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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.
The Demon Cycle books in order
Your reading speed
- 7 h 17 min
- 10 h 55 min
- 11 h 4 min
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- 13 h 18 min
- 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.