Author guide
Django Wexler Books in Order
Django Wexler is the author of many fantasy novels, including The Shadow Campaigns, The Forbidden Library, Wells of Sorcery, Burningblade & Silvereye, and Dark Lord Davi. Before writing full-time, he worked as a software engineer in artificial-intelligence research and programming languages. He lives near Seattle and enjoys painting tiny soldiers and playing games.
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Django Wexler's Newest Book
Not sure where to begin?
Start with one of these
The Thousand Names
The entry point to The Shadow Campaigns, Wexler's flagship adult military-fantasy series.
The Forbidden Library
The first volume of his middle-grade fantasy series.
Ship of Smoke and Steel
The first volume of the young-adult Wells of Sorcery trilogy.
Ashes of the Sun
The first volume of the Burningblade & Silvereye epic-fantasy trilogy.
How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying
The first volume of the Dark Lord Davi series and a representative later fantasy novel.
Read in order
Books by series
series · completed
The Shadow Campaigns
An epic military-fantasy series set in an alternate nineteenth-century world where muskets and magic shape wars, politics, and supernatural conflict.
- 1
The Penitent DamnedAmazon ↗Book prequel · short-story · 2013 Optional
- 2 The Thousand NamesAmazon ↗
Book 1 · novel · 2013
- 3
The Shadow ThroneAmazon ↗Book 2 · novel · 2014
- 4
The Shadow of ElysiumAmazon ↗Book 2.5 · novella · 2015 Optional
- 5
The Price of ValorAmazon ↗Book 3 · novel · 2015
- 6
The Guns of EmpireAmazon ↗Book 4 · novel · 2016
- 7
The Infernal BattalionAmazon ↗Book 5 · novel · 2018
series · completed
The Forbidden Library
A middle-grade fantasy series about Alice, a girl who discovers magical libraries and enters the worlds contained within books.
trilogy · completed
The Wells of Sorcery
A young-adult fantasy trilogy about Isoka, a girl who can access magical Wells and is sent to steal a legendary ghost ship.
trilogy · completed
Burningblade & Silvereye
An epic-fantasy trilogy about siblings divided by magic and revolution after the destruction of an empire.
series · ongoing
Dark Lord Davi
A fantasy series about Davi, a would-be hero trapped in repeated attempts to defeat the Dark Lord before ultimately becoming one herself.
series · unknown
John Golden
An urban-fantasy novella series about John Golden, a debugger who enters computer systems and encounters fairies, Dark Lords, and fantasy realms.
series · unknown
Netherwings
A fantasy series centered on young Netherjacks, their Netherwings, and the challenges of becoming a leader and hero.
- 1 NetherwingsAmazon ↗
Book 1 · novel · 2021
shared-universe · ongoing
Magic: The Gathering Fiction
Shared-universe fantasy fiction set in the Magic: The Gathering worlds of Ravnica and Ikoria.
shared-universe · ongoing
Dungeons & Dragons Fiction
Shared-universe fantasy fiction set in the Dungeons & Dragons setting.
- 1 Spelljammer: Memory's WakeAmazon ↗
Book 1 · novel · 2024
- 1 Last StopAmazon ↗
Book 1 · novel · 2024
Outside the series
