Works

Novels:

The Mortal Instruments Series

Like “Twilight,” vampires and werewolves populate The Mortal Instruments’s fantasy world, but the trilogy - which wraps up with the March 24 release of “City of Glass” - is chiefly concerned with more heavenly matters: the nephilim, humans with angel blood in their veins. The series follows 15-year-old Brooklyn girl Clary Fray’s whirlwind introduction to the world of Shadowhunters, nephilim warriors who protect oblivious humans from dangers presented by vamps, werewolves and other kinds of baddies. If you thought that human Bella and vampire Edward’s relationship was fraught with issues, imagine how much more traumatic it is for Clary to find out that the guy she’s in love with might just be . . . . —The New York Post, February 7, 2009


Book One: City of Bones, Simon and Schuster, 2007

“New York is the city that never sleeps — but evil spirits, angels, warlocks, faeries and shadowhunters don’t need much rest anyway. The city is home to Cassandra Clare’s young-adult debut novel, a cool, pleasingly dark and spicy urban fantasy called City of Bones.” —Kirkus Reviews

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Book Two: City of Ashes, Simon and Schuster, 2008

  • A New York Times bestseller
  • A USA Today bestseller

“Trust us, you’ll be so into this smart, funny, romantic read that you won’t even be frustrated at the cliff-hanger ending — we’re just counting down to 2009, when the final chapter in Clary’s story hits the shelves!” — Cosmo Girl Magazine

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Book Three: City of Glass, Simon and Schuster, coming March 24, 2009

A New York Times Bestseller

A USA Today Bestseller

A Wall Street Journal Bestseller

A Publisher’s Weekly Bestseller

An Indie Bound Bestseller

“The Mortal Instruments series is a story world that I love to live in.  I hate to see the story end, but if it has to end, then City of Glass is the most perfect way for that to happen.  Beautiful!” — Stephenie Meyer, author of Twilight

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The Mortal Instruments series has been translated into Italian, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Finnish, Czech, and Danish, and is published in Australia and the United Kingdom by Walker Books. In Germany, they are called “Chroniken der Unterwelt” and are national bestsellers. You can see a variety of the international covers for the books here.

Coming in March, 2011:

City of Fallen Angels. Book Four in the Mortal Instruments series.

TO BE PUBLISHED IN 2010:

The Infernal Devices: A companion series to The Mortal Instruments

Book One: The Clockwork Angel, Simon and Schuster, September 7, 2010
Book Two: The Clockwork Prince, Simon and Schuster, 2011
Book Three: The Clockwork Princess, Simon and Schuster, 2012

The Infernal Devices will be also be published in the UK and Australia by Walker  Books, and in Germany by Arena Verlag, starting in 2010.

Short Fiction:


“I Never”: Geektastic, ed. Holly Black and Cecil Castelucci, Little, Brown. 2009

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“The best stories in this anthology are the ones that force their kid protagonists to align their fantasy lives with reality. In pieces from New York Times bestseller Cassandra Clare and Nebula Award winner Kelly Link, the stories get at the emotional heart of gamer meet-ups, when online friends meet in person for the first time and are faced with the difficulty of knowing what’s real and who’s truthful in a world in which everyone is pretending to be someone else. “When we were first getting acquainted online, we sent flirty photos of ourselves to each other — I’d take a picture of my elbow and send it to him, and he’d respond with a photo of just his left eye, or the curve of his ear. I couldn’t have put a picture of his face together in my mind, but I knew he had a scar on his right thumb, and a spray of freckles across one cheek, light as powder dust. . . . Now that the rest of him is filled in around the edges I am amazed — he looks just like I thought he would,” writes Clare in “I Never.” — The Los Angeles Times



“The Mirror House” Vacations from Hell, ed. Farrin Jacobs, Harper Collins, 2009.

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“Readers will particularly favor Cassandra Clare’s sexy story of forbidden love between step-siblings on vacation in Jamaica, with a beautiful neighbor out to steal men’s souls.” —Booklist

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“Other Boys” The Eternal Kiss: 12 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire, ed. Trisha Telep, Running Press Books, 2009

“Cold Hands”: In ZVU: Zombies Versus Unicorns, ed. Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier, Simon and Schuster, 2010

Click here for the Entertainment Weekly article on ZVU.