Reading order
Daughter of Smoke and Bone reading order
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2
3- 8.08.0 / 10267 ratings
- Score
- 3 volumes
- Volumes
- 2011–2014
- Published
- about 30 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
- Young adult
- Genre
Quick answer
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Publication order
3 volumes2011–2014Completed
- Karou, a blue-haired art student in Prague, was raised by chimaera who trade wishes for teeth, and is drawn into an ancient war between their kind and the angels.
- Lush, romantic fantasy that grows darker and larger book by book.
- One story — read in order.
- Only the finale, Dreams of Gods and Monsters, has enough ratings here, and it rates highly.
A plan for the whole series
3 volumes, 1,571 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 117 habout 3 weeksby November 21, 2026
- Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.8
- Stage 211 h15 daysby December 10, 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 Daughter of Smoke and Bone book is the longest?
“Dreams of Gods and Monsters” is the longest at 625 pages; the shortest is “Daughter of Smoke and Bone” with 418 pages.