The dagger represents military force, coercion, and direct violence. The coin represents trade, credit, debt, confidence, and the ability to make governments function or collapse without winning a battlefield victory.

The sequence begins with several separate journeys, but the characters gradually become parts of one political and economic conflict. Later books depend on relationships and institutions built from the opening volume.

The Complete Dagger and Coin Route

1. The Dragon’s Path (2011): War scatters the principal characters and begins Geder’s rise.
2. The King’s Blood (2012): Political authority and religious influence become closely linked.
3. The Tyrant’s Law (2013): The Antean campaign grows into an ideological empire.
4. The Widow’s House (2014): Resistance develops through finance, intelligence, and divided loyalties.
5. The Spider’s War (2016): The military and economic struggles reach their conclusion.

No prequel, novella, or companion book is required between these novels.

The Kithamar Trilogy Books in Order

The Kithamar Trilogy is built around one unusual structural rule. All three novels cover roughly the same year in the city of Kithamar, but each volume follows different central characters.

Events that appear distant or unexplained in one book become immediate in another. The trilogy is therefore not repeating the same story. It is revealing how separate lives intersect with one political and supernatural crisis.

1. Age of Ash (2022): Alys searches for the truth behind her brother Darro’s death, drawing herself and her friend Sammish into the hidden politics, criminal networks, and ancient powers beneath Kithamar.
2. Blade of Dream (2023): Garreth Left, son of Kithamar’s new prince, and Elaine a Sal move through another side of the same year as succession, conspiracy, and the city’s supernatural history close around them.
3. Judge of Worlds (Expected February 2027): Byrn a Sal and Halev Karsen investigate the city’s concealed history and a conspiracy surrounding Kithamar’s new political era after the ancient Thread binding its stories has been cut.

As of August 6, 2026, Judge of Worlds has not yet been published. The publisher currently schedules it for February 2027.

Is the Kithamar Trilogy Complete?

Two books are published:

1. Age of Ash
2. Blade of Dream

The third and final volume, Judge of Worlds, is officially announced.

Readers can begin the trilogy now, but the full design will not be available until the final book is released.

Should Age of Ash and Blade of Dream Be Read in Order?

Yes.

The novels overlap in time, but Blade of Dream assumes that the reader has already seen Kithamar through Alys and Sammish. Reversing them would change the intended order of several discoveries.

The trilogy should be read in publication order even though its timelines run alongside one another.

Daniel Abraham Standalone Novels

Hunter’s Run

Hunter’s Run (2007): Ramón Espejo flees into the wilderness of the colony world São Paulo after killing a man, only to encounter an alien presence that forces him to hunt another fugitive and question his own identity.

The novel was written with Gardner Dozois and George R. R. Martin.

Its development began with an earlier novella called “Shadow Twin,” but Hunter’s Run is the expanded and definitive novel-length version. Readers do not need both unless they want to compare the texts.

Status: Complete standalone science fiction.

Daniel Abraham Short Fiction Collections

Leviathan Wept and Other Stories

Leviathan Wept and Other Stories (2010): This collection gathers Daniel Abraham’s early fantasy, science fiction, and horror stories, including work about altered communities, technological dependence, strained relationships, and people confronting systems larger than themselves.

The collection is not connected to one novel series. Its stories occupy separate settings.

It is best approached after sampling Abraham’s novels, when the recurring interests in institutions, compromise, memory, and social pressure are easier to recognize.

When We Were Heroes

When We Were Heroes (2013): This collection presents shorter work associated with Daniel Abraham’s Wild Cards character Jonathan Hive and related superhero storytelling.

The contents belong to the shared Wild Cards universe rather than Abraham’s solo fantasy worlds.

Edition contents and availability can vary, so readers should check whether a story already appears in a Wild Cards mosaic novel or anthology.

The Incident of the Harrowmoor Dogs

The Incident of the Harrowmoor Dogs (2013): Retired detective Balfour and his unusual companion Meriwether investigate a case involving apparently impossible dogs, hidden violence, and supernatural danger.

