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ⓘ About Karen Lord
Karen also judged the 2018 CODE Burt Award for Caribbean YA Literature and the 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. She has also taught at the 2018 Clarion West Writers Workshop and the 2019 Clarion Workshop, and she was a co-facilitator of the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize in Barbados. Karen’s been a featured author at literary festivals from Edinburgh to Adelaide to Berlin, and often appears at the Bocas Lit Fest in Tobago & Trinidad. “Redemption in Indigo” is the first stand alone novel and was released in 2012. Winner of the Frank Collymore Literary Prize, the William L. Crawford Award, and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book. This is an intricately woven story about magic, adventure, and the power of the human spirit.
All Book Series by Karen Lord
Arrivals
Series opener · book 1 of 53 · published 2015 Anthology · Ellen Kushner
The North Side of the Sun
Book 2 of 53 · published 2015 Anthology · Alaya Dawn Johnson
The Dagger and the Sword
Book 5 of 53 · published 2015 Anthology · Alaya Dawn Johnson
Go and Tell The Morning Star
Book 11 of 53 · published 2016 Anthology · Alaya Dawn Johnson
Alive and Home Here
Book 19 of 53 · published 2016 Anthology · Alaya Dawn Johnson
In the Shadow of Riverside
Book 26 of 53 · published 2017 Anthology · Tessa Gratton
The Siege of Riverside
Book 30 of 53 · published 2017 Anthology · Tessa Gratton
Into the Woods
Book 35 of 53 · published 2017 Anthology · Delia Sherman,Liz Duffy Adams
A Blur of Bright Water
Book 38 of 53 · published 2017 Anthology · Tessa Gratton
Potential
Book 42 of 53 · published 2018 Anthology · Ellen Kushner,Tessa Gratton
What Goes Up
Book 43 of 53 · published 2018 Anthology · Ellen Kushner,Joel Derfner,Liz Duffy Adams
Building Bridges
Book 44 of 53 · published 2018 Anthology · Delia Sherman,Ellen Kushner,Liz Duffy Adams
The Turning of the Tide
Book 46 of 53 · published 2018 Anthology · Ellen Kushner,Joel Derfner,Liz Duffy Adams
What Light in the Houses Beneath the Earth?
Book 47 of 53 · published 2018 Anthology · Tessa Gratton
After the Flood
Book 49 of 53 · published 2018 Anthology · Ellen Kushner,Joel Derfner,Liz Duffy Adams
Set the Night on Fire
Book 52 of 53 · published 2018 Anthology · Ellen Kushner,Tessa Gratton
Onward
Latest in the series · book 53 of 53 · published 2018 Co-authored · Ellen Kushner,Racheline Maltese,Tessa Gratton
Tremontaine: The Complete Season 1
Series opener · book 1 of 4 · published 2016 Anthology · Ellen Kushner,Paul Witcover,Alaya Dawn Johnson,Joel Derfner,Racheline Maltese,Malinda Lo,Patty Bryant
Tremontaine: The Complete Season 2
Book 2 of 4 · published 2017 Anthology · Mary Anne Mohanraj,Ellen Kushner,Paul Witcover,Joel Derfner,Racheline Maltese,Tessa Gratton
Tremontaine: The Complete Season 3
Book 3 of 4 · published 2018 Co-authored · Delia Sherman,Ellen Kushner,Joel Derfner,Racheline Maltese,Tessa Gratton,Liz Duffy Adams
Tremontaine: The Complete Season 4
Latest in the series · book 4 of 4 · published 2018 Co-authored · Delia Sherman,Ellen Kushner,Joel Derfner,Racheline Maltese,Tessa Gratton,Liz Duffy Adams
New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean
Book 3 of 9 · published 2016
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Karen Lord?
Karen also judged the 2018 CODE Burt Award for Caribbean YA Literature and the 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. She has also taught at the 2018 Clarion West Writers Workshop and the 2019 Clarion Workshop, and she was a co-facilitator of the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize in Barbados. Karen’s been a featured author at literary festivals from Edinburgh to Adelaide to Berlin, and often appears at the Bocas Lit Fest in Tobago & Trinidad. “Redemption in Indigo” is the first stand alone novel and was released in 2012.
Which Karen Lord series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Cygnus Beta series, the earliest of Karen Lord's multi-book series: it opens with The Best of All Possible Worlds (2013) and runs to 3 books across 2013–2022, ending with The Blue, Beautiful World (2022). Karen Lord's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.
How many books has Karen Lord written?
Karen Lord has 72 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2010 and 2026. 60 of them belong to 3 named series — the largest being the Tremontaine series with 53 books — and 12 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Karen Lord's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Karen Lord's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Cygnus Beta (2013–2022, 3 books), Tremontaine (2015–2018, 53 books) and Tremontaine Collection (2016–2018, 4 books).
How are Karen Lord's books organised into series?
This guide splits Karen Lord's 72 books into 3 named series and 12 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Tremontaine (53 books, 2015–2018); Tremontaine Collection (4 books, 2016–2018); Cygnus Beta (3 books, 2013–2022).