Reading order
Red Sparrow Trilogy reading order
2- 7.77.7 / 1050 ratings
- Score
- 3 volumes
- Volumes
- 2013–2018
- Published
- about 25 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
- Thriller
- Genre
Quick answer
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Publication order
3 volumes2013–2018Completed
- Jason Matthews spent thirty-three years as a CIA operations officer before writing this espionage trilogy about Dominika Egorova, a Russian ballerina whose career is ended by an injury and who is forced into the SVR’s school for “Sparrows”, agents trained in seduction.
- Her target is a young CIA officer, Nate Nash, and the two begin a long, dangerous double game.
- Authentic in its tradecraft, every chapter ends with a recipe for a dish mentioned in it.
- Red Sparrow won the Edgar Award and was filmed.
- Read in order.
A plan for the whole series
3 volumes, 1,330 pages, about 25 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 5 weeks.
Stages
2 stages, with 1 short book from outside the series between them. You finish around December 4, 2026, 4 days later than in one go.
- Stage 110 h14 daysby November 12, 2026
- 1. Red Sparrow
- Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.8
- Stage 214 h19 daysby December 4, 2026
- 2. Palace of Treason
- 3. The Kremlin's Candidate
- 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 Red Sparrow Trilogy book is the longest?
“Red Sparrow” is the longest at 560 pages; the shortest is “The Kremlin's Candidate” with 226 pages.