The index
Books
44 indexed books, connected to series, authors, and reading-order guides.
A Song of Ice and Fire
A Clash of Kings
The political field widens into civil war while the series' supernatural edges become harder to dismiss.
A Song of Ice and Fire
A Game of Thrones
A politically intricate, low-magic opening where family loyalties and small choices carry lethal consequences.
A Song of Ice and Fire
A Storm of Swords
A long but unusually eventful midpoint packed with reversals, reckonings, and character transformations.
The Farseer Trilogy
Assassin's Apprentice
An intimate, emotionally rich beginning for readers who value character over spectacle.
The Farseer Trilogy
Assassin's Quest
A longer, quest-driven conclusion that resolves Fitz's arc from the first two books.
The First Law
Before They Are Hanged
The company splits into separate, converging story threads across a hostile frontier.
The Empyrean
Fourth Wing
Violet Sorrengail is ordered into an elite military college for dragon riders, where survival depends on outlasting both the training and her rivals.
The Empyrean
Iron Flame
Violet enters a harsher second year at Basgiath while the secrets she carries place her under new pressure from the college's leadership.
The First Law
Last Argument of Kings
Every thread collides as the war reaches its morally messy conclusion.
Liveship Traders Trilogy
Mad Ship
The struggle for Vivacia continues as the Vestrits confront upheaval in Bingtown and the liveship remains in pirate hands.
Mistborn Era 1
Mistborn: The Final Empire
A sharp entry point for readers who want intricate magic, momentum, and a finished arc.
The Stormlight Archive
Oathbringer
A vast, reflective installment that puts leadership, accountability, and the cost of unity at the center of the epic.
The Empyrean
Onyx Storm
Violet searches beyond familiar territory for allies and answers as the conflict around Basgiath expands.
Gentleman Bastard Sequence
Red Seas Under Red Skies
Locke and Jean target an exclusive gambling house before political pressure pushes their scheme into a maritime conflict.
The Stormlight Archive
Rhythm of War
A technically detailed war novel that pairs magical experimentation with some of the series' most inward character work.
The Farseer Trilogy
Royal Assassin
Court intrigue and personal loss deepen as Fitz is drawn further into royal politics.
Liveship Traders Trilogy
Ship of Destiny
The trilogy concludes as Bingtown's factions face war and the truth behind the liveships comes into view.
Liveship Traders Trilogy
Ship of Magic
The Vestrit family's newly awakened liveship becomes the center of an inheritance dispute while a pirate captain seeks a liveship of his own.
Blacktongue
The Blacktongue Thief
An indebted thief's failed roadside robbery binds his path to a veteran knight searching for her missing queen.
The First Law
The Blade Itself
Character-first fantasy with black humor, moral fog, and a deliberately patient opening.
The Bone Season
The Bone Season
In a future London where clairvoyance is outlawed, Paige Mahoney's arrest brings her into contact with the powers behind the Republic of Scion.
The Bone Season
The Dark Mirror
Outside Scion with six months missing from her memory, Paige follows evidence of a new threat to Venice.
Blacktongue
The Daughters' War
An unnumbered Blacktongue prequel following Galva and the Raven Knights during the Third Goblin War.
The Wheel of Time
The Dragon Reborn
An ensemble-focused pursuit that develops the supporting cast while prophecy pulls every route toward one city.
The Wheel of Time
The Eye of the World
A traditional village-to-epic opening that gradually reveals the size, history, and danger of a completed fantasy world.
The Lord of the Rings
The Fellowship of the Ring
The foundational journey: immersive, patient, and best for readers who enjoy deep lore.
The Wheel of Time
The Great Hunt
A faster, more distinctive sequel that expands the world and forces its young cast into separate tests of identity.
Mistborn Era 1
The Hero of Ages
The trilogy's conclusion, tying every planted magic-system detail into a single payoff.
Gentleman Bastard Sequence
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Locke Lamora leads a group of con artists in the city of Camorr while a violent rival threatens the criminal order around them.
The Bone Season
The Mask Falling
Paige reaches Paris, where an underground network offers possibilities for expanding the resistance against Scion.
The Bone Season
The Mime Order
Back in London, Paige must navigate a divided clairvoyant underworld while Scion continues its pursuit.
The Kingkiller Chronicle
The Name of the Wind
Lyrical storytelling, a gifted narrator, and a story whose larger series remains unfinished.
Gentleman Bastard Sequence
The Republic of Thieves
A political contest reunites Locke with Sabetha while earlier chapters trace their shared history in the Gentlemen Bastards.
The Lord of the Rings
The Return of the King
The trilogy's conclusion, resolving the war and the fate of the Ring.
The Bone Season
The Song Rising
Paige's leadership of London's clairvoyants is threatened by a technology designed to detect them.
The Hierarchy
The Strength of the Few
A larger, structurally ambitious sequel that follows the consequences of the first book's revelations across multiple fronts.
Blacktongue
The Thrice-Bound Fool
The numbered Blacktongue story resumes as Kinch and Galva flee with a stolen, sentient book tied to the struggle against the Takers Guild.
The Lord of the Rings
The Two Towers
The Fellowship splits into parallel threads as the war for Middle-earth escalates.
The Stormlight Archive
The Way of Kings
A vast epic for readers ready for a long runway, layered lore, and a monumental payoff.
Mistborn Era 1
The Well of Ascension
The revolution's aftermath: holding a fractured city while new magical threats emerge.
The Hierarchy
The Will of the Many
A propulsive academy mystery with Roman-inspired politics, strategic competition, and a concealed-identity lead.
The Kingkiller Chronicle
The Wise Man's Fear
Kvothe's story continues beyond the University, with the trilogy's finale still unpublished.
The Stormlight Archive
Wind and Truth
The enormous culmination of Stormlight's first arc, designed for committed readers seeking resolution and major cosmological answers.
The Stormlight Archive
Words of Radiance
Expands the Stormlight world's magic and politics while deepening its core cast.