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Michelle Sagara West is a Japanese Canadian author. She writes epic fantasy, though some of her works have been described as Urban Fantasy and YA.

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Order of The Burning Crown Series as Michelle West

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1 Hunter's Redoubt 2023 Description / Buy

Order of Chronicles Of Elantra Series

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1 Cast in Moonlight 2001 Description / Buy
2 Cast in Shadow 2005 Description / Buy
3 Cast In Courtlight 2006 Description / Buy
4 Cast in Secret 2007 Description / Buy
5 Cast in Fury 2008 Description / Buy
6 Cast in Silence 2009 Description / Buy
7 Cast in Chaos 2010 Description / Buy
8 Cast in Ruin 2011 Description / Buy
9 Cast in Peril 2012 Description / Buy
10 Cast in Sorrow 2013 Description / Buy
11 Cast in Flame 2014 Description / Buy
12 Cast in Honor 2015 Description / Buy
13 Cast in Flight 2016 Description / Buy
14 Cast in Deception 2018 Description / Buy
15 Cast in Oblivion 2019 Description / Buy
16 Cast in Wisdom 2020 Description / Buy
17 Cast in Conflict 2021 Description / Buy
18 Cast in Eternity 2022 Description / Buy
19 Cast in Atonement 2024 Description / Buy

Order of Essalieyan Chronicles Series

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1 Echoes (Short Story) 2011 Description / Buy
2 Huntbrother (Short Story) 2011 Description / Buy
3 The Black Ospreys (Short Story) 2011 Description / Buy
4 The Weapon (Short Story) 2011 Description / Buy
5 Warlord (Short Story) 2011 Description / Buy
6 The Memory of Stone (Short Story) 2011 Description / Buy
7 Birthnight (Short Story) 2011 Description / Buy
8 Gifted (Short Story) 2011 Description / Buy
9 For the Love of God (Short Story) 2011 Description / Buy
10 Hunger (Short Story) 2011 Description / Buy
11 Shadow of a Change (Short Story) 2011 Description / Buy

Order of House War Series

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1 The Hidden City 2008 Description / Buy
2 City of Night 2009 Description / Buy
3 House Name 2011 Description / Buy
4 Skirmish 2012 Description / Buy
5 Battle 2012 Description / Buy
6 Oracle 2015 Description / Buy
7 Firstborn 2019 Description / Buy
8 War 2019 Description / Buy

Order of Queen Of The Dead Trilogy Series

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1 Silence 2012 Description / Buy
2 Touch 2014 Description / Buy
3 Grave 2017 Description / Buy

Order of Sacred Hunt Series as Michelle West

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1 Hunter's Oath 1995 Description / Buy
2 Hunter's Death 1996 Description / Buy

Order of Sun Sword Series as Michelle West

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1 The Broken Crown 1997 Description / Buy
2 The Uncrowned King 1998 Description / Buy
3 The Shining Court 1999 Description / Buy
4 The Sea of Sorrows 2001 Description / Buy
5 The Riven Shield 2003 Description / Buy
6 The Sun Sword 2004 Description / Buy

Order of The Sundered Series

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1 Into the Dark Lands 1991 Description / Buy
2 Children of the Blood 1992 Description / Buy
3 Lady of Mercy 1993 Description / Buy
4 Chains of Darkness, Chains of Light 1994 Description / Buy

Order of Wolves Of Elantra Series

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1 The Emperor's Wolves 2020 Description / Buy
2 Sword and Shadow 2022 Description / Buy

Order of Michelle Sagara Standalone Novels

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1 Shards of Glass 2023 Description / Buy

Order of Michelle Sagara Short Stories/Novellas

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1 Four Attempts at a Letter (Short Story) 2020 Description / Buy
2 Winter (Short Story) 2020 Description / Buy
3 What She Won't Remember (Short Story) 2020 Description / Buy
4 The Hidden Grove (Short Story) 2020 Description / Buy
5 Ghostwood (Short Story) 2020 Description / Buy
6 When a Child Cries (Short Story) 2020 Description / Buy
7 Choice (Short Story) 2020 Description / Buy
8 Turn of the Card (Short Story) (As: Michelle West) 2020 Description / Buy
9 The Law of Man (Short Story) (As: Michelle West) 2020 Description / Buy
10 Flight (Short Story) (As: Michelle West) 2020 Description / Buy

