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Reading orders, reviews and lists for fantasy and sci-fi readers, from people who've read the books.

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  Oct 29, 2026

  Dungeon Crawler Carl Books in Order

  Dungeon Crawler Carl follows Carl and his ex-girlfriend's cat, Princess Donut, through an alien game show's deadly dungeon, roughly one floor per book. It's LitRPG that wins over people who've never read LitRPG: brutal, very funny and surprisingly moving.

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  Oct 29, 2026

  Red Rising Books in Order

  Darrow, a miner at the bottom of a color-coded caste system on Mars, is remade to infiltrate the ruling Golds and bring them down. The series comes in two parts: a tight original trilogy, then a bigger, darker war story set years later.

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  Oct 29, 2026

  Children of Time Books in Order

  Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children books follow the last of humanity as it meets minds very different from its own, from uplifted spiders to octopuses. Each book centers on a new kind of intelligence and a new world.

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  Oct 29, 2026

  Throne of Glass Books in Order

  Sarah J. Maas's first series follows Celaena Sardothien, a teenage assassin offered a way out of prison, and grows from a deadly competition into a huge epic fantasy war.

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  Oct 29, 2026

  Mistborn Books in Order

  Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn is set on a world where a few people can burn metals for magic. It runs in eras: a classic epic fantasy trilogy, then a Western-flavored mystery series set 300 years later.

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  Oct 29, 2026

  The Stormlight Archive Books in Order

  Sanderson's biggest series: a war on a storm-wracked world, ancient oaths coming back, and characters like Kaladin, Shallan and Dalinar slowly becoming something more. Every book is long, and every one ends with a huge final act.

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  Oct 29, 2026

  Villains Books in Order

  V.E. Schwab's Villains series starts with two college roommates who work out how to give themselves superpowers and become each other's worst enemy. It's sharp and morally gray, and the story jumps between timelines.

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  Oct 29, 2026

  Crescent City Books in Order

  Sarah J. Maas's adult urban fantasy: a modern city of angels, shifters and witches, with phones and nightclubs alongside the magic. Bryce Quinlan's story mixes murder mystery, romance and big battles.

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  Oct 29, 2026

  A Court of Thorns and Roses Books in Order

  Sarah J. Maas's best-known series: Feyre, a human huntress, is taken into the faerie lands and pulled into the courts' politics and wars. It starts as a Beauty and the Beast retelling and grows into a sprawling romantasy.