Reading order
The Sisters Grimm reading order
- The Fairy-tale Detectives2005
- The Unusual Suspects2005
- The Problem Child2006
- Once Upon a Crime2007
- The Everafter War2009
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2
3
4
5- 7.77.7 / 1092 ratings
- Score
- 5 volumes
- Volumes
- 2005–2009
- Published
- about 25 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
- Fantasy
- Genre
Quick answer
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Publication order
5 volumes2005–2009Completed
- Nine books, of which this list holds five — missing are Magic and Other Misdemeanors, Tales from the Hood, The Inside Story and The Council of Mirrors, which closes the series.
- Read them in order regardless: the Grimm sisters are working one long case, the villain of book one is still the villain at the end, and each volume ends by moving the family somewhere it cannot go back from.
- The Fairy-tale Detectives is the first, and the conceit — every fairy-tale character is a real person living in one small town in New York — is set up there and assumed everywhere after.
A plan for the whole series
5 volumes, 1,404 pages, about 25 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 5 weeks.
Stages
2 stages, with 1 short book from outside the series between them. You finish around December 6, 2026, 4 days later than in one go.
- Stage 116 habout 3 weeksby November 19, 2026
- Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.8
- Stage 210 h13 daysby December 6, 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 The Sisters Grimm book is the longest?
“The Unusual Suspects” is the longest at 288 pages; the shortest is “Once Upon a Crime” with 272 pages.