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The Wheel of Time books in order

The 15 books of The Wheel of Time in series order, with the median page count of each across English print editions. The 14 books with page data add up to about 10,630 pages.

Books in order
15
numbered on Wikidata
Total pages
10,630
sum of medians, 14 books
Reading time
187h
at average speed
  1. 0
    New Spring
    2004 · 10 editions
    336 pages
    5 h 55 min
  2. 1
    The Eye of the World
    13 editions
    750 pages
    13 h 13 min
  3. 2
    The Great Hunt
    7 editions
    688 pages
    12 h 08 min
  4. 3
    The Dragon Reborn
    1991 · 8 editions
    648 pages
    11 h 25 min
  5. 4
    The Shadow Rising
    1992 · 6 editions
    856 pages
    15 h 05 min
  6. 5
    The Fires of Heaven
    1993 · 9 editions
    928 pages
    16 h 22 min
  7. 6
    Lord of Chaos
    9 editions
    940 pages
    16 h 34 min
  8. 7
    A Crown of Swords
    7 editions
    720 pages
    12 h 42 min
  9. 8
    The Path of Daggers
    1998 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  10. 9
    Winter's Heart
    7 editions
    668 pages
    11 h 47 min
  11. 10
    Crossroads of Twilight
    2000 · 8 editions
    704 pages
    12 h 25 min
  12. 11
    Knife of Dreams
    2005 · 7 editions
    784 pages
    13 h 49 min
  13. 12
    The Gathering Storm
    2009 · 6 editions
    816 pages
    14 h 23 min
  14. 13
    Towers of Midnight
    5 editions
    880 pages
    15 h 31 min
  15. 14
    A Memory of Light
    9 editions
    912 pages
    16 h 05 min

Pages per book, in series order

Median page count across English print editions.

0. New Spring3361. The Eye of the World7502. The Great Hunt6883. The Dragon Reborn6484. The Shadow Rising8565. The Fires of Heaven9286. Lord of Chaos9407. A Crown of Swords7209. Winter's Heart66810. Crossroads of Twilight70411. Knife of Dreams78412. The Gathering Storm81613. Towers of Midnight88014. A Memory of Light912
0. New Spring3361. The Eye of the Wo…7502. The Great Hunt6883. The Dragon Reborn6484. The Shadow Rising8565. The Fires of Heav…9286. Lord of Chaos9407. A Crown of Swords7209. Winter's Heart66810. Crossroads of Tw…70411. Knife of Dreams78412. The Gathering St…81613. Towers of Midnig…88014. A Memory of Light912
Open Library edition records; order from Wikidata series numbers.

How long to read the whole series?

Based on 10,630 pages for the 14 books with page data.

Reading time
187 h 23 min
At 30 min a day
375 days
At 1 hour a day
188 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)).