Reading order
Virals reading order
1- 7.77.7 / 1073 ratings
- Score
- 4 volumes
- Volumes
- 2010–2014
- Published
- about 35 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
- Science fiction
- Genre
Quick answer
Publication order
4 volumes2010–2014Completed
- Young adult mysteries by the crime writer Kathy Reichs and her son Brendan Reichs: fourteen-year-old Tory Brennan, great-niece of the forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, and her friends on a South Carolina island are infected by an experimental strain of canine virus and gain wolf-like senses, which they use to solve crimes.
- Fast, science-flavoured fun.
- Only Virals has enough ratings.
- Read in order.
A plan for the whole series
4 volumes, 1,811 pages, about 35 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 6 weeks.
Stages
3 stages, with 2 short books from outside the series between them. You finish around December 20, 2026, 7 days later than in one go.
- Stage 19 h11 daysby November 9, 2026
- Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.8
- Stage 217 habout 3 weeksby December 6, 2026
- Short breakThe Emperor's Soul · Brandon Sanderson · 96 pp. · score 8.8
- Stage 38 h11 daysby December 20, 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 Virals book is the longest?
“Seizure” is the longest at 496 pages; the shortest is “Code” with 417 pages.