Series
The Beautiful
Renée Ahdieh · 4 novels · 2019–2023
The Beautiful is Renee Ahdieh's gothic fantasy quartet set in nineteenth-century New Orleans: The Beautiful (2019), The Damned, The Righteous and The Ruined. It follows a young seamstress drawn into the city's hidden supernatural society after a string of murders among her adopted family, mixing court intrigue with vampire-adjacent gothic horror. It is a complete four-book arc.
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
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The Beautiful 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.
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By decade
- 2010s1
- 2020s3
Shape
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book4 of 4 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Beautifuldarkest
- The Ruinedbrightest · most intense
- The Righteouscalmest