How to Read Sarah J. Maas' Books in Order: 'ACOTAR' and More
Sarah J. Maas has been the queen of romance for almost a decade now, but the rise of BookTok has only made her more popular – and now it seems everyone is ready to join the author in the Fae realm.
Maas started writing her debut novel, Throne of glass, when she was a teenager, and she has since expanded it into an eight-book series. Her second series, A Garden of Thorns and Roses, debuted in 2015, launched a thousand Tumblr accounts and made Maas a household name among romance and fantasy fans. Her popularity has only increased since BookTok gained the upper hand A Garden of Thorns and Rosescommonly abbreviated as ACOTAR.
“I think it's so wonderful that people have become aware of the joys of romance and fantasy in one,” Maas said Today in January 2024. “I started writing all these books just because that was the kind of story I wanted to read.”
The continued addition of ACOTAR in the everyday language of Generation Z and millennials has also increased since Hulu bought the rights to the books. In February 2024, reports circulated that the streaming giant had dropped the series, but a source spoke up We weekly at the time the show was still in development.
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Prior to the cancellation notices, Craig Erwichpresident of Disney Television Group, offered a little update on the ACOTAR TV series.
“That show is in development, but I don't have any news to share today,” he said at the Television Critics Association winter press tour.
While bookworms wait for the show (or the next installment in the ACOTAR book series), there are countless Maas novels to keep readers busy. Scroll on for a complete guide to the author's novels – and the different orders in which you can read them:
'A Court of Thorns and Roses'
These five books follow young adult Feyre Archeron as a chance encounter brings her into the world of the Fae. She soon finds herself in a love triangle. Does the name Rhysand, High Lord of the Night Court, sound familiar to anyone?
Although there are only five books (so far), Maas revealed that there is another story in the works.
“I'm very, very excited about that,” the author continued Today in January 2024. “I know a lot more about what's happening here. And then in the next book in that series I have the ideas and general vague thoughts.
The ACOTAR reading order is as follows:
A Garden of Thorns and Roses
A Court of Mist and Fury
A court of wings and ruins
A court of frost and starlight
A Court of Silver Flames
'Throne of Glass'
The first series of Maas is complete (for now) and follows a teenage assassin named Celaena Sardothien as she travels through the kingdom of Adarlan. Fans have the Throne of glass series to a new level by sharing multiple ways to read the eight books. Books five and six, Kingdom of storms And Tower of Dawn, take place simultaneously and can therefore be read in tandem, that is, at the same time and in a certain chapter order. Several book bloggers have gone bankrupt a complete guide for those brave enough to take on the challenge.
The murderer's swordmeanwhile, is a prequel book of short stories published after book two, Crown of Midnight, but is set before the events of book one. Fans – and Maas himself – have different thoughts on where this book falls in the reading order.
Massa's favorite reading order is as follows:
Throne of glass
Crown of Midnight
The murderer's sword
Heir of fire
Queen of Shadows
Kingdom of storms
Tower of Dawn
Kingdom As
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There is also a chronological, purist reading order, which changes things up so much The murderer's sword comes first:
The murderer's sword
Throne of glass
Crown of Midnight
Heir of fire
Queen of Shadows
Kingdom of storms
Tower of Dawn
Kingdom As
Finally, there's what fans call the romance reading order, where the romance of the series takes precedence over the plot:
Throne of glass
Crown of Midnight
Heir of fire
The murderer's sword
Queen of Shadows
Kingdom of storms
Tower of Dawn
Kingdom As
Sarah J. Maas on stage at New York Comic Con 2019
Craig Barritt/Getty Images'Crescent City'
Maas' latest series tells the story of half-Fae, half-human Bryce Quinlan, who seeks revenge for the death of her best friend. Maas dropped her first Half Moon City novel in 2020 and has since released two sequels.
While it is not necessary to read A Garden of Thorns and Roses First, Maas and her publishers have said it might be “more rewarding” to address it ACOTAR for Half Moon City. The reading order is below:
House of earth and blood
House of air and breath
House of Flame and Shadow