Laini Taylor Books In Order

Publication Order of Daughter of Smoke & Bone Books

Publication Order of Faeries of Dreamdark Books

Publication Order of Strange the Dreamer Books

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Publication Order of Graphic Novels

Publication Order of Anthologies

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Laini Taylor is an American published author.

Born on December 22, 1971, Laini is known for writing young adult fantasy stories. She is perhaps best known for writing her series Daughter of Smoke and Bone. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award in the category of Young People’s Literature.

Taylor was born in Chico, California. She grew up as the daughter of a U.S. military parent and subsequently spent a lot of her childhood being a military kid and spending time in California, Hawaii, Belgium, and Italy.

Laini attended UC Berkeley and received her English degree. She resides in Portland, Oregon, along with her daughter and her husband. She has always had a passion for being an author and writing, and she was thirty-five years old by the time she completed her first novel.

Taylor wrote a graphic novel in 2004 for Image Comics. The graphic novel was also illustrated by Jim Di Bartolo, her husband. She wrote her first novel Dreamdark: Blackbringer, which was first published in 2007. The sequel received the 2009 Cybil Award. She published Daughter of Smoke and Bone in 2011 and the first book was selected by Amazon to be the Best Teen Book of 2011, with its sequel Days of Blood and Starlight making the same list a year later in 2012. The trilogy has been translated into thirty-two languages and counting and is in development.

She published her book Strange the Dreamer in 2017, which was followed by Muse of Nightmares in 2018. This is where Lazlo Strange, polyglot and scribe, makes his way to the Lost City of Weep. The author even created her own unique language for the purposes of the world, which was woven into the plot. Strange the Dreamer was named a Michael L. Printz Honor Book and also received the 2018 Leslie Bradshaw Award in the category of young adult literature.

Taylor is also the author of Lips Touch: Three Times, which ended up being a finalist for the National Book Award. She has also written several short stories as well as novellas.

Laini is married to her husband Jim Di Bartolo, an artist. They have a daughter named Clementine and have some cats that live there too with them in Portland, Oregon.

Laini founded an online writing community during the Covid period. It can be found at her Patreon, where you can also find many posts all about topics like overcoming perfectionism, all things having to do with creativity, and her posts on writing. There are also posts about weekly Zoom meet-ups.

Blackbringer is the first book in the Faeries of Dreamdark series by Laini Taylor. If you want to enjoy an engaging fantasy story that is totally unique, check this book out!

When the old evil of the Blackbringer rises up again with the intent of unmaking the world, there is just one determined faerie that can prevent it. But Magpie Windwitch is not the same as other faeries. She is the granddaughter of the West Wind and while her type usually live alone deep in the Dreamdark forests, she has chosen to give her life to the purposes of tracking down devils and recapturing them.

These devils escaped from their old bottles a long time ago, just as her hero Bellatrix did similarly twenty-five thousand years previous. She has a wonderful gang of crows by her side and now goes around the world fighting in places where many others in the same position would choose to try and leave.

When a devil gets loose from a bottle that has been personally sealed by the Djinn King who created the world, Magpie has to understand that for the first time in her life she might be out of her league.

She’s wondering whether a faerie on her own with help from friends could possibly have a chance against the darkness of the Blackbringer. Will she be able to succeed or is she about to find out that when it comes to this battle, she is far outmatched? Read the first book in the exciting Faeries of Dreamdark series to find out!

Silksinger is the second book in the Faeries of Dreamdark series by Laini Taylor. If you read the first book in this series and loved it, then keep all of the magic going and read the second installment to see how a faerie who is the last in her clan has to take on a fight to finish her sacred duty.

Whisper Silksinger exists as one of the last of the Azazel’s secret guardians. She is one of the Djinn, the powerful beings who were able to dream the world into existence. Whisper is being pursued all of the time by bloodthirsty devils and so does her best to get away by escaping to the city of Nazneen so that the Azazel can be restored to his temple.

Simultaneously, Hirik Mothmage is on a secret quest so that he can track down the Azazel and restore the old honor of his clan who has since been disgraced.

Behind all of them is Magpie Windwitch, flying strong and the first champion of the faeries’ new age. Magpie is simply desperate to try and rescue the Azazel and Whisper before they are snatched up by a hidden enemy. Will she be successful, or is she already too late? Read this book to find out!