The Faithful and the Fallen reading order

A plan for the whole series

4 volumes, 2,700 pages, about 50 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 9 weeks.

Stages

4 stages, with 3 short books from outside the series between them. You finish around January 15, 2027, 12 days later than in one go.

1. 1
   Stage 112 h16 daysby November 14, 2026

   • 1. Malice2012 · 640 pages · 12 h
2. Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.82 h, by November 18, 2026. A short book from another shelf, so you come back to the series hungry.
3. 2
   Stage 212 h17 daysby December 4, 2026

   • 2. Valour2014 · ≈ 675 pages · 12 h
4. Short breakOn Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century · Timothy Snyder · 128 pp. · score 8.42 h, by December 8, 2026. A short book from another shelf, so you come back to the series hungry.
5. 3
   Stage 312 h16 daysby December 25, 2026

   • 3. Ruin2015 · 672 pages · 12 h
6. Short breakAnimal Farm · George Orwell · 128 pp. · score 8.32 h, by December 29, 2026. A short book from another shelf, so you come back to the series hungry.
7. 4
   Stage 413 h17 daysby January 15, 2027

   • 4. Wrath2016 · 713 pages · 13 h
8. The end of the series

   January 15, 2027

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≈ 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: it gets better. Readers scored the opening (8.1) below the ending (8.4). After the first volume you do not yet know how good this series is.

Best volume: Wrath (8.4, 224 ratings). Weakest: Malice (8.1). The series is complete; you can read it start to finish with no waiting. The last volume (8.4) scores close to the series average or above it.