The Nameless City Books

Read The Nameless City, The Stone Heart, and The Divided Earth in numbered order. This is one continuous, completed trilogy; political choices, friendships, and the conflict over the city build directly from one volume to the next.

Collected editions repackage the same three stories and do not add another volume. The original graphic novels are the clearest way to follow the sequence shown here.

Sources: Macmillan's official Nameless City series page, Macmillan's The Divided Earth conclusion page.

This fantasy adventure deals seriously with military occupation, prejudice between peoples, assassination attempts, betrayal, siege, battles, injuries, and deaths. An ancient formula functions as a weapon of mass destruction, and children are repeatedly placed in dangerous political conflicts.

The violence is drawn rather than graphic, but the stakes are heavier than in a light school graphic novel. Friendship across cultural divisions, belonging, the human cost of conquest, and breaking cycles of retaliation give families substantial ideas to discuss.