Reading order
Regeneration Trilogy reading order
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- Score
- 3 volumes
- Volumes
- 1991–1995
- Published
- about 15 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
- Historical fiction
- Genre
Quick answer
Publication order
3 volumes1991–1995Completed
- Pat Barker’s trilogy about the First World War and what it did to men’s minds.
- Regeneration is set in 1917 at Craiglockhart, a Scottish military hospital, where the psychiatrist W. H. R. Rivers treats the poet Siegfried Sassoon, sent there after publicly protesting against the war, and meets Wilfred Owen; his job is to heal men so they can be sent back to die.
- Real and invented characters mix, especially the working-class officer Billy Prior.
- The Ghost Road won the Booker Prize.
- Read in order.
A plan for the whole series
3 volumes, 821 pages, about 15 hours. At 45 min a day that is 20 days.
Stages
This series fits in one stage. You finish around November 18, 2026.
- Stage 115 h20 daysby November 18, 2026
- 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 Regeneration Trilogy book is the longest?
“The Eye in the Door” is the longest at 288 pages; the shortest is “Regeneration” with 256 pages.