[ Robin Hobb — Realm of the Elderlings ]
edited 2026-05-21A complete reading order for Robin Hobb's Realm of the Elderlings — the interconnected saga spanning the Farseer Trilogy, Liveship Traders, Tawny Man, Rain Wild Chronicles, and Fitz and the Fool trilogies, plus two short works set in the same world. Covers all 16 novels and 2 shorter works in both publication order and Hobb's own recommended reading path.
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01NOVEL
1995The first novel in the Farseer Trilogy, published in 1995 by Bantam Spectra (US) and HarperCollins Voyager (UK). Six-year-old FitzChivalry F…
400 pp›02NOVEL
1996The second Farseer novel, published in 1996. Fitz returns to Buckkeep and resumes his role as the king's man while Prince Regal's schemes to…
675 pp›03NOVEL
1997The concluding volume of the Farseer Trilogy, published in 1997. Fitz survives death by execution and, shattered and half-wild from his time…
692 pp›04NOVEL
1998The first novel in the Liveship Traders trilogy, published in 1998. Set in the prosperous port of Bingtown and on the Rain Wild River, the s…
880 pp›05NOVEL
1999The second Liveship Traders novel, published in 1999. Althea Vestrit and Brashen Trell fit out the mad liveship Paragon — considered cursed…
906 pp›06NOVEL
2000The concluding volume of the Liveship Traders trilogy, published in 2000. The Bingtown Traders revolt against Chalcedean domination; Althea…
789 pp›07NOVEL
2001The first novel in the Tawny Man trilogy, published in 2001. Fifteen years after the events of the Farseer Trilogy, FitzChivalry Farseer liv…
662 pp›08NOVEL
2002The second Tawny Man novel, published in 2002. Fitz serves undercover as Tom Badgerlock at Buckkeep Court, training Prince Dutiful in the Sk…
682 pp›09NOVEL
2003The concluding volume of the Tawny Man trilogy, published in 2003. Prince Dutiful leads an expedition to the glacial Out Islands to fulfil h…
928 pp›10NOVEL
2009The first novel in the Rain Wild Chronicles, published in 2009 (UK) and 2010 (US). Set in the Rain Wild settlements along a toxic river, the…
474 pp›11STORY
2009A short story set in the world of the Six Duchies, first published in the anthology A Fantasy Medley (Subterranean Press, 2009). Mirrifen is…
31 pp›12NOVEL
2010The second Rain Wild Chronicles novel, published in 2010. The dragons and their keepers continue upriver through the flooded Rain Wilds, sur…
570 pp›13NOVEL
2012The third Rain Wild Chronicles novel, published in 2012. The expedition reaches the ruins of Kelsingra, the fabled Elderling city — but it s…
334 pp›14NOVEL
2013The concluding volume of the Rain Wild Chronicles, published in 2013. The dragons cross to Kelsingra and begin to reclaim their city, unlock…
535 pp›15NOVELLA
2013A prequel novella set in the Six Duchies, first published by Subterranean Press in 2013. Narrated by Felicity, nursemaid to Princess Caution…
160 pp›16NOVEL
2014The first novel in the Fitz and the Fool trilogy, published in August 2014 by Del Rey (US) and Harper Voyager (UK). FitzChivalry Farseer, no…
688 pp›17NOVEL
2015The second Fitz and the Fool novel, published in August 2015. Fitz's daughter Bee has been abducted by the Servants of the Pale Woman — agen…
768 pp›18NOVEL
2017The concluding volume of the Fitz and the Fool trilogy and the final novel in the Realm of the Elderlings saga, published in May 2017. Fitz…
640 pp›