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Leigh Bardugo

(b.1975)

Leigh Bardugo was born in Jerusalem, raised in Los Angeles, and graduated from Yale University. She lives in Hollywood and indulges her fondness for glamour, ghouls, and costuming in her other life as makeup artist L.B. Benson.

Genres: Young Adult Fantasy, Fantasy, Mystery

New and upcoming books

April 2024

The Familiar

Series

Grishaverse
   0.5. The Witch of Duva (2012)
   1. Shadow and Bone (2012)
     aka The Gathering Dark
   2. Siege and Storm (2013)
   2.5. The Too-Clever Fox (2013)
   2.6. Little Knife (2014)
   3. Ruin and Rising (2014)
   4. Six of Crows (2015)
   5. Crooked Kingdom (2016)
   6. King of Scars (2019)
   The Lives of Saints (2020)
   7. Rule of Wolves (2021)
   World of the Grishaverse (2024)

Alex Stern
1. Ninth House (2019)
2. Hell Bent (2023)

Novels

The Familiar (2024)

Collections

The Language of Thorns (2017)
Marple (2022) (with others)

Series contributed to

DC Icons
1. Wonder Woman: Warbringer (2017)

Non fiction show

Leigh Bardugo recommends

The Whispering Night (2024)
(Luminaries, book 3)
Susan Dennard
"You'll want to get lost in the world of The Luminaries again and again."

Long Live Evil (2024)
(Time of Iron, book 1)
Sarah Rees Brennan
"Audacious and supremely satisfying."

When Among Crows (2024)
Veronica Roth
"Rich with myth and tapped into the deepest kinds of magic, Roth has created a deliciously strange, multi-layered mystery full of very human longing."

Saint-Seducing Gold (2024)
(Forge & Fracture Saga, book 2)
Brittany N Williams
"A fresh take on faerie magic."

Projections (2024)
S E Porter
"Bizarre, beautiful, and richly imagined."

The Book of Love (2024)
Kelly Link
"An eldritch Our Town that somehow manages to be both epic and intimate. Link's language is nimble and startling and goes down so easy. You won't realize you're drunk on this story until it's too late and you're careening from the spectacularly weird to the wildly funny to an aching grief almost too familiar to bear. A dizzying dream ride you will never forget."

Sword Catcher (2023)
(Chronicles of Castellane, book 1)
Cassandra Clare
"Clare plunges us into a thrilling world built with precision and brimming with enchantment. Her spellbinding cast of outlaws, healers, royals, and rogues will have you questioning your allegiances with every delicious turn of the plot. This is fantasy at its finest."

The Library of Broken Worlds (2023)
Alaya Dawn Johnson
"Mysterious, sweeping, wholly original, and anchored by an extraordinary heroine as wily as she is vulnerable. Johnson has crafted a story so immersive it will leave you drunk with visions of strange worlds and new gods, so compelling you'll be happy to drown in this dizzying, bloody brew of technology, lore, and world-shaking conflict."

Silver in the Bone (2023)
(Silver in the Bone, book 1)
Alexandra Bracken
"Simmering with magic, peril, romance, and heartbreak. Bracken's stories plunge you into a world of legend and longing you will never want to leave."

Stars and Smoke (2023)
(Stars and Smoke, book 1)
Marie Lu
"Sexy, funny, action-packed, full of killer characters ready to break your heart and look good doing it. Marie Lu always delivers."

The Sinister Booksellers of Bath (2023)
(Left-Handed Booksellers of London, book 2)
Garth Nix
"Garth Nix stes the standard for fantasy."

Book of Night (2022)
Holly Black
"Dark, strange, thick with mystery and twists - Book of Night is everything delicious and frightening I've come to expect from Holly Black. It's a story so believable in its magic, you'll be keeping one eye on your shadow as you turn the pages."

Ballad & Dagger (2022)
(Outlaw Saints, book 1)
Daniel José Older
"Brimming with mystery, mayhem, and heart, Ballad Dagger gives us wondrous new magic steeped in deep traditions. It's a gorgeous romance, a wild adventure, and a powerful story that unravels not only the pain of diaspora, but the strength of community, and the ways we provide refuge for one another."

Goliath (2022)
Tochi Onyebuchi
"Onyebuchi sets fire to the boundary between fiction and reality...Riveting, disturbing and rendered in masterful detail."

Deathcaster (2019)
(Shattered Realms , book 4)
Cinda Williams Chima
"Cinda Williams Chima's worlds bristle with magic, romance, and intrigue."

Tempests and Slaughter (2018)
(Numair Chronicles, book 1)
Tamora Pierce
"Tamora Pierce didn't just blaze a trail. Her heroines cut a swath through the fantasy world with wit, strength, and savvy. Her stories still lead the vanguard today. Pierce is the real lioness, and we're all just running to keep pace."

Vassa in the Night (2016)
Sarah Porter
"A dark, thoroughly modern fairy tale cracking with cracking with wit and magical mayhem."

Strange the Dreamer (2016)
(Strange the Dreamer, book 1)
Laini Taylor
"Laini Taylor is so damn good and like no other."

Heroine Complex (2016)
(Heroine Complex, book 1)
Sarah Kuhn
"Sarah Kuhn’s Heroine Complex is a delight."

More recommendations

Anthologies containing stories by Leigh Bardugo

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 (2017)
(Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, book 3)
edited by
John Joseph Adams and Charles Yu

Summer Days & Summer Nights (2016)
Twelve Love Stories
edited by
Stephanie Perkins

Slasher Girls and Monster Boys (2015)
edited by
April Genevieve Tucholke

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