Order of Michelle Sagara Short Story Collections

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1 Speaking with Angels (As: Michelle West) 2003 Description / Buy

Order of Valdemar Anthologies with Gary A. Braunbeck, Mercedes Lackey, Anthea Sharp, Dayle A. Dermatis, Ron Collins, John Helfers, Larry Dixon, Richard Lee Byers, Mickey Zucker Reichert, Josepha Sherman, Jennifer Brozek, Tanya Huff, Elisabeth Waters, Janni Lee Simner, Lawrence Schimel, Kristin Schwengel, Stephanie D. Shaver, Ben Ohlander, Mel White, John Yezeguielian, Philip M. Austin

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1 Valdemar Companion ( By: Mercedes Lackey) 1990 Description / Buy
2 Sword of Ice and Other Tales of Valdemar ( With: Gary A. Braunbeck, Mercedes Lackey, John Helfers, Larry Dixon, Richard Lee Byers, Mickey Zucker Reichert, Tanya Huff, Elisabeth Waters, Janni Lee Simner, Lawrence Schimel, Kristin Schwengel, Stephanie D. Shaver, Ben Ohlander, Mel White, John Yezeguielian, Philip M. Austin) 1997 Description / Buy
3 Sun in Glory and Other Tales of Valdemar ( By: Josepha Sherman) 2003 Description / Buy
4 Crossroads and Other Tales of Valdemar ( By: Mercedes Lackey) 2005 Description / Buy
5 Moving Targets and Other Tales of Valdemar ( By: Mercedes Lackey) 2008 Description / Buy
6 Changing the World ( By: Elisabeth Waters) 2009 Description / Buy
7 Finding the Way and Other Tales of Valdemar ( By: Mercedes Lackey) 2010 Description / Buy
8 Under the Vale and Other Tales of Valdemar ( By: Elisabeth Waters) 2011 Description / Buy
9 The One Left Behind (Short Story) ( By: Mercedes Lackey) 2014 Description / Buy
10 No True Way ( By: Mercedes Lackey, Dayle A. Dermatis, Ron Collins, Jennifer Brozek, Elisabeth Waters) 2014 Description / Buy
11 Crucible ( By: Mercedes Lackey, Anthea Sharp) 2015 Description / Buy
12 Tempest ( By: Anthea Sharp) 2016 Description / Buy
13 Pathways ( By: Mercedes Lackey) 2017 Description / Buy
14 The Demon's Den and Other Tales of Valdemar ( By: Tanya Huff) 2018 Description / Buy
15 Choices ( By: Anthea Sharp) 2018 Description / Buy
16 Seasons ( By: Anthea Sharp) 2019 Description / Buy
17 Passages ( By: Mercedes Lackey) 2020 Description / Buy
18 Boundaries ( By: Mercedes Lackey) 2021 Description / Buy
19 Shenanigans ( By: Mercedes Lackey) 2022 Description / Buy
20 Anything With Nothing ( By: Mercedes Lackey) 2023 Description / Buy
21 Feuds ( By: Mercedes Lackey) 2024 Description / Buy
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Order of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Series

