Series
Books of Ember
Jeanne DuPrau · 4 novels · 2003–2008
Jeanne DuPrau's Books of Ember begins with The City of Ember (2003), in which two teenagers in a decaying underground city search for a way to the surface before its failing infrastructure kills everyone left behind. The post-apocalyptic quartet continues with The People of Sparks, following survivors after they reach the world above, and concludes with The Prophet of Yonwood and The Diamond of Darkhold.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(2 editions)
Map
Books of Ember at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2000s4
Shape
Mood
This series sits where the catalog sits — its mood is the corpus average.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book4 of 4 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Prophet of Yonwooddarkest · most intense
- The People of Sparksbrightest · calmest