Herbie Brennan

Herbie Brennan is a young adult and fantasy fiction author whose work has been published in more than fifty countries across the globe. Since he writes in both the fantasy and young adult genres, his works find appreciation in both adult circles and with children. The sales of his novels have exceeded 8 million copies.

The best place to start is the Quest series, the earliest of Herbie Brennan's multi-book series: it opens with EgyptQuest - The Lost Treasure of The Pyramids (1997) and runs to 4 books across 1997–2011, ending with AztecQuest (2011). Herbie Brennan's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Herbie Brennan has 88 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1988 and 2020. 47 of them belong to 6 named series — the largest being the Flashbacks series with 30 books — and 41 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. Herbie Brennan's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Quest (1997–2011, 4 books), Flashbacks (1998–2020, 30 books) and Herbie Brennan's Forbidden Truths (2001–2007, 4 books), plus 3 more.

This guide splits Herbie Brennan's 88 books into 6 named series and 41 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Flashbacks (30 books, 1998–2020); The Faerie Wars Chronicles (5 books, 2003–2011); Quest (4 books, 1997–2011); Herbie Brennan's Forbidden Truths (4 books, 2001–2007); Bluebell Wood (2 books, 2001–2002), plus 1 further series.