Reading order
The Raven Cycle reading order
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4- 8.18.1 / 101,459 ratings
- Score
- 4 volumes
- Volumes
- 2012–2016
- Published
- about 35 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
- Young adult#18
- Genre
Quick answer
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Publication order
4 volumes2012–2016Completed
- One story cut into four, and the cut is not clean: The Raven Boys ends mid-breath and Blue Lily, Lily Blue barely pretends to stand alone.
- Read them in order, close together.
- Afterwards there is somewhere to go — the Dreamer Trilogy follows Ronan Lynch out of Henrietta and starts with Call Down the Hawk.
A plan for the whole series
4 volumes, 1,856 pages, about 35 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 6 weeks.
Stages
2 stages, with 1 short book from outside the series between them. You finish around December 17, 2026, 4 days later than in one go.
- Stage 117 habout 3 weeksby November 20, 2026
- Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.8
- Stage 217 habout 3 weeksby December 17, 2026
- 3. Blue Lily, Lily Blue
- 4. The Raven King
- The end of the series
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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.
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
Order checked by hand · Order and years: Wikidata (CC0). Spotted an error? Tell us. · Data updated October 29, 2026
Frequently asked questions
Which The Raven Cycle book is the longest?
“The Raven King” is the longest at 480 pages; the shortest is “The Dream Thieves” with 448 pages.
What should I read after The Raven Cycle?
Other series by Maggie Stiefvater: The Wolves of Mercy Falls.