The novella combines mystery, horror, and period adventure.

It was planned as a possible opening for further Balfour and Meriwether stories, but it can be read independently.

Status: Standalone published novella, with no required sequel.

The Black Sun’s Daughter Books in Order

Daniel Abraham published the Black Sun’s Daughter series under the name M. L. N. Hanover.

The books follow Jayné Heller, a young woman who inherits money, property, and occult responsibilities from an uncle whose life she barely understood. She enters a hidden conflict involving demons called riders, possession, exorcists, and secret organizations.

1. Unclean Spirits (2008): Jayné learns that her uncle fought supernatural riders and inherits both his resources and his enemies, forcing her to rely on a group of experienced but divided allies.
2. Darker Angels (2009): Jayné travels to New Orleans for a case involving possession, family conflict, and spiritual traditions that do not fit neatly inside her team’s existing understanding of riders.
3. Vicious Grace (2010): A supernatural threat in Chicago places Jayné and her companions inside a conflict where loyalty, identity, and the true nature of possession become increasingly uncertain.
4. Killing Rites (2011): Jayné’s struggle with the rider tied to her own past forces her into isolation and a dangerous attempt to determine whether her identity can be trusted.
5. Graveyard Child (2013): Jayné returns to her family and confronts the secrets behind her childhood, her uncle’s work, and the supernatural history that shaped the entire series.

The series is complete. Read the five books in order.

Why the M. L. N. Hanover Name Matters

The Black Sun’s Daughter is not a shared project with another author. M. L. N. Hanover is Daniel Abraham’s own pen name.

The series is still separate from the Long Price Quartet, The Dagger and the Coin, and Kithamar. Its contemporary American setting and occult rules create an independent continuity.

Readers searching only under “Daniel Abraham” may miss these five novels because many editions retain the M. L. N. Hanover name prominently.

James S. A. Corey and Daniel Abraham

James S. A. Corey is the joint pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck.

Books carrying that name are collaborations. They should not be described as solo Daniel Abraham novels, but they belong in a complete bibliography because Abraham is one of the two writers behind them.

The name has been used for:

1. The Expanse
2. The Captive’s War
3. Honor Among Thieves, a Star Wars novel
4. Related novellas, short stories, and adaptations

The Expanse Novels in Order

The Expanse begins in a colonized solar system divided among Earth, Mars, and the people living in the asteroid belt and outer planets.

Its central cast develops around James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante. Political conflict and human expansion eventually become entangled with technology created by a vanished alien civilization.

1. Leviathan Wakes (2011): Ice hauler officer James Holden and detective Josephus Miller follow separate paths toward a missing woman, a destroyed ship, and a discovery capable of starting a war across the solar system.
2. Caliban’s War (2012): A child disappears from Ganymede as an altered combat organism exposes the continued weaponization of the protomolecule and brings several new characters into Holden’s conflict.
3. Abaddon’s Gate (2013): The alien Ring opens beyond Uranus, drawing military forces, religious groups, politicians, and the Rocinante into a structure that could transform humanity’s future.
4. Cibola Burn (2014): Settlers and a corporate expedition clash on Ilus, one of the first inhabited planets beyond the Ring, while ancient alien systems begin activating around them.
5. Nemesis Games (2015): The Rocinante crew separates for personal journeys just as a coordinated attack changes the political balance among Earth, Mars, and the Belt.
6. Babylon’s Ashes (2016): The war with the Free Navy spreads across the solar system while Holden and his allies attempt to rebuild trade, government, and trust after catastrophic attacks.
7. Persepolis Rising (2017): Decades later, an authoritarian power from Laconia returns through the Ring system with technology capable of overwhelming the existing human governments.
8. Tiamat’s Wrath (2019): Resistance to Laconian rule expands while experiments with alien technology attract attention from forces that destroyed the civilization behind the protomolecule.
9. Leviathan Falls (2021): Holden, Naomi, Elvi, and their allies confront the final consequences of the Ring network, Laconia’s ambitions, and humanity’s dependence on technology it does not understand.

