The Belgariad

On the data. Three things. The prequels go last, firmly. Belgarath the Sorcerer covers seven thousand years of history that the main books deliberately keep mysterious, and Polgara the Sorceress does the same for another character. Reading either first removes most of the tension from ten novels. The credit changed. The books were published as by David Eddings alone for years, and he later said publicly that his wife Leigh had been a full co-author from the beginning and that the publisher had preferred a single name. Later editions credit both, and later printings of the earlier books have been updated. The Malloreon repeats the Belgariad. Same shape, similar beats, largely the same cast. Eddings was open about this; he had a theory that fantasy works by repeating a pattern. Readers either find the second series comfortable or find it redundant, and both reactions are common. The same authors wrote The Elenium and The Tamuli, two more five and three book series in a different world, which are frequently recommended to people who like these. A content note: the books have an attitude to their few non-European cultures that reads badly now, and the humour rests heavily on national stereotypes.

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