Reading order: every book of the Keeping

The Keeping is one world told in seven stories. A new book comes out on the ninth of every month, and release order is the easiest reading order.

Where to start

Start with The Names I Woke With, the opening of The Borrowed Dead. It is the first way into the Keeping, and the trilogy tells a complete story in three books.

The Aumbry Years is the second front door. Its first book, The Night of Names, opens the school saga with a new student walking in off the road, and you can begin there without reading anything else first.

Where The Founding of the Aumbry fits

The Founding of the Aumbry is a standalone novel of the Keeping, set between the trilogy and the school saga. It tells how the school was built and what it cost the man who built it. Read it after The Freed.

The other series

The Nightcrosser is set in Naples, The Written Bones in Prague, and The Gravesalt Road on the far salt-flats. Each one stands on its own, with its own city and its own way of keeping the dead. The Unconnected, on the French Riviera, is still being written.

The Borrowed Dead

  1. The Names I Woke With Book One of The Borrowed Dead · Out now Can he keep the dead he never agreed to carry?
  2. The Greying Book Two of The Borrowed Dead · Out now What does it cost to bring a name back?
  3. The Freed Book Three of The Borrowed Dead · Out now Can the dead be freed without being lost?

The Founding of the Aumbry

  1. The Founding of the Aumbry A novel of the Keeping · Coming 9 November 2026

The Aumbry Years

  1. The Night of Names Book One of The Aumbry Years · Coming 9 December 2026
  2. The Letting Go Book Two of The Aumbry Years · Coming 9 January 2027
  3. The Kind Hand Book Three of The Aumbry Years · Coming 9 February 2027
  4. The Gathering of Schools Book Four of The Aumbry Years · Coming 9 March 2027
  5. The Dead Master Book Five of The Aumbry Years · Coming 9 April 2027

The Nightcrosser

  1. The Wrongful Souls Book One of The Nightcrosser · Coming 9 May 2027
  2. The Archive Below Book Two of The Nightcrosser · Coming 9 June 2027
  3. The Last Soul Book Three of The Nightcrosser · Coming 9 July 2027

The Written Bones

  1. The Grave Lamp Book One of The Written Bones · Coming 9 August 2027
  2. The Mercy Lie Book Two of The Written Bones · Coming 9 September 2027
  3. The Empty Keeper Book Three of The Written Bones · Coming 9 October 2027

The Gravesalt Road

  1. The Crowded Man Book One of The Gravesalt Road · Coming 9 November 2027
  2. The Hand to Hand Book Two of The Gravesalt Road · Coming 9 December 2027
  3. The Long Way Out Book Three of The Gravesalt Road · Coming 9 January 2028