C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia consists of seven novels. The series was published between 1950 and 1956 and follows children who encounter the fictional world of Narnia across different periods of its history.
The publication order begins with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in 1950 and ends with The Last Battle in 1956. Later editions often use a different internal chronology, beginning with The Magician’s Nephew, which describes events before the first published novel.
The seven books include fantasy elements drawn from Christian themes, classical mythology, folklore, and Lewis’s own imaginative inventions. Aslan, the great lion, appears as the central unifying figure across the series, although the human characters and historical periods vary.
The series is sometimes described as six or eight books because readers may count adaptations, companion material, or unrelated Lewis works. The canonical Chronicles of Narnia sequence itself contains seven novels.