The nine-novel sequence is complete.

The Expanse Short Fiction in Recommended Order

The shorter works add background to characters and places that the novels sometimes mention only briefly.

Most are collected in Memory’s Legion. Publication order is safe, but the following placement keeps the stories near the novels they support.

Drive

Drive (2012): Solomon Epstein tests the engine that will make sustained human settlement across the solar system possible, transforming history at the cost of his own life.

The story takes place long before Leviathan Wakes.

It can be read first, although it works equally well as historical background after entering the series.

The Butcher of Anderson Station

The Butcher of Anderson Station (2011): Fred Johnson confronts the military action that earned him his notorious name and begins moving away from Earth’s forces toward the Outer Planets Alliance.

Read it after Leviathan Wakes, when Fred and his reputation already have context.

The Churn

The Churn (2014): A young Amos Burton survives criminal life in Baltimore and becomes connected to the identity he later carries into space.

Read it before Nemesis Games, which returns to Amos’s history and Baltimore.

Gods of Risk

Gods of Risk (2012): Bobbie Draper’s nephew David becomes involved in drug production and a dangerous local relationship while Mars faces economic and social uncertainty.

Read it after Caliban’s War.

The Vital Abyss

The Vital Abyss (2015): Scientists responsible for protomolecule experimentation recount their captivity, ambitions, and moral compromises from inside a prison environment.

Read it after Cibola Burn and before Babylon’s Ashes.

Strange Dogs

Strange Dogs (2017): A child living on Laconia discovers alien creatures capable of repairing damaged life in ways that humans do not understand.

Read it after Babylon’s Ashes and before Persepolis Rising.

Its events become important in the final three novels.

Auberon

Auberon (2019): A newly appointed Laconian governor attempts to impose imperial order on a colony whose criminal networks and local compromises do not respond as expected.

Read it after Persepolis Rising and before Tiamat’s Wrath.

The Sins of Our Fathers

The Sins of Our Fathers (2022): Filip Nagata lives under another identity after the collapse of the Ring network and confronts a violent crisis within an isolated human settlement.

This is the final story in the internal Expanse chronology.

Read it after Leviathan Falls. Earlier reading would reveal the series’ final political and technological situation.

Memory’s Legion

Memory’s Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection (2022): This volume gathers the published Expanse novellas and short stories, including “Drive,” “The Butcher of Anderson Station,” “The Churn,” “Gods of Risk,” “The Vital Abyss,” “Strange Dogs,” “Auberon,” and “The Sins of Our Fathers.”

It also includes author notes providing context about the creation of each story.

“The Last Flight of the Cassandra,” written for The Expanse roleplaying game, is not part of the standard Memory’s Legion contents.

Readers who own Memory’s Legion do not need the individual digital editions of its stories.

Complete Expanse Reading Order

A practical integrated order is:

1. Leviathan Wakes (2011): The protomolecule crisis and the Rocinante story begin.
2. The Butcher of Anderson Station (2011): Fred Johnson’s political transformation receives its background.
3. Drive (2012): The invention that made the solar-system civilization possible is explained.
4. Caliban’s War (2012): The protomolecule returns through weapons research and the Ganymede crisis.
5. Gods of Risk (2012): David Draper’s story shows the social strain developing on Mars.
6. Abaddon’s Gate (2013): The Ring opens the route to other systems.
7. The Churn (2014): Amos’s Baltimore history prepares the reader for his later return to Earth.
8. Cibola Burn (2014): Humanity begins occupying worlds beyond the Ring.
9. Nemesis Games (2015): The Rocinante crew separates as the Free Navy attacks.
10. The Vital Abyss (2015): Captured scientists reveal more about protomolecule research.
11. Babylon’s Ashes (2016): The war with the Free Navy reaches its conclusion.
12. Strange Dogs (2017): Laconia’s alien repair creatures establish an important later threat.
13. Persepolis Rising (2017): Laconia begins its conquest of the Ring systems.
14. Auberon (2019): Imperial government encounters the realities of one occupied colony.
15. Tiamat’s Wrath (2019): Resistance and alien danger threaten Laconian rule.
16. Leviathan Falls (2021): The main nine-book series concludes.
17. The Sins of Our Fathers (2022): Filip’s later life provides the final published perspective on the post-Ring future.

