Reading order
Provost's Dog reading order
1
2
3- 3 volumes
- Volumes
- 2006–2011
- Published
- about 30 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
- Young adult#16
- Genre
Quick answer
Publication order
3 volumes2006–2011Completed
- Tortall fantasy set two hundred years before Alanna: Beka Cooper, a trainee in the city guard of Corus, works the poorest streets and can hear the ghosts that ride on pigeons.
- Told as Beka’s own journal.
- Read in order Terrier, Bloodhound, Mastiff; all three rate almost exactly the same, and highly.
A plan for the whole series
3 volumes, 1,738 pages, about 30 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 6 weeks.
Share of volume 1’s readers who reach the last volume. Chance of reaching the last volume: medium
Stages
3 stages, with 2 short books from outside the series between them. You finish around December 19, 2026, 8 days later than in one go.
- Stage 111 h14 daysby November 12, 2026
- Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.8
- Stage 210 h13 daysby November 30, 2026
- Short breakOn Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century · Timothy Snyder · 128 pp. · score 8.4
- Stage 311 h15 daysby December 19, 2026
- The end of the series
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Does the series hold up
Shape of the series: even. Volume scores differ by at most 0.0 points. You get the same level from the first page to the last.
Best volume: Mastiff (8.1, 86 ratings). Weakest: Bloodhound (8.1). The series is complete; you can read it start to finish with no waiting. The last volume (8.1) scores close to the series average or above it.
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
Provost's Dog books ranked, best to worst
- 1.MastiffBook 3 · 20118.1
- 1.TerrierBook 1 · 20068.1
- 1.BloodhoundBook 2 · 20098.1
Frequently asked questions
Which Provost's Dog book is the best?
By reader score, Mastiff (8.1/10). The lowest-rated is Bloodhound (8.1/10).
Which Provost's Dog book is the longest?
“Mastiff” is the longest at 608 pages; the shortest is “Bloodhound” with 549 pages.
What should I read after Provost's Dog?
Other series by Tamora Pierce: Circle of Magic, Protector of the Small, The Circle Opens.
