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Samantha Shannon

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in London, The United Kingdom
November 08, 1991

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Samantha Shannon is the New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Bone Season series. From 2010 to 2013 she studied English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford. Her fourth novel, The Priory of the Orange Tree (2019), was her first outside of the series. It has sold over a million copies in English alone, and was a finalist in the Lambda Literary Awards 2020. Its standalone prequel, A Day of Fallen Night (2023), won the gold medal in the Fantasy category at the Ippy Awards 2024.

Samantha's work has been translated into twenty-seven languages. Her most recent book is The Dark Mirror (2025), the fifth instalment in the Bone Season series.
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Average rating: 4.13 · 585,108 ratings · 89,889 reviews · 30 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Priory of the Orange Tr...

4.17 avg rating — 273,633 ratings — published 2019 — 59 editions
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The Bone Season (The Bone S...

3.84 avg rating — 100,833 ratings — published 2013 — 12 editions
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A Day of Fallen Night (The ...

4.32 avg rating — 54,845 ratings — published 2023 — 34 editions
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The Mime Order (The Bone Se...

4.22 avg rating — 42,034 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions
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The Song Rising (The Bone S...

4.20 avg rating — 27,341 ratings — published 2017 — 5 editions
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The Mask Falling (The Bone ...

4.45 avg rating — 17,331 ratings — published 2021 — 44 editions
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The Pale Dreamer (The Bone ...

3.84 avg rating — 11,016 ratings — published 2016 — 16 editions
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4.54 avg rating — 7,334 ratings — published 2025 — 18 editions
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“No woman should be made to fear that she was not enough.”
Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“Knowledge is dangerous. Once you know something, you can't get rid of it. You have to carry it. Always.”
Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season

“We may be small, and we may be young, but we will shake the world for our beliefs.”
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“I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.”
Emily Dickinson

“War is what happens when language fails.”
Margaret Atwood

“You know I've always considered women to be people.”
George R.R. Martin

“Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is around us, for it is everywhere; and those spirits watch us, for they are commissioned to gaurd us; and if we were dying in pain and shame, if scorn smote us on all sides, and hatred crushed us, angels see our tortures, recognize our innocence, and God waits ony a speration of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward.”
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.”
Lauren DeStefano, Wither

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message 8: by Leena

Leena Thank you for for writing all of your amazing books, you are my favourite author ever! :)


message 7: by Lami

Lami Daja Thank you for adding me as your friend, very awesome to share the love of reading books with you.


isobel Thank you for accepting my friend request! Was so inspiring to read Priory and have a story with such amazing LGBT rep and powerful female characters.


message 5: by Rose

Rose Thank you Samantha for accepting my friend request. I am currently reading "Priory of the Orange Tree" and it so well done.


message 4: by Donna

Donna Thank you, Samantha, for adding me as a friend on Goodreads.


Gloria Thanks so much for accepting my friendship request Samantha!! I love your books and I look forward to reading the next one. I'm so hooked I don't know if I can wait a whole year to read the next book. Keep up all the hard work, but above all, never change. You're amazing!


message 2: by Amber

Amber Thanks for connecting!




message 1: by L

L Dear Samantha,
I would like to thank you so much for acepting my friendship request here on Goodreads. I am very excited about your debut 'The Bone Season' and wish you all the very best.
Kind Regards
Lucinda x


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