Marion Zimmer Bradley Reading Order

50 books (1965–2022)

Start with If This Goes On, the first of 50 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	If This Goes On 1965Buy 🇺🇸
2	Demon Lovers and Strange Seductions 1971Buy 🇺🇸
3	Algol The Magazine About Science Fiction - Winter 1977 / 1978 1977Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Keeper's Price -Darkover Anthologies 1980Buy 🇺🇸
5	Sword of Chaos -Darkover Anthologies 1982Buy 🇺🇸
6	Greyhaven 1983Buy 🇺🇸
7	Sword and Sorceress 1984Buy 🇺🇸
8	Free Amazons of Darkover - Darkover Anthologies 1985Buy 🇺🇸
9	Moonsinger's Friends: An Anthology in Honor of Andre Norton 1985Buy 🇺🇸
10	Sword and Sorceress II 1985Buy 🇺🇸
11	Sword and Sorceress III 1986Buy 🇺🇸
12	Worlds Apart 1986Buy 🇺🇸
13	Red Sun of Darkover -Darkover Anthologies 1987Buy 🇺🇸
14	Sword and Sorceress IV 1987Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Other Side of the Mirror -Darkover Anthologies 1987Buy 🇺🇸
16	Four Moons of Darkover -Darkover Anthologies 1988Buy 🇺🇸
17	Spell Singers 1988Buy 🇺🇸
18	Sword and Sorceress V 1988Buy 🇺🇸
19	Spells of Wonder 1989Buy 🇺🇸
20	Domains of Darkover -Darkover Anthologies 1990Buy 🇺🇸
21	Sword and Sorceress VI 1990Buy 🇺🇸
22	Sword and Sorceress VII 1990Buy 🇺🇸
23	Leroni of Darkover 1991Buy 🇺🇸
24	Renunciates of Darkover 1991Buy 🇺🇸
25	Sword and Sorceress VIII 1991Buy 🇺🇸
26	Sword and Sorceress IX 1992Buy 🇺🇸
27	Darkover 1993Buy 🇺🇸
28	Sword and Sorceress X 1993Buy 🇺🇸
29	Towers of Darkover 1993Buy 🇺🇸
30	Snows of Darkover 1994Buy 🇺🇸
31	Sword and Sorceress XI 1994Buy 🇺🇸
32	The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine 1994Buy 🇺🇸
33	Excalibur 1995Buy 🇺🇸
34	Sword and Sorceress XII 1995Buy 🇺🇸
35	The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley Fantasy Magazine, Volume 2 1995Buy 🇺🇸
36	Space Opera 1996Buy 🇺🇸
37	Sword and Sorceress XIII 1996Buy 🇺🇸
38	Sword and Sorceress XIV 1997Buy 🇺🇸
39	Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Worlds 1998Buy 🇺🇸
40	Sword and Sorceress XV 1998Buy 🇺🇸
41	Sword and Sorceress XVI 1999Buy 🇺🇸
42	The Chronicles of the Round Table 1999Buy 🇺🇸
43	Sword and Sorceress XVII 2000Buy 🇺🇸
44	Sword and Sorceress XVIII 2001Buy 🇺🇸
45	Sword and Sorceress XIX 2002Buy 🇺🇸
46	Sword and Sorceress XX 2003Buy 🇺🇸
47	Music of Darkover 2013Buy 🇺🇸
48	Lieu: Science Fiction Short Stories 2015Buy 🇺🇸
49	Science Fiction Gems, Volume 9 2015Buy 🇺🇸
50	Written in the Stars: Science Fiction Stories by Women, 1930-1962 2022Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (1979–2009)

Start with The Mists of Avalon, the first of 7 books in the Avalon series.

#	Title
1	The Mists of Avalon 1979Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Forest House / The Forests of Avalon 1993Buy 🇺🇸
3	Lady of Avalon 1997Buy 🇺🇸
4	Priestess of Avalon 2001Buy 🇺🇸
5	Ancestors of Avalon(By: Diana L. Paxson) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
6	Ravens of Avalon(By: Diana L. Paxson) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
7	Sword of Avalon(By: Diana L. Paxson) 2009Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2007–2013)

Start with The Alton Gift and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Alton Gift 2007Buy 🇺🇸
2	Hastur Lord 2010Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Children of Kings 2013Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1972–1990)

Start with Dark Satanic and read in order.

