The Gemma Doyle Trilogy Chronological Order

A Great and Terrible Beauty (The Gemma Doyle Trilogy #1)
Rebel Angels (The Gemma Doyle Trilogy #2)
The Sweet Far Thing (The Gemma Doyle Trilogy #3)

The Gemma Doyle Trilogy Recommended Reading Order

A Great and Terrible Beauty (The Gemma Doyle Trilogy #1)
Rebel Angels (The Gemma Doyle Trilogy #2)
The Sweet Far Thing (The Gemma Doyle Trilogy #3)

The Sweet Far Thing (The Gemma Doyle Trilogy #3)

Author: Libba Bray
Publisher: Ember
Publication Date: October 2007
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Summary: It has been a year of change since Gemma Doyle arrived at the foreboding Spence Academy. Her mother murdered, her father a laudanum addict, Gemma has relied on an unsuspected strength and has discovered an ability to travel to an enchanted world called the realms, where dark magic runs wild. Despite certain peril, Gemma has bound the magic to herself and forged unlikely new alliances. Now, as Gemma approaches her London debut, the time has come to test these bonds. The Order--the mysterious group her mother was once part of--is grappling for control of the realms, as is the Rakshana. Spence’s burned East Wing is being rebuilt, but why now? Gemma and her friends see Pippa, but she is not the same. And their friendship faces its gravest trial as Gemma must decide once and for all what role she is meant for.
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Rebel Angels (The Gemma Doyle Trilogy #2)

Author: Libba Bray
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Publication Date: September 2005
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Summary: It’s the end of the year, and Gemma’s looking forward to living it up in London. Balls, fancy gowns and dancing with the handsome Simon Middleton beckon. Best of all, it’s time away from Spence Academy--and from the Realms. But the lure of the enchanted world is strong, and the magic flows freely. Gemma’s visions intensify--visions of three girls dressed in white, suffering horror and menace. Clearly, all is not well in the Realms--or out of them. Set against the backdrop of Victorian London, a place of shadows and light, in a time of strict morality and barely repressed sensuality, this compelling gothic sequel reveals that inside great beauty can lie a rebel angel....
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A Great and Terrible Beauty (The Gemma Doyle Trilogy #1)

Author: Libba Bray
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Publication Date: December 2003
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Summary: It’s 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma’s reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she’s been followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence’s most powerful girls--and their foray into the spiritual world--lead to?
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