Amie Kaufman

Amie Kaufman is the Star Bound Trilogy author and international New York Times bestselling author of Sci-Fi and fantasy novels for young adults. Her award-winning literature has been described as a game-changer, mesmerizing and exceptionally impressive. The Starbound series has been co-written with Meagan Spooner.

The best place to start is the Starbound series, the earliest of Amie Kaufman's multi-book series: it opens with These Broken Stars (2013) and runs to 4 books across 2013–2015, ending with Their Fractured Light (2015). Amie Kaufman's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Amie Kaufman has 27 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2013 and 2026. 24 of them belong to 9 named series — the largest being The Illuminae Files series with 4 books — and 3 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Amie Kaufman's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Starbound (2013–2015, 4 books), The Illuminae Files (2015–2020, 4 books) and Unearthed (2017–2018, 2 books), plus 6 more.

This guide splits Amie Kaufman's 27 books into 9 named series and 3 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: The Illuminae Files (4 books, 2015–2020); Starbound (4 books, 2013–2015); The Aurora Cycle (3 books, 2019–2021); Elementals (3 books, 2018–2020); The Isles of the Gods (2 books, 2023–2024), plus 4 further series.