Reading order
The Sleeping Beauty Quartet reading order
- 4 volumes
- Volumes
- 1983–2015
- Published
- about 23 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
Quick answer
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Publication order
4 volumes1983–2015Completed
A plan for the whole series
4 volumes, 1,228 pages, about 23 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 December 2, 2026, 4 days later than in one go.
- Stage 114 h19 daysby November 17, 2026
- 1. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
- 2. Beauty's Punishment
- 3. Beauty's Release
- Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.8
- Stage 28 h11 daysby December 2, 2026
- 4. Beauty's Kingdom
- 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
No volume in this series has enough ratings to enter a ranking yet, so the list carries no scores — the order and the volumes are still complete.
Order and years: Wikidata (CC0). Spotted an error? Tell us. · Data updated October 29, 2026
Frequently asked questions
Which The Sleeping Beauty Quartet book is the longest?
“Beauty's Kingdom” is the longest at 448 pages; the shortest is “Beauty's Punishment” with 252 pages.
What should I read after The Sleeping Beauty Quartet?
Other series by Anne Rice: New Tales of the Vampires dylogy, The Vampire Chronicles, Lives of the Mayfair Witches.
