Welcome to the Fantasy section of T.L. Branson. This is where I keep everything fantasy-related in one place—series reading orders, standalone reading guides, reviews, summaries, and curated lists—so you can either dive deep into one world or browse for your next obsession.
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The Horus Heresy is a massive era in the Warhammer universe—packed with novels, short stories, and audio dramas from dozens of writers. If you’re trying to figure out a Horus Heresy reading order, the good news is there isn’t one “correct” way to do it—just smarter starting points depending on what you want out of the series.
This guide shows …
Looking for the A Touch of Darkness series order? Scarlett St. Clair’s Hades and Persephone books can get confusing fast because the story is split between Persephone’s books, Hades’s books, a combined reading order, and a holiday novella.
The simplest path is to start with A Touch of Darkness. After that, you can either read each side of …
Reading the Shadow and Bone books in order starts with Leigh Bardugo’s three-book trilogy, but the story continues through the wider Grishaverse. This guide gives you the trilogy, the seven core novels, and the complete Grishaverse reading order I recommend for adding every short story, collection, graphic novel, and companion without spoiling the main series.
I recommend beginning with Shadow …
The Leigh Bardugo books in order begin with the Shadow and Bone trilogy and expand across several interconnected Grishaverse series, adult dark academia, standalone fantasy, anthology contributions, and children’s books. Bardugo is best known for creating the Grishaverse, but her bibliography now reaches well beyond it.
The main point of confusion is the Grishaverse. I recommend reading its seven core …
Read Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl books in order, beginning with Artemis Fowl and continuing through The Last Guardian. Then read “Luna Minor” and The Fowl Twins trilogy. The Artemis Fowl Files contains two optional stories, while the graphic novels retell the opening books rather than continuing the series.
The series blends fantasy, science fiction, humor, and heist stories. …
The Sookie Stackhouse books in order are easy to follow if you only want the 13 main novels. The extras are where it gets tricky, since there are short stories, Sookieverse side stories, collections, companion books, and the True Blood TV show.
Charlaine Harris’s series is also known as The Southern Vampire Mysteries, and it follows Sookie Stackhouse, a …
If you want to read the Vampire Academy books in order, start with Vampire Academy and finish the six original novels before beginning the six-book Bloodlines series. This guide also includes the optional short stories, graphic novels, companion books, and screen adaptations.
Richelle Mead’s series follows Rose Hathaway, a dhampir training to protect her best friend, Moroi princess Lissa Dragomir. …
If you’re trying to read the Ranger’s Apprentice books in order, you’ve got two solid options: follow the publication order by series, or go chronological to read everything in the timeline order. We’ve laid out both below so you can pick the approach that fits how you like to read these medieval-flavored YA fantasy adventures.
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Looking for The Chronicles of Narnia books in order? C.S. Lewis’s seven-book series can be read in publication order or chronological order, and each version begins in a very different place.
For a first read, I recommend publication order. Start with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, then continue in the order Lewis released the books. Chronological order …
You’ve watched HBO’s Game of Thrones, or you’ve heard everyone argue about the ending for years, and now you want the books. The good news is that the answer is simpler than Westeros makes everything else: the Game of Thrones books in order start with George R.R. Martin’s main fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire.
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