WRITER

Leigh Bardugo

1975 - Today

Leigh Bardugo

Leigh Bardugo (born April 6, 1975) is an American fantasy author. She is best known for her young adult Grishaverse novels, which include the Shadow and Bone trilogy and the Six of Crows and King of Scars duologies. She also received acclaim for her paranormal fantasy adult debut, Ninth House. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leigh Bardugo has received more than 2,809,081 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Leigh Bardugo is the 5,209th most popular writer (down from 4,112th in 2019), the 294th most popular biography from Israel (down from 232nd in 2019) and the 19th most popular Israeli Writer.

Memorability Metrics

2.8M
Page Views (PV)
46.86
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
25
Languages Editions (L)
5.39
Effective Languages (L*)
2.76
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Six of Crows

Young adult fiction, Fantasy fiction, Fiction

BOOK ONE of the [Six of Crows Duology](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19758128W/Six_of_Crows_Crooked_Kingdom) Six of Crows is a fantasy novel written by the Israeli-American author Leigh Bardugo published by Henry Holt and Co. in 2015. The story follows a thieving crew and is primarily set in the city of Ketterdam, loosely inspired by Dutch Republic–era Amsterdam. The plot is told from third-person viewpoints of seven different characters. The novel is followed by [Crooked Kingdom](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17597665W) (2016) and is part of the Grishaverse. Followed by: [Crooked Kingdom][2] [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17597665W/Crooked_Kingdom

2001

Siege and Storm

Monsters -- Fiction, Magic -- Fiction, Orphans -- Fiction

Hunted across the True Sea and haunted by the lives she took on the Fold, Alina must try to make a life with Mal in an unfamiliar land, all while keeping her identity as the Sun Summoner a secret.

2013

Shadow and Bone

Magic, Ability, Fantasy fiction

Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the protegé of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the monsters of the Fold.

2012

Crooked Kingdom

Young Adult, Fantasy, Magic

Preceeded by [Six of Crows](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17332479W/Six_of_Crows) BOOK TWO of the [Six of Crows Duology](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19758128W/Six_of_Crows_Crooked_Kingdom) Crooked Kingdom is a fantasy novel by American author Leigh Bardugo, published by Henry Holt and Co. in 2016. Set in a world loosely inspired by 19th-century Europe, it takes place days after the events of the duology's first book, [Six of Crows](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17332479W/Six_of_Crows). The plot is told from the third-person viewpoints of six characters.

2016

Ninth House

Dark Fantasy, Fiction, thrillers, general, Fiction, occult & supernatural

Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. By age twenty, in fact, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she’s thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world’s most elite universities on a full ride. What’s the catch, and why her? Still searching for answers to this herself, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale’s secret societies. These eight windowless “tombs” are well-known to be haunts of the future rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street and Hollywood’s biggest players. But their occult activities are revealed to be more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive.

2019

Ruin and Rising

Magic, Fantasy fiction, Orphans

"The Darkling rules Ravka from his shadow throne. Alina forges new alliances as she and Mal search for Morozova's last amplifier. But as she begins to unravel the Darkling's secrets, she reveals a past that alters her understanding of the bond they share and the power she wields"--Provided by publisher.

2014