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The Wicked Years Books in Order

by Gregory MaguireScience Fiction & Fantasy

5 books and 2 novellas from Wicked (1995) to Galinda (2026). Rated 4.0 across 18,687 listener reviews.

Reading order

  1. Galinda

    Novella 0.25 2026

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  2. Elphie

    Novella 0.5 2025 4.2 (206)

    Kindle Paperback Audiobook

  3. Wicked

    Book 1 1995 4.0 (13.6k)

    The New York Times bestseller that inspired the Tony-winning hit musical and major motion picture OVER 6 MILLION COPIES SOLD Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land, another little girl makes her presence known in Oz.

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  4. Son of a Witch

    Book 2 2005 3.9 (2.3k)

    Read by author Gregory Maguire! The New York Times bestselling sequel to Wicked, the multimillion-copy bestseller and basis for the #1 smash hit movie starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande.

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  5. A Lion Among Men

    Book 3 2008 4.1 (1.3k)

    Return to a darker Oz with Gregory Maguire. In A Lion Among Men, the third volume in Maguire’s acclaimed, New York Times bestselling series The Wicked Years, a fuller, more complex Cowardly Lion is brought to life and gets to tell his…

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  6. Out of Oz

    Book 4 2011 4.4 (1.3k)

    How great that people flock to these magical novels.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review Bestselling author Gregory Maguire’s remarkable series, The Wicked Years, comes full circle with this, his...

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  7. Galinda

    Book 5 2026 3.0 (1)

    #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wicked Gregory Maguire shares the eagerly awaited origin story of Galinda, the pink-clad, effervescent, and popular favorite character in this sister volume to Elphie.

    Kindle Paperback Audiobook

About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for The Wicked Years is also the best order to read them in. Novellas and short stories sit between the novels they follow, numbered the way the publisher numbers them (0.25 comes after book 0). They are optional — you can skip them without missing the main story. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.

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