Nine graphic novels about a girl who inherits an amulet that talks to her, and a family that moves into a house with something underneath it. The numbering is clean and the order is not in any real doubt — but the titles do not contain the word Amulet, so “which one is book four” is a genuine question in a bookshop.
Here is the full run, now that it is finished.
The short answer
Start with The Stonekeeper and read all nine in order. The series ended with book nine, so this is the complete story — no waiting.
Do you have to read them in order?
Absolutely. This is a single continuous fantasy epic told in pictures, and Kibuishi withholds information deliberately: what the amulet is, who the Stonekeepers were, what the voice wants. Books do not reset, characters die, and several end mid-scene. It is closer to a nine-volume novel than to a series.
Every Amulet book in order
- The Stonekeeper
- The Stonekeeper's Curse
- The Cloud Searchers
- The Last Council
- Prince of the Elves
- Escape from Lucien
- Firelight
- Supernova
- Waverider
What makes it work
The art. Kibuishi came out of animation and the books are painted rather than inked flat, with enormous double-page landscapes that do a lot of the storytelling. For a reader who is put off by dense prose this is not a compromise — the story is genuinely complex, it is just carried visually.
It is also darker than most graphic novel series aimed at this age. Emily’s father dies in the opening pages, the stakes stay high, and the amulet’s influence on her is treated as a real danger rather than a superpower. Most readers take to that; a few find book one upsetting.
Who it suits
Roughly eight to thirteen, and it holds older readers better than most. It is one of the few graphic novel series that a child who reads heavily and a child who reads reluctantly will both finish. The gap between books eight and nine ran to six years, which frustrated a generation of readers — anyone starting now gets to skip that.
Keep browsing
Every book above has a page in our catalog. For more in this format, see graphic novels for tweens. If the appeal is the epic fantasy rather than the art, try fantasy books for tweens or the Wings of Fire reading order.