The Redwall books in order follow generations of mice, badgers, hares, otters, and other woodland creatures across Redwall Abbey, Mossflower, Salamandastron, and lands far beyond. Brian Jacques built each adventure around courage, friendship, riddles, feasts, and the fight between good and evil.
The best Redwall reading order for first-time readers is publication order. Brian Jacques reveals the history of Redwall, Martin the Warrior, and the wider world gradually, so those discoveries have more impact in the order the books were published. Chronological order works better when you return to the series.
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- Redwall Books in Publication Order
- Redwall Books in Chronological Order
- Other Redwall Books
- Redwall Book-to-Screen Adaptations
Redwall Books in Publication Order
If this is your first visit to Redwall, publication order is the best reading order. It preserves the mysteries surrounding Martin the Warrior, Redwall Abbey, and the history of Mossflower. It’s also the order in which readers originally discovered the world.
The years below use the books’ first U.S. publication dates. The series is complete, and The Rogue Crew concludes the saga.
- Redwall (1987)
- Mossflower (1988)
- Mattimeo (1990)
- Mariel of Redwall (1992)
- Salamandastron (1993)
- Martin the Warrior (1994)
- The Bellmaker (1995)
- Outcast of Redwall (1996)
- Pearls of Lutra (1997)
- The Long Patrol (1998)
- Marlfox (1998)
- The Legend of Luke (2000)
- Lord Brocktree (2000)
- Taggerung (2001)
- Triss (2002)
- Loamhedge (2003)
- Rakkety Tam (2004)
- High Rhulain (2005)
- Eulalia! (2007)
- Doomwyte (2008)
- The Sable Quean (2010)
- The Rogue Crew (2011)
Redwall Books in Chronological Order
Chronological order is best for returning readers who want to follow Redwall’s history from its earliest period through the final novel. Several books contain scenes from more than one era, so this remains an approximate whole-book chronology rather than a scene-by-scene timeline.
This is an approximate whole-book timeline. The Legend of Luke, Martin the Warrior, and Lord Brocktree include framing scenes from other periods, so no single order can place every scene perfectly.
- Lord Brocktree
- Martin the Warrior
- Mossflower
- The Legend of Luke
- Outcast of Redwall
- Mariel of Redwall
- The Bellmaker
- Salamandastron
- Redwall
- Mattimeo
- Pearls of Lutra
- The Long Patrol
- Marlfox
- Taggerung
- Triss
- Loamhedge
- Rakkety Tam
- High Rhulain
- Eulalia!
- Doomwyte
- The Sable Quean
- The Rogue Crew
Other Redwall Books
The related Redwall books include original illustrated stories, guides, activity books, a cookbook, and a graphic adaptation. They are optional, but several contain story material that does not appear in the main novels.
Original Illustrated Stories
- The Great Redwall Feast (1996)
- A Redwall Winter’s Tale (2001)
Guides and Interactive Books
- Redwall Map & Riddler (1998)
- Build Your Own Redwall Abbey (1998)
- Redwall Friend & Foe (2000)
Build Your Own Redwall Abbey includes the original short story “The Redwall Warrior’s Code,” along with the paper model and characters used to solve its riddles.
Tribes of Redwall Guides
- Tribes of Redwall: Badgers (2002)
- Tribes of Redwall: Otters (2003)
- Tribes of Redwall: Mice (2004)
Only the Badgers, Otters, and Mice guides were published. Each volume contains character profiles, lore, activities, and a poster.
Cookbook, Graphic Novel, and Collector’s Edition
- The Redwall Cookbook (2005)
- Redwall: The Graphic Novel (2007)
- Redwall: The Collector’s Edition (2026)
Redwall: The Graphic Novel adapts the first novel rather than continuing the story. Redwall: The Collector’s Edition is also an edition of the original novel, with a new foreword and archival material rather than a new Redwall adventure.
Redwall Book-to-Screen Adaptations
The animated Redwall television series ran from 1999 through 2002. Its first season adapted Redwall, the second adapted Mattimeo, and the third adapted Martin the Warrior. The show follows the central plots and characters of those novels while condensing scenes and changing some details for television.
Redwall: The Movie is an abridged feature-length edit of the first television season. It is not a separate adaptation of another book, and the remaining novels were not adapted by the series.
Netflix announced plans for an animated Redwall film and a Martin the Warrior event series in 2021, but the projects were later abandoned after the adaptation rights lapsed. No Netflix Redwall movie or series was produced.
Looking for more books in order?
If you want more authors and reading-order guides like this one, start with my Books in Order index.