Series
Young Wizards
Diane Duane · 17 novels · 1 novella · 2 novelettes · 2 short stories · 2 collections · 1983–2019
Diane Duane's Young Wizards series begins with thirteen-year-old Nita, bullied and friendless, who borrows a library book on wizardry and discovers it's the real thing: an apprenticeship into a covert order that fights entropy, alongside a classmate named Kit. Across fifteen books published between 1983 and 2019, the two age forward in something close to real time as their missions escalate from New York streets to alien worlds and beyond. The series centers on the wizard's Oath and the idea that magic is a responsibility taken on to slow the universe's decay, not a power to be enjoyed for its own sake.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Feline Wizards(3 works)
- Interim Errantry(2 works)
- Omnibus editions(3 editions)
Map
Young Wizards at the centre, 2 subseries around it, 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
- 1980s3
- 1990s4
- 2000s5
- 2010s12
Shape
17 novels · 1 novella · 2 novelettes · 2 short stories · 2 collections
1 author
reads like:fantasywizardsour worldcontemporaryadventurousyoung adult
Mood
Bright and intense: 95% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book20 of 24 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Wizard's Dilemmadarkest
- The Big Meowbrightest · calmest
- Deep Wizardrymost intense