Reading order
Snopes trilogy reading order
- 3 volumes
- Volumes
- 1940–1959
- Published
- about 22 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
Quick answer
Publication order
3 volumes1940–1959Completed
- Faulkner’s three novels about the rise of the Snopes family in Yoknapatawpha County.
- Read them in order — The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion — even though almost twenty years separate the first from the last.
A plan for the whole series
3 volumes, 1,180 pages, about 22 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 4 weeks.
Stages
2 stages, with 1 short book from outside the series between them. You finish around December 1, 2026, 4 days later than in one go.
- Stage 114 h18 daysby November 16, 2026
- Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.8
- Stage 28 h11 daysby December 1, 2026
- The end of the series
We count 1.1 min per page, the pace of an average novel reader. Faster? Move the slider.
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
No volume in this series has enough ratings to enter a ranking yet, so the list carries no scores — the order and the volumes are still complete.
Order checked by hand · Order and years: Wikidata (CC0). Spotted an error? Tell us. · Data updated October 29, 2026
Frequently asked questions
Which Snopes trilogy book is the longest?
“The Mansion” is the longest at 436 pages; the shortest is “The Town” with 371 pages.
What should I read after Snopes trilogy?
Other series by William Faulkner: Sin and Salvation.
