Sarah J. Maas

American fantasy author

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2024 Sarah J. Maas won the Goodreads Romantic Fantasy award for House of Flame and Shadow
2024 A Court of Thorns and Roses ranked #11 on Publishers Weekly's Top 25 list of bestsellers for 2023
August 2024 The Utah State Board of Education included six of Sarah J. Maas' books in a list of thirteen banned books that public and charter schools in the state were required to dispose of under House Bill 29.
January 30 2024 Released House of Flame and Shadow, the third book in the Crescent City series.
2022 Sarah J. Maas welcomed her second child, a daughter, expanding her family in New York City.
2022 Maas and Wasserman welcomed their second child, a daughter.
February 15 2022 Released House of Sky and Breath, the second Crescent City book, which won the Best Fantasy award at the Goodreads Choice Awards.
2021 A Court of Thorns and Roses series was optioned for television adaptation by Hulu (though no longer in active development).
2021 Sarah J. Maas wins Goodreads Best Fantasy for A Court of Silver Flames
February 16 2021 Published A Court of Silver Flames, the fifth book in the A Court of Thorns and Roses series.
2020 House of Earth and Blood was selected by Kobo as one of their top 20 Science Fiction & Fantasy picks
2020 Sarah J. Maas publicly discussed her writing process, highlighting her love for the sense of discovery in writing and expressing surprise about her book A Court of Thorns and Roses being classified as young adult literature.
2020 Sarah J. Maas wins Goodreads Best Fantasy for House of Earth and Blood
March 3 2020 Released House of Earth and Blood, the first book in the Crescent City series.
2019 Throne of Glass series ranked 10th in Comic Years' Top 10 Fantasy Series Published in the Past Decade
2019 A Court of Thorns and Roses ranked 8th in The Young Folks' 25 Best Young Adult Books of the 2010s
2019 Throne of Glass ranked 5th in Cultured Vulture's Books of the Decade: 10 Best YA Books of the 2010s
2019 Throne of Glass ranked 10th in BuzzFeed's 30 Best YA Books of the Decade
2019 Throne of Glass ranked 9th in The Young Folks' 25 Best Young Adult Books of the 2010s
2019 A Court of Frost and Starlight included in The Young Folks' 10 Best Holiday YA Novels of the 2010s
2018 A Court of Frost and Starlight was listed in Cosmopolitan's 71 Best Books of 2018
2018 Sarah J. Maas won the Goodreads Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction award for Kingdom of Ash
2018 A Court of Wings and Ruins and A Court of Frost and Starlight were featured in notable book lists by BuzzFeed and Cosmopolitan
2018 Maas and Wasserman welcomed their first child, a son.
2018 Sarah J. Maas published her non-series novel 'Catwoman: Soulstealer', contributing to her work in the DC Icons series of young adult novels featuring reimagined superhero origin stories.
2018 Released 'A Court of Frost and Starlight', a novella in the A Court of Thorns and Roses series.
October 23 2018 Released Kingdom of Ash, the final book in the Throne of Glass series.
May 16 2018 Announced her first adult fantasy series, Crescent City.
2017 Sarah J. Maas wins Goodreads Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction for A Court of Wings and Ruin and receives a Dragon Awards nomination, and a nomination for Tower of Dawn
2017 Published 'A Court of Wings and Ruin', the third book in the A Court of Thorns and Roses series, and released the 'A Court of Thorns and Roses Coloring Book'.
2017 A Court of Wings and Ruin was selected as one of the Best YA Romance Books by PopSugar
2017 Maas published 'Tower of Dawn', adding another installment to the Throne of Glass series.
2016 Sarah J. Maas published 'Empire of Storms' in the Throne of Glass series and released the 'Throne of Glass Coloring Book', expanding her literary and fan engagement offerings.
2016 Sarah J. Maas wins Goodreads Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction for A Court of Mist and Fury and receives a nomination for Empire of Storms
2016 A Court of Mist and Fury and Empire of Storms were recognized by PopSugar as some of the Best YA Books of 2016
2016 Released 'A Court of Mist and Fury', the second book in the A Court of Thorns and Roses series.
2015 Multiple books by Sarah J. Maas were critically acclaimed, including Queen of Shadows and A Court of Thorns and Roses, which were featured in BuzzFeed's and PopSugar's Best YA Books lists
2015 Maas released 'Queen of Shadows', continuing the progression of her epic fantasy series.
2015 Sarah J. Maas wins Goodreads Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction for Queen of Shadows and receives a nomination for A Court of Thorns and Roses
2015 Published the first book of A Court of Thorns and Roses trilogy.
2014 Sarah J. Maas published two significant works: 'The Assassin's Blade' (a prequel collection of novellas) and 'Heir of Fire', further developing the Throne of Glass universe.
2014 Sarah J. Maas receives a Goodreads nomination for Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction for her novel Heir of Fire
2013 Crown of Midnight was recognized by PopSugar as one of the Best YA Books of 2013
2013 Maas continued the Throne of Glass series with the publication of 'Crown of Midnight', expanding the narrative of her fantasy world.
2012 Sarah J. Maas receives a Goodreads nomination for Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction for her novel Throne of Glass
2012 Sarah J. Maas published her first novel in the Throne of Glass series, 'Throne of Glass', marking the beginning of her prominent fantasy book series.
2010 Began publishing her first novel Throne of Glass on FictionPress.com, which later became a published book series.
May 30 2010 Sarah J. Maas married Josh Wasserman at Hamilton College, whom she met while she was a freshman and he was a resident assistant in her dorm building.
March 2010 Throne of Glass was purchased by Bloomsbury Publishing.

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