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Generate book series names for epic fantasy, YA, sci-fi, mystery, thriller, romance, horror, historical and middle-grade series. Each title is built to sit above a run of individual books and still mean something on the spine of the first one.

About book series names

A series name does a different job from a book title. The individual titles sell one story each; the series name is the brand that ties them together, sits on every spine, and is what readers type into a search bar when they want the next one. The best ones name what stays constant across every book: the world (Discworld, Earthsea, The Expanse), the central object or conflict (The Wheel of Time, The Hunger Games), or the recurring character (the Dresden Files, the Cormoran Strike novels).

Genre sets the convention. Epic fantasy likes grand collective nouns and "X of Y" constructions: A Song of Ice and Fire, The Stormlight Archive, The Broken Earth. YA leans on one or two evocative words, often a noun pair (Shadow and Bone, Red Rising, Six of Crows). Mystery series are almost always branded by detective or setting, so "The Nell Hartigan Mysteries" or "An Inspector Bramwell Novel" tells a reader exactly what they will get. Romance brands by family or town; thrillers by protagonist; middle grade by club or crew.

A series name should be pronounceable, distinctive enough to own as a search term, and open enough that book five can still live under it. "The Ashen Crown" survives a sequel where the crown is destroyed; "The Prince of Ashmere Returns" does not.

How to choose book series names

  • Name the constant, not the plot. Build the series name on the world, the central object, the family or the detective, so it still fits after the first book's story is resolved.
  • Follow your genre's shelf conventions: "X of Y" and collective nouns for epic fantasy, punchy noun pairs for YA, character or place plus "Mysteries" or "Novels" for crime, family or town names for romance.
  • Keep it to five words or fewer so it fits above the title on a cover and reads cleanly as a search term on retailer sites.
  • Use the words Saga, Chronicles, Cycle and Files sparingly. They are useful signposts but they are also the most crowded labels on the shelf; a distinctive noun often works harder alone.
  • Search the exact phrase on Amazon and Goodreads before committing. Series names are rarely trademarked but you do not want to share one with a well-known run of books.

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between a book series name and a book title?

The series name is the umbrella brand that appears on every volume and ties them together; each book then has its own title underneath it. For example, the series is A Song of Ice and Fire and the first book is A Game of Thrones. The series name should describe what stays constant across all the books.

Should I use words like Saga, Chronicles or Trilogy in my series name?

You can, and readers understand them instantly, but they are heavily used. "Trilogy" also locks you into three books. A strong standalone name such as Mistborn or The Expanse is often more memorable, and you can always add "A Mistborn Novel" on the cover.

How do I name a mystery or detective series?

Brand it by what recurs: the detective (The Nell Hartigan Mysteries, An Inspector Bramwell Novel) or the setting (The Bakehouse Mysteries, Death in the Cotswolds). Cozy series often use a shop, hobby or village; police procedurals use the officer's name and rank.

Can I change the series name after the first book is published?

You can, but it costs you: retailers link books by series name, and readers search for it. If you are unsure, publish book one with a series name that describes the world or character rather than the first plot, so it keeps fitting as the story grows.

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A: 20 names

  • A Bookshop Murder
  • A Brief History of Leaving
  • A Clockwork Crown
  • A Court of Salt and Sorrow
  • A Crown of Wolves
  • A Dog Walker's Guide to Murder
  • A Harrowgate Mystery
  • A Kingdom of Ink and Bone
  • A Season of Crows
  • A Song of Salt and Cinder
  • A Thousand Broken Bells
  • A Vicarage Mystery
  • Aftermath Protocol
  • Among the Burning Stars
  • An Innkeeper's Mystery
  • An Inspector Bramwell Novel
  • Arkfall
  • Ash Princess of Corvane
  • Ashes and Atlases
  • Ava and the Attic Door

B: 26 names

  • Bad Boys of Bayview
  • Beasts of the Northern Wild
  • Belles of the Antebellum
  • Bells of the Drowned City
  • Below the Fold
  • Beneath the Iron Sky
  • Beneath the Weeping Willow
  • Benny and the Backyard Kingdom
  • Beyond the Kuiper Line
  • Birds of the Interior
  • Blackout Season
  • Blackwater Asylum
  • Blood and Bellflower
  • Blood of the Bonnie Prince
  • Blood of the Fallen Star
  • Bloodlines of the Broken Moon
  • Bloodmoon
  • Bluebird Bay
  • Bodies in the Bog
  • Bone Hollow
  • Bound by Blood and Moonlight
  • Brave New Badgers
  • Brides of the Border
  • Brides of the Dust Bowl
  • Brightfall
  • Burning Bright

