a girl will change worlds.
what are your dark materials about?
Written by English novelist Sir Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials is a young adult fantasy series set in a multiverse, moving between many parallel worlds. More specifically, it follows the coming of age of two children, Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry, as they wander through a series of parallel universes.
You are reading: His dark materials books in order
In Lyra’s world, which resembles that of the UK’s Edwardian era, all humans have a demon, the physical manifestation of a person’s soul or spirit that takes the form of an animal.
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your dark materials books in publication order:
his dark materials trilogy:
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- northern lights (uk)/the golden compass (us): lyra belacqua and her animal demon live half wild and carefree among students at jordan college, oxford . the fate that awaits her will take her to the frozen lands of the arctic, where clans of witches reign and polar bears fight. Her extraordinary journey will have immeasurable consequences far beyond her own world…
- The Subtle Knife: Will has just killed a man. he is on the run. His escape will take him far beyond her own world, into the eerie restlessness of a deserted city, and to a girl, Lyra. her destiny is strangely linked to his, and together they must find the most powerful weapon in all the worlds…
- the amber spyglass: will and lyra, whose destinies they are united by powers beyond their own worlds, they have been violently separated. But they must find each other, because the greatest war that ever existed awaits them, and a journey to a dark place from which no one has ever returned…
His Dark Materials: Gift Edition
a special edition with the three titles of the award-winning trilogy: northern lights, the subtle knife and the amber spyglass.
companion books:
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- lyra oxford – novel, takes place two years after the amber spyglass. Lyra and Pantalaimon’s peace is shattered when a strange bird, a witch’s demon, falls from the sky in search of a healing elixir to cure his witch of a strange new disease. Lyra and Pan decided to help, but the closer their winding path brings them to Oxford’s infamous alchemist, the stronger Lyra’s sense is that something is wrong.
- Once upon a time in the north – novella, prequel to the northern lights. Many years ago, Lyra came across the story of the first meeting between Lee Scoresby and Iorek Byrnisson. She discovers that when a young Texan balloonist, Lee, made landfall in the harbor of an arctic city up north, he didn’t realize he was about to be caught up in a war between the city’s residents and huge arctic bears. who also live there.
- collectors – story, audiobook only & light. On a dark winter night in 1970, Horley and Grinstead come together to warm up in the senior common room of an Oxford university. The conversation turns to the two stunning pieces of art that Horley has recently added to her collection. What the two men don’t know is that these pieces are connected in mysterious and unlikely ways; and they are about to be caught in the crossfire of a story that has traveled through time and worlds.
- serpentine – story. Lyra and Pan return to the northern city of Trolesund in search of answers to a very pressing question.
the book of dust trilogy:
- la belle sauvage: Malcolm Polstead’s life in Oxford has been routine, even ordinary. He is happiest playing with his demon, Asta, in his canoe, La Belle Sauvage. But the world around Malcolm and Asta will become increasingly far from ordinary. Finding himself bonded to a baby named Lyra Belacqua, Malcolm is forced to take on the challenge of his life and embark on a dangerous journey that will change him and Lyra forever.
- The Secret Fellowship – lyra, now twenty, her daemon pantalaimon, and malcolm – once a boy with a boat and a mission to save a baby from the flood – must travel far beyond the limits of oxford, through Europe and Asia, in search of the lost: a city haunted by demons, a secret in the heart of a desert, and the mystery of the elusive dust.
- third book – planned, not yet published.
his dark materials books in chronological order:
if you want, you can also read his dark materials in chronological order.
- Once upon a time in the north
- collectors
- la belle sauvage
- the golden compass
- the subtle knife
- the amber spyglass
- lyra oxford
- serpentine
- the secret commonwealth
if you like his dark materials, you might also want to check out garth nix’s old kingdom series or ursula k’s earthsea cycle. I scripted him.
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