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Vlad Taltos / Dragaera (Steven Brust)

edited 2026-06-14

A complete reading order for Steven Brust's Dragaera — the 17 Vlad Taltos novels, the Khaavren Romances, the standalone Brokedown Palace, and short fiction. The Vlad books were published deliberately out of internal-chronological order, so this page offers both publication order and a reconstructed in-universe timeline.

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vlad taltos novels17 items · 17 unwatched
01NOVEL
1988The fourth published Vlad Taltos novel, released in 1988 by Ace Books, but the earliest in the series' internal chronology. Told in interlea…
181 pp
02NOVEL
1998The eighth published Vlad Taltos novel, released in 1998 by Tor Books, set early in Vlad's career. Morrolan e'Drien recruits Vlad into a Dra…
288 pp
03NOVEL
1984The second published Vlad Taltos novel, released in 1984 by Ace Books, and a prequel to Jhereg in story time. A rival Jhereg boss begins mus…
208 pp
04NOVEL
2023The sixteenth published Vlad Taltos novel, released in April 2023 by Tor Books, set early in Vlad's career around the time of his engagement…
288 pp
05NOVEL
1983The first published Vlad Taltos novel, released in 1983 by Ace Books. Vlad Taltos is an Easterner (human) assassin and mid-level boss in Hou…
239 pp
06NOVEL
1987The third published Vlad Taltos novel, released in 1987 by Ace Books. Cawti becomes involved with a Teckla- and Easterner-led revolutionary…
214 pp
07NOVEL
1990The fifth published Vlad Taltos novel, released in 1990 by Ace Books. The goddess Verra hires Vlad to assassinate the king of Greenaere, a j…
245 pp
08NOVEL
2008The eleventh published Vlad Taltos novel, released in 2008 by Tor Books. Fleeing the Jhereg, Vlad leaves the Empire for the East and travels…
304 pp
09NOVEL
1993The sixth published Vlad Taltos novel, released in 1993 by Ace Books. Uniquely, it is narrated not by Vlad but mostly from the perspective o…
243 pp
10NOVEL
1996The seventh published Vlad Taltos novel, released in 1996 by Ace Books, narrated largely by Kiera the Thief. Still a fugitive and traveling…
290 pp
11NOVEL
2001The ninth published Vlad Taltos novel, released in 2001 by Tor Books. The Issola courtier Lady Teldra tracks down the wilderness-dwelling Vl…
255 pp
12NOVEL
2006The tenth published Vlad Taltos novel, released in 2006 by Tor Books. Vlad returns to Adrilankha — still hunted by the Jhereg — to find that…
288 pp
13NOVEL
2010The twelfth published Vlad Taltos novel, released in 2010 by Tor Books. Vlad risks returning to Adrilankha when he learns his old friend Ali…
319 pp
14NOVEL
2011The thirteenth published Vlad Taltos novel, released in 2011 by Tor Books, built from three connected sections that follow a silver tiassa s…
335 pp
15NOVEL
2017The fifteenth published Vlad Taltos novel, released in 2017 by Tor Books. The mysterious child-spirit Devera leads Vlad into a strange manor…
352 pp
16NOVEL
2014The fourteenth published Vlad Taltos novel, released in 2014 by Tor Books. After years of running, Vlad devises an audacious scheme to get t…
320 pp
17NOVEL
2024The seventeenth published Vlad Taltos novel, released April 9, 2024 by Tor Books. With the Left Hand of the Jhereg hunting him over the fall…
273 pp