Glen Cook Reading Order

6 books (1980–2024)

Start with The Berkley Showcase: Vol. 2, the first of 6 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	The Berkley Showcase: Vol. 2 1980Buy 🇺🇸
2	Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance 2009Buy 🇺🇸
3	Writing Fantasy Heroes 2013Buy 🇺🇸
4	Operation Arcana 2015Buy 🇺🇸
5	Bonds of Valor 2023Buy 🇺🇸
6	Paladins of Valor 2024Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1985–1986)

Start with Doomstalker and read in order.

#	Title
1	Doomstalker 1985Buy 🇺🇸
2	Warlock 1985Buy 🇺🇸
3	Ceremony 1986Buy 🇺🇸

9 books (1979–2018)

Start with A Shadow of All Night Falling, the first of 9 books in the Dread Empire series.

#	Title
1	A Shadow of All Night Falling 1979Buy 🇺🇸
2	All Darkness Met 1980Buy 🇺🇸
3	October's Baby 1980Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Fire in His Hands 1984Buy 🇺🇸
5	With Mercy Toward None 1985Buy 🇺🇸
6	Reap the East Wind 1987Buy 🇺🇸
7	An Ill Fate Marshalling 1988Buy 🇺🇸
8	A Path to Coldness of Heart 2012Buy 🇺🇸
9	Wrath of Kings 2018Buy 🇺🇸

15 books (1980–2013)

Start with Introducing Garrett, P.I., the first of 15 books in the Garrett P.I. series.

#	Title
1	Introducing Garrett, P.I. 1980Buy 🇺🇸
2	Sweet Silver Blues 1987Buy 🇺🇸
3	Bitter Gold Hearts 1988Buy 🇺🇸
4	Cold Copper Tears 1988Buy 🇺🇸
5	Old Tin Sorrows 1989Buy 🇺🇸
6	Dread Brass Shadows 1990Buy 🇺🇸
7	Red Iron Nights 1991Buy 🇺🇸
8	Deadly Quicksilver Lies 1994Buy 🇺🇸
9	Petty Pewter Gods 1995Buy 🇺🇸
10	Faded Steel Heat 1999Buy 🇺🇸
11	Angry Lead Skies 2002Buy 🇺🇸
12	Whispering Nickel Idols 2005Buy 🇺🇸
13	Cruel Zinc Melodies 2008Buy 🇺🇸
14	Gilded Latten Bones 2010Buy 🇺🇸
15	Wicked Bronze Ambition 2013Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2005–2014)

Start with The Tyranny of the Night, the first of 4 books in the Instrumentalities of the Night series.

#	Title
1	The Tyranny of the Night 2005Buy 🇺🇸
2	Lord of the Silent Kingdom 2007Buy 🇺🇸
3	Surrender to the Will of the Night 2009Buy 🇺🇸
4	Working God's Mischief 2014Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (2020–2024)

Start with When Valor Must Hold(By: Quincy J. Allen,Jon R. Osborne), the first of 5 books in the Libri Valoris series.

1 book (2025–2025)

2 books (2012–2019)

Start with Winter's Dreams and read in order.

#	Title
1	Winter's Dreams 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Best of Glen Cook 2019Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (1972–1992)

Start with The Heirs of Babylon, the first of 6 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	The Heirs of Babylon 1972Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Swordbearer 1982Buy 🇺🇸
3	A Matter of Time 1985Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Dragon Never Sleeps 1988Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Tower of Fear 1989Buy 🇺🇸
6	Sung In Blood 1992Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1982–1985)

Start with Shadowline, the first of 4 books in the Starfishers series.

#	Title
1	Shadowline 1982Buy 🇺🇸
2	Starfishers 1982Buy 🇺🇸
3	Stars' End 1982Buy 🇺🇸
4	Passage at Arms 1985Buy 🇺🇸

10 books (1984–2000)

Start with Shadows Linger, the first of 10 books in the The Black Company series.

#	Title
1	Shadows Linger 1984Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Black Company 1984Buy 🇺🇸
3	The White Rose 1985Buy 🇺🇸
4	Shadow Games 1989Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Silver Spike 1989Buy 🇺🇸
6	Dreams of Steel 1990Buy 🇺🇸
7	Bleak Seasons 1996Buy 🇺🇸
8	She is the Darkness 1997Buy 🇺🇸
9	Water Sleeps 1999Buy 🇺🇸
10	Soldiers Live 2000Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1986–2018)

Start with Chronicles of the Black Company, the first of 5 books in the The Chronicles of the Black Company series.

#	Title
1	Chronicles of the Black Company 1986Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Return of the Black Company 1997Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Black Company Goes South 2002Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Many Deaths of the Black Company 2009Buy 🇺🇸
5	Port of Shadows 2018Buy 🇺🇸