This order preserves the novels’ momentum while placing the short fiction where it contributes the most context.

Should The Expanse Be Read Chronologically?

Only the short fiction creates a real choice.

The nine novels are already chronological. “Drive,” “The Churn,” and “The Butcher of Anderson Station” take place before the opening novel, but beginning with all three would delay the introduction of Holden, Miller, and the central conflict.

New readers should begin with Leviathan Wakes. Earlier-set stories become more meaningful after their characters and institutions are known.

The Captive’s War Books in Order

The Captive’s War is another James S. A. Corey science fiction series, but it is not connected to The Expanse.

Humanity encounters the Carryx, an immense alien empire that conquers species and tests whether they can become useful to its larger war. Survival requires cooperation with the conquerors, resistance against them, or a morally unstable combination of both.

1. The Mercy of Gods (2024): Research assistant Dafyd Alkhor and his scientific team are taken by the Carryx after the conquest of Anjiin, forcing them to compete with other captive species and determine how humanity can survive subjugation.
2. Livesuit (2024): A human soldier joins the Livesuit forces in a distant period of the larger war, revealing another side of humanity’s long resistance and the physical cost of becoming a weapon.
3. The Faith of Beasts (2026): Dafyd and the captive human team attempt to become useful to the Carryx while secretly gathering knowledge, surviving rival species, and deciding how far collaboration can serve resistance.

The series is planned as a trilogy of novels. Livesuit is a companion novella, not the second main novel.

The Correct Captive’s War Order

Use this sequence:

1. The Mercy of Gods
2. Livesuit
3. The Faith of Beasts

The novella’s exact relationship to the novels is deliberately broad, but publication order preserves the information as the authors released it.

A third main novel is planned. Its confirmed title and release date had not been announced by August 6, 2026.

Is The Captive’s War Part of The Expanse?

No.

The Carryx, Anjiin, Livesuit soldiers, and the larger interspecies war belong to a new universe. The Expanse’s Earth, Mars, Belt, protomolecule, Ring network, and Laconia do not appear.

Shared authorship and space-opera themes do not establish continuity.

Latest James S. A. Corey Book

The Faith of Beasts (2026): Published on April 14, 2026, this is the latest James S. A. Corey novel as of August 6, 2026.

It is the second main Captive’s War novel.

The next Expanse releases currently announced for December 2026 are special editions of Cibola Burn, Nemesis Games, and Babylon’s Ashes. They are new physical editions, not new stories.

Honor Among Thieves

Star Wars: Empire and Rebellion, Honor Among Thieves (2014): Han Solo and Chewbacca undertake a Rebel mission involving an Imperial spy, a dangerous secret, and a device that could change the balance of the Galactic Civil War.

The novel was written by Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck as James S. A. Corey.

It belongs to the Star Wars Legends continuity rather than The Expanse or The Captive’s War.

It is commonly identified as the second book in the Empire and Rebellion publishing line, but each volume follows different characters and can be read independently.

Wild Cards Books and Stories

Wild Cards is a shared-universe series created and edited by George R. R. Martin and developed by many writers.

Daniel Abraham contributed the character Jonathan Hive, a journalist who can transform into a swarm of wasps. His material appears alongside chapters and stories written by other authors.

Inside Straight

Inside Straight (2008): A reality television competition for newly visible aces becomes entangled with international conflict and political violence, introducing Jonathan Hive within the Committee era of Wild Cards.

This is a mosaic novel by several authors rather than a solo Daniel Abraham book.

Busted Flush

Busted Flush (2008): The Committee confronts new crises after the events of Inside Straight, continuing the shared storyline involving aces, political intervention, and public power.

