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Laini Taylor

(b.1971)

Laini Taylor is the author of the Dreamdark books: BLACKBRINGER, which Kirkus said "belongs at the top of everyone's fantasy must-read list," and its sequel, SILKSINGER. She is also the creator of the Laini's Ladies line of gifts and stationery. You can learn more about her art, writing, animal claw collection, and love of bizarre creatures and phenomena on her website.She lives with her husband, Jim Di Bartolo, in a yellow cottage in Portland, Oregon.

Genres: Young Adult Fantasy

New and upcoming books

September 2025

Windwitch
(Guardians of Dreamdark, book 1)

Series

Faeries of Dreamdark
1. Blackbringer (2007)
2. Silksinger (2009)

Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy
   1. Daughter of Smoke and Bone (2011)
   2. Days of Blood and Starlight (2012)
   2.5. Night of Cake & Puppets (2013)
   3. Dreams of Gods and Monsters (2014)

Strange the Dreamer
1. Strange the Dreamer (2016)
2. Muse of Nightmares (2018)

Guardians of Dreamdark
1. Windwitch (2025)

Collections

Lips Touch (2009)

Novellas and Short Stories

Goblin Fruit (2012)
Spicy Little Curses Such as These (2013)

Graphic Novels show

Books containing stories by Laini Taylor

My True Love Gave To Me (2014)
Twelve Holiday Stories
edited by
Stephanie Perkins

Foretold (2012)
14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction
edited by
Carrie Ryan

Award nominations

	2018 Michael L. Printz Award (nominee) : Strange the Dreamer
	2011 Andre Norton Award (nominee) : Daughter of Smoke and Bone

Laini Taylor recommends

A Harvest of Hearts (2025)
Andrea Eames
"If you want more Howl vibes in your life, complete with absolutely beautiful prose, a true Ghibli cat, a sentient house, and a heroine caught between her no-nonsense nature and the insistent tug of love that may or may not be unnatural, you'll want A HARVEST OF HEARTS."

The Enchanted Lies of Celeste Artois (2024)
Ryan Graudin
"Ryan Graudin's magical Paris is glittering and seedy, glorious and deadly, fabulous and unforgiving. This novel of delicious skullduggery brings the City of Lights to life. I wish I could slip into its pages for a stroll, and see my favorite places rendered fantastical. This is the Paris novel of my dreams."

The Spellshop (2024)
(Spellshop, book 1)
Sarah Beth Durst
"A fairy-tale nightmare, and a romance all in one, unlike anything else and impossible to predict. I could not stop reading!"

To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods (2024)
(Gods Beyond the Skies, book 1)
Molly X Chang
"This book is a thrilling gut punch, both lavishly magical and devastatingly human."

A Wilderness of Stars (2022)
Shea Ernshaw
"Riveting, atmospheric thriller that messes with your mind in the best way."

Even Though I Knew the End (2022)
C L Polk
"Stylish supernatural noir with a heart and a thrumming pulse. I devoured it."

Odin's Child (2021)
(Raven Rings, book 1)
Siri Pettersen
"I loved it deeply from the first to the last word, and was instantly and thoroughly immersed."

Star Daughter (2020)
Shveta Thakrar
"Take a journey to the heavenly courts in this luscious, shimmering fantasy, so dripping with beauty and imagination you’ll want to eat it with a spoon."

The Empire of Gold (2020)
(Daevabad Trilogy, book 3)
S A Chakraborty
"Dizzyingly magical,and still utterly believable."

The Priory of the Orange Tree (2019)
(Roots of Chaos, book 1)
Samantha Shannon
"This magnificent epic of queens, dragonriders, and badass secret wyrm-slaying priestesses sings straight to the place in my soul that only fantasy can fill. Samantha Shannon has woven together everything I love: a rich world, deep history, vivid characters (bonus for sheer variety of singular women), pathos, sacrifice, stakes, dragons, and lovely, powerful writing. Truly, Priory of the Orange Tree is a tour de force, and my new absolute favorite epic fantasy."

The Gilded Wolves (2019)
(Gilded Wolves, book 1)
Roshani Chokshi
"This is a book to swan dive into, swim around in, luxuriate in. Trust me, you won't want to come out."

The Boneless Mercies (2018)
April Genevieve Tucholke
"Fierce and glorious, this story of outcast girls defying fate utterly bewitched me. Tucholke is a gorgeous writer."

Life L1K3 (2018)
(LIFEL1K3, book 1)
Jay Kristoff
"Hey, you. Yes, you. Put this grimy, beautiful, devastating, hilarious, screaming, writhing, all-out post-apocalyptic girl-buddy-road-warrior-lost princess-techno-thriller in your face and read it right now. It is every kind of badass."

Furyborn (2018)
(Empirium Trilogy, book 1)
Claire Legrand
"Beautiful, brutal, heart-stopping, and epic, Furyborn is a world to lose yourself in-just bring weapons. It's dangerous there."

Illuminae (2015)
(Illuminae Files, book 1)
Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
"Nervy chicks, cute fighter pilots, lots of heart, lots of heartbreak, a mentally unstable battleship, and even pink hair! This book is xxxxing awesome."

The Blind Wish (2015)
(Jinni Wars, book 2)
Amber Lough
"A fantastically compelling and romantic read from a shinning new voice in YA."

Wherever You Go (2011)
Heather Davis
"Eerie and sweet, haunting and real - a ghost story of love in its many forms: the kind that binds, and the kind that frees."

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