Katherine Addison

Her short fiction has been picked by The Year’s Best Science Fiction and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Sarah reviews fiction, while Katherine reviews nonfiction. That said, she reads very little fiction these days.

The best place to start is the Doctrine of Labyrinths series, the earliest of Katherine Addison's multi-book series: it opens with Mélusine (2005) and runs to 4 books across 2005–2009, ending with Corambis (2009). Katherine Addison's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Katherine Addison has 86 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2005 and 2025. 47 of them belong to 7 named series — the largest being The Chronicles of Osreth series with 7 books — and 39 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. Katherine Addison's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Doctrine of Labyrinths (2005–2009, 4 books), Iskryne World (2007–2015, 3 books) and Sarah Monette Short Stories/Novellas (2008–2023, 2 books), plus 2 more.

This guide splits Katherine Addison's 86 books into 7 named series and 39 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: The Chronicles of Osreth (7 books, 2014–2025); Doctrine of Labyrinths (4 books, 2005–2009); Iskryne World (3 books, 2007–2015); Sarah Monette Short Stories/Novellas (2 books, 2008–2023); Sarah Monette Collections (1 book, 2011), plus 2 further series.