Abraham contributes to the broader multi-author narrative.

Suicide Kings

Suicide Kings (2009): The Committee’s intervention in Africa reaches a violent conclusion as children with unstable powers become central to a war involving several returning characters.

Read it after Inside Straight and Busted Flush when following this Wild Cards arc.

Wild Cards Reading Boundary

The relevant sequence is:

1. Inside Straight
2. Busted Flush
3. Suicide Kings

These are volumes 18 through 20 of the larger Wild Cards series. Readers who want only Abraham’s solo fiction do not need them.

George R. R. Martin Graphic Adaptations

Daniel Abraham has adapted several works by George R. R. Martin into comics.

These books retell Martin’s existing prose rather than adding new Daniel Abraham continuities.

A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel Books in Order

Abraham adapted the first A Song of Ice and Fire novel into twenty-four comic issues, later collected in four graphic novels.

1. A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel, Volume One (2012): The Stark family becomes entangled in the politics of King Robert’s court as dangers develop in the North and across the Narrow Sea.
2. A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel, Volume Two (2013): Eddard Stark’s investigation deepens while conflict among the great houses moves closer to open war.
3. A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel, Volume Three (2014): Political betrayal and military action reshape the Stark and Lannister struggle.
4. A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel, Volume Four (2015): The adaptation completes the events of the first prose novel.

The four books adapt only A Game of Thrones. Abraham did not continue the graphic adaptation into A Clash of Kings.

Fevre Dream Graphic Novel

Fevre Dream: The Graphic Novel (2011): Mississippi River steamboat captain Abner Marsh enters a partnership with the mysterious Joshua York, whose struggle against another vampire threatens the ship and everyone aboard it.

The graphic novel adapts George R. R. Martin’s 1982 vampire novel.

It is not connected to A Song of Ice and Fire or Abraham’s original fantasy.

Skin Trade Graphic Novel

Skin Trade (2013): Collections of the comic adaptation follow private investigator Randi Wade and collections agent Willie Flambeaux as they investigate murders connected to werewolves and hidden supernatural communities.

The story adapts George R. R. Martin’s novella “The Skin Trade.”

It is separate from Black Sun’s Daughter despite both involving contemporary supernatural danger.

Wild Cards: The Hard Call

Wild Cards: The Hard Call (2011): A murder investigation and missing children draw several aces and jokers into a comic-book storyline set in the Wild Cards universe.

The collected graphic novel brings together the six-issue miniseries written by Daniel Abraham.

It belongs to Wild Cards continuity rather than his solo worlds.

Daniel Abraham Books in Publication Order

The following list covers the principal novels and book-length works connected to Abraham’s major identities. It excludes individual comic issues and many anthology-only short stories.

