Tad Williams Reading Order

18 books (1988–2019)

Start with Weird Tales #292: Fall 1988, the first of 18 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Weird Tales #292: Fall 1988 1988Buy 🇺🇸
2	Weird Tales #296: Spring 1990 1990Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Anthology of Fantasy and the Supernatural 1994Buy 🇺🇸
4	Immortal Unicorn 1995Buy 🇺🇸
5	DAW 30th Anniversary Science Fiction 2002Buy 🇺🇸
6	DAW 30th Anniversary Science Fiction and Fantasy Anthologies 2002Buy 🇺🇸
7	Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian 2003Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Wood Boy / The Burning Man 2005Buy 🇺🇸
9	Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance 2009Buy 🇺🇸
10	Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories on the 50th Anniversary 2009Buy 🇺🇸
11	Warriors 1 2010Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities 2011Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection 2011Buy 🇺🇸
14	Lightspeed Magazine, December 2012 2012Buy 🇺🇸
15	Oz Reimagined 2013Buy 🇺🇸
16	Dead Man's Hand 2014Buy 🇺🇸
17	Multiverse 2014Buy 🇺🇸
18	Unfettered III: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy 2019Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2012–2014)

Start with The Dirty Streets of Heaven, the first of 4 books in the Bobby Dollar series.

#	Title
1	The Dirty Streets of Heaven 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	Happy Hour in Hell 2013Buy 🇺🇸
3	God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlepig 2014Buy 🇺🇸
4	Sleeping Late on Judgement Day 2014Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1998–1999)

Start with Legends II: Dragon, Sword, and King(By: Diana Gabaldon,George R.R. Martin,Orson Scott Card,Terry Brooks,Robert Silverberg,Neil Gaiman,Elizabeth Haydon) and read in order.

#	Title
1	Legends II: Dragon, Sword, and King(By: Diana Gabaldon,George R.R. Martin,Orson Scott Card,Terry Brooks,Robert Silverberg,Neil Gaiman,Elizabeth Haydon) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
2	Legends(By: Stephen King,Anne McCaffrey,Robert Silverberg) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
3	Legends 3(With: Terry Pratchett,Robert Jordan,Robert Silverberg,Ursula K. Le Guin) 1999Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1988–1993)

Start with The Dragonbone Chair, the first of 4 books in the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series.

#	Title
1	The Dragonbone Chair 1988Buy 🇺🇸
2	Stone of Farewell 1990Buy 🇺🇸
3	To Green Angel Tower 1993Buy 🇺🇸
4	To Green Angel Tower, Part 2 1993Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2009–2011)

Start with The Dragons of Ordinary Farm and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Dragons of Ordinary Farm 2009Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Secrets of Ordinary Farm 2011Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1996–2001)

Start with City of Golden Shadow, the first of 4 books in the Otherland series.

#	Title
1	City of Golden Shadow 1996Buy 🇺🇸
2	River of Blue Fire 1998Buy 🇺🇸
3	Mountain of Black Glass 1999Buy 🇺🇸
4	Sea of Silver Light 2001Buy 🇺🇸

15 books (2013–2013)

Start with A Meeting in Oz(By: Jeffrey Ford), the first of 15 books in the Oz Reimagined series.

4 books (2004–2010)

Start with Shadowmarch, the first of 4 books in the Shadowmarch series.

#	Title
1	Shadowmarch 2004Buy 🇺🇸
2	Shadowplay 2007Buy 🇺🇸
3	Shadowheart 2010Buy 🇺🇸
4	Shadowrise 2010Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2006–2014)

Start with Rite: Short Work and read in order.

#	Title
1	Rite: Short Work 2006Buy 🇺🇸
2	A Stark and Wormy Knight 2011Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Very Best of Tad Williams 2014Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (1985–2012)

Start with Tailchaser's Song, the first of 7 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Tailchaser's Song 1985Buy 🇺🇸
2	Child of an Ancient City 1992Buy 🇺🇸
3	Caliban's Hour 1994Buy 🇺🇸
4	Tad Williams' Mirror World 1998Buy 🇺🇸
5	The War of the Flowers 2003Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Helmet of Fate(With: Steve Niles,Bill Willingham,Gail Simone,Steve Gerber) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
7	Diary of a Dragon 2012Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2017–2024)

Start with The Heart of What Was Lost, the first of 6 books in the The Last King of Osten Ard series.

#	Title
1	The Heart of What Was Lost 2017Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Witchwood Crown 2017Buy 🇺🇸
3	Empire of Grass 2018Buy 🇺🇸
4	Brothers of the Wind 2021Buy 🇺🇸
5	Into the Narrowdark 2022Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Navigator's Children 2024Buy 🇺🇸