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Matched trilogy reading order

Ally Condie

  1. Matched2010
  2. Crossed2011
  3. Reached2012
7.07.0 / 10
539 ratings
Score
3 volumes
Volumes
2010–2012
Published
about 23 h
Reading time
Completed
Status
Young adult#76
Genre

Quick answer

Matched
Start withMatched2010 · Volume 1 of 3
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Publication order

3 volumes2010–2012Completed

  • A dystopian romance where the Society chooses everyone’s partner: Cassia is matched with her best friend but glimpses another face.
  • Read Matched, Crossed and Reached in order.
  • Readers are lukewarm on the whole trilogy — it rates about 7, with Crossed the weakest.

A plan for the whole series

3 volumes, 1,249 pages, about 23 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 4 weeks.

  • From volume 2 on, the number of ratings falls most before volume 3, “Reached” (by 36%). Plan your break after volume 2, before the series plans it for you.

Stages

2 stages, with 1 short book from outside the series between them. You finish around December 8, 2026, 9 days later than in one go.

  1. Stage 114 h18 daysby November 16, 2026
  2. BreakMaus · Art Spiegelman · 295 pp. · score 9.05 h, by November 25, 2026. A short book from another shelf, so you come back to the series hungry.
  3. Stage 29 h13 daysby December 8, 2026
  4. The end of the series
    December 8, 2026
In one goNovember 29, 2026about 4 weeks
In stages, with breaksDecember 8, 2026about 6 weeks · +5 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

Read: 0 of 3
  1. Matched
    Matched2010 · 40 ratings · Not ranked yetStart here
    –Not ranked yet
  2. Crossed
    Crossed2011 · 329 ratings
    7.07.0 / 10
  3. Reached
    Reached2012 · 210 ratings
    7.07.0 / 10

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

Frequently asked questions

Which Matched trilogy book is the best?

By reader score, Reached (7.0/10). The lowest-rated is Crossed (7.0/10).

Which Matched trilogy book is the longest?

“Reached” is the longest at 512 pages; the shortest is “Crossed” with 368 pages.