1. A Shadow in Summer (2006): Otah and Maati enter the political and magical conflict surrounding Saraykeht.
2. A Betrayal in Winter (2007): Succession in Machi draws both men into another crisis.
3. Hunter’s Run (2007): Ramón Espejo encounters alien life while fleeing through a colony world.
4. An Autumn War (2008): Galt attacks the cities protected by the andat.
5. Unclean Spirits (2008): Writing as M. L. N. Hanover, Abraham introduces Jayné Heller and the hidden war against riders.
6. Inside Straight (2008): Jonathan Hive appears within the multi-author Wild Cards mosaic.
7. Busted Flush (2008): The Wild Cards Committee storyline continues.
8. The Price of Spring (2009): Otah and Maati confront the long aftermath of war.
9. Darker Angels (2009): Jayné investigates supernatural danger in New Orleans.
10. Suicide Kings (2009): The Wild Cards Committee arc reaches its conclusion.
11. Vicious Grace (2010): Jayné’s struggle against riders continues in Chicago.
12. Leviathan Wept and Other Stories (2010): Abraham’s early short fiction is collected.
13. The Dragon’s Path (2011): The Dagger and the Coin begins through war, banking, and Geder’s rise.
14. Killing Rites (2011): Jayné confronts the supernatural force tied to her own identity.
15. Leviathan Wakes (2011): Writing with Ty Franck as James S. A. Corey, Abraham begins The Expanse.
16. Fevre Dream: The Graphic Novel (2011): George R. R. Martin’s steamboat vampire story is adapted into comics.
17. Wild Cards: The Hard Call (2011): A six-issue Wild Cards story is collected as a graphic novel.
18. The King’s Blood (2012): Geder gains political power while Cithrin develops as a banker.
19. Caliban’s War (2012): The protomolecule crisis expands through Ganymede and new viewpoint characters.
20. A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel, Volume One (2012): The comic adaptation of Martin’s first novel begins.
21. The Tyrant’s Law (2013): Antean conquest and the spider priesthood become central threats.
22. Graveyard Child (2013): Jayné’s five-book Black Sun’s Daughter story concludes.
23. Abaddon’s Gate (2013): The Ring opens a route beyond the solar system.
24. The Incident of the Harrowmoor Dogs (2013): Balfour and Meriwether investigate supernatural violence.
25. A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel, Volume Two (2013): The adaptation continues through growing political conflict.
26. Skin Trade (2013): Martin’s werewolf mystery is collected in graphic form.
27. The Widow’s House (2014): Clara and Cithrin develop different forms of resistance to Geder.
28. Cibola Burn (2014): Humanity’s first major extrasolar settlement becomes a political and alien crisis.
29. Honor Among Thieves (2014): Han Solo undertakes a Rebel mission in Star Wars Legends continuity.
30. A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel, Volume Three (2014): The adaptation reaches the war among the great houses.
31. Nemesis Games (2015): The Rocinante crew separates as the Free Navy attacks.
32. A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel, Volume Four (2015): The adaptation of the first novel concludes.
33. The Spider’s War (2016): The Dagger and the Coin reaches its final confrontation.
34. Babylon’s Ashes (2016): The war with the Free Navy concludes.
35. Persepolis Rising (2017): Laconia begins its conquest after a long time jump.
36. Tiamat’s Wrath (2019): Resistance and alien danger undermine Laconian rule.
37. Leviathan Falls (2021): The nine Expanse novels reach their conclusion.
38. Age of Ash (2022): Alys and Sammish investigate a death during a decisive year in Kithamar.
39. Memory’s Legion (2022): The Expanse short fiction is collected in one volume.
40. Blade of Dream (2023): Garreth and Elaine reveal another side of Kithamar’s year of crisis.
41. The Mercy of Gods (2024): The Carryx conquer Anjiin in the opening Captive’s War novel.
42. Livesuit (2024): A human soldier reveals another period of the larger war against the Carryx.
43. The Faith of Beasts (2026): Dafyd and his fellow captives continue balancing collaboration, survival, and resistance.
44. Judge of Worlds (Expected February 2027): The Kithamar Trilogy is scheduled to conclude through Byrn and Halev’s investigation of the city’s history.

A Recommended Order for Reading Everything

A complete reading plan works best when it keeps each identity and continuity together.

Begin with Daniel Abraham’s Solo Fantasy

1. A Shadow in Summer (2006): Enter the cities of the Khaiem through Otah, Maati, and Seedless.
2. A Betrayal in Winter (2007): Continue with the succession crisis in Machi.
3. An Autumn War (2008): Follow the Galt invasion and the attack on the andat system.
4. The Price of Spring (2009): Complete the quartet through the postwar generation.
5. The Dragon’s Path (2011): Begin a larger epic through Cithrin, Marcus, Geder, and Clara.
6. The King’s Blood (2012): Watch Geder’s insecurity become political power.
7. The Tyrant’s Law (2013): Continue through conquest and religious control.
8. The Widow’s House (2014): Follow the resistance built through banking and espionage.
9. The Spider’s War (2016): Complete The Dagger and the Coin.
10. Age of Ash (2022): Enter Kithamar through Alys and Sammish.
11. Blade of Dream (2023): Revisit the same year through Garreth and Elaine.
12. Judge of Worlds (Expected February 2027): Complete the trilogy after publication.

