Holly Black is an American writer and editor best known for her children's and young adult fiction. Her most recent work is the New York Times bestselling young adult Folk of the Air series. She is also well known for The Spiderwick Chronicles, a series of children's fantasy books she created with writer and illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi, and her debut trilogy of young adult novels officially called the Modern Faerie Tales. Black has won a Nebula Award and a Newbery Honor. The Spiderwick Chronicles was adapted into a 2008 film and into a 2023 television series, for which Black received a nomination for the Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Young Teen Series.
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| # | Cover | Title | Published | Buy |
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| 1 | The Field Guide | 2003 | Amazon | |
| 2 | | The Seeing Stone | 2003 | Amazon |
| 3 | | Lucinda's Secret | 2003 | Amazon |
| 4 | | The Ironwood Tree | 2004 | Amazon |
| 5 | | The Wrath of Mulgarath | 2004 | Amazon |
Entries without a number are not numbered in the source data - they are placed by publication date, which is usually but not always the intended reading order.
| # | Cover | Title | Published | Buy |
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| 1 | | The Iron Trial | 2014 | Amazon |
| 2 | | The Copper Gauntlet | 2015 | Amazon |
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Reading Holly Black in order
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