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1 Buffy the Vampire Slayer ( By: Richie Tankersley Cusick) 1992 Description / Buy
2 Coyote Moon ( By: John Vornholt) 1997 Description / Buy
3 Halloween Rain ( By: Nancy Holder) 1997 Description / Buy
4 The Angel Chronicles, Vol. 2 ( By: Richie Tankersley Cusick) 1998 Description / Buy
5 Night of the Living Rerun ( By: Arthur Byron Cover) 1998 Description / Buy
6 Blooded ( By: Nancy Holder) 1998 Description / Buy
7 Child of the Hunt ( By: Nancy Holder) 1998 Description / Buy
8 Return to Chaos ( By: Craig Shaw Gardner) 1998 Description / Buy
9 Visitors ( By: Laura Anne Gilman, Josepha Sherman) 1999 Description / Buy
10 The Monster Book ( By: Thomas E. Sniegoski, Christopher Golden, Stephen R. Bissette) 1999 Description / Buy
11 Immortal ( By: Nancy Holder) 1999 Description / Buy
12 Sins of the Father ( By: Christopher Golden) 1999 Description / Buy
13 Unnatural Selection ( By: Mel Odom) 1999 Description / Buy
14 Resurrecting Ravana ( By: Ray Garton) 1999 Description / Buy
15 The Sunnydale High Yearbook (Short Story) ( By: Nancy Holder) 1999 Description / Buy
16 Power of Persuasion ( By: Elizabeth Massie) 1999 Description / Buy
17 The Willow Files, Vol. 1 ( By: Yvonne Navarro) 1999 Description / Buy
18 Deep Water ( By: Laura Anne Gilman, Josepha Sherman) 2000 Description / Buy
19 The Harvest ( By: Richie Tankersley Cusick) 2000 Description / Buy
20 The Evil That Men Do ( By: Nancy Holder) 2000 Description / Buy
21 How I Survived My Summer Vacation ( As: Michelle West, With: Nancy Holder, Paul Ruditis) 2000 Description / Buy
22 Spike and Dru ( By: Christopher Golden) 2000 Description / Buy
23 The Willow Files, Vol. 2 ( By: Yvonne Navarro) 2001 Description / Buy
24 Revenant ( By: Mel Odom) 2001 Description / Buy
25 Tempted Champions ( By: Yvonne Navarro) 2001 Description / Buy
26 The Book of Fours ( By: Nancy Holder) 2001 Description / Buy
27 The Watcher's Guides ( By: Nancy Holder) 2001 Description / Buy
28 Paleo ( By: Yvonne Navarro) 2002 Description / Buy
29 Ghoul Trouble ( By: John Passarella) 2002 Description / Buy
30 Oz: Into the Wild ( By: Christopher Golden) 2002 Description / Buy
31 Crossings ( By: Mel Odom) 2002 Description / Buy
32 The Wisdom of War ( By: Christopher Golden) 2002 Description / Buy
33 Little Things ( By: Rebecca Moesta) 2002 Description / Buy
34 These Our Actors ( By: Ashley McConnell, Dori Kogler) 2002 Description / Buy
35 Chosen ( By: Nancy Holder) 2003 Description / Buy
36 Blood and Fog ( By: Nancy Holder) 2003 Description / Buy
37 Chaos Bleeds ( By: James A. Moore) 2003 Description / Buy
38 Queen of the Slayers ( By: Nancy Holder) 2005 Description / Buy
39 Blackout ( By: Keith R.A. DeCandido) 2005 Description / Buy
40 Carnival of Souls ( By: Nancy Holder) 2006 Description / Buy
41 The Deathless ( By: Keith R.A. DeCandido) 2007 Description / Buy
42 Dark Congress ( By: Christopher Golden) 2007 Description / Buy
43 One Thing or Your Mother ( By: Kirsten Beyer) 2008 Description / Buy
44 Demons of the Hellmouth: A Guide for Slayers ( By: Nancy Holder) 2015 Description / Buy
45 Ghost Roads ( By: Nancy Holder, Christopher Golden) 2017 Description / Buy
46 Out of the Madhouse ( By: Nancy Holder, Christopher Golden) 2017 Description / Buy
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Order of Michelle West Short Stories/Novellas as Michelle West

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1 Turn of the Card (Short Story) 2020 Description / Buy
2 The Law of Man (Short Story) 2020 Description / Buy
3 Flight (Short Story) 2020 Description / Buy

Order of Michelle West Short Story Collections

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1 Speaking with Angels 2003 Description / Buy

