#192 in Fantasy
The Curse of Chalion
- 442
- Pages
- about 8 h
- Reading time
- Mythopoeic Awards
- Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature
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About the book
The Curse of Chalion is a 2001 fantasy novel by American writer Lois McMaster Bujold. In 2002 it won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature and was nominated for the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Locus Fantasy Awards in 2002. The series that it began, World of the Five Gods, won the Hugo Award for Best Series in 2018.
Reading order · World of the Five Gods
Full order & progress →- The Curse of ChalionThis book
8.38.3 / 10 - Paladin of Souls
8.48.4 / 10 - The Hallowed Hunt
8.08.0 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.5 across 288 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 66% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 8.3 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.4 | 24 | 8% |
| Hardcover | 8.5 | 264 | 92% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Curse of Chalion?
It has 442 pages — shorter than 66% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
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