Best Leigh Bardugo Books

Betrayed and broken after their heist, Kaz's crew faces enemies from all sides while planning their most impossible con yet. Bardugo's finale delivers emotional payoffs and explosive action sequences.

Seventeen-year-old crime boss Kaz Brekker recruits five dangerous outcasts for a heist that could make them rich—or get them killed in Ketterdam's magic-soaked underworld.

When cartographer Alina Starkov manifests rare light-summoning powers crossing the monster-infested Shadow Fold, she becomes both Ravka's salvation and its most valuable prisoner.

Hiding in underground caverns, a weakened Sun Summoner must choose between zealots who worship her as a saint and a broken nation under shadow rule. Bardugo sticks the landing on her complex magic system.

Yale's secret societies practice actual occult rituals, and Alex Stern—sole survivor of a multiple homicide—monitors them for the university. Bardugo crafts a dark academia where privilege literally costs blood.

Alex Stern defies Yale's Lethe Society to mount a rescue mission into hell itself, determined to save Darlington from purgatory. Bardugo's sequel dives deeper into occult academia with higher stakes and bloodier consequences.

Before the Shadow Fold and Ravka's Second Army, the future Darkling was just a boy fleeing with his mother — the rarest and most feared Grisha alive.