Reading order
The Sharing Knife reading order
1
2
3
4- 7.77.7 / 10129 ratings
- Score
- 4 volumes
- Volumes
- 2006–2009
- Published
- about 30 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
- Fantasy#180
- Genre
Quick answer
Publication order
4 volumes2006–2009Completed
- Lois McMaster Bujold’s frontier fantasy romance: Fawn, a farm girl running away from home, is rescued by Dag, a much older Lakewalker soldier who hunts malices, life-draining creatures, with knives carved from bone.
- Their marriage across two peoples who distrust each other drives the first two books; the last two take them down the river.
- Quieter and more domestic than her other fantasy.
- Read in order.
A plan for the whole series
4 volumes, 1,662 pages, about 30 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 6 weeks.
Share of volume 1’s readers who reach the last volume. Chance of reaching the last volume: high
Stages
2 stages, with 1 short book from outside the series between them. You finish around December 13, 2026, 4 days later than in one go.
- Stage 114 h19 daysby November 17, 2026
- Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.8
- Stage 217 habout 3 weeksby December 13, 2026
- The end of the series
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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
Order checked by hand · Order and years: Wikidata (CC0). Spotted an error? Tell us. · Data updated October 29, 2026
Frequently asked questions
Which Sharing Knife book is the best?
By reader score, Legacy (7.9/10). The lowest-rated is Beguilement (7.6/10).
Which The Sharing Knife book is the longest?
“Horizon” is the longest at 453 pages; the shortest is “Legacy” with 377 pages.
What should I read after The Sharing Knife?
Other series by Lois McMaster Bujold: The Vorkosigan Saga, World of the Five Gods, Penric and Desdemona.
