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The Sword of Truth

Eleven books that finish properly, then three optional continuations. The television version stops at book two and changes the reveal.

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Where to start with The Sword of Truth

Start with Wizard's First Rule. It works as a self contained novel with a real ending, so it is a fair one book trial, and if it lands the next ten follow in publication order. The only ordering correction that matters is where to put the prequel novella.

  1. 1
    Wizard's First Rule Wizard's First Rule

    Book one, 1994, and complete in itself. If you bounce off it the series is not for you.

  2. 2
    Debt of Bones, after book one rather than before it Debt of Bones

    It is chronologically a prequel, set a generation earlier and ending with the raising of the boundaries, but it was written for readers who already know Zedd and it flattens reveals about the boundaries and the Rahl bloodline that book one delivers as surprises. Reading it first is the single most common ordering mistake with this series.

  3. 3
    Faith of the Fallen Faith of the Fallen

    Book six, and the point most readers name as the peak. Worth flagging because the books after it grow noticeably more didactic, which is where most people who stop, stop.

  4. 4
    Confessor Confessor

    Book eleven and a genuine ending. Everything after it is optional continuation rather than unfinished business.

Then what? If you want more after Confessor, the four Richard and Kahlan novels come next, then the five Children of D'Hara episodes, then the four Nicci Chronicles. The First Confessor is set roughly three thousand years earlier and shares almost no characters with the main line, so slotting it at its 2012 publication date interrupts the momentum for no payoff; read it after Warheart or not at all. On screen, Legend of the Seeker is a separate continuity rather than a substitute for the books.

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