Two books, fifteen years, and no date for the third.
Two novels in order, and then an honest warning, because on this one the reading order question is much less interesting than the question of whether to start at all.
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A frame story, an inn, and a man telling his own life in the first person. It is the reason this series has the reputation it does.
Longer, looser and divisive, and it ends with the frame story barely advanced and the title question unanswered.
Bast, a day in a village, and the best of the side pieces. Note that it and The Lightning Tree from 2014 are the same story in two versions.
Rothfuss says in the foreword that you might not want to read it, and he means it. A prose poem about Auri with no dialogue.
Then what? The Doors of Stone has no date and never has had one. Fifteen years have passed since book two, the author's editor said in 2020 that she had not read a word of the manuscript, and Rothfuss apologised publicly for the delay in 2021. Start it knowing that.
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