Michelle Sagara Anthologies

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1 DAW 30th Anniversary Fantasy 2002 Description / Buy
2 DAW 30th Anniversary Science Fiction and Fantasy Anthologies 2002 Description / Buy
3 Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Television Show 2003 Description / Buy
4 Five Seasons of Angel: Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Vampire 2004 Description / Buy
5 Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2005 2005 Description / Buy
6 The Best Paranormal Crime Stories Ever Told 2010 Description / Buy
7 Happily Ever After 2011 Description / Buy
8 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January/February 2013 2013 Description / Buy
9 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Sept/Oct 2013 2013 Description / Buy
10 Ghouls, Ghosts, and Ninja Rats 2013 Description / Buy
11 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2015 2015 Description / Buy
12 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction November/December 2015 2015 Description / Buy
13 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction March/April 2016 2016 Description / Buy
14 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September/October 2016 2016 Description / Buy
15 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction July/August 2018 2018 Description / Buy
16 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, November-December 2020 2020 Description / Buy
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Sagara worked in a number of bookstores as a part-timer before finally settling down at Bakka-Phoenix, a retailer that specializes in science fiction and fantasy.

When she was young, Sagara’s parents were always reading to her. Like most children, she started with the picture books her parents bought her. She had no real choice in the literature she read.

Over time, as her tastes matured, she moved on to non-picture books. By the time she was six, the author had devoured every Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys book she could find. Then she moved on to Enid Blyton, C.S. Lewis, and Tolkien.

The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were particularly impactful to the author. At first, Sagara loved The Hobbit, and when she realized that The Lord of the Rings had discarded the protagonist of the first book in favor of introducing an entirely new cast, she chose to abandon The Lord of the Rings altogether.

But when she was 11, Michelle Sagara West gave Tolkien’s most popular book another chance and it blew her mind. She was amazed by the language, the elegance of the story and the themes of sacrifice, friendship and loss.

It is little wonder that The Sundered, her first series of epic fantasy novels, has been described as “Tolkienesque”.

There was never a question in the author’s mind that she would write epic fantasy. The genre appealed to her because it always transported her to worlds that had limitless possibilities.

The stories that fantasy told were so wide-ranging in scope and she could not wait to tell stories with similar settings. As a successful author, Sagara has published books as Michelle Sagara West, Michelle West, and Michelle Sagara.

This separation between her writing identities wasn’t intentional. Her first novel was published by Del Rey under the Michelle Sagara name. That was in 1991. Sagara was working fulltime at Bakka.

She was already married, and once the decision to have children was made, the author concluded that the months she would spend at home caring for her first child would afford her plenty of opportunities to write.

But the books Del Rey published did not sell quite as well as Sagara would have liked. So she reached out to DAW in the hopes of landing a second publishing avenue.

Because she did not yet know the final direction her Del Rey-published novels would take, whether they would soar or ultimately crash, she asked DAW to publish her next book under the Michelle West name.

In the years that followed, various circumstances pushed Sagara to nurture the growth of her pen names. Today, Sagara’s fans will tell you that the books she publishes as Michelle Sagara are shockingly distinct from her Michelle West works.

Best Michelle Sagara West Books

Sagara loves to write stories with multiple points of view because they allow her to increase the scope and unpredictability of her books, with some of the best titles in her bibliography including:

Cast in Shadow: Kaylin escaped Nightshade. Children were being marked and then killed, and those same markings had appeared on her skin. So she knew her only option was to flee, and she did just that.

When she finally emerged, Kaylin had changed. She had started over in the city of Elantra. She could read and fight and, as a member of the Hawks, it was her job to police Elantra.

Kaylin thought she had successfully buried her past. But then children started to die again and Kaylin was ordered to return to Nightshade to investigate the matter.

Cast in Courtlight: Kaylin defeated a great evil and for her reward, she was assigned an even more dangerous task.

The girl has to infiltrate the Barrani High Court. She must become someone else and use her magic to keep the High Lord’s Heir alive even as she maneuvers the traps that have been laid out to stop her.

But her mission is easier said than done. The Barrani High Court is a complicated place. It would only take a careless word for Kaylin to forfeit her life. She must proceed carefully, lest she steps on all the wrong toes.

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