All Souls Trilogy reading order

A plan for the whole series

5 volumes, 2,904 pages, about 55 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 10 weeks.

• Readers scored volume 4, “Time's Convert”, below its predecessor (7.7 after 8.0). If you slow down there, that is on the book, not on you.
• The series is still running; the last volume came out in 2024. You will wait for the next one anyway, so no need to rush.

Stages

4 stages, with 3 short books from outside the series between them. You finish around January 20, 2027, 12 days later than in one go.

1. 1
   Stage 113 h18 daysby November 16, 2026

   • 1. A Discovery of Witches2011 · 720 pages · 13 h
2. Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.82 h, by November 20, 2026. A short book from another shelf, so you come back to the series hungry.
3. 2
   Stage 211 h14 daysby December 4, 2026

   • 2. Shadow of Night2012 · 592 pages · 11 h
4. Short breakOn Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century · Timothy Snyder · 128 pp. · score 8.42 h, by December 8, 2026. A short book from another shelf, so you come back to the series hungry.
5. 3
   Stage 310 h14 daysby December 22, 2026

   • 3. The Book of Life2014 · 561 pages · 10 h
6. Short breakAnimal Farm · George Orwell · 128 pp. · score 8.32 h, by December 26, 2026. A short book from another shelf, so you come back to the series hungry.
7. 4
   Stage 419 habout 4 weeksby January 20, 2027

   • 4. Time's Convert · 450 pages · 8 h
   • 5. The Black Bird Oracle2024 · ≈ 581 pages · 11 h
8. The end of the series

   January 20, 2027

We count 1.1 min per page, the pace of an average novel reader. Faster? Move the slider.

≈ next to a page count: a volume with no page count in our data is counted at this series’s average.

Does the series hold up

Shape of the series: it gets better. Readers scored the opening (7.5) below the ending (7.7). After the first volume you do not yet know how good this series is.

Best volume: The Book of Life (8.0, 348 ratings). Weakest: A Discovery of Witches (7.5). The series is not finished; the last volume came out in 2024. The last volume (7.7) scores close to the series average or above it.