Miss Peregrine reading order

A plan for the whole series

6 volumes, 2,625 pages, about 50 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 9 weeks.

• From volume 2 on, the number of ratings falls most before volume 4, “A Map of Days” (by 69%). Plan your break after volume 3, before the series plans it for you.

Stages

4 stages, with 3 short books from outside the series between them. You finish around January 18, 2027, 17 days later than in one go.

1. 1
   Stage 115 h20 daysby November 18, 2026

   • 1. Miss Peregrine's Home of Peculiar Children2011 · 392 pages · 7 h
   • 2. Hollow City2014 · 431 pages · 8 h
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. 2
   Stage 28 h11 daysby December 3, 2026

   • 3. Library of Souls2015 · 458 pages · 8 h
4. BreakMaus · Art Spiegelman · 295 pp. · score 9.05 h, by December 12, 2026. A short book from another shelf, so you come back to the series hungry.
5. 3
   Stage 315 h20 daysby January 2, 2027

   • 4. A Map of Days2018 · 496 pages · 9 h
   • 5. The Conference of the Birds2020 · 336 pages · 6 h
6. Short breakOn Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century · Timothy Snyder · 128 pp. · score 8.42 h, by January 6, 2027. A short book from another shelf, so you come back to the series hungry.
7. 4
   Stage 49 h13 daysby January 18, 2027

   • 6. The Desolations of Devil's Acre2021 · 512 pages · 9 h
8. The end of the series

   January 18, 2027

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Does the series hold up

Shape of the series: it gets better. Readers scored the opening (7.5) below the ending (8.0). After the first volume you do not yet know how good this series is.

Best volume: Library of Souls (8.1, 262 ratings). Weakest: Miss Peregrine's Home of Peculiar Children (7.5). From volume 2 on, the biggest drop in the number of ratings is between volume 3 and 4: 69%. The series is complete; you can read it start to finish with no waiting. The last volume (8.0) scores close to the series average or above it.