#	Title
1	Dark Satanic 1972Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Inheritor 1984Buy 🇺🇸
3	Witch Hill 1990Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1998–2004)

Start with The Fall of Neskaya and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Fall of Neskaya 1998Buy 🇺🇸
2	Zandru's Forge 2003Buy 🇺🇸
3	A Flame in Hali 2004Buy 🇺🇸

36 books (1962–2024)

Start with The Planet Savers(By: Elisabeth Waters), the first of 36 books in the Darkover series.

#	Title
1	The Planet Savers(By: Elisabeth Waters) 1962Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Sword of Aldones 1962Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Bloody Sun 1964Buy 🇺🇸
4	Star of Danger 1965Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Winds of Darkover 1970Buy 🇺🇸
6	The World Wreckers 1971Buy 🇺🇸
7	Darkover Landfall 1972Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Spell Sword 1974Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Heritage of Hastur 1975Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Shattered Chain 1976Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Forbidden Tower 1977Buy 🇺🇸
12	Stormqueen! 1978Buy 🇺🇸
13	Two to Conquer 1980Buy 🇺🇸
14	Sharra's Exile 1981Buy 🇺🇸
15	Hawkmistress! 1982Buy 🇺🇸
16	Thendara House 1983Buy 🇺🇸
17	City of Sorcery 1984Buy 🇺🇸
18	Different Kind of Courage(By: Mercedes Lackey) 1985Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Heirs of Hammerfell 1989Buy 🇺🇸
20	Set a Thief(By: Mercedes Lackey) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
21	Rediscovery(With: Mercedes Lackey) 1993Buy 🇺🇸
22	Rediscovery(With: Mercedes Lackey) 1993Buy 🇺🇸
23	Poetic License(By: Mercedes Lackey) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
24	Exile's Song 1996Buy 🇺🇸
25	The Shadow Matrix 1997Buy 🇺🇸
26	Traitor's Sun 1999Buy 🇺🇸
27	Zandru's Forge(With: Deborah J. Ross) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
28	A Flame in Hali(With: Deborah J. Ross) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
29	An Object Lesson(By: Mercedes Lackey) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
30	Hastur Lord(With: Deborah J. Ross) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
31	Death of Brendan Ensolare(By: Deborah Wheeler) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
32	The Children of Kings(With: Deborah J. Ross) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
33	Thunderlord(With: Deborah J. Ross) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
34	Ski the Hellers(By: Elisabeth Waters) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
35	The Laran Gambit(With: Deborah J. Ross) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
36	Arilinn(With: Deborah J. Ross) 2024Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1995–1998)

Start with Glenraven and read in order.

#	Title
1	Glenraven 1995Buy 🇺🇸
2	In the Rift 1998Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1973–1979)

Start with Hunters of the Red Moon and read in order.

#	Title
1	Hunters of the Red Moon 1973Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Survivors 1979Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1995–1998)

Start with Ghostlight, the first of 4 books in the Light series.

#	Title
1	Ghostlight 1995Buy 🇺🇸
2	Witchlight 1996Buy 🇺🇸
3	Gravelight 1997Buy 🇺🇸
4	Heartlight 1998Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (1957–2012)

Start with Bird of Prey, the first of 6 books in the Lythande Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	Bird of Prey 1957Buy 🇺🇸
2	Men, Halflings & Hero Worship 1973Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Jewel of Arwen 1974Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Parting of Arwen 1974Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Gratitude of Kings 1997Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Once and Future Merlin 2012Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1960–2009)

Start with Checklist: A Complete, Cumulative Checklist of Lesbian, Variant and Homosexual Fiction and read in order.

#	Title
1	Checklist: A Complete, Cumulative Checklist of Lesbian, Variant and Homosexual Fiction 1960Buy 🇺🇸
2	Experiment Perilous 1983Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Necessity for Beauty: Robert W. Chambers and The Romantic Tradition 2009Buy 🇺🇸

10 books (1954–2023)

Start with Centaurus Changeling, the first of 10 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	Centaurus Changeling 1954Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Crime Therapist 1954Buy 🇺🇸
3	Death Between the Stars 1956Buy 🇺🇸
4	Falcons of Narabedla 1957Buy 🇺🇸
5	Measureless to Man 1962Buy 🇺🇸
6	Genuine Old Master 1977Buy 🇺🇸
7	Lythande(With: Vonda N. McIntyre) 1985Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Stars Are Waiting 2000Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Dark Intruder 2015Buy 🇺🇸
10	Phoenix(With: Ted White) 2023Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1985–2014)

