Deborah Harkness

Deborah Harkness

Before Deborah Harkness ever wrote about witches, vampires, or daemons, she was chasing ghosts of a different kind—lost manuscripts, forgotten alchemists, and the hidden truths of Renaissance science. A historian by trade, she spent years immersed in the dusty corridors of academia, unraveling the ways magic and science once danced hand in hand. That lifelong fascination became the lifeblood of her fiction.

When A Discovery of Witches appeared, it wasn’t just another entry into the paranormal genre—it was something richer. Woven with real history, wine-soaked libraries, and the quiet ache of forbidden love, the story offered readers a deeper, more thoughtful kind of fantasy. At the center of it all stood Diana Bishop, a scholar who stumbles across a bewitched manuscript and is forced to confront a world she’s spent her life trying to ignore.

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Updated 04/08/2025
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Books by Deborah Harkness
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Series by Deborah Harkness

All Souls (6 books)

Speculative Fiction Books

(All Souls #7 / 7)
2026 | fantasy, vampires, witches | Release date TBA
(All Souls #6 / 7)
2025 | fantasy, vampires, witches | Release date TBA
(All Souls #5 / 7)
2024 | fantasy, vampires, witches
(All Souls #4 / 7)
2018 | fantasy, vampires
(All Souls #3 / 7)
2014 | fantasy, romance
(All Souls #2 / 7)
2012 | fantasy, romance
(All Souls #1 / 7)
2011 | fantasy, romance

Fictions and Others

(All Souls)
2018 | non-fiction

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