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The Black Company

edited 2026-06-14

A complete reading order for Glen Cook's The Black Company — the dark-fantasy mercenary chronicle spanning twelve novels from 1984 to 2025. Covers all published novels across the Books of the North, Books of the South, Books of the Glittering Stone, and the 2025 A Pitiless Rain arc, with both release order and documented in-universe chronological order.

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01NOVEL
1984The second novel in the Chronicles, published by Tor Fantasy in October 1984. The Black Company is dispatched to investigate a mysterious bl…
312 pp
02NOVEL
1984The first novel in Glen Cook's Chronicles of the Black Company, published by Tor Fantasy in May 1984. The Black Company, an elite mercenary…
319 pp
03NOVEL
1985The third novel and the conclusion of the Books of the North, published by Tor Fantasy in April 1985. The Black Company has taken refuge in…
310 pp
04NOVEL
1989The fourth Chronicle and the first Book of the South, published by Tor Fantasy in June 1989. The Black Company — reduced to six core members…
311 pp
05NOVEL
1989A standalone novel published by Tor Fantasy in September 1989, following characters who parted ways with the Company after The White Rose. T…
313 pp
06NOVEL
1990The fifth Chronicle and the second Book of the South, published by Tor Fantasy in April 1990. Picking up directly from the cliffhanger of Sh…
345 pp
07NOVEL
1996The sixth Chronicle and the first Book of the Glittering Stone, published by Tor Fantasy in April 1996. Narrator duties pass from Croaker to…
307 pp
08NOVEL
1997The seventh Chronicle, published by Tor Fantasy in September 1997. The Black Company continues its campaign against the surviving Shadowmast…
470 pp
09NOVEL
1999The eighth Chronicle, published by Tor Fantasy in March 1999. Most of the Company's leadership — Croaker, Lady, and others — are held in mag…
470 pp
10NOVEL
2000The ninth and final main-arc Chronicle, published by Tor Fantasy in July 2000. The Captured have been freed from stasis and the Company has…
566 pp
11NOVEL
2018An interquel novel published by Tor Books in September 2018, set during the Company's early service to the Lady — between the events of The…
396 pp
12NOVEL
2025The first novel of the A Pitiless Rain arc — Book One of A Pitiless Rain, a Chronicle of the Black Company — published by Tor Books on Novem…
384 pp