C: 25 names

  • Candlewick Lane
  • Captain Comet and the Cosmic Crew
  • Captain Whiskers Saves the Day
  • Carrion House
  • Chief Inspector Okafor
  • Children of Kepler
  • Children of the Silent Sea
  • Chrome Saints
  • Cinder and Silk
  • Cinderwitch
  • Cold Case Cornwall
  • Cold Hands
  • Cold Iron Sky
  • Constable Kitty Marsh
  • Constellations of Grief
  • Copper Skies
  • Cowboys of Carter Creek
  • Cozy Up to Murder
  • Crash Landing on Planet Weird
  • Crimson Fields of Flanders
  • Crimson Thorn
  • Crown of Thorns and Thistle
  • Crownbreaker
  • Crows of the Carrion Queen
  • Cryosleep

D: 20 names

  • Dark Matter Ascending
  • Darkwater
  • Daughter of the Tide
  • Daughters of Dusk
  • Daughters of Smoke and Salt
  • Daughters of the Blitz
  • Daughters of the Drowned Moon
  • Dead Letters
  • Dead on the Vine
  • Dead Star Rising
  • Death Comes to Dunmore
  • Death in the Cotswolds
  • Deep Cover Dossiers
  • Deep Field
  • Demon Hunters of Detroit
  • Detective Mara Vance
  • Dinosaur Detectives
  • Dragonslayer Academy
  • Dreamers of the Deep
  • Dust and Starlight

E: 6 names

  • Echo Division
  • Echoes of the Fallen
  • Emberfall
  • Empire of Ash and Snow
  • Empire of Silk
  • Exodus Fleet

F: 8 names

  • Falling for Fairhaven
  • Fangs and Fortune
  • Fieldnotes from a Vanished Country
  • Fireborne
  • Firelight Falls
  • Firstborn of the Ark
  • Forgeborn
  • Frostbound

G: 9 names

  • Gaslight Girls
  • Gears of Ashmore
  • Ghost in the Array
  • Ghost Unit
  • Ghosts of Gotham Street
  • Gilded Hearts
  • Girl of Fire and Marrow
  • Girls of Paper and Ash
  • Grave Lands

H: 17 names

  • Halo of Ash
  • Hamster Heroes
  • Harrow Lake
  • Hearts of Cedar Creek
  • Heartwood
  • Heirs of Ashfall
  • Heirs of the Quiet Sea
  • Heirs of Thunder
  • Heroes of the Hidden Kingdom
  • Hidden Harbor Homicides
  • Highland Hearts
  • Hollow Creek Homicide
  • Hollow Earth
  • Hollow Hill Hauntings
  • Hollow Moon
  • Hounds of Hollow Street
  • Hungry Ghosts

I: 5 names

  • Inspector Devlin of the Yard
  • Into the Verdant Dark
  • Iron Orbit
  • Ironheart
  • Ivy Lane Romances

K: 4 names

  • Keeper of the Broken Sky
  • Keeper of the Forgotten Keys
  • Kingdom of Mirrors
  • Kingdom of Wax and Wire

L: 12 names

  • Ladies of Mayfair
  • Lakeside Lovers
  • Lanterns in the Deep
  • Last of the Lightbringers
  • Letters to the Dead
  • Lives of the Saints of Ivy Street
  • Lone Wolf Protocol
  • Long Fall to Morning
  • Lords of the Long Night
  • Lost Colonies
  • Love in Lavender Falls
  • Love Letters from Lark Lane

M: 18 names

  • Machine Dawn
  • Maps for the Lost
  • Marrowbone
  • Max and the Mystery Machine
  • Mercy of Wolves
  • Mercy Sharp, Necromancer for Hire
  • Meridian
  • Midnight at Marlow Manor
  • Midnight Detectives Club
  • Monster Hunters Academy
  • Moonfire
  • Moonlit and Marked
  • Moonlit Harbor
  • Moons of Exile
  • Moonshadow Academy
  • Morning Tide Homicide
  • Murder at Marlow Abbey
  • Murder Most Merry

N: 3 names

  • Neon Babylon
  • New Eden Falls
  • Nightshade Academy

O: 9 names

  • Oaths of the Hollow Star
  • Oceanborn
  • Of Ash and Amber
  • Ollie's Odd Jobs
  • Once Upon a Small Town
  • Operation Nightfall
  • Orbital Decay
  • Orphans of Orbit
  • Outlaw Stars

P: 6 names

  • Paranormal Investigations Inc.
  • Pemberton Parish
  • Pirates of Pudding Lane
  • Poison at the Pier
  • Portal Kids
  • Puddle Jumpers

Q: 1 name

  • Quantum Tide

R: 11 names

  • Raven's Reach
  • Ravensworth Detective Agency
  • Rebels of the Red Sand
  • Retribution Road
  • Riverlands
  • Riverside Coven
  • Rogue Signal
  • Rogues of the Ton
  • Rook and Ruin
  • Rosie Rocket
  • Rotting Season

