Order of Eowyn Ivey Books

Eowyn Ivey is an American author. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Western Washington University, and went on to reporting for the Frontiersman newspaper in her home state of Alaska for a decade. Eowyn left that job in order to start writing novels, and picked up a job at a bookstore that allowed her the time to write. She lives in Alaska with her family.

Eowyn Ivey made her debut as a novelist in 2012 with The Snow Child. The novel won the British Book Award for International Author of the Year in 2012, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2013, and won the 2013 Indies Choice Book Award for Adult Debut Book. Below is a list of Eowyn Ivey’s books in order of when they were originally published:

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

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Eowyn Ivey Synopses: The Snow Child is the debut standalone novel by Eowyn Ivey. Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart—he, breaking under the weight of the farm work; she, crumbling from loneliness and despair.

In a moment of levity during the season’s first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning, the snow child is gone—but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees.

This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter.

But in this beautiful, violent place, things are rarely as they appear—and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform them all.

To the Bright Edge of the World is a standalone novel by Eowyn Ivey. In the winter of 1885, decorated war hero Colonel Allen Forrester leads a small band of men on an expedition deemed impossible: to venture up the Wolverine River and pierce the vast, untamed Alaska Territory. Leaving behind Sophie, his newly pregnant wife, Colonel Forrester records his extraordinary experiences in hopes that his journal will reach her if he doesn’t return—once he passes beyond the edge of the known world, there’s no telling what awaits him.

The Wolverine River Valley is not only breathtaking and forbidding but also terrifying in ways the colonel and his men never could have imagined. As they map the territory and gather information on the native tribes—whose understanding of the natural world is unlike anything they have ever encountered—Forrester and his men discover the blurred lines between human and wild animal, the living and the dead. Though they expected starvation and danger, they cannot shake the sense that some greater, mysterious force threatens their lives.

Meanwhile, on her own at Vancouver Barracks, Sophie chafes under social restrictions and yearns to travel alongside her husband. She does not yet know that the winter will demand as much of her as it does of him, testing both her courage and faith to the breaking point. Can her exploration of nature through the new art of photography help her rediscover her sense of beauty and wonder?

The truths that Allen and Sophie uncover over the course of that fateful year will change both of their lives—and the lives of those who hear their stories long after they’re gone—forever.

Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey is a standalone title. Birdie’s keeping it together—of course she is. So she’s a little hungover sometimes, and she has to bring her daughter, Emaleen, to her job waiting tables at an Alaskan roadside lodge, but she’s getting by as a single mother in a tough town. Still, Birdie can remember happier times from her youth, when she was free in the wilds of nature.

Arthur Neilsen, a soft-spoken and scarred recluse who appears in town only at the change of seasons, brings Emaleen back to safety when she gets lost in the woods. Most people avoid him, but to Birdie, he represents everything she’s ever longed for. She finds herself falling for Arthur and the land he knows so well.

Against the warnings of those who care about them, Birdie and Emaleen move to his isolated cabin in the mountains, on the far side of the Wolverine River.

It’s just the three of them in the vast black woods, far from roads, telephones, electricity, and outside contact—but Birdie believes she has come prepared. At first, it’s idyllic, and she can picture a happily ever after: Together they catch salmon, pick berries, and climb mountains so tall it’s as if they could touch the bright blue sky. But soon, Birdie discovers that Arthur is something much more mysterious and dangerous than she could have ever imagined—and that, like the Alaskan wilderness, a fairy tale can be as dark as it is beautiful.

Black Woods, Blue Sky is a novel with life-and-death stakes, about the love between a mother and daughter, and the allure of a wild life—about what we gain and what it might cost us.