Reading order
Breathless reading order
- 7.57.5 / 1058 ratings
- Score
- 4 volumes
- Volumes
- 2013
- Published
- about 30 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
Quick answer

Publication order
4 volumes2013Completed
Volume numbering in the sources is incomplete — the order below follows publication years.
A plan for the whole series
4 volumes, 1,552 pages, about 30 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 10, 2026, 4 days later than in one go.
- Stage 115 h20 daysby November 18, 2026
- 1. Rush
- 2. Fever
- Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.8
- Stage 214 h18 daysby December 10, 2026
- 3. Burn
- 4. Rebel
- The end of the series
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≈ next to a page count: a volume with no page count in our data is counted at this series’s average.
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
Order and years: Wikidata (CC0). Spotted an error? Tell us. · Data updated October 29, 2026
Frequently asked questions
Which Breathless book is the longest?
“Fever” is the longest at 409 pages; the shortest is “Burn” with 353 pages.
