Reading order
Cadwal Chronicles reading order
- 3 volumes
- Volumes
- 1987–1992
- Published
- about 22 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
Quick answer
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Publication order
3 volumes1987–1992Completed
- Jack Vance’s late science fiction trilogy about Cadwal, a beautiful planet kept as a nature reserve by a charter that allows only one small administrative settlement, Araminta Station, run by a handful of proud and quarrelsome families.
- Young Glawen Clattuc joins the station’s police as factions scheme to break the charter and open the world to settlers.
- Mystery, social comedy and travel across a galaxy of peculiar customs, written in Vance’s ornate, ironic style.
- No book has enough ratings yet.
- Read in order, from Araminta Station.
A plan for the whole series
3 volumes, 1,178 pages, about 22 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 4 weeks.
Stages
2 stages, with 1 short book from outside the series between them. You finish around December 1, 2026, 4 days later than in one go.
- Stage 117 habout 3 weeksby November 21, 2026
- Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.8
- Stage 25 h6 daysby December 1, 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 Cadwal Chronicles book is the longest?
“Araminta Station” is the longest at 533 pages; the shortest is “Throy” with 255 pages.