Juliet E. McKenna

Author Juliet E. McKenna was born in the year 1965, in Lincolnshire, United Kingdom. She has been interested in fantasy stories she she was a childhood from The Iliad to Winnie the Pooh. She has an abiding fascination with the other world and the people inhabiting them played its role in her later reading Classics while at St.

The best place to start is The Tales of Einarinn series, the earliest of Juliet E. McKenna's multi-book series: it opens with The Swordsman's Oath (1999) and runs to 6 books across 1999–2012, ending with A Few Further Tales of Einarinn (2012). Juliet E. McKenna's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Juliet E. McKenna has 73 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1999 and 2026. 50 of them belong to 9 named series — the largest being the Polestars series with 14 books — and 23 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. Juliet E. McKenna's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are The Tales of Einarinn (1999–2012, 6 books), The Aldabreshin Compass (2003–2006, 4 books) and The Chronicles of the Lescari Revolution (2009–2010, 3 books), plus 5 more.

This guide splits Juliet E. McKenna's 73 books into 9 named series and 23 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Polestars (14 books, 2023–2026); Green Man (9 books, 2018–2026); The Tales of Einarinn (6 books, 1999–2012); Fear the Alien (5 books, 2010–2016); The Aldabreshin Compass (4 books, 2003–2006), plus 4 further series.