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The Sword of Truth books in order

The 14 books of The Sword of Truth in series order, with the median page count of each across English print editions. The 4 books with page data add up to about 2,502 pages.

Books in order
14
numbered on Wikidata
Total pages
2,502
sum of medians, 4 books
Reading time
44h
at average speed
  1. 1
    Wizard's First Rule
    1994 · 10 editions
    692 pages
    12 h 12 min
  2. 2
    Stone of Tears
    1995 · 6 editions
    703 pages
    12 h 24 min
  3. 3
    Blood of the Fold
    1996 · 7 editions
    464 pages
    8 h 11 min
  4. 4
    Temple of the Winds
    1997 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  5. 5
    Soul of the Fire
    1999 · 7 editions
    643 pages
    11 h 20 min
  6. 6
    Faith of the Fallen
    2000 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  7. 7
    The Pillars of Creation
    2001 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  8. 8
    Naked Empire
    2003 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  9. 9
    Chainfire
    2005 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  10. 10
    Phantom
    2006 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  11. 11
    Confessor
    2007 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  12. 12
    The Omen Machine
    2011 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  13. 14
    Severed Souls
    2014 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  14. 15
    Warheart
    2015 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –

Pages per book, in series order

Median page count across English print editions.

1. Wizard's First Rule6922. Stone of Tears7033. Blood of the Fold4645. Soul of the Fire643
1. Wizard's First Ru…6922. Stone of Tears7033. Blood of the Fold4645. Soul of the Fire643
Open Library edition records; order from Wikidata series numbers.

How long to read the whole series?

Based on 2,502 pages for the 4 books with page data.

Reading time
44 h 07 min
At 30 min a day
89 days
At 1 hour a day
45 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)).