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Redwall

Twenty two novels whose story order is nothing like their publication order, and a chronology nobody official ever wrote down.

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Where to start with Redwall

Read in publication order, and treat the story order shown here as an alternative for a second pass. Starting at the chronological beginning means opening with Lord Brocktree, which was written fourteen years into the series and assumes you already know what Salamandastron and the Long Patrol are.

  1. 1
    Redwall Redwall

    The book Jacques wrote for a school for blind children with no series in mind. It needs nothing before it, and the first season of the animated series adapts it, so print and screen line up.

  2. 2
    Mossflower Mossflower

    Widely held to be the better constructed novel, and the origin of Martin the Warrior, who book one introduces only as a figure on a tapestry. This is the first payoff that chronological order would spend early.

  3. 3
    Martin the Warrior Martin the Warrior

    The most emotionally direct book in the series and a common favourite. It also works as a clean standalone entry if the first book did not land.

Then what? The books are near standalone, with fresh casts and self contained plots, so the cost of publication order is low and the cost of chronological order is high: the prequels progressively unwrap who Martin was, and reading them first spends the reveal before the mystery exists. If you want a middle path, read books one to three in publication order, then the prequels in story order, then continue publishing forward. The audiobooks, narrated by Jacques himself with his son Marc voicing Martin and Matthias, are an unusually good way in and are often recommended over print for a first exposure.

A suggested way in, not an official one. The full list is below — tick anything off in either place.

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