Author guide
Alaya Dawn Johnson Books in Order
Alaya Dawn Johnson is an award-winning American writer of speculative fiction for adults and young adults. Her books include the Spirit Binders novels, the Zephyr Hollis urban-fantasy novels, The Summer Prince, Love Is the Drug, Trouble the Saints, The Library of Broken Worlds, and the short-story collection Reconstruction. She has also contributed to collaborative works including Tremontaine, The Memory Librarian, and Wonder Woman: Heartless. Her honors include the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, the Andre Norton Award, and a Nebula Award.
science fictionfantasyspeculative fictionyoung adult fictionurban fantasyafrofuturism
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Start with one of these
The Summer Prince
A major standalone young-adult novel and accessible entry point to Johnson's speculative fiction.
Trouble the Saints
A standalone adult novel and award-winning entry point.
Reconstruction: Stories
A standalone collection showcasing Johnson's range as a short-fiction writer.
Racing the Dark
The first published novel in the Spirit Binders series.
Moonshine
The first main novel in the Zephyr Hollis series.
Read in order
Books by series
novel series · unknown
Spirit Binders
A fantasy series about characters who bind elemental powers to their commands.
urban fantasy series · incomplete
Zephyr Hollis
An urban-fantasy series set in an alternate 1920s New York featuring vampire suffragette and demon hunter Zephyr Hollis.
collective novel series · ongoing
Tremontaine
A collaborative serial fantasy novel and prequel to Ellen Kushner's Riverside setting.
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TremontaineAmazon ↗Book 1 · collective novel · 2017
Outside the series
