Reading order
Circle Series reading order
1
2
3- 7.87.8 / 10172 ratings
- Score
- 3 volumes
- Volumes
- 2004
- Published
- about 25 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
- Thriller#18
- Genre
Quick answer
Publication order
3 volumes2004Completed
- Ted Dekker’s fast thrillers with a Christian allegory underneath: Thomas Hunter discovers that whenever he falls asleep in our world he wakes up in another, a strange and vivid world of colour and forest, and that what happens in one affects the other as a deadly virus threatens Earth.
- One story — read in order: Black, Red, White.
- Red rates highest.
A plan for the whole series
3 volumes, 1,385 pages, about 25 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 5 weeks.
Share of volume 1’s readers who reach the last volume. Chance of reaching the last volume: high
Stages
2 stages, with 1 short book from outside the series between them. You finish around December 6, 2026, 4 days later than in one go.
- Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.8
- Stage 29 h12 daysby December 6, 2026
- 3. White
- 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 Circle book is the best?
By reader score, Red (7.9/10). The lowest-rated is Black (7.7/10).
Which Circle Series book is the longest?
“Black” is the longest at 505 pages; the shortest is “Red” with 400 pages.
What should I read after Circle Series?
Other series by Ted Dekker: The Lost Books.