The Last Graduate
core novel 2021 The Scholomance
Record
| First published | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.22 (138,680 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| Page count | 388 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780593128862 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
The Last Graduate continues El's story into her senior year at the Scholomance, the isolated school where wizarding teenagers must survive constant attacks from monstrous mals to reach graduation. As the year begins, El is troubled by the sudden, unexplained disappearance of the Bangkok enclave and its people, a loss that unsettles the wider wizard community, even as she is unexpectedly assigned to mentor and protect eight incoming freshmen despite her own demanding coursework and dwindling reserves of mana. Her circle of allies, including Aadhya, Liu, and the enclave-connected Chloe Rasmussen, grows as El navigates shifting alliances across the school's enclave politics, all while her bond with Orion, the school's celebrated mal-hunter, deepens. With graduation approaching and its dangers more uncertain than ever, El must balance her own survival against a mounting sense of responsibility for the younger students now depending on her.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Scholomance
- Series: The Scholomance core; position 2 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Naomi Novik
Awards (verified)
- Lodestar Award (Best YA Book), 2022: won
- Locus Award (Best Fantasy Novel), 2022: finalist; Locus reader-poll placement, ranked 7th of 10 (winner: Light From Uncommon Stars, Ryka Aoki).
- Readers' Choice Awards (Fantasy), 2021: nominated; Reader-vote finalist round; did not win (winner: A Court of Silver Flames).
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 2 of 3: previous A Deadly Education (2020) · next The Golden Enclaves (2022)
Sources
- Wikipedia: The Scholomance Trilogy
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Graduate
- sfadb, Naomi Novik awards
- Locus, 2022 Top Ten Finalists
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