Author guide
Gail Carriger Books in Order
Gail Carriger is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author and former archaeologist. Her fiction includes the Parasol Protectorate, Finishing School, Custard Protocol, Delightfully Deadly, Supernatural Society, Claw & Courtship, San Andreas Shifters, and Tinkered Stars series, as well as the Tinkered Stars science-fiction universe. Her books combine comedy of manners with steampunk, urban fantasy, science fiction, romance, and found-family themes. She writes the San Andreas Shifters books as G. L. Carriger and is also the author of the nonfiction craft book The Heroine's Journey.
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Start with one of these
Soulless
The first novel and entry point to the Parasol Protectorate.
Etiquette & Espionage
The first book of the Finishing School series.
Prudence
The first book of the Custard Protocol series.
Poison or Protect
The first Delightfully Deadly novella.
Romancing the Inventor
The first Supernatural Society novella.
How to Marry a Werewolf
The first Claw & Courtship novella.
The Sumage Solution
The first San Andreas Shifters novel.
Crudrat
A standalone entry point to the Tinkered Stars universe.
Divinity 36
The first book of the Tinkered Starsong trilogy.
My Sister's Song
A separately published short story and entry point to the short-fiction list.
The Heroine's Journey
The author's principal nonfiction book.
Read in order
Books by series
novel-series · completed
The Parasol Protectorate
A five-book steampunk paranormal-romance series following Alexia Tarabotti and her battle parasol in an alternate Victorian England.
novel-series · completed
The Finishing School
A four-book young-adult steampunk series about a school for young ladies who learn etiquette, espionage, and assassination aboard a dirigible.
novel-series · completed
The Custard Protocol
A four-book Parasolverse series following Rue and the crew of a high-tech dirigible as they travel the 1890s British Empire.
novella-series · ongoing
Delightfully Deadly
Standalone novellas about graduates of Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing School, set in the Parasolverse.
novella-series · ongoing
Supernatural Society
Standalone queer Parasolverse stories featuring recurring supernatural characters and romances.
novella-series · ongoing
Claw & Courtship
Standalone werewolf romances set in the 1890s Parasolverse and shaped by Jane Austen-style courtship plots.
- 1 How to Marry a WerewolfAmazon ↗
Book 1 · novella · 2018
novel-series · ongoing
San Andreas Shifters
A contemporary queer urban-fantasy series about a misfit family of shifters, mages, and supernatural beings in the San Francisco Bay Area, written as G. L. Carriger.
- 1 Marine BiologyAmazon ↗
Book prequel · short-story · 2011 Optional
- 2 The Sumage SolutionAmazon ↗
Book 1 · novel · 2017
- 3 The Omega ObjectionAmazon ↗
Book 2 · novel · 2018
- 4 The Enforcer EnigmaAmazon ↗
Book 3 · novel · 2020
- 5 Vixen EcologyAmazon ↗
Book interstitial · short-story · 2021 Optional
- 6 The Dratsie DilemmaAmazon ↗
Book 4 · novel · 2024
shared-universe · ongoing
Tinkered Stars
A science-fiction universe containing the Tinkered Starsong trilogy, the Crudrat adventure, and The 5th Gender mystery.
novel-series · completed
Tinkered Starsong
A three-book cozy space-opera trilogy about a barista recruited to become an entertainment god.
short-fiction-series · ongoing
Short Stories
Individually published short fiction by Gail Carriger in the Parasolverse and other settings.
- 1 My Sister's SongAmazon ↗
Book 1 · short-story · 2011
- 2
The Curious Case of the Werewolf That Wasn't, the Mummy That Was, and the Cat in the JarAmazon ↗Book 2 · short-story · 2012
- 3
Fairy DebtAmazon ↗Book 3 · short-story · 2013
- 4 Marine BiologyAmazon ↗
Book 4 · short-story · 2011
- 5
Meat CuteAmazon ↗Book 5 · short-story · 2019
- 6 Vixen EcologyAmazon ↗
Book 6 · short-story · 2021
nonfiction-series · ongoing
Nonfiction
Gail Carriger's separately published nonfiction books about writing, narrative structure, and authorship.
- 1 The Heroine's JourneyAmazon ↗
Book 1 · nonfiction · 2020
Outside the series