Reading order

Dragon Prince and Dragon Star trilogies reading order

Melanie Rawn

  1. Dragon Prince1988
  2. The Star Scroll1989
  3. Sunrunner's Fire1990
  4. Stronghold1990
  5. The Dragon Token1992
  6. Skybowl1993
7.87.8 / 10
58 ratings
Score
6 volumes
Volumes
1988–1993
Published
about 65 h
Reading time
Completed
Status

Quick answer

Dragon Prince
Start withDragon Prince1988 · Volume 1 of 6

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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.

  1. Stage 110 h14 daysby November 12, 2026
  2. Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.82 h, by November 16, 2026. A short book from another shelf, so you come back to the series hungry.
  3. Stage 210 h14 daysby November 29, 2026
  4. Short breakOn Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century · Timothy Snyder · 128 pp. · score 8.42 h, by December 3, 2026. A short book from another shelf, so you come back to the series hungry.
  5. Short breakAnimal Farm · George Orwell · 128 pp. · score 8.32 h, by January 3, 2027. A short book from another shelf, so you come back to the series hungry.
  6. Stage 412 h16 daysby January 19, 2027
  7. Short breakTo Be Taught, If Fortunate · Becky Chambers · 153 pp. · score 8.33 h, by January 24, 2027. A short book from another shelf, so you come back to the series hungry.
  8. Stage 513 h17 daysby February 10, 2027
  9. The end of the series
    February 10, 2027
In one goJanuary 24, 2027about 3 months
In stages, with breaksFebruary 10, 2027about 3 months · +10 h of other books

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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

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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.