Best Joe Abercrombie Books

Logen Ninefingers has one last fight left—against the King of the Northmen, who happens to be his oldest friend and most dangerous enemy.

Glokta defends a besieged city while Bayaz leads a doomed quest for the Seed—Abercrombie's middle volume where everything goes wrong.

Abercrombie strips war down to three days of mud, blood, and pointless heroics as armies clash over a meaningless circle of stones.

Infamous barbarian Logen Ninefingers teams up with a selfish nobleman and a crippled torturer to investigate magical threats to the kingdom. Abercrombie deconstructs fantasy tropes with morally complex characters who are more interested in survival than heroism in this darkly humorous epic.

After raiders burn her home and kidnap her siblings, Shy South sets off in pursuit with only oxen and her cowardly stepfather for company.

Abercrombie crafts a revenge thriller where nobody stays dead easily and everyone's hands are bloody. Monza's quest for vengeance spirals through a war-torn Renaissance Italy analogue filled with bankers, poisoners, and worse.

Holy Brother Diaz discovers his new congregation consists of unrepentant killers and literal monsters, all tasked with a righteous mission requiring the bloodiest possible methods.

These interconnected stories dive into the First Law world's bloodiest corners, following mercenaries and outcasts whose small-scale schemes mirror the trilogy's grand betrayals. Grimdark fantasy at its most intimate and vicious.

Thieves, con artists, and morally flexible heroes populate these original stories from genre heavyweights like Neil Gaiman and Patrick Rothfuss. The anthology celebrates characters who operate in ethical gray areas.

Complete creative freedom yields twenty-three original tales spanning fantasy's full emotional spectrum. Some stories will devastate you while others demand late-night page-turning in this unthemed anthology.

Fantasy heavyweights and crime writers unite to explore women who kill, scheme, and survive, including a new Dresden Files adventure and tales from Westeros.