Robin Hobb books reading order

[CFogle21]

If you don't read The Liveship Traders you are doing yourself a huge disservice. They are unbelievably good.

 

[Lancer3]

I would say that since the tawny man trilogy fallows fitz from the first set of books and seems to keep that story line going I would suggest reading
The Farseer Trilogy, The Tawny Man Trilogy, with the Liveship Traders Trilogy either before or after and then