Reading order
Chronicles of Ancient Darkness reading order
1- 8.08.0 / 1063 ratings
- Score
- 6 volumes
- Volumes
- 2004–2009
- Published
- about 35 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
- Fantasy
- Genre
Quick answer
Publication order
6 volumes2004–2009Completed
- Michelle Paver’s Stone Age adventures, set six thousand years ago in the forests of north-west Europe: twelve-year-old Torak, whose father is killed by a bear possessed by a demon, sets out with an orphaned wolf cub to stop the Soul Eaters, a band of evil mages.
- Paver researched the books by living with reindeer herders and wolves, and the wilderness feels utterly real; many chapters are told by Wolf himself.
- Wolf Brother rates highly.
- Read in order.
A plan for the whole series
6 volumes, 1,952 pages, about 35 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 7 weeks.
Stages
2 stages, with 1 short book from outside the series between them. You finish around December 20, 2026, 4 days later than in one go.
- Stage 116 habout 3 weeksby November 20, 2026
- Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.8
- Stage 219 habout 4 weeksby December 20, 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
Order checked by hand · Order and years: Wikidata (CC0). Spotted an error? Tell us. · Data updated October 29, 2026
Frequently asked questions
Which Chronicles of Ancient Darkness book is the longest?
“Outcast” is the longest at 474 pages; the shortest is “Oath Breaker” with 256 pages.