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The Mortal Instruments Books in Order

by Cassandra ClareTeen & Young Adult

6 books from City of Bones (2007) to City of Heavenly Fire (2014). Rated 4.5 across 51,621 listener reviews.

Reading order

  1. City of Bones

    Book 1 2007 4.4 (12k)

    A New York City teenager stumbles into the paranormal world of angels and demons in the book that started it all—the “funny, dark, and sexy” (Holly Black) first installment of the New York Times and internationally bestselling Mortal…

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  2. City of Ashes

    Book 2 2007 4.5 (10.3k)

    Clary and Jace must ask themselves if love is worth betraying everything in the “so good, it’s dangerous” (Holly Black) second book in the New York Times and internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series.

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  3. City of Glass

    Book 3 2009 4.6 (9.3k)

    Clary and her allies risk everything to save the world in the searingly passionate third book in the New York Times and internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series. City of Glass is a Shadowhunters novel.

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  4. City of Fallen Angels

    Book 4 2011 4.3 (7.8k)

    Clary fights to stop a murderer and to close the growing distance between her and Jace in the thrilling fourth book in the New York Times and internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series.

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  5. City of Lost Souls

    Book 5 2012 4.5 (6.3k)

    Clary, Alec, Magnus, Simon, and Izzy race against time to save Jace from Sebastian and Lilith in the “goth-and-glitter pleasure” (Kirkus Reviews) that’s the fifth book in the New York Times and internationally bestselling Mortal…

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  6. City of Heavenly Fire

    Book 6 2014 4.5 (6k)

    The Shadowhunters rally to defeat Sebastian once and for all in the spellbinding, seductive sixth and final book in the New York Times and internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series.

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About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for The Mortal Instruments is also the best order to read them in. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.

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