Sarah Monette Books In Order

Publication Order of Doctrine of Labyrinths Books

Publication Order of Iskryne World Books

Publication Order of Collections

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

Publication Order of Katherine Addison Collections

Publication Order of Shadow Unit Books

Publication Order of Anthologies

Sarah Monette is a published author of fiction. She also writes under the pen name of Katherine Addison.

Monette is a novelist as well as an author of short stories. The stories that she writes fall into the genres of horror, fantasy, and sometimes science fiction. She has used her pen name of Katherine Addison to write the fantasy book The Goblin Emperor. The book received a Locus Award in the category of best fantasy novel. It was also up for a World Fantasy Award and a Hugo and Nebula Award.

The author was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where she grew up. She first started writing when she was twelve years old. A while later she would go on to study English Literature, earning her M.A. and PhD in the subject. She also specialized in the subject of renaissance drama and her dissertation was on the topic of ghosts as included in revenge tragedy stories from the English Renaissance. She also chose to have a double major in Classics and Literature.

In 2003 she received recognition for a short story in the form of a Spectrum Award. Shortly after, she would have her debut fictional novel published. Mélusine was published in 2005, the first book in her Doctrine of Labyrinths series. The book received rave reviews from a variety of publications, including Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and Locus, which recommended it for its 2005 reading list. The sequel also make the recommended list in 2006, when The Virtu was published. Ace Books published the first four novels from this author.

She has collaborated with author Elizabeth Bear on a few projects. They co-wrote “The Ile of Dogges”, a short story that was published in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. They also worked together for The Tempering of Men and Tor: A Companion to Wolves.

The author has had her stories published in a variety of places, as well as some poems. She has seen short stories in Weird Tales, Alchemy, Strange Horizons, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and Postscripts. “Night Train: Heading West” was a poem she wrote featured in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror (XIX edition). She has also received honorable mentions from the collection.

Monette has also published two of her own short story collections. The Bone Key came out in 2007 and Somewhere Beneath Those Waves was published in 2011.

In addition to writing, she also has a hobby of collecting books. She is married, and her husband also has a hobby of collecting computer parts. She contends that where they live is constantly contested thanks to their two hobbies. She donated her source of archives in 2007 to Northern Illinois University’s department specializing in special collections and rare books.

Sarah Monette is the creator and the writer of the Doctrine of Labyrinths series of fictional novels. This series premiered in 2005 with the publication of Mélusine. This was followed by The Virtu, then The Mirador, and the fourth novel, Corambis. It is a fantasy series so check it out if you’ve been looking for something new.

Mélusine is the first novel to come out in the Doctrine of Labyrinths series. The novel is named after a city where so many motives exist. This is a place with just as many lies as truths, full of secrets, pain, pleasure, corruption, magic, and destinies that have been lost just as much as they have been found.

Meet main character Felix Harrowgate. He’s a wizard that is greatly respected and is handsome on top of it. However, that’s all in the present. His past contains more horrors and demons than he would care to admit. Like it or not, the trauma of living as a slave and being abused have come to the surface. Now they are risking destroying what and who he has worked so hard to become.

The people of the aristocracy have no idea that he has such a horror-ridden past. His master trained him well, amid the abuse, to be able to be mistaken for a nobleman. Mirador is the citadel in Mélusine that contains the forces of wizardry and are brimming with power. It was there that he thought that he could be safe, but he was sorely mistaken.

Then there is Mildmay the Fox. He’s a cat burglar, contrary to the name he holds, and he’s accustomed to having someone after him. He was brought up to be a thief and trained in the art of being an assassin. However, he was able to achieve independence living on his own as a burglar, shaking his Keeper years ago.

When he’s captured by a wizard using a calling charm, the mysterious and foreign man seems like a replacement for the Keeper he was able to lose. Only the wizard has caught the wrong person, since he was seeking to get Felix Harrowgate instead. Now they’ve been put together into a similar situation. Is Mildmay and Felix coming together fate?

The two might just find that they’re going to be allies as a secret waits that could link them forever and save them both or destroy them in the process. Follow them on their journey through magic lands and dealing with dark demons by picking up a copy of this first book in the series!

The Virtu is the second fictional novel to come out in the Doctrine of Labyrinths series by Sarah Monette. This sequel picks up with Felix Harrowgate and Mildmay the Fox once more.

Felix used to have power as a wizard. Then his old master took his magic, using it to break up the Virtu. The Virtu is an orb that serves as the wizards of the city’s keystone, protecting them and their magic.

Now Felix has done as much as he can to get back to being sane again. The only hope that he has to get back the life he had is to repair the Virtu. Mildmay was a burglar and assassin until his life shifted thanks to a curse. Now his leg is damaged and everything’s different. He knows that his fate’s tied to Felix by magic, and has no idea what waits for him in the city.

Together they will undertake a journey through a world of magic. Are they ready for what waits? Read this book to find out!