Reading order
Dragon Prince and Dragon Star trilogies reading order
- Dragon Prince1988
- The Star Scroll1989
- Sunrunner's Fire1990
- Stronghold1990
- The Dragon Token1992
- Skybowl1993
- 7.87.8 / 1058 ratings
- Score
- 6 volumes
- Volumes
- 1988–1993
- Published
- about 65 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
- Fantasy
- Genre
Quick answer

Publication order
6 volumes1988–1993Completed
- Melanie Rawn’s two linked fantasy trilogies of court politics, marriages and dragons.
- In Dragon Prince, Rohan, the clever young prince of a desert realm, and Sioned, a Sunrunner who weaves magic from light, outmanoeuvre the scheming High Prince; the Dragon Star trilogy, beginning with Stronghold, follows their son Pol when an invasion threatens everything they built.
- Intricate and character-rich.
- Only Dragon Prince has enough ratings.
- Read in order.
A plan for the whole series
6 volumes, 3,551 pages, about 65 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 3 months.
Stages
5 stages, with 4 short books from outside the series between them. You finish around February 10, 2027, 17 days later than in one go.
- Stage 110 h14 daysby November 12, 2026
- Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.8
- Stage 210 h14 daysby November 29, 2026
- Short breakOn Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century · Timothy Snyder · 128 pp. · score 8.4
- Stage 320 habout 4 weeksby December 30, 2026
- Short breakAnimal Farm · George Orwell · 128 pp. · score 8.3
- Stage 412 h16 daysby January 19, 2027
- Short breakTo Be Taught, If Fortunate · Becky Chambers · 153 pp. · score 8.3
- Stage 513 h17 daysby February 10, 2027
- 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 Dragon Prince and Dragon Star trilogies book is the longest?
“Skybowl” is the longest at 688 pages; the shortest is “Sunrunner's Fire” with 496 pages.
