[ Vorkosigan Saga (Bujold) ]
edited 2026-05-21A complete reading order for Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga — all 17 novels and three novellas from Shards of Honor (1986) to The Flowers of Vashnoi (2018). Covers the Cordelia, Miles, Ivan, and pre-Miles sub-arcs, with both publication order and the author's own recommended reading order as published on her blog in 2025.
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01NOVEL
1986A Vorkosigan-universe standalone novel, published in December 1986 by Baen Books. Doctor Ethan Urquhart is sent off-world from the all-male…
237 pp›02NOVEL
1986The first published Vorkosigan novel, released in June 1986 by Baen Books. Captain Cordelia Naismith of the Betan Astronomical Survey is str…
320 pp›03NOVEL
1986The first Miles Vorkosigan novel, published in August 1986 by Baen Books. Seventeen-year-old Miles, son of Aral and Cordelia, fails the phys…
320 pp›04NOVEL
1988A Vorkosigan-universe prequel published in April 1988 by Baen Books, set roughly 200 years before the birth of Miles Vorkosigan. Engineer Le…
307 pp›05NOVEL
1989A Miles Vorkosigan novel, published in October 1989 by Baen Books. Miles brings the Dendarii to Earth for refit and pay and resumes his Lieu…
338 pp›06NOVELLA
1989A Miles Vorkosigan novella, first published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact in May 1989. Fresh from his Academy graduation, Miles is disp…
96 pp›07COLLECTION
1989A Miles Vorkosigan novella collection, published in October 1989 by Baen Books. Reprints three previously-magazine-published novellas — 'The…
311 pp›08NOVEL
1990A Miles Vorkosigan novel, published in September 1990 by Baen Books. Miles's first Imperial Service assignment as a junior weather officer a…
345 pp›09NOVEL
1991A Cordelia Vorkosigan novel, published in October 1991 by Baen Books, picking up the day after Shards of Honor ends. Newly married into the…
386 pp›10NOVEL
1994A Miles and Mark Vorkosigan novel, published in March 1994 by Baen Books. Mark, the Komarran-produced clone introduced in Brothers in Arms,…
558 pp›11NOVEL
1996A Miles Vorkosigan novel, published in January 1996 by Baen Books. Miles and Ivan travel to the Cetagandan homeworld Eta Ceta as Barrayar's…
302 pp›12NOVEL
1996A Miles Vorkosigan novel, published in October 1996 by Baen Books. A residual seizure from Miles's cryo-revival in Mirror Dance causes him t…
462 pp›13NOVEL
1998A Miles Vorkosigan novel, published in June 1998 by Baen Books. Newly confirmed as a permanent Imperial Auditor, Miles is dispatched to the…
311 pp›14NOVEL
1999A Miles Vorkosigan novel, published in September 1999 by Baen Books, subtitled 'A Comedy of Biology and Manners'. With Emperor Gregor's wedd…
405 pp›15NOVEL
2002A Miles Vorkosigan novel, published in May 2002 by Baen Books. Miles and Ekaterin's honeymoon is interrupted by an Imperial Auditor assignme…
320 pp›16NOVEL
2010A Miles Vorkosigan novel, published in October 2010 by Baen Books. Miles travels to the planet Kibou-daini, an entire economy built around c…
345 pp›17NOVEL
2012A Vorkosigan-saga novel narrated chiefly from Ivan Vorpatril's perspective, published in November 2012 by Baen Books. Captain Lord Ivan Vorp…
422 pp›18NOVEL
2016A Cordelia Vorkosigan novel, published in February 2016 by Baen Books, set three years after Aral Vorkosigan's death. Cordelia, now Vicerein…
352 pp›19NOVELLA
2018A Vorkosigan-saga novella narrated from Ekaterin Vorkosigan's perspective, published in May 2018 by Subterranean Press. Lady Vorkosigan part…
112 pp›