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October Daye Books in Order

by Seanan McGuireScience Fiction & Fantasy

20 books from Rosemary and Rue (2009) to A Divided Duty (2026). Rated 4.6 across 21,928 listener reviews.

Reading order

  1. Rosemary and Rue

    Book 1 2009 4.1 (3k)

    The world of Faerie never disappeared: it merely went into hiding, continuing to exist parallel to our own. Secrecy is the key to Faerie’s survival—but no secret can be kept forever, and when the fae and mortal worlds collide, changelings…

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  2. A Local Habitation

    Book 2 2010 4.4 (1.8k)

    October “Toby” Daye is a changeling, the daughter of Amandine of the fae and a mortal man. Like her mother, she is gifted in blood magic, able to read what has happened to a person through a mere taste of blood.

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  3. An Artificial Night

    Book 3 2010 4.6 (1.6k)

    Changeling knight in the court of the Duke of Shadowed Hills, October “Toby” Daye has survived numerous challenges that would destroy fae and mortal alike. Now Toby must take on a nightmarish new assignment.

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  4. Late Eclipses

    Book 4 2011 4.6 (1.5k)

    Two years ago, October “Toby” Daye believed she could leave the world of Faerie behind. She was wrong. Now she finds herself in the service of Duke Sylvester Torquill, sharing an apartment with her Fetch, and maintaining an odd truce with…

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  5. One Salt Sea

    Book 5 2011 4.7 (1.5k)

    October “Toby” Daye is finally doing all right. She’s settling into her new role as the Countess of Goldengreen; she’s actually dating again; she’s even agreed to take on Quentin as her official squire.

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  6. Ashes of Honor

    Book 6 2012 4.7 (1.4k)

    It’s been almost a year since October "Toby" Daye averted a war, gave up a county, and suffered personal losses that have left her wishing for a good day’s sleep.

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  7. Chimes at Midnight

    Book 7 2013 4.7 (1.4k)

    Things are starting to look up for October "Toby" Daye. She's training her squire, doing her job, and has finally allowed herself to grow closer to the local King of Cats.

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  8. The Winter Long

    Book 8 2014 4.7 (1.4k)

    Toby thought she understood her own past; she thought she knew the score.She was wrong.It's time to learn the truth....

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  9. A Red-Rose Chain

    Book 9 2015 4.7 (1.3k)

    For the first time in what feels like years, October "Toby" Daye has been able to pause long enough to take a breath and look at her life - and she likes what she sees....

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  10. Once Broken Faith

    Book 10 2016 4.8 (1.2k)

    When October "Toby" Daye traveled to the Kingdom of Silences to prevent them from going to war with her home, she wasn't expecting to return with a cure for elf-shot and new political headaches....

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  11. The Brightest Fell

    Book 11 2017 4.8 (1.1k)

    When Toby's mother, Amandine, appears on her doorstep with a demand for help, refusing her seems like the right thing to do...until Amandine starts taking hostages, and everything changes....

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  12. Night and Silence

    Book 12 2018 4.7 (997)

    In the aftermath of Amandine's latest betrayal, October "Toby" Daye's fragile self-made family is on the verge of coming apart at the seams.

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  13. The Unkindest Tide

    Book 13 2019 4.7 (775)

    Hundreds of years ago, the Selkies made a deal with the sea witch: they would have the sea for as long as she allowed it, and when the time came, she would call in all their debts at once. Many people assumed that day would never come.

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  14. A Killing Frost

    Book 14 2020 4.8 (837)

    When October is informed that Simon Torquill - legally her father, due to Faerie's archaic marriage traditions - must be invited to her wedding or risk the ceremony throwing the Kingdom in the Mists into political turmoil, she finds…

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  15. When Sorrows Come

    Book 15 2021 4.8 (763)

    Toby's getting married! Now in audio, the 14th novel of the Hugo-nominated, New York Times-best-selling October Daye urban fantasy series....

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  16. Be the Serpent

    Book 16 2022 4.8 (545)

    An old friend and ally turns out to have been an enemy in disguise for this entire time, and October’s brief respite turns into a battle for her life, her community, and everything she has ever believed to be true....

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  17. Sleep No More

    Book 17 2023 4.7 (245)

    October has been pulled from her own reality and thrown into a twisted reinterpretation of Faerie where nothing is as it should be and everything has been distorted to support Titania’s ideals....

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  18. The Innocent Sleep

    Book 18 2023 4.5 (173)

    For one bright, shining moment, Tybalt, King of Cats, had everything he had ever wanted. He was soon to set his crown aside; he had married the woman he loved; he was going to be a father.

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  19. Silver and Lead

    Book 19 2025 4.7 (211)

    Seanan McGuire’s New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-nominated October Daye series continues as Toby Daye is thrust once again into danger—and this time she has more than ever to protect.

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  20. A Divided Duty

    Book 20 2026 4.8 (57)

    Seanan McGuire’s New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-nominated October Daye series finds Toby Daye torn between caring for her newborn daughter and keeping the world of Faerie—and her found family—safe.

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About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for October Daye is also the best order to read them in. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.

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