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Patricia Briggs is an American author born in 1965. Briggs has always described her early life in Butte, Montana, where she was born, as being rather dull until she learned to read properly. Born to a children’s librarian, it wasn’t a surprise when Briggs inherited a love for books and reading. The author had a particular interest in Fairy Tales. She also gravitated towards books about horses, this before finally nurturing her interest in folklore and history.

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Order of Mercedes Thompson Series

# Read Title Published Details
1 Moon Called 2006 Description / Buy
2 Blood Bound 2007 Description / Buy
3 Iron Kissed 2008 Description / Buy
4 Bone Crossed 2009 Description / Buy
5 Silver Borne 2010 Description / Buy
6 River Marked 2011 Description / Buy
7 Frost Burned 2013 Description / Buy
8 Night Broken 2014 Description / Buy
9 Fire Touched 2016 Description / Buy
10 Silence Fallen 2017 Description / Buy
11 Storm Cursed 2019 Description / Buy
12 Smoke Bitten 2020 Description / Buy
13 Soul Taken 2022 Description / Buy
14 Winter Lost 2024 Description / Buy

Order of Mercedes Thompson Collections

# Read Title Published Details
1 Shifting Shadows 2014 Description / Buy

Order of Mercedes Thompson Graphic Novels

# Read Title Published Details
1 Homecoming ( By: David Lawrence) 2009 Description / Buy
2 Moon Called, Volume 1 2010 Description / Buy
3 Moon Called, Volume 2 (Short Story) 2010 Description / Buy
4 Hopcross Jilly 2015 Description / Buy

Order of Alpha and Omega Series

# Read Title Published Details
1 Cry Wolf 2008 Description / Buy
2 Alpha and Omega / On the Prowl 2008 Description / Buy
3 Hunting Ground 2009 Description / Buy
4 Fair Game 2012 Description / Buy
5 Dead Heat 2015 Description / Buy
6 Burn Bright 2018 Description / Buy
7 Wild Sign 2021 Description / Buy

Chronological Order of Alpha and Omega Series

# Read Title Published Details
1 Alpha and Omega / On the Prowl 2008 Description / Buy
2 Cry Wolf 2008 Description / Buy
3 Hunting Ground 2009 Description / Buy
4 Fair Game 2012 Description / Buy
5 Dead Heat 2015 Description / Buy
6 Burn Bright 2018 Description / Buy
7 Wild Sign 2021 Description / Buy

Order of Alpha and Omega: Cry Wolf Graphic Novels with David Lawrence

# Read Title Published Details
1 Alpha & Omega: Cry Wolf #1 ( With: David Lawrence) 2012 Description / Buy
2 Alpha & Omega: Cry Wolf #2 ( With: David Lawrence) 2014 Description / Buy
3 Alpha & Omega: Cry Wolf #3 ( With: David Lawrence) 2014 Description / Buy
4 Alpha & Omega: Cry Wolf #4 ( With: David Lawrence) 2014 Description / Buy
5 Alpha & Omega: Cry Wolf #5 ( With: David Lawrence) 2014 Description / Buy
6 Alpha & Omega: Cry Wolf #6 ( With: David Lawrence) 2014 Description / Buy
7 Alpha & Omega: Cry Wolf #7 ( With: David Lawrence) 2014 Description / Buy
8 Alpha & Omega: Cry Wolf #8 ( With: David Lawrence) 2014 Description / Buy

Order of Hurog Series

# Read Title Published Details
1 Dragon Bones 2002 Description / Buy
2 Dragon Blood 2002 Description / Buy

Order of Raven Series

# Read Title Published Details
1 Raven's Shadow 2004 Description / Buy
2 Raven's Strike 2005 Description / Buy

Order of Sianim Series with Gordon R. Dickson

# Read Title Published Details
1 Masques 1993 Description / Buy
2 Steal the Dragon 1995 Description / Buy
3 When Demons Walk 1998 Description / Buy
4 Wolfsbane 2010 Description / Buy

Chronological Order of Sianim Series

# Read Title Published Details
1 Masques 1993 Description / Buy
2 Wolfsbane 2010 Description / Buy
3 Steal the Dragon 1995 Description / Buy
4 When Demons Walk 1998 Description / Buy

