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The Looking Glass Wars reading order

Frank Beddor

  1. The Looking Glass Wars2004
  2. Seeing Redd2007
  3. ArchEnemy2009
7.67.6 / 10
134 ratings
Score
3 volumes
Volumes
2004–2009
Published
about 21 h
Reading time
Completed
Status
Fantasy
Genre

Quick answer

The Looking Glass Wars
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Publication order

3 volumes2004–2009Completed

  • Frank Beddor’s action fantasy retelling of Alice in Wonderland: Alyss Heart, heir to the throne of Wonderland, escapes her aunt Redd’s bloody coup through the Pool of Tears and lands in Victorian London, where a writer named Lewis Carroll gets her story all wrong.
  • Royal bodyguard Hatter Madigan, with his blade-spinning hat, searches for her.
  • Quick and inventive; ratings are modest.
  • Read the trilogy in order.

A plan for the whole series

3 volumes, 1,132 pages, about 21 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 November 30, 2026, 4 days later than in one go.

  1. Stage 114 h19 daysby November 17, 2026
  2. Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.82 h, by November 21, 2026. A short book from another shelf, so you come back to the series hungry.
  3. Stage 27 h9 daysby November 30, 2026
    • 3. ArchEnemy2009 · 370 pages · 7 h
  4. The end of the series
    November 30, 2026
In one goNovember 26, 2026about 4 weeks
In stages, with breaksNovember 30, 2026about 5 weeks · +2 h of other books

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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

Read: 0 of 3
  1. The Looking Glass Wars
    The Looking Glass Wars2004 · 134 ratingsStart here
    7.67.6 / 10
  2. Seeing Redd
    Seeing Redd2007 · Not ranked yetBuy
    –Not ranked yet
  3. ArchEnemy
    ArchEnemy2009 · 22 ratings · Not ranked yetBuy
    –Not ranked yet

Order checked by hand · Order and years: Wikidata (CC0). Spotted an error? Tell us. · Data updated October 29, 2026

Frequently asked questions

Which The Looking Glass Wars book is the longest?

“The Looking Glass Wars” is the longest at 384 pages; the shortest is “ArchEnemy” with 370 pages.