Continue with M. L. N. Hanover

13. Unclean Spirits (2008): Jayné inherits her uncle’s occult war.
14. Darker Angels (2009): The team enters a New Orleans possession case.
15. Vicious Grace (2010): Chicago exposes further uncertainty about riders and identity.
16. Killing Rites (2011): Jayné confronts the supernatural problem within herself.
17. Graveyard Child (2013): Her family history and the main series conflict are resolved.

Read The Expanse

18. Leviathan Wakes (2011): Begin with Holden, Miller, and the protomolecule.
19. Caliban’s War (2012): Continue through Ganymede and the hybrid weapons.
20. Abaddon’s Gate (2013): Enter the Ring.
21. Cibola Burn (2014): Follow humanity to its first contested extrasolar colony.
22. Nemesis Games (2015): Watch the Free Navy transform the solar system.
23. Babylon’s Ashes (2016): Complete the Free Navy conflict.
24. Persepolis Rising (2017): Begin the Laconian arc after the time jump.
25. Tiamat’s Wrath (2019): Follow the resistance and the growing alien threat.
26. Leviathan Falls (2021): Complete the main series.
27. Memory’s Legion (2022): Read the collected shorter stories with the full continuity available.

Finish with The Captive’s War

28. The Mercy of Gods (2024): Humanity becomes a captive species within the Carryx empire.
29. Livesuit (2024): A soldier’s perspective expands the scale and duration of the war.
30. The Faith of Beasts (2026): Dafyd’s strategy develops under alien occupation.

Add the Standalones and Adaptations

31. Hunter’s Run (2007): Read a self-contained planetary science fiction collaboration.
32. Leviathan Wept and Other Stories (2010): Explore Abraham’s shorter independent fiction.
33. The Incident of the Harrowmoor Dogs (2013): Read a compact supernatural investigation.
34. Honor Among Thieves (2014): Enter a separate Star Wars Legends adventure.
35. A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel, Volumes One through Four (2012 to 2015): Read Abraham’s complete comics adaptation of Martin’s first novel.
36. Fevre Dream: The Graphic Novel (2011): Read a separate vampire adaptation.
37. Skin Trade (2013): Finish with Martin’s werewolf mystery in graphic form.

Latest Daniel Abraham Book

The answer depends on which author name is being considered.

Latest book carrying Daniel Abraham’s own name: Blade of Dream (2023), the second Kithamar novel.

Latest book written partly by Abraham under a shared pen name: The Faith of Beasts (2026), written with Ty Franck as James S. A. Corey and published on April 14, 2026.

Next confirmed solo fantasy novel: Judge of Worlds, scheduled for February 2027.

Judge of Worlds will complete the Kithamar Trilogy. It should remain in the upcoming section until publication.

Series Completion Status

The Long Price Quartet

Complete: Four novels, ending with The Price of Spring.

The Dagger and the Coin

Complete: Five novels, ending with The Spider’s War.

The Kithamar Trilogy

Ongoing: Two novels are published. Judge of Worlds is scheduled for February 2027 as the finale.

The Black Sun’s Daughter

Complete: Five novels, ending with Graveyard Child.

The Expanse

Complete: Nine main novels, ending with Leviathan Falls.

The Sins of Our Fathers provides the final chronological short story.

The Captive’s War

Ongoing: The Mercy of Gods and The Faith of Beasts are published, along with the companion novella Livesuit.

A third main novel is planned but had no confirmed title and publication date as of August 6, 2026.

Frequently Asked Questions

What Daniel Abraham book should I read first?

Start with A Shadow in Summer for his solo fantasy.

Start with Leviathan Wakes when collaborative science fiction under the James S. A. Corey name is included.

Is James S. A. Corey the same person as Daniel Abraham?

James S. A. Corey is the shared pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck.

The books published under that name are collaborations rather than solo Abraham novels.

Is M. L. N. Hanover Daniel Abraham?

Yes. M. L. N. Hanover is a pen name used by Abraham for the Black Sun’s Daughter series.

