Reading order

Nantucket series reading order

S. M. Stirling

  1. Island in the Sea of Time1998
  2. Against the Tide of Years1999
  3. On the Oceans of Eternity2000
3 volumes
Volumes
1998–2000
Published
about 30 h
Reading time
Completed
Status

Quick answer

Island in the Sea of Time
Start withIsland in the Sea of Time1998 · Volume 1 of 3

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Publication order

3 volumes1998–2000Completed

A plan for the whole series

3 volumes, 1,692 pages, about 30 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 6 weeks.

Stages

2 stages, with 1 short book from outside the series between them. You finish around December 13, 2026, 4 days later than in one go.

  1. Stage 111 h15 daysby November 13, 2026
  2. Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.82 h, by November 17, 2026. A short book from another shelf, so you come back to the series hungry.
  3. The end of the series
    December 13, 2026
In one goDecember 9, 2026about 6 weeks
In stages, with breaksDecember 13, 2026about 6 weeks · +2 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

No volume in this series has enough ratings to enter a ranking yet, so the list carries no scores — the order and the volumes are still complete.

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Frequently asked questions

Which Nantucket series book is the longest?

“On the Oceans of Eternity” is the longest at 630 pages; the shortest is “Against the Tide of Years” with 454 pages.

What should I read after Nantucket series?

Other series by S. M. Stirling: The Domination, The Emberverse series.

More series by S. M. Stirling

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