Which C.S. Lewis novel concludes The Chronicles of Narnia?

The Last Battle concludes C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia.

Published in 1956, The Last Battle is the seventh and final novel in the series according to its original publication order. The story depicts the final crisis of Narnia, involving a false Aslan, political conflict, and the destruction of the world of Narnia before its characters enter a new, more enduring reality.

The book won the Carnegie Medal in 1957, an important British literary prize for children’s books. Lewis’s publisher originally released the Narnia novels in publication order, beginning with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in 1950.

Readers sometimes encounter the books in chronological story order instead. In that arrangement, The Magician’s Nephew comes first, but The Last Battle remains the concluding story. Its title signals the series’ final large-scale conflict rather than merely another battle within Narnia.