I’d definitely read Greenglass House before Ghosts of Greenglass House (though it’s not critical to read either of them before the forthcoming The Thief Knot), and Bluecrowne before The Left-Handed Fate, and The Boneshaker before The Kairos Mechanism (you can read The Broken Lands at any point and you’ll be just fine), but it doesn’t matter if you read the nautical books before the Greenglass books or if you skip all of that and go straight for the darker fare that is The Broken Lands, The Boneshaker, and The Kairos Mechanism.

Or ignore the previous advice completely.Įach book is a stand-alone story. You can apply the same basic idea: just work your way down from where you are and then go up to the top and read any you’ve missed, beginning with The Raconteur’s Commonplace Book or Bluecrowne. It’s a little arbitrary, but it makes sense. It’s not precisely chronological–to be purely which-happened-first about it, you’d go from the nautical books to The Broken Lands, The Boneshaker, and The Kairos Mechanism before finishing with the Greenglass books–but the Greenglass books are the most popular and they’re most deeply tied to the nautical books. Work your way straight down the list from top to bottom. Having said that, my suggestion is to use the sidebar on the right-hand side of this screen as a general guide and begin with either Raconteur’s or Bluecrowne. If you haven’t read any of the others yet, The Raconteur’s Commonplace Book is a great place to start, but you can also read it at any point, fitting it in anywhere you like among the others. It connects to every other one of the books, but isn’t dependent on any of them. However, here’s a short(ish) answer to get you started: If you’ve read zero of my books:įirst things first: The Raconteur’s Commonplace Book, being a piece of lore that exists independently within the Roaming World (the shared world of all my books so far), you can read it at absolutely at any time. (I tried to make a chart, but…well, it’s complicated. I’m often asked, “Where should I start?” This page is an attempt to answer that. All of the books share a world, and you will find connections between them all if you care to look.

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