Start with The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley, the first of 4 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley 1985Buy 🇺🇸
2	Jamie and Other Stories: The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley 1992Buy 🇺🇸
3	Marion Zimmer Bradley, Science Fiction Collection 2014Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Marion Zimmer Bradley Short Story Collection 2014Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (1973–1973)

26 books (1954–1995)

Start with Year of the Big Thaw, the first of 26 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Year of the Big Thaw 1954Buy 🇺🇸
2	Seven from the Stars 1961Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Door Through Space 1961Buy 🇺🇸
4	I am a Lesbian 1962Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Strange Women(As: Miriam Gardner) 1962Buy 🇺🇸
6	My Sister, My Love(As: Miriam Gardner) 1963Buy 🇺🇸
7	Spare Her Heaven / Anything Goes(As: Morgan Ives) 1963Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Colors of Space 1963Buy 🇺🇸
9	Twilight Lovers(As: Miriam Gardner) 1964Buy 🇺🇸
10	Castle Terror 1965Buy 🇺🇸
11	Knives of Desire(As: Morgan Ives) 1966Buy 🇺🇸
12	No Adam for Eve(As: John Dexter) 1966Buy 🇺🇸
13	Souvenir of Monique 1967Buy 🇺🇸
14	Bluebeard's Daughter 1968Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Brass Dragon 1969Buy 🇺🇸
16	Can Ellen Be Saved? 1975Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Endless Voyage / The Endless Universe 1975Buy 🇺🇸
18	Drums of Darkness 1976Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Ruins of Isis / Haunted Spaceship 1977Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Catch Trap 1979Buy 🇺🇸
21	Survey Ship 1980Buy 🇺🇸
22	The House Between The Worlds 1980Buy 🇺🇸
23	Night's Daughter 1985Buy 🇺🇸
24	Warrior Woman 1985Buy 🇺🇸
25	The Firebrand 1987Buy 🇺🇸
26	Tiger Burning Bright(With: Mercedes Lackey,Andre Norton) 1995Buy 🇺🇸

19 books (1979–2013)

Start with Thieves' World(By: Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin), the first of 19 books in the Thieves' World series.

#	Title
1	Thieves' World(By: Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) 1979Buy 🇺🇸
2	Tales from the Vulgar Unicorn(By: Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) 1980Buy 🇺🇸
3	Shadows of Sanctuary(By: Philip Jose Farmer,John Brunner,Joe Haldeman,Robert Lynn Asprin) 1981Buy 🇺🇸
4	Storm Season(By: Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) 1982Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Face of Chaos(By: Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) 1983Buy 🇺🇸
6	Wings of Omen(By: Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) 1984Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Dead of Winter(By: Robert Lynn Asprin) 1985Buy 🇺🇸
8	Blood Ties(By: Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) 1986Buy 🇺🇸
9	Soul of the City(By: Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) 1986Buy 🇺🇸
10	Aftermath(By: Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) 1987Buy 🇺🇸
11	Shadowspawn(By: Andrew J. Offutt) 1987Buy 🇺🇸
12	Uneasy Alliances(By: Robert Lynn Asprin) 1988Buy 🇺🇸
13	Stealers' Sky(By: Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) 1989Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Shadow of Sorcery(By: Andrew J. Offutt) 1993Buy 🇺🇸
15	Sanctuary(By: Lynn Abbey) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
16	Turning Points(By: Dennis L. McKiernan,Mickey Zucker Reichert,Lynn Abbey,Raymond E. Feist,Diana Paxson) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
17	Enemies of Fortune(By: C.J. Cherryh,Jody Lynn Nye,Mickey Zucker Reichert,Lynn Abbey,Robin Wayne Bailey,Andrew J. Offutt,Jeff Grubb,Selina Rosen,Diana Paxson) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
18	Thieves' World: Player's Manual(By: James Ryman) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Secret of the Blue Star 2013Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1990–1996)

Start with Black Trillium(With: Andre Norton,Julian May), the first of 5 books in the Trillium series.

#	Title
1	Black Trillium(With: Andre Norton,Julian May) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
2	Blood Trillium(By: Julian May) 1992Buy 🇺🇸
3	Golden Trillium(By: Andre Norton) 1993Buy 🇺🇸
4	Lady of the Trillium 1995Buy 🇺🇸
5	Sky Trillium(By: Julian May) 1996Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1982–1983)

Start with Web of Darkness and read in order.

#	Title
1	Web of Darkness 1982Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Fall of Atlantis 1983Buy 🇺🇸
3	Web of Light 1983Buy 🇺🇸