S: 42 names

  • Salt and Rust
  • Saltwater Crown
  • Salvage Sector
  • Scandalous Sisters
  • Scandals of Versailles
  • Sea of Iron Stars
  • Second Chances on Sycamore Street
  • Sector Zero
  • Sergeant Ruth Pike Investigates
  • Seven Brides for Seven Rogues
  • Shadow of the Vane
  • Shadowcraft
  • Shadowlands Drift
  • Signal from Calypso
  • Silence and Salt
  • Singularity Falls
  • Sir Fluffington, Knight of the Realm
  • Sisters of the Red Mesa
  • Sisters of the Revolution
  • Skyborn
  • Skyfire

S, continued

  • Slaughter Creek
  • Sniper's Creed
  • Songs of the Salt Road
  • Sons of the Somme
  • Sovereigns of Dust
  • Sparrowhawk
  • Spellbinder
  • Starfall Sequence
  • Starforge
  • Starlight Boulevard
  • Station Thirteen
  • Steam and Sorcery
  • Storm and Starlight
  • Stormcaller
  • Streetwise Sorcery
  • Sudden Death at Summerfield
  • Sugar Creek Sweethearts
  • Summer of the Seven Sisters
  • Sunfall
  • Sweethearts of Cider Hollow
  • Sword of the Morning Tide

T: 230 names

  • Tales of the Shattered Coast
  • Terraformers
  • The Aeronauts
  • The Airship Pirates of Port Isabel
  • The Almanac of Small Hours
  • The Archer Assignments
  • The Ashen Crown
  • The Ashgrove Murders
  • The Aurora Directive
  • The Bakehouse Mysteries
  • The Bakery on Maple Lane
  • The Blackthorn Files
  • The Blackwater Conspiracy
  • The Bloodstone Legacy
  • The Blue Door Mysteries
  • The Bluebell Inn
  • The Bluestocking Club
  • The Bone Orchard
  • The Boy Who Mapped the Sky
  • The Brass Orrery
  • The Brides of Ashford Hall
  • The Bright Year
  • The Burning Years
  • The Canal Boat Women
  • The Carpenter's Wife Trilogy
  • The Carver Mandates
  • The Cassini Legacy
  • The Cerulean Wars
  • The Clockmaker's Casebook
  • The Cobalt Bay Romances
  • The Cobblestone Lane Mysteries
  • The Cogwright Conspiracies
  • The Copper Age
  • The Corner Shop Sleuths
  • The Coroner's Daughter
  • The Cotton Mill Girls
  • The Crossword Killer Cases
  • The Cursebreakers

T, continued

  • The Diviners of Ash
  • The Doorway Children
  • The Dragon Keepers of Maple Hill
  • The Drowned Gods
  • The Drowning Girls
  • The Drowning Season
  • The Dublin Letters
  • The Duke's Daughters
  • The Earl's Wager
  • The Eleventh Hour
  • The Ember Throne
  • The Emberlight Trilogy
  • The Ender Cycle
  • The Endless Sky
  • The Endless Summer Club
  • The Everwar
  • The Explorers of Pebble Cove
  • The Fallen Star Quartet
  • The Ferryman Saga
  • The Firmament Trilogy
  • The Fletcher Sanction
  • The Florist Murders
  • The Forgotten Kingdoms
  • The Frontier Worlds
  • The Gallows Trilogy
  • The Ghost Fleet
  • The Gilded Age Novels
  • The Gilded Cage
  • The Girls of Wildwood Station
  • The Glass Cities
  • The Glass Kingdom
  • The Glasshouse Murders
  • The Glasswright Chronicles
  • The Gloaming
  • The Great Big Book of Little Adventures
  • The Greenwood Ballads
  • The Greyfriars Casebook
  • The Greywater Cycle

T, continued

  • The Grim Hollow Papers
  • The Half-Life of Magic
  • The Halloway Brothers
  • The Harker Conspiracy
  • The Helios Run
  • The Hex Files
  • The Hidden Coast
  • The Hidden Hour
  • The Hollow Bone Histories
  • The Hollow Kingdoms
  • The Hollow Men of Harrow
  • The Hollow Wars
  • The Homefront Novels
  • The House on Gallows Lane
  • The Hundred Kingdoms
  • The Incredible Inventions of Izzy Q
  • The Inspector Lyle Novels
  • The Iron Covenant
  • The Kane Dossier
  • The Kestrel Run
  • The Knightfall Cycle
  • The Knitting Circle Mysteries
  • The Lamplighter Novels
  • The Lantern Keepers
  • The Last Alchemists
  • The Last Ark
  • The Last Broadcast
  • The Last Cartographers
  • The Last Dragonkeeper
  • The Last Flight of the Kestrel
  • The Last Oracle of Tyr
  • The Lavender Hill Investigations
  • The Lazarus Engine
  • The Ledger Murders
  • The Legacy of Kestrel Hall
  • The Lighthouse at Gull Point
  • The Lighthouse Keeper Mysteries
  • The Lighthouse Sisters
  • The Lindisfarne Letters

