Reading order
Bone reading order
- Out from Boneville1995
- The Great Cow Race1996
- Eyes of the Storm1996
- The Dragonslayer1997
- Rock Jaw: Master of the Eastern Border1998
- Old Man's Cave1999
- Ghost Circles2001
- Treasure Hunters2002
- Crown of Horns2004
- 9 volumes
- Volumes
- 1995–2004
- Published
- about 25 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
Quick answer
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Publication order
9 volumes1995–2004Completed
- Jeff Smith’s comic-book epic, collected in nine volumes, about three cartoon cousins, the kind Fone Bone, the greedy schemer Phoney Bone and the cheerful Smiley Bone, who are run out of their town of Boneville and get lost in a valley.
- There they meet the brave Thorn and her tough grandmother Gran’ma Ben, who races cows, and are pulled into a war with rat creatures and a dark power, the Lord of the Locusts.
- It starts as slapstick and grows into real fantasy.
- Loved by children and adults.
- Read in order.
A plan for the whole series
9 volumes, 1,449 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 13, 2026, 9 days later than in one go.
- Stage 120 habout 4 weeksby November 25, 2026
- BreakMaus · Art Spiegelman · 295 pp. · score 9.0
- Stage 27 h9 daysby December 13, 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 28, 2026
Frequently asked questions
Which Bone book is the longest?
“Crown of Horns” is the longest at 218 pages; the shortest is “Old Man's Cave” with 128 pages.