Emily Wilde
#3044.05 in the official ranking · full ranking
Books 3 books Status Complete 2023–2025 Reading commitment Low Heather Fawcett Last reviewed 2026-08-19
Overview
Emily Wilde is Heather Fawcett's complete cozy-academic fantasy trilogy about a brilliant, socially awkward dryadologist cataloguing faerie folklore across three novels: Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (2023), Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands (2024), and Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales (2025). The first volume sends Emily to the remote Arctic village of Hrafnsvik to research the most elusive faeries for her scholarly work, where she is joined, and rivaled, by fellow academic Wendell Bambleby, later revealed to be an exiled faerie king; the second finds the pair in the Austrian Alps searching for a door back to his realm while pursued by assassins, as Emily maps the faerie realms and confronts the dangers of loving one of the Fair Folk; and the third follows Emily as Bambleby's faerie queen, unraveling a deadly curse laid by his stepmother amid the treacherous intrigues of his own court.
Cozy fantasy · For Adult
Core Canon: Reading Order (3 works) counts toward ranking
Emily Wilde Heather Fawcett
| Work | Year | Internal chron. | Canon | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries | 2023 | 1 | core | 3.95 (234,067 ratings) |
 | Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands | 2024 | 2 | core | 4.24 (110,895 ratings) |
 | Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales | 2025 | 3 | core | 4.08 (66,706 ratings) |
Three-book trilogy in settled internal chronology, complete with the 2025 publication of its final volume.
Quick answers
- How many books are in Emily Wilde? Emily Wilde's Core Canon is 3 books.
- What is the reading order for Emily Wilde? Publication order, starting with Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries. Full list and years in the Core Canon table above.
- Is Emily Wilde finished? Complete (2023–2025).
- How much reading does Emily Wilde take? Low reading commitment (estimated from 3 Core Canon books · ~1,090 pages).
- How is Emily Wilde ranked? #304 in this site's official ranking, based on 411,668 reader ratings across 3 Core Canon books. See the full ranking for how this is calculated.
Why is it ranked #304?
Ranked #304 in the official ranking.
- Average reader rating of 4.05 across 3 core books.
- Backed by 412k reader ratings.
- Less than 0.01 behind #303, The Library at Mount Char (a finer tie-break level decides the order).
- Below the top-10 average of 4.45.
Why explore this universe?
Well rated · 3 books · Complete · 412k ratings · Ranks #304 overall
Good choice if you want a quick, low-commitment cozy fantasy universe that's already finished, so there's no wait for the next book.
Reading order
Publication order (3 Core Canon books)
- Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (2023)
- Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands (2024)
- Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales (2025)
Documented internal/story chronology is recorded for every Core Canon book here, and matches publication order exactly, with no divergence to show separately.
Awards (verified)
- No awards found for this universe.
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Official resources
Research details
Ranking metrics: weighted average 4.05 across 411,668 ratings on 3 Core Canon books. See Why is it ranked here? above for the full breakdown, or the full ranking.
How do we know this?
Admission: Admit Emily Wilde (Heather Fawcett) accepted 2026-08-19
Sources: (see source tier definitions)
- Series-order listing: Emily Wilde Tier 3
- Book review: Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales Tier 3
- https://heatherfawcett.com/books/adult/
Last reviewed: 2026-08-20
Rule: Registered as a single-author trilogy, Core Canon: three books in a settled internal chronology, complete as of the 2025 publication of its final volume.