Find clear publication and listening orders for book series, including starting points, prequels, omnibus editions and links to their screen adaptations.
Publication and listening orders for book series behind popular screen adaptations, with starting points, prequels, novellas and audiobook notes. If you only want enough context for a show, read book one; if you plan to stay with a series, follow the full order in each guide.
Read the nine main Outlander novels in publication order, from Outlander to Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone. Lord John books and novellas are optional extras.
Read A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night, then The Book of Life. For the main trilogy, publication order is the reading order; includes a schedule.
Read or listen to the five main Stormlight Archive novels in publication order, with Edgedancer, Dawnshard, Warbreaker and The Sunlit Man placed where they fit.
Riyria reading order: publication order is best. Start with Theft of Swords, then Rise of Empire and Heir of Novron; the Chronicles prequels come later.
If you're looking for the Claudia Rankine books in order, publication order is the clearest route to read them. Rankine does not have a numbered series.
Jane Campion's film adapts Thomas Savage's standalone novel. Don Winslow's same-titled crime novel belongs to a different series with a different reading order.
The Poppy War trilogy in order: The Poppy War (2018), The Dragon Republic (2019), The Burning God (2020). Start with book one; there is no TV show yet.
Audiobook listeners get the clearest path through The Murderbot Diaries by starting at the beginning and moving forward. That is not just tidy library logic.
The Help is easy to place because there is only one novel at the center of the story. You do not need to sort a series timeline, side books, or prequels.
The easiest way to approach The Red Queen series is to treat the main novels as the backbone and the companion books as extras you add after the core story.
For a short trilogy like this, the easiest audiobook approach is the same one readers have used all along: start at the beginning and keep moving forward.
The Expanse books in publication order for show viewers and listeners: start with Leviathan Wakes. Includes where the novellas go and a first-purchase note.
Star Trek novels are easier to enjoy on audio when you stop treating the franchise like one long shelf and start treating it like several connected lanes.
Read Douglas Adams' original five Hitchhiker's Guide novels in order, and keep novel readings separate from radio productions and later continuation books.
Plan an Ender audiobook reading route, distinguishing the original novel, its sequels and the Bean-centered Shadow branch before choosing what follows.
The Sandman order is the same in every edition and in audio: start with Preludes & Nocturnes, finish the core run at The Wake, then read the companions.
Read the Eragon books in publication order: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, then Inheritance. That is also the audiobook order for the original four-book series.
Read Harry Potter in publication order, starting with Sorcerer's Stone (Philosopher's Stone in the UK). Each book builds on the last, in print or audio.