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The Demon Cycle Reading Order

The Demon Cycle by Peter V. Brett has 5 main books (2008–2017). Start with The Warded Man (2008) and read the numbered books in order.

By Peter V. Brett

The Demon Cycle books in order

Your reading speed

  1. #1

    The Warded Man

    2008 · 416 pages

    7 h 17 min
  2. #2

    The Desert Spear

    2010 · 624 pages

    10 h 55 min
  3. #3

    The Daylight War

    2013 · 632 pages

    11 h 4 min
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  5. #4

    The Skull Throne

    2015 · 760 pages

    13 h 18 min
  6. #5

    The Core

    2017 · 848 pages

    14 h 51 min

Main books together: 3,280 pages, about 57 h 25 min at 238 words per minute.

Page counts: median across editions on Open Library. Times assume about 250 words per page. How we calculate.

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The Demon Cycle: common questions

How many books are in the The Demon Cycle series?
There are 5 main books in The Demon Cycle. The most recent main book listed here is The Core (2017).
What order should I read The Demon Cycle in?
Read The Demon Cycle in its numbered order: The Warded Man, The Desert Spear, The Daylight War, The Skull Throne, and so on. Book 1 was published in the UK as The Painted Man.
What is the first The Demon Cycle book?
The first book is The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett, published in 2008.
How long does it take to read the whole The Demon Cycle series?
The 5 main books add up to about 3,280 pages (median edition lengths). At 238 words per minute that is about 57½ hours of reading, or about 115 days at 30 minutes a day.

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