Are Daniel Abraham’s fantasy series connected?

No. The Long Price Quartet, The Dagger and the Coin, and the Kithamar Trilogy occupy separate worlds.

They can be read in any series order.

What order should the Long Price Quartet be read in?

Read A Shadow in Summer, A Betrayal in Winter, An Autumn War, and The Price of Spring.

The series is complete.

What are Shadow and Betrayal and The Price of War?

They are omnibus editions.

Shadow and Betrayal contains the first two Long Price novels. The Price of War contains the final two.

What order should The Dagger and the Coin be read in?

Read The Dragon’s Path, The King’s Blood, The Tyrant’s Law, The Widow’s House, and The Spider’s War.

Is The Dagger and the Coin complete?

Yes. The Spider’s War concludes the five-book sequence.

What is unusual about the Kithamar Trilogy?

Each novel covers roughly the same year in Kithamar through a different group of central characters.

The stories overlap without simply repeating one another.

Is Judge of Worlds published?

No. As of August 6, 2026, it is scheduled for February 2027.

Should Blade of Dream be read before Age of Ash?

No. Read Age of Ash first.

The overlapping chronology does not replace publication order.

What order should the Black Sun’s Daughter books be read in?

Read Unclean Spirits, Darker Angels, Vicious Grace, Killing Rites, and Graveyard Child.

Is Black Sun’s Daughter connected to Kithamar?

No. It is a contemporary urban fantasy series in a separate continuity.

What is the correct order of The Expanse?

Read the nine novels from Leviathan Wakes through Leviathan Falls in numbered order.

Place the shorter stories between novels when desired, or read Memory’s Legion after completing the series.

Should Memory’s Legion be read first?

No. It contains stories from many points in the Expanse timeline, including one set after Leviathan Falls.

Reading the collection first would reveal later characters and outcomes.

Is The Expanse complete?

Yes. The nine-novel sequence ends with Leviathan Falls.

Is The Captive’s War connected to The Expanse?

No. It is a separate science fiction universe.

Where does Livesuit fit?

Read it after The Mercy of Gods and before The Faith of Beasts.

It is a companion novella rather than the second main novel.

Is The Faith of Beasts published?

Yes. It was published on April 14, 2026.

Is Hunter’s Run part of a series?

No. It is a standalone science fiction novel written by Daniel Abraham, Gardner Dozois, and George R. R. Martin.

Did Daniel Abraham write A Game of Thrones?

No. George R. R. Martin wrote the prose novel.

Abraham adapted the first novel into a twenty-four-issue comic series collected in four graphic novels.

Are Abraham’s graphic novels original stories?

Most are adaptations of prose by George R. R. Martin.

Wild Cards: The Hard Call is an original comic storyline within the multi-author Wild Cards universe.

What is Daniel Abraham’s newest solo novel?

Blade of Dream, published in 2023, is his newest published solo novel as of August 6, 2026.

What is his next solo novel?

Judge of Worlds is scheduled for February 2027 and will complete the Kithamar Trilogy.

The Clearest Reading Plan

Begin with the Long Price Quartet if you want Abraham’s most concentrated character-driven fantasy. Continue with The Dagger and the Coin for a larger examination of warfare, banking, propaganda, and political power.

Approach Kithamar after those completed series, especially if waiting for Judge of Worlds is acceptable. Its three-book structure depends on seeing one year from several angles rather than following a conventional linear quest.

Treat M. L. N. Hanover as a separate urban fantasy shelf. Read all five Black Sun’s Daughter novels in order.

For James S. A. Corey, complete the nine Expanse novels before reading the full Memory’s Legion collection. Then begin The Captive’s War with The Mercy of Gods, continue through Livesuit and The Faith of Beasts, and wait for the confirmed final novel details.

The essential authorship boundary is straightforward: Daniel Abraham writes the solo fantasy, M. L. N. Hanover identifies his urban fantasy, and James S. A. Corey identifies his collaborations with Ty Franck.