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Reading order

Magic 2.0 reading order

Scott Meyer

  1. Off to Be the Wizard2013
  2. Spell or High Water2014
  3. An Unwelcome Quest2015
  4. Fight and Flight2017
  5. Out of Spite, Out of Mind2018
  6. The Vexed Generation2019
7.97.9 / 10
980 ratings
Score
6 volumes
Volumes
2013–2019
Published
about 40 h
Reading time
Completed
Status

Quick answer

Off to Be the Wizard
Start withOff to Be the Wizard2013 · Volume 1 of 6
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Publication order

6 volumes2013–2019Completed

  • Comic fantasy for programmers: Martin finds a file that controls reality, edits his bank balance, and flees to medieval England to pose as a wizard.
  • Start with Off to Be the Wizard; the books continue one story with lots of in-jokes, so read them in order.

A plan for the whole series

6 volumes, 2,284 pages, about 40 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 8 weeks.

Stages

3 stages, with 2 short books from outside the series between them. You finish around January 6, 2027, 13 days later than in one go.

  1. Stage 115 h20 daysby November 18, 2026
  2. Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.82 h, by November 22, 2026. A short book from another shelf, so you come back to the series hungry.
  3. Stage 220 habout 4 weeksby December 18, 2026
    • 3. An Unwelcome Quest2015 · 421 pages · 8 h
    • 4. Fight and Flight2017 · ≈ 381 pages · 7 h
    • 5. Out of Spite, Out of Mind2018 · 297 pages · 5 h
  4. BreakMaus · Art Spiegelman · 295 pp. · score 9.05 h, by December 28, 2026. A short book from another shelf, so you come back to the series hungry.
  5. Stage 37 h9 daysby January 6, 2027
    • 6. The Vexed Generation2019 · ≈ 381 pages · 7 h
  6. The end of the series
    January 6, 2027
In one goDecember 24, 2026about 8 weeks
In stages, with breaksJanuary 6, 2027about 10 weeks · +8 h of other books

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≈ next to a page count: a volume with no page count in our data is counted at this series’s average.

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

Read: 0 of 6
  1. Off to Be the Wizard
    Off to Be the Wizard2013 · 509 ratingsStart here
    7.97.9 / 10
  2. Spell or High Water
    Spell or High Water2014 · 332 ratings · Not ranked yetBuy
    –Not ranked yet
  3. An Unwelcome Quest
    An Unwelcome Quest2015 · Not ranked yetBuy
    –Not ranked yet
  4. Fight and Flight
    Fight and Flight2017 · Not ranked yetBuy
    –Not ranked yet
  5. Out of Spite, Out of Mind
    Out of Spite, Out of Mind2018 · 139 ratings · Not ranked yetBuy
    –Not ranked yet
  6. The Vexed Generation
    The Vexed Generation2019 · Not ranked yetBuy
    –Not ranked yet

Order checked by hand · Order and years: Wikidata (CC0). Spotted an error? Tell us. · Data updated October 29, 2026

Frequently asked questions

Which Magic 2.0 book is the longest?

“Spell or High Water” is the longest at 431 pages; the shortest is “Out of Spite, Out of Mind” with 297 pages.