Rebecca Yarros Books in Order

Rebecca Yarros spent nine years and twenty-plus novels as a military-romance writer with a devoted midsize readership, then published Fourth Wing in April 2023 and detonated: dragon-rider academy romantasy, the fastest-selling fantasy debut of the decade, and a run - Fourth Wing, Iron Flame seven months later, Onyx Storm in January 2025 - that put her at the top of every list in consecutive years. The Empyrean series is planned at five books; book four has no title or date yet, but the gap is being bridged - Threshing Day, a thirteen-story Empyrean collection, arrived September 29, 2026, with a Fourth Wing graphic novel following in April 2027. The backlist underneath is its own shelf: the Flight & Glory military romances her first readers came from. This page sequences the whole flight path (2014–present).

Where to start

Fourth Wing (2023), Empyrean #1 - the door used by everyone arriving from BookTok. Readers curious about her pre-dragon career start at Full Measures (2014) or The Last Letter (2019), the standalone tearjerker that was her first bestseller.

Does the reading order matter?

The Empyrean sequence is strict: Fourth Wing (April 2023), Iron Flame (November 2023), Onyx Storm (January 21, 2025) - cliffhangers carry straight through, so no reordering. Threshing Day (September 29, 2026) is a story collection set around the series' midpoint, not book four; the graphic-novel adaptation of Fourth Wing follows April 6, 2027; book four itself is unwritten in public - no title, no date, five planned. The backlist runs in two lanes: Flight & Glory (Full Measures, 2014, through The Reality of Everything, 2020 - five novels best read in order) and the Renegades (Wilder, Nova, Rebel - three true standalones, any order), with The Last Letter (2019) and The Things We Leave Unfinished (2021) the standalones most recommended to newcomers.

Which one is the best?

Fourth Wing (2023), the debut that started everything; The Last Letter (2019), the standalone that proved she could break hearts without dragons; Onyx Storm (2025), the fastest-selling adult novel in decades.

Related guides

Readers finishing this shelf usually want the map next door: Fourth Wing books in order, Sarah J. Maas books in order, Ana Huang books in order. Every guide follows the same format — the shelf, the entry point, the honest answer about order.

Make it a project

Pick a session size and let the days accumulate — at the pace our reading speed test measures, most shelves above clear in a few weeks of half-hours. Every guide on the books in order shelf follows this same format, and when a book lands, its 8-question quiz is waiting on the original book quiz.