Reading order
Mither Mages reading order
1
2
3- 7.87.8 / 10248 ratings
- Score
- 3 volumes
- Volumes
- 2011–2015
- Published
- about 22 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
- Fantasy#170
- Genre
Quick answer
Publication order
3 volumes2011–2015Completed
- Contemporary fantasy by Orson Scott Card: Danny North belongs to a family of exiled gods, the beings behind Norse and other myths, hiding on a farm in Virginia, and discovers he is a gate mage, the one kind of mage his family is sworn to kill.
- Read in order: The Lost Gate, The Gate Thief, Gatefather.
- The first two rate almost the same.
A plan for the whole series
3 volumes, 1,185 pages, about 22 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 4 weeks.
Share of volume 1’s readers who reach the last volume. Chance of reaching the last volume: medium
Stages
2 stages, with 1 short book from outside the series between them. You finish around December 1, 2026, 4 days later than in one go.
- Stage 114 h19 daysby November 17, 2026
- Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.8
- Stage 27 h10 daysby December 1, 2026
- 3. Gatefather
- The end of the series
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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
Order checked by hand · Order and years: Wikidata (CC0). Spotted an error? Tell us. · Data updated October 29, 2026
Frequently asked questions
Which Mither Mages book is the best?
By reader score, The Lost Gate (7.8/10). The lowest-rated is The Gate Thief (7.8/10).
Which Mither Mages book is the longest?
“The Gate Thief” is the longest at 400 pages; the shortest is “The Lost Gate” with 385 pages.
What should I read after Mither Mages?
Other series by Orson Scott Card: Ender's Saga, Homecoming Saga, The Tales of Alvin Maker.
