Reading order

Emily Wilde series reading order

Heather Fawcett

  1. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries2023
  2. Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands2024
  3. Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales2025
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3 volumes
Volumes
2023–2025
Published
about 19 h
Reading time
Ongoing
Status

Quick answer

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
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Publication order

3 volumes2023–2025Ongoing

  • A cosy fantasy trilogy written as the field journals of Emily Wilde, a Cambridge scholar of faeries, in the early 1900s.
  • Read in order — the journals pick up where the last one stopped.
  • The trilogy closes with Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales (2025).

A plan for the whole series

3 volumes, 1,045 pages, about 19 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 4 weeks.

  • The series is still running; the last volume came out in 2025. You will wait for the next one anyway, so no need to rush.

Stages

This series fits in one stage. You finish around November 30, 2026.

  1. The end of the series
    November 30, 2026

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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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Frequently asked questions

Which Emily Wilde series book is the longest?

“Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales” is the longest at 368 pages; the shortest is “Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries” with 325 pages.