The Spellshop
#3514.02 in the official ranking · full ranking
Books 2 books Status Complete 2024–2025 Reading commitment Low Sarah Beth Durst Last reviewed 2026-08-20
Overview
The Spellshop is a complete two-book cozy fantasy duology by Sarah Beth Durst following Kiela, a witch who flees the capital city with a library of illegal spellbooks and opens a jam-and-magic shop on a remote island, where garden magic and small-town intrigue drive the plot across both volumes. The Spellshop (2024) introduces Kiela's flight and her tentative new life among the island's close-knit community, while The Enchanted Greenhouse (2025) continues the same cast and setting with a fresh, self-contained plot centered on the shop's magical garden. Both novels emphasize slow-burn romance, found family, and low-stakes comfort reading over conflict or peril, part of a broader 2020s wave of cozy fantasy publishing. The Spellshop became a notable commercial success on release, helping establish Durst, previously known chiefly for middle-grade and young-adult fantasy, within the adult cozy-fantasy market.
Cozy fantasy · For Adult
Core Canon: Reading Order (2 works) counts toward ranking
The Spellshop Sarah Beth Durst
| Work | Year | Internal chron. | Canon | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | The Spellshop | 2024 | 1 | core | 4.00 (170,419 ratings) |
 | The Enchanted Greenhouse | 2025 | 2 | core | 4.10 (54,334 ratings) |
Complete 2-book cozy fantasy duology; no further entries announced.
Quick answers
- How many books are in The Spellshop? The Spellshop's Core Canon is 2 books.
- What is the reading order for The Spellshop? Publication order, starting with The Spellshop. Full list and years in the Core Canon table above.
- Is The Spellshop finished? Complete (2024–2025).
- How much reading does The Spellshop take? Low reading commitment (estimated from 2 Core Canon books · ~752 pages).
- How is The Spellshop ranked? #351 in this site's official ranking, based on 224,753 reader ratings across 2 Core Canon books. See the full ranking for how this is calculated.
Why is it ranked #351?
Ranked #351 in the official ranking.
- Average reader rating of 4.02 across 2 core books.
- Backed by 225k reader ratings.
- Remarkably consistent across the whole series: all 2 rated core books rate within 0.10 of each other.
- Less than 0.01 behind #350, Incarnations of Immortality (a finer tie-break level decides the order).
- Below the top-10 average of 4.45.
Why explore this universe?
Well rated · 2 books · Complete · 225k ratings · Ranks #351 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 (2 Core Canon books)
- The Spellshop (2024)
- The Enchanted Greenhouse (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 verified awards found for this duology as of admission.
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Official resources
Research details
Ranking metrics: weighted average 4.02 across 224,753 ratings on 2 Core Canon books. See Why is it ranked here? above for the full breakdown, or the full ranking.
How do we know this?
Admission: The Spellshop (Sarah Beth Durst) admitted as a cozy-fantasy duology accepted 2026-08-20
Sources: (see source tier definitions)
- Publisher listing: The Enchanted Greenhouse Tier 1
- Author site: The Enchanted Greenhouse Tier 1
- Rating-platform listing: Spellshop series Tier 3
Last reviewed: 2026-08-20
Rule: Core = both published novels, The Spellshop (2024) and The Enchanted Greenhouse (2025); no further entries have been announced.