[ Malazan Book of the Fallen ]
edited 2026-05-22A complete reading order for the Malazan world co-created by Steven Erikson and Ian C. Esslemont — Erikson's ten-volume Malazan Book of the Fallen, Esslemont's six Novels of the Malazan Empire, both authors' prequel sequences (Erikson's Kharkanas Trilogy and Esslemont's Path to Ascendancy), Erikson's Tales of Witness sequels, and the seven Bauchelain and Korbal Broach novellas. Covers both publication order across all sub-series and the widely-cited recommended interleaved order that splices the two authors and the novellas into a single first-time reader path.
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1999The first Malazan Book of the Fallen novel, published in April 1999 by Bantam Books. The Malazan Empire under Empress Laseen besieges the Fr…
712 pp›02NOVEL
2000The second Malazan Book of the Fallen novel, published in September 2000 by Bantam UK. On the subcontinent of Seven Cities, the prophesied W…
943 pp›03NOVELLA
2002The first Bauchelain and Korbal Broach novella, published by PS Publishing in 2002. In the port city of Lamentable Moll, the elderly servant…
125 pp›04NOVELLA
2007The third Bauchelain and Korbal Broach novella, published by PS Publishing in 2007. The necromancers and Emancipor Reese flee Lamentable Mol…
120 pp›05NOVELLA
2012The fifth Bauchelain and Korbal Broach novella, published by Tor.com in October 2012. Picking up from The Lees of Laughter's End, the necrom…
208 pp›06NOVEL
2001The third Malazan Book of the Fallen novel, published in December 2001 by Bantam UK. Concurrent with Deadhouse Gates, the action returns to…
1187 pp›07NOVEL
2002The fourth Malazan Book of the Fallen novel, published in December 2002 by Transworld. The first 250 pages are a self-contained novella foll…
1021 pp›08NOVELLA
2004The second Bauchelain and Korbal Broach novella, published by PS Publishing in 2004. The necromancers and Emancipor Reese arrive in the city…
128 pp›09NOVEL
2004The fifth Malazan Book of the Fallen novel, published in March 2004 by Bantam UK. A complete reset of setting: the action moves to the conti…
959 pp›10NOVEL
2004The first Novels of the Malazan Empire novel by Ian C. Esslemont, published in September 2004 by PS Publishing. The action takes place over…
304 pp›11NOVEL
2006The sixth Malazan Book of the Fallen novel, published in March 2006 by Bantam UK. The 14th Army, now self-named the Bonehunters, pursues the…
1232 pp›12NOVEL
2007The seventh Malazan Book of the Fallen novel, published in May 2007 by Bantam UK. The 14th Army crosses the ocean to Lether and finds itself…
1280 pp›13NOVELLA
2009The fourth Bauchelain and Korbal Broach novella, published by Subterranean Press in December 2009. The Nehemothanai — a band of pilgrim-vigi…
200 pp›14NOVEL
2008The second Novels of the Malazan Empire novel by Ian C. Esslemont, published in May 2008 by PS Publishing. The mercenary Crimson Guard, havi…
743 pp›15NOVEL
2008The eighth Malazan Book of the Fallen novel, published in June 2008 by Bantam UK. The action returns to Darujhistan on Genabackis for the fi…
1296 pp›16NOVEL
2010The third Novels of the Malazan Empire novel by Ian C. Esslemont, published in November 2010 by Bantam UK. The Korelri Stormwall — a centuri…
634 pp›17NOVEL
2009The ninth Malazan Book of the Fallen novel, published in August 2009 by Bantam UK. The first half of a two-volume conclusion to the series.…
1280 pp›18NOVEL
2012The fourth Novels of the Malazan Empire novel by Ian C. Esslemont, published in January 2012 by Bantam UK. The action returns to Darujhistan…
608 pp›19NOVEL
2011The tenth and final Malazan Book of the Fallen novel, published in February 2011 by Bantam UK. The second half of the two-volume conclusion…
944 pp›20NOVEL
2012The fifth Novels of the Malazan Empire novel by Ian C. Esslemont, published in November 2012 by Bantam UK. On the southern continent of Jacu…
586 pp›21NOVEL
2014The sixth and final Novels of the Malazan Empire novel by Ian C. Esslemont, published in August 2014 by Bantam UK. A gold rush draws fortune…
544 pp›22NOVELLA
2016The sixth Bauchelain and Korbal Broach novella, published by Subterranean Press in September 2016. Bauchelain has somehow installed himself…
112 pp›23NOVELLA
2020The seventh Bauchelain and Korbal Broach novella, published by PS Publishing in 2020 as a limited edition with a mass-market release followi…
106 pp›24NOVEL
2012The first novel of the Kharkanas Trilogy by Steven Erikson, published in July 2012 by Bantam UK. Set hundreds of thousands of years before t…
662 pp›25NOVEL
2016The second novel of the Kharkanas Trilogy by Steven Erikson, published in April 2016 by Bantam UK. The Tiste civil war begun in Forge of Dar…
864 pp›26NOVEL
2016The first Path to Ascendancy novel by Ian C. Esslemont, published in February 2016 by Bantam UK. About a century before the main Malazan ser…
416 pp›27NOVEL
2017The second Path to Ascendancy novel by Ian C. Esslemont, published in November 2017 by Tor Books in the US. Dorin Rav — now Dancer — and the…
400 pp›28NOVEL
2019The third Path to Ascendancy novel by Ian C. Esslemont, published in April 2019 by Tor Books. Emperor Kellanved and Dancer expand their Empi…
352 pp›29NOVEL
2023The fourth Path to Ascendancy novel by Ian C. Esslemont, published in April 2023 by Bantam Press in the UK and Tor Books in the US in April…
480 pp›30NOVEL
2021The first Tales of Witness novel by Steven Erikson, published in July 2021 by Bantam UK and November 2021 in the US by Tor Books. Set ten ye…
496 pp›31NOVEL
2025The second Tales of Witness novel by Steven Erikson, published in October 2025 by Bantam UK and Tor Books US. Returns to Seven Cities, where…
432 pp›