A Deadly Education
core novel 2020 The Scholomance
Record
| First published | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.93 (230,728 ratings, collected 2026-08-06) |
| Page count | 320 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780593128480 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Where it sits
- Universe: The Scholomance
- Series: The Scholomance core; position 1 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Naomi Novik
Awards (verified)
- Readers' Choice Awards (Fantasy), 2020: nominated; Reader-vote finalist round; did not win (winner: House of Earth and Blood).
- Lodestar Award (Best YA Book), 2021: nominated
- Dragon Award (Best Young Adult / Middle Grade Novel), 2021: nominated; Finalist; did not win (winner: A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking).
Notes
- From the series record (The Scholomance): Clean linear trilogy, single first-person narrator (Galadriel 'El' Higgins) throughout. No companion material found (no uncollected short fiction, no guide books, no graphic adaptations).
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Scholomance: position 1 of 3: next The Last Graduate (2021)
Sources
- Wikipedia: The Scholomance Trilogy
- Locus, 2021 Lodestar finalists
- Scalzi/Whatever, 2021 Dragon Award finalists
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