Warriors Novellas

About the Warriors Novellas series

Beyond the numbered main arcs and the longer Super Editions, Erin Hunter's Warriors world has a third layer: short novellas, most only a chapter or two longer than a single Warriors short story, each filling in one specific gap in Clan history that the main arcs never had room for. What happened to Hollyleaf in the tunnels after she vanished from ThunderClan? Why did Mistystar nearly force her own medicine cat to step down? How did Tigerclaw actually become Tigerstar, leader of ShadowClan, in the stretch of time the main arcs skip past in a few sentences?

Rather than being sold individually forever, these novellas were bundled three at a time into a run of bind-up volumes -- The Untold Stories, Tales from the Clans, Shadows of the Clans, Legends of the Clans, Path of a Warrior, A Warrior's Spirit, and A Warrior's Choice -- with the first four originally released as individual e-books before HarperCollins collected them into print. Twenty-one novellas in total have appeared this way since 2013, spanning ThunderClan founders, ShadowClan villains, RiverClan medicine cats, and quiet background warriors whose one moment of consequence never made it into a main-arc book.

None of the novellas is required reading for following the main Warriors story. They exist purely as deep-cut supplements: short, self-contained answers to the kind of "but what about--" questions that only accumulate after you've already read enough of the main arcs to have them.

How to read this series

Each bind-up volume collects three unrelated novellas about three different cats, so there's no reading order to worry about within or between volumes -- pick whichever cat's name catches your interest. Most novellas assume you already know that cat from the main arcs (Hollyleaf, Tigerclaw, Mapleshade, and so on), so they work best as a supplement once you've read enough of the numbered series to recognize the names, rather than as a starting point for the franchise.

This entry tracks the seven print bind-up volumes in their publication order, since that's how the novellas are actually sold and catalogued; the twenty-one individual novella titles they collect are listed on each volume's entry. It does not include the Super Editions (tracked separately) or the shorter uncollected short stories and plays Erin Hunter has released as free web content, which have no consistent publication record.