Order of Patricia Briggs Standalone Novels

# Read Title Published Details
1 The Hob's Bargain 2001 Description / Buy

Patricia Briggs Anthologies

# Read Title Published Details
1 Silver Birch, Blood Moon 1999 Description / Buy
2 On the Prowl 2007 Description / Buy
3 Wolfsbane and Mistletoe 2008 Description / Buy
4 Strange Brew 2009 Description / Buy
5 Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy 2011 Description / Buy
6 Down These Strange Streets 2011 Description / Buy
7 Happily Ever After 2011 Description / Buy
8 The Urban Fantasy Anthology 2011 Description / Buy
9 Home Improvement: Undead Edition 2011 Description / Buy
10 Ghouls, Ghosts, and Ninja Rats 2013 Description / Buy
11 Magic City: Recent Spells 2014 Description / Buy
12 A Fantastic Holiday Season: The Gift of Stories 2014 Description / Buy
13 Fantastic Hope 2020 Description / Buy
14 Heroic Hearts 2022 Description / Buy
15 Instinct: An Animal Rescuers Anthology 2023 Description / Buy
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Being steeped in folklore, Patricia Briggs naturally gravitated towards fantasy when she first began writing. She first began experimenting with the literary arena in 1990, with her first novel (Masques) finally coming out in 1993. While fantasy was always her genre of choice, her editor eventually urged her to give urban fantasy a try, primarily because the arena was experiencing considerable growth at the time. This is where books like Moon Called, which became a USA Today Bestseller, came from.

Patricia Briggs has degrees in History and German. She graduated from Montana State University and, at one point, worked as a substitute teacher.

Patricia Briggs Awards

Whether you love or hate Patricia Briggs as an author, her work has garnered a lot of popularity over a relatively short period of time, and the recognition and awards she has received as a result prove as much, this including the 2009 RT Reviewers Choice Award (Urban Fantasy Novel).

She was also a 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 RT Book Reviews Top Pick. The author has also been nominated for accolades like the Endeavor Award in 2015 and the Sapphire Awards.

Best Patricia Briggs Books

There are a lot of opinions surrounding Patricia Briggs’ work; while some think her edgy and unique, others have dismissed her work as being fluffy and generic. Whatever the opinion, these are the books people tend to elevate when talking about the best Patricia Briggs Books:

Moon Called: Most people know that Mercedes ‘Mercy’ Thompson is a talented Volkswagen mechanic. Most people also know that Mercy lives in the Tri-Cities area of Washington Most people do not know that Mercy is a magical being.

Mercy is a walker, an individual with the power to change her shape into that of a coyote. If that wasn’t crazy enough, Mercy’s next door neighbor is a werewolf, and her former boss is a gremlin.

And you cannot ignore the fact that she is fixing a bus for a vampire. Few people live in a world as wild as Mercy Thompson, and it is a world eerily similar to our own, but populated by creatures that go bump in the night.

And for Mercy, things are about to get a whole lot more complicated.

Marking Brigg’s initial foray into the realm of Urban fantasy, you will find a lot of people complaining about the faults of this book; what makes those complaints interesting is the fact that the readers in question almost always admit to loving the book regardless of its many faults.

The novel’s cover has received a lot of flak for being generic and uninspired; the world is pretty standard, typical of the Urban Fantasy Genre. The male characters in the story are not as nuanced as they should be, most of them quick to dismiss women as a whole and often driven to violence by the slightest of provocations.

None the less, here is where Patricia Briggs shines. Her book still manages to entertain her readers; and, in a way, it seems to drag even those haters of Urban Fantasy into the genre. One reason for this book’s success is Mercy, a strong character who isn’t irrationally strong but still stands tall.

Iron Kissed: As a walker, Mercy Thompson is a Mechanic with the power to change her shape. However, her loyalties have always stayed true. When her former boss and mentor is thrown behind bars by his own kind, Mercy will stop at nothing to clear his name, even in the face of his own resistance to her efforts.

However, with her loyalty under so much pressure from every possible direction, accomplishing her task will not be easy.

Patricia Briggs’ first true Urban Fantasy Novel “Moon Called” might have elicited a lot of complaints, but she clearly seems to have learned her lesson because all subsequent novels have improved by leaps and bounds, with Iron Kissed being one of the most impressive.

Briggs fills the book to the brim with tension in unexpected ways even while throwing some truly jaw-dropping shockers into the mix. And the characters are never compromised throughout. You can see from this book that Patricia Briggs is completely at home in the Urban Fantasy Genre.

When Does The Next Patricia Briggs book come out?

The next book by Patricia Briggs is Winter Lost and will be released on June, 18th 2024. It is the newest book in the Mercedes Thompson Series.

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