Slough House reading order

A plan for the whole series

9 volumes, 3,106 pages, about 55 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 2 months.

• The series is still running; the last volume came out in 2025. 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 February 7, 2027, 19 days later than in one go.

1. 1
   Stage 119 habout 4 weeksby November 30, 2026

   • 1. Slow Horses2010 · 328 pages · 6 h
   • 2. Dead Lions2013 · 352 pages · 6 h
   • 3. Real Tigers2016 · 368 pages · 7 h
2. BreakMaus · Art Spiegelman · 295 pp. · score 9.05 h, by December 9, 2026. A short book from another shelf, so you come back to the series hungry.
3. 2
   Stage 219 habout 4 weeksby January 3, 2027

   • 4. Spook Street2017 · 344 pages · 6 h
   • 5. London Rules2018 · 352 pages · 6 h
   • 6. Joe Country2019 · 352 pages · 6 h
4. BreakBorn a Crime · Trevor Noah · 304 pp. · score 8.96 h, by January 13, 2027. A short book from another shelf, so you come back to the series hungry.
5. 3
   Stage 319 habout 4 weeksby February 7, 2027

   • 7. Slough House2021 · 312 pages · 6 h
   • 8. Bad Actors2022 · ≈ 345 pages · 6 h
   • 9. Clown Town2025 · 353 pages · 6 h
6. The end of the series

   February 7, 2027

We count 1.1 min per page, the pace of an average novel reader. Faster? Move the slider.

≈ next to a page count: a volume with no page count in our data is counted at this series’s average.

Does the series hold up

Shape of the series: even. Volume scores differ by at most 0.1 points. You get the same level from the first page to the last.

Best volume: Real Tigers (7.9, 150 ratings). Weakest: Slow Horses (7.8). The series is not finished; the last volume came out in 2025. The last volume (7.9) scores close to the series average or above it.