What to read after ACOTAR (Throne of Glass, 2012)

Stay on the Maas desk

Throne of Glass if you want the other long Maas fantasy before anyone mentions crossovers. Start with the novel Throne of Glass, not the prequel collection.

Crescent City after ACOTAR (and TOG, if you want the other half of the crossover). Book one can stand alone. Book two onward names other worlds. Do not use House of Earth and Blood as ACOTAR 6.

Announced later ACOTAR volumes go on the end of the ACOTAR guide. They are sequels, not a new on-ramp, and not a reason to skip TOG. If you have not opened book one yet, that door is Where to start ACOTAR.

Leave Maas, keep the temperature

Empyrean (Fourth Wing, 2023) if you want another unfinished romantasy with a strict first book. Short door: where to start Fourth Wing. Shatter Me if you want a YA voice-driven run that keeps going past a trilogy — start at Shatter Me, not Watch Me. The Bargainer if you want a shorter romance door whose Desmond novella sits after book two. Folk of the Air if you want faerie politics in a finished trilogy plus a later duology.

Those reasons live, with links, on the ACOTAR page’s what-to-read-next list. This page is the short version of that shelf.

What not to do

Do not start A Court of Silver Flames as a “next series.” It is Nesta’s novel inside ACOTAR. Do not start a 20-title “Maas chronological order.” Those charts go stale.

FAQ

Is ACOTAR finished?
The published run through Silver Flames is a pause. More novels are announced. You can still leave the desk.

Do I need Frost and Starlight before I move on?
No. It is a pause, not a secret war.