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ⓘ About Leslye Penelope
Leslye Penelope is an award-winning and bestselling fantasy fiction novelist. Laslye who also writes as L. Penelope was born in the Bronx a few years after hip hop came into being. However, she moved out of New York before she could acquire the accent and spent much of her childhood in Maryland. Equally right and left-brained, she studied computer science and film production at Howard University. She would then get a post-graduate degree in multimedia before she began working as a website developer. Leslye is also an alumnus of the Wright/Hurston Writers Workshop and Voices/VONA. Penelope made her fiction writing debut with the publishing of “Song of Blood and Stone.” This was a work that was named on the list of the Best 100 Fantasy Books of All Time by “TIME Magazine.
All Book Series by Leslye Penelope
The Inevitable Undoing of Zahara Douglass
Latest in the series · book 3 of 3 · published 2026
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Leslye Penelope?
Leslye Penelope is an award-winning and bestselling fantasy fiction novelist. Laslye who also writes as L. Penelope was born in the Bronx a few years after hip hop came into being.
Which Leslye Penelope series should I start with?
Leslye Penelope's books stand alone rather than forming a numbered series, so there is no reading order to follow. The natural first pick is The Monsters We Defy (2022).
How many books has Leslye Penelope written?
Leslye Penelope has 3 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2022 and 2026. They all sit in a single category — Standalone Novels — rather than in numbered series.
In what order should Leslye Penelope's series be read?
No reading order is needed: none of the 3 books catalogued here do not form a numbered series, so any title can be picked up first. Within each category they are listed by publication year.
How are Leslye Penelope's books organised into series?
This guide splits Leslye Penelope's 3 books into categories rather than numbered series: Standalone Novels (3 books).