Reading order
Beartown reading order
- 3 volumes
- Volumes
- 2016–2021
- Published
- about 25 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
Quick answer
Publication order
3 volumes2016–2021Completed
- Fredrik Backman’s trilogy about Beartown, a declining Swedish forest town that pins all its hopes on its junior ice hockey team.
- In the first book, on the eve of a decisive match, the team’s star rapes Maya, the fifteen-year-old daughter of the club’s general manager, and the whole town is forced to choose a side.
- Big-hearted and angry, told through many voices, and very highly rated; Us Against You and The Winners follow the same people as the town fights over the club’s future.
- Adapted by HBO.
- Read in order.
A plan for the whole series
3 volumes, 1,392 pages, about 25 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 5 weeks.
Stages
2 stages, with 1 short book from outside the series between them. You finish around December 12, 2026, 4 days later than in one go.
- Stage 117 habout 3 weeksby November 27, 2026
- Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.8
- Stage 28 h11 daysby December 12, 2026
- The end of the series
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How this plan is calculated
The plan comes from the pages and ratings of each volume: we split the series into stages of about three weeks’ reading, size each break to the stage before it, and read the chance of finishing from how many readers rate the last volume compared with the first. How we work out the plan →
Every volume in order
No volume in this series has enough ratings to enter a ranking yet, so the list carries no scores — the order and the volumes are still complete.
Order checked by hand · Order and years: Wikidata (CC0). Spotted an error? Tell us. · Data updated October 31, 2026
Frequently asked questions
Which Beartown book is the longest?
“Us Against You” is the longest at 496 pages; the shortest is “Beartown” with 448 pages.