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Pandava Quintet reading order

Roshani Chokshi

  1. Aru Shah and the End of Time2018
  2. Aru Shah and the Song of Death2019
  3. Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes2020
  4. Aru Shah and the City of Gold2021
  5. Aru Shah and the Nectar of Immortality2022
7.97.9 / 10
92 ratings
Score
5 volumes
Volumes
2018–2022
Published
about 40 h
Reading time
Ongoing
Status
Fantasy
Genre

Quick answer

Aru Shah and the End of Time
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Publication order

5 volumes2018–2022Ongoing

  • Roshani Chokshi’s middle-grade fantasy, part of the Rick Riordan Presents line, built on Hindu mythology: twelve-year-old Aru Shah, who tells tall tales to fit in, lights a cursed lamp in her mother’s museum of Indian art to prove a point, wakes an ancient demon and learns she is the reincarnation of one of the five Pandava brothers from the Mahabharata.
  • Funny, fast and full of gods.
  • The first book is the one with enough ratings.
  • Read in order.

A plan for the whole series

5 volumes, 2,063 pages, about 40 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 7 weeks.

  • The series is still running; the last volume came out in 2022. You will wait for the next one anyway, so no need to rush.

Stages

3 stages, with 2 short books from outside the series between them. You finish around December 26, 2026, 8 days later than in one go.

  1. Stage 114 h19 daysby November 17, 2026
  2. Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.82 h, by November 21, 2026. A short book from another shelf, so you come back to the series hungry.
  3. Stage 216 habout 3 weeksby December 13, 2026
  4. Short breakOn Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century · Timothy Snyder · 128 pp. · score 8.42 h, by December 17, 2026. A short book from another shelf, so you come back to the series hungry.
  5. Stage 37 h10 daysby December 26, 2026
  6. The end of the series
    December 26, 2026
In one goDecember 18, 2026about 7 weeks
In stages, with breaksDecember 26, 2026about 8 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

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  1. Aru Shah and the End of Time
    Aru Shah and the End of Time2018 · 92 ratingsStart here
    7.97.9 / 10
  2. Aru Shah and the Song of Death
    Aru Shah and the Song of Death2019 · 28 ratings · Not ranked yet
    –Not ranked yet
  3. Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes
    Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes2020 · 20 ratings · Not ranked yet
    –Not ranked yet
  4. Aru Shah and the City of Gold
    Aru Shah and the City of Gold2021 · 21 ratings · Not ranked yet
    –Not ranked yet
  5. Aru Shah and the Nectar of Immortality
    Aru Shah and the Nectar of Immortality2022 · 16 ratings · Not ranked yet
    –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 Pandava Quintet book is the longest?

“Aru Shah and the City of Gold” is the longest at 480 pages; the shortest is “Aru Shah and the End of Time” with 368 pages.