Katherine Kurtz

Katherine Kurtz is one of the critically acclaimed American author, who is famous for writing modern and high fantasy, historical fantasy, and alternate history novels. She is particularly famous for writing the Deryni universe book series as well as for co-authoring the Adepy series books. Author Kurtz has been an active member of the Sorcerers Guild and the Swordsmen writers' associations, as well as the Creative Anachronism Society.

The best place to start is the Chronicles Of Deryni series, the earliest of Katherine Kurtz's multi-book series: it opens with Deryni Rising (1970) and runs to 3 books across 1970–1973, ending with High Deryni (1973). Katherine Kurtz's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Katherine Kurtz has 94 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1970 and 2025. 81 of them belong to 12 named series — the largest being the Millenium series with 9 books — and 13 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 Kurtz's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Chronicles Of Deryni (1970–1973, 3 books), Camber Of Culdi (1976–1981, 3 books) and King Kelson (1984–2000, 4 books), plus 8 more.

This guide splits Katherine Kurtz's 94 books into 12 named series and 13 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Millenium (9 books, 1986–1989); Adept (5 books, 1991–1996); Deryni (4 books, 1986–2002); King Kelson (4 books, 1984–2000); Camber Of Culdi (3 books, 1976–1981), plus 7 further series.