Newford Series

23 primary works • 34 total works
A series of urban fantasy/mythic Fiction books set in the fictional North American city of Newford.

Suggested Newford reading list.

Newford is not a sequential series—each novel or story stands alone as a complete tale. Though some characters show up in one another's tales, the books can be enjoyed independently. That said, The Onion Girl, Spirits i…

Book 1

Dreams Underfoot
by
4.12 · 9048 Ratings · 586 Reviews · published 1993 · 24 editions
Welcome to Newford…

Welcome to the music clubs, the…

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    Book 2

    Memory and Dream
    by
    4.23     · 5520 Ratings · 356 Reviews · published 1994 · 20 editions
    From World Fantasy Award-winning author Charles de…

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    Book 3

    The Ivory and the Horn
    by
    4.15     · 3034 Ratings · 107 Reviews · published 1995 · 8 editions
    In the city of Newford, when the stars and the vib…

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    Book 4

    Trader
    by
    4.10     · 3018 Ratings · 177 Reviews · published 1997 · 24 editions
    A novel of loss, identity, and, in the strangest o…

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    Book 5

    Someplace to Be Flying
    by
    4.32     · 5935 Ratings · 308 Reviews · published 1998 · 1 edition
    Lily is a photojournalist in search of the "animal…

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    Book 6

    Moonlight and Vines
    by
    4.21     · 3127 Ratings · 113 Reviews · published 1999 · 8 editions
    Return to Newford

    Familiar to Charles de Lint's eve…

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    Book 7

    Forests of the Heart
    by
    4.21     · 4073 Ratings · 192 Reviews · published 2000 · 25 editions
    In the old century, they called them the Gentry: a…

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    Book 8

    The Onion Girl
    by
    4.17     · 7994 Ratings · 495 Reviews · published 2001 · 27 editions
    2017 Aurora Awards Best of the Decade Finalist

    In n…

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    Book 9

    Tapping the Dream Tree
    by
    4.26     · 2525 Ratings · 97 Reviews · published 2002 · 10 editions
    World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Onion Gi…

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    Book 10

    Spirits in the Wires
    by
    4.03     · 3155 Ratings · 158 Reviews · published 2003 · 13 editions
    At a popular Newford online research and library W…

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    Book 11

    Widdershins
    by
    4.22     · 4551 Ratings · 292 Reviews · published 2006 · 15 editions
    While bitter conflict rages between the magical No…

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    Book 12

    Promises to Keep
    by
    4.19     · 1367 Ratings · 120 Reviews · published 2007 · 9 editions
    After Widdershins, I thought I wouldn't write at l…

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    Book 13

    Muse and Reverie
    by
    4.23     · 1398 Ratings · 128 Reviews · published 2009 · 12 editions
    "Muse and Reverie "is an all-new collection of sho…

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    Book 14

    The Dreaming Place
    by
    3.93     · 2037 Ratings · 105 Reviews · published 1990 · 12 editions
    World Fantasy Award winner Charles de Lint conjure…

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    Book 15

    The Blue Girl
    by
    3.95     · 9862 Ratings · 499 Reviews · published 2004 · 13 editions
    Seventeen-year-old Imogene's tough, rebellious nat…

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    Book 16

    Little (Grrl) Lost
    by
    3.75     · 2019 Ratings · 166 Reviews · published 2007 · 12 editions
    Fourteen-year-old TJ and her family are forced to …

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    Book 17

    Dingo
    by
    3.75     · 1476 Ratings · 150 Reviews · published 2008 · 3 editions
    High school senior Miguel's life is turned upside …

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    Book 18

    The Cats of Tanglewood Forest
    by
    4.16     · 2568 Ratings · 447 Reviews · published 2013 · 24 editions
    Lillian Kindred spends her days exploring the Tang…

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    Book 19

    Seven Wild Sisters
    by
    4.20     · 1558 Ratings · 175 Reviews · published 2002 · 18 editions
    Seven Wild Sisters is a publishing event, a short …

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    Book 20

    Medicine Road
    by
    4.22     · 992 Ratings · 55 Reviews · published 2004 · 5 editions
    Sisters Laurel and Bess Dillard are traveling thro…

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    Book 21

    Juniper Wiles
    by
    4.36     · 961 Ratings · 165 Reviews · published 2021 · 8 editions
    Juniper Wiles once starred as a plucky teen detect…

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    Book 22

    Juniper Wiles and the Ghost Girls
    by
    4.52     · 517 Ratings · 57 Reviews · published 2022 · 7 editions
    Anyone who knows her wouldn’t be surprised to lear…

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    Book 23

    Juniper Wiles Does Not Want to Be Queen
    by
    4.63     · 156 Ratings · 24 Reviews · published 2025 · 3 editions
    Anyone who knows her wouldn’t be surprised to lear…

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    Make a Joyful Noise
    by
    4.25     · 97 Ratings · 9 Reviews · published 2006 · 1 edition
    A brand new, 11,000 word Newford tale featuring th…

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    The Hour Before Dawn and Two Other Stories from Newford
    by
    4.18     · 171 Ratings · 10 Reviews · published 2005 · 3 editions
    A short story collection written and illustrated b…

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    Old Man Crow
    by
    4.34     · 217 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 2007 · 1 edition
    Joey Creel needs to decide which he is: a man, dre…

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    Uncle Dobbin's Parrot Fair
    by
    4.34     · 148 Ratings · 8 Reviews · published 1987 · 3 editions
    Was included in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Mag…

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    From a Whisper to a Scream
    by
    3.81     · 843 Ratings · 42 Reviews · published 1992 · 15 editions
    In the early 1990s, Charles de Lint wrote and publ…

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    I'll Be Watching You
    by
    3.75     · 493 Ratings · 24 Reviews · published 1992 · 11 editions
    In the early 1990s, Charles de Lint wrote and publ…

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    Crow Girls
    by
    4.47     · 442 Ratings · 16 Reviews · published 1995 · 1 edition

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    Territoires de l'inquiétude. 9
    by
    2.80     · 5 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1996 · 1 edition
    Contents:
    Le marchand de sable • by Scott D. Yost (…

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    Newford Stories: Crow Girls
    by
    4.60     · 357 Ratings · 39 Reviews · published 2015 · 5 editions
    Charles de Lint’s readers have been asking him to …

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    Book 5

    Prostor za letenje, 1. del
    by
    4.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1998 · 1 edition
    Fotografinja Lily v iskanju »ljudi-živali« obiskuj…

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    Book 5

    Prostor za letenje, 2. del
    by
    4.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1998 · 1 edition
    Fotografinja Lily v iskanju »ljudi-živali« obiskuj…

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