Caroline Stevermer

This feels like a three-in-one volume novel, and in a good way. The first volume cover life in Greenlaw college for Faris, Jane, and the rest of their friends. There is a lot of fun and adventure in this school, but for Faris, things get more intense when she leaves college.

The best place to start is the Cecelia and Kate series, the earliest of Caroline Stevermer's multi-book series: it opens with Sorcery & Cecelia, or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot (1988) and runs to 3 books across 1988–2006, ending with The Mislaid Magician (2006). Caroline Stevermer's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Caroline Stevermer has 15 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1980 and 2020. 8 of them belong to 3 named series — the largest being the Cecelia and Kate series with 3 books — and 7 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. Caroline Stevermer's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Alchemist (1980–1981, 2 books), Cecelia and Kate (1988–2006, 3 books) and A College of Magics (1994–2004, 3 books).

This guide splits Caroline Stevermer's 15 books into 3 named series and 7 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Cecelia and Kate (3 books, 1988–2006); A College of Magics (3 books, 1994–2004); Alchemist (2 books, 1980–1981).