Looking for the Mistborn reading order? This guide lists the Mistborn books in order, tells you exactly where to start, and shows where the short stories and Secret History fit so you can stay spoiler-free.
Mistborn is also one of the biggest pillars of Brandon Sanderson’s larger Cosmere universe, but don’t let that intimidate you from starting the …
Are you looking to reread The Lord of the Rings? Or maybe you’ve watched the movies for years but have never picked up the books. Either way, I’ll walk you through the best way to read The Lord of the Rings books in order, plus where The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, and the other Middle-earth books fit.
The …
R.A. Salvatore is my favorite author of all time, and Drizzt Do’Urden is my favorite book character ever. In fact, Salvatore’s The Thousand Orcs was the first fantasy book I ever read. So when people ask me about how to read the Legend of Drizzt books in order, I get excited because it’s one of my favorite series to …
Trying to figure out The Witcher books in order? For most readers, the best place to start is The Last Wish, then Sword of Destiny, then the five main saga novels. After that, I’d read Season of Storms and Crossroads of Ravens as standalone Witcher books that make more sense once you already know Geralt, Ciri, Yennefer, …
There are three useful ways to read the Dragonriders of Pern books in order. For a first read, I recommend starting with Dragonflight and following the publication-based reading order below. Anne McCaffrey created the series, and her son Todd McCaffrey and daughter Gigi McCaffrey later added stories to the same world.
Dragonriders of Pern blends science fiction and fantasy. …
The Mercy Thompson series in order follows Mercedes Thompson, a Volkswagen mechanic and coyote shapeshifter living in Washington’s Tri-Cities. Patricia Briggs fills Mercy’s world with werewolves, vampires, fae, witches, ghosts, and other supernatural communities.
The same world continues through the Alpha & Omega novels, Mercyverse short stories, original graphic stories, and Asil’s blind-date collection. For Briggs’s other fantasy series, see …
Patricia Briggs has easily become most well-known for her urban fantasies, but her very first books were more traditional fantasy. This list of the Patricia Briggs books in order will follow the trajectory of her career from debut to upcoming publication, so you can tick each one off as read.
Before Patricia Briggs created the character of …
The Dresden Files is Jim Butcher’s urban fantasy series about Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only professional wizard. With novels, short stories, novellas, and graphic novels, there’s a lot to sort through, so finding the right Dresden Files book order can get confusing fast.
The good news is that the best reading order depends on how much of the series you want …
If you’re looking for the Joe Abercrombie books in order, things can look straightforward at first, but the order gets confusing fast once you start separating the First Law world from everything else he’s written.
Most of his best-known books belong to The First Law, including the original trilogy, the standalone novels, The Age of Madness, and the …
I jumped on the Red Queen bandwagon very early, and—despite the divided opinions from readers—I honestly enjoyed all four main books. But once you factor in the novellas, things get a little less “just read the next one” and a lot more “wait… what’s the proper Red Queen series order?”
If you haven’t read a single book yet, you’ve …