Reading order
Demon Princes reading order
- 5 volumes
- Volumes
- 1964–1981
- Published
- about 19 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
Quick answer
Publication order
5 volumes1964–1981Completed
- Jack Vance’s five revenge novels, written between 1964 and 1981.
- As a boy, Kirth Gersen survived the Mount Pleasant Massacre, in which five master criminals, the Demon Princes, destroyed his settlement; raised by his grandfather to do nothing but avenge it, he hunts them one per book across the lawless Beyond.
- Each chapter opens with quotations from invented books, encyclopedias and memoirs, and the pleasure is as much in the strange worlds and dry wit as in the vengeance.
- Star King comes first.
- No book has enough ratings yet.
- Read in order.
A plan for the whole series
5 volumes, 1,044 pages, about 19 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 4 weeks.
Stages
This series fits in one stage. You finish around November 24, 2026.
- Stage 119 habout 4 weeksby November 24, 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 Demon Princes book is the longest?
“The Book of Dreams” is the longest at 235 pages; the shortest is “The Killing Machine” with 160 pages.