Every Heart a Doorway
- 176
- Pages
- about 3 h
- Reading time
- Hugo Award for Best Novella
- Nebula Award for Best Novella
- Locus Award for Best Novella
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Our view
“Every Heart a Doorway” asks what becomes of children back from a magical world, and uses the question to write with real nuance about growing up. Its subject is the self that does not fit what others expect. A murder mystery runs through the school setting, and the tone is darker than the premise suggests. At under two hundred pages it is brief, and it opens a long series.
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About the book
Every Heart a Doorway is a fantasy novella by American writer Seanan McGuire, the first in the Wayward Children series. It was first published in hardcover and ebook editions by Tor.com in April 2016.
Reading order · Wayward Children
Full order & progress →- Every Heart a DoorwayThis book
8.08.0 / 10 - Down Among the Sticks and Bones
8.28.2 / 10 - Beneath the Sugar Sky
7.87.8 / 10 - In an Absent Dream
8.28.2 / 10 - Come Tumbling Down
7.87.8 / 10 - Across the Green Grass Fields
7.87.8 / 10 - Where the Drowned Girls Go
8.28.2 / 10 - Lost in the Moment and Found
8.38.3 / 10 - Through Gates of Garnet and Gold
8.08.0 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.7 across 778 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 84% of the weight and the score stays at 8.0 — the Fantasy average of 8.0 barely moves it. A further +0.20 comes from the small bonus for major awards.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.9 | 28 | 4% |
| Hardcover | 7.7 | 750 | 96% |
Frequently asked
How long is Every Heart a Doorway?
It has 176 pages — shorter than 98% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
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