T, continued

  • The Locksmith's Secrets
  • The Long Dark Between
  • The Long Way Home
  • The Loom of Ages
  • The Lost Coast
  • The Lost Heir of Selvarra
  • The Lost Library of Lumen
  • The Magic Shop on Mulberry Lane
  • The Mapmaker's War
  • The Marlowe & Finch Investigations
  • The Marrow Tapes
  • The Meridian Protocol
  • The Midnight Bureau
  • The Midnight Library Murders
  • The Mirrorlands
  • The Misfit Mages
  • The Montgomery Men
  • The Moonlight Ponies
  • The Moth and the Mountain
  • The Mourning Lands
  • The Nell Hartigan Mysteries
  • The Nettle Years
  • The Night Train Mysteries
  • The Nightingale Wars
  • The Nightjar Trilogy
  • The Nightmare Tenants
  • The Ninth Gate of Ashmere
  • The Ninth Planet War
  • The Obsidian Court
  • The Obsidian Fleet
  • The Orchard House Years
  • The Orchard Quartet
  • The Orphan Queen
  • The Outer Reach
  • The Pale Sovereign
  • The Plantagenet Papers
  • The Poison Court
  • The Quiet Ward

T, continued

  • The Ranchers of Rosewood
  • The Raven Sisters
  • The Ravensgate Legacy
  • The Ravenwood School for Wayward Girls
  • The Reaping Moon
  • The Red Sands of Meridian
  • The Remaining
  • The Riven Crown
  • The Robo Rangers
  • The Rookery
  • The Sable Operative
  • The Sable Throne
  • The Saltmarsh Sisters
  • The Screaming Woods
  • The Seaside Sleuths
  • The Secret Diaries of a Reluctant Princess
  • The Secret Garden Society
  • The Secret Keepers of Willowmere
  • The Secret Treehouse Club
  • The Shadow Over Saltmarsh
  • The Shadow School
  • The Shattered Realms
  • The Shepherd Code
  • The Silence Between Stars
  • The Silent Choir
  • The Silk Road Journals
  • The Silo Diaries
  • The Sleepers of Titan
  • The Smoke Eaters
  • The Sorrow Trilogy
  • The Soulkeeper Cases
  • The Sparrow Files
  • The Starless Quartet
  • The Starling Girls
  • The Stormwright Saga
  • The Summer Cottage
  • The Sundered Isles
  • The Synthetic Age

T, continued

  • The Tea Room Mysteries
  • The Tesseract Files
  • The Tidewater Accords
  • The Tudor Rose Chronicles
  • The Twilight Precinct
  • The Unbound Court
  • The Underground Codex
  • The Unkindness of Ravens
  • The Unlikely Heroes of Upper Pond
  • The Unquiet Dead
  • The Vance Protocols
  • The Vanguard Incidents
  • The Veilborn
  • The Verdant War
  • The Wallflowers of Wimpole Street
  • The Weatherby Women
  • The Wedding Planners of Willow Bend
  • The Wendigo Diaries
  • The Whispering Ward
  • The Whitechapel Years
  • The Wicked Hour
  • The Widdershins Papers
  • The Wildflower Sisters
  • The Wintering
  • The Wishing Tree Club
  • The Wolds of Winter
  • The Wyrmward Sequence
  • Thief of Ashes
  • Thorn and Thistle
  • Thornwood
  • Tidebreaker
  • Tides of March
  • Tidewater Romances
  • Tin Angels
  • Tower of Wax
  • Treasure Hunters Club
  • Treehouse Tales
  • Twelve Kingdoms of Glass
  • Twins of the Hidden Valley

U: 2 names

  • Under a Hollow Sun
  • Under the Jacaranda

V: 3 names

  • Veil of the Nine
  • Vineyard Hearts
  • Voidwalker

W: 22 names

  • Warden of the Marrow Gate
  • Wardens of the Last Light
  • Wastelanders
  • What Lives Below
  • What the Water Gave Us
  • Whiskey Creek Cowboys
  • Whitmore Hall
  • Wild Horses of Wyoming
  • Wild Magic of the Northlands
  • Wild Witches of Wexley
  • Wildwood Rising
  • Wings of Thunder
  • Winter's Heir
  • Wired Gods
  • Witches of Harrowgate
  • Witches of Wicker Lane
  • Wives of the Viking Shore
  • Wolf Moon Rising
  • Wolfsong
  • Wolves of the Marchlands
  • Wolves of the Wild Court
  • Women of the Wolds

Z: 1 name

  • Zoe and the Zoo Crew