Best Garth Nix Books

The best books by Garth Nix — 12 titles spanning Fantasy, Sci-Fi, averaging 3.88 BLT stars.

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Garth Nix built one of young adult fantasy's most haunting and original worlds with the Abhorsen series — a place where necromancy is heroic, death has seven precincts, and bells are weapons. Sabriel introduced a heroine navigating a crumbling magical boundary between the living and the dead, establishing Nix's gift for mythology that feels ancient even when freshly invented. His prose is precise and unhurried, trusting readers to absorb rules and stakes without over-explanation. The Keys to the Kingdom series shows his range: baroque, inventive, and stranger in tone, each book ratcheting up an elaborate cosmological puzzle. Nix writes for readers who want their fantasy dark enough to feel consequential but constructed with enough internal logic to be genuinely satisfying. If you love immersive secondary worlds where the magic has real weight and real cost, Nix rewards close attention.

Garth Nix's highest-rated book in our collection is Sabriel (4.37 BLT stars). Browse the full list below.

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    Sabriel

    Abhorsen/The Old Kingdom • Book 1

    by Garth Nix

    ★ 4.37 BLT Score (219.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.16 Goodreads (219.2K)
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    Drowned Wednesday

    The Keys to the Kingdom • Book 3

    by Garth Nix

    ★ 4.05 BLT Score (27.7K ratings)
    ★ 3.88 Goodreads (27.7K)
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    Superior Saturday

    The Keys to the Kingdom • Book 6

    by Garth Nix

    ★ 4.00 BLT Score (15.8K ratings)
    ★ 3.94 Goodreads (15.8K)
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    Lord Sunday

    The Keys to the Kingdom • Book 7

    by Garth Nix

    ★ 3.95 BLT Score (16.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.02 Goodreads (16.4K)
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    Sir Thursday

    The Keys to the Kingdom • Book 4

    by Garth Nix

    ★ 3.92 BLT Score (23.8K ratings)
    ★ 3.96 Goodreads (23.8K)
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    Lady Friday

    The Keys to the Kingdom • Book 5

    by Garth Nix

    ★ 3.91 BLT Score (23.3K ratings)
    ★ 3.93 Goodreads (23.3K)
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    Grim Tuesday

    The Keys to the Kingdom • Book 2

    by Garth Nix

    ★ 3.91 BLT Score (27.4K ratings)
    ★ 3.89 Goodreads (27.4K)
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    Mister Monday

    The Keys to the Kingdom • Book 1

    by Garth Nix

    ★ 3.89 BLT Score (40.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.81 Goodreads (40.5K)
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    The Book of Magic

    Spiritwalker #Bloom

    by Gardner Dozois, K.J. Parker, Megan Lindholm, John Crowley, Matthew Hughes, Ysabeau S. Wilce, Rachel Pollack, Eleanor Arnason, Tim Powers, Liz Williams, Garth Nix, Elizabeth Bear, Lavie Tidhar, Greg Van Eekhout, George R.R. Martin, Andy Duncan, Kate Elliott, Scott Lynch

    ★ 3.66 BLT Score (839 ratings)
    ★ 3.7 Goodreads (839)
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    The Book of Swords

    Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz #7 - A Long, Cold Trail

    by Gardner Dozois, K.J. Parker, Robin Hobb, Ken Liu, Matthew Hughes, Kate Elliott, Walter Jon Williams, Daniel Abraham, C.J. Cherryh, Garth Nix, Ellen Kushner, Scott Lynch, Rich Larson, Elizabeth Bear, Lavie Tidhar, Cecelia Holland, George R.R. Martin

    ★ 3.66 BLT Score (2.2K ratings)
    ★ 3.67 Goodreads (2.2K)
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    The Book of Witches

    by Jonathan Strahan, Linda D. Addison, P. Djèlí Clark, Kathleen Jennings, Tade Thompson, Ken Liu, Darcie Little Badger, Andrea Hairston, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Cassandra Khaw, Tobi Ogundiran, Kelly Robson, C.L. Clark, Millie Ho, Indrapramit Das, Saad Z. Hossain, Garth Nix, Premee Mohamed, Maureen F. McHugh, Andrea Stewart, Tochi Onyebuchi, Sheree Renée Thomas, Angela Slatter, Fonda Lee, Usman T. Malik, E. Lily Yu, Miyuki Jane Pinckard, Emily Y. Teng, Amal El-Mohtar, Alyssa Winans

    ★ 3.63 BLT Score (690 ratings)
    ★ 3.46 Goodreads (690)
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    Old Venus

    by George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Ian McDonald, Garth Nix, Joe Haldeman, Gwyneth Jones, Matthew Hughes, Paul McAuley, Lavie Tidhar, Allen M. Steele, Stephen Leigh, Eleanor Arnason, David Brin, Michael Cassutt, Tobias S. Buckell, Elizabeth Bear, Joe R. Lansdale, Mike Resnick

    ★ 3.61 BLT Score (734 ratings)
    ★ 3.57 Goodreads (734)
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