The Kingkiller Chronicle reading order

Publication order

2 volumes·2007–2011·Ongoing

• Read The Name of the Wind, then The Wise Man's Fear.
• Then stop, because there is nowhere else to go: the third book, The Doors of Stone, was announced in 2011 and has not appeared.
• Both published volumes end mid-story — this is one long tale told across three books, two of which exist.
• Start it knowing that.
• The Slow Regard of Silent Things is a novella about Auri that Rothfuss himself prefaces by warning you it has no plot; it belongs after book two and is not the ending.