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The First Law books in order

The 3 books of The First Law in series order, with the median page count of each across English print editions. Together they run to about 1,737 pages.

Books in order
3
numbered on Wikidata
Total pages
1,737
sum of medians, 3 books
Reading time
31h
at average speed
  1. 1
    The Blade Itself
    8 editions
    534 pages
    9 h 24 min
  2. 2
    Before They Are Hanged
    8 editions
    548 pages
    9 h 39 min
  3. 3
    Last Argument of Kings
    5 editions
    656 pages
    11 h 34 min

Pages per book, in series order

Median page count across English print editions.

1. The Blade Itself5332. Before They Are Hanged5473. Last Argument of Kings656
1. The Blade Itself5332. Before They Are H…5473. Last Argument of …656
Open Library edition records; order from Wikidata series numbers.

How long to read the whole series?

Based on 1,737 pages for the 3 books with page data.

Reading time
30 h 37 min
At 30 min a day
62 days
At 1 hour a day
31 days
Order follows the series number recorded on Wikidata. Novellas numbered with decimals (for example 2.5) sit between the main books.

Data: Wikidata: part of the series (P179) and series ordinal (Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributors); Open Library monthly data dumps (works, editions, authors, reading log, ratings) (Open Library / Internet Archive); How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate (Marc Brysbaert, Journal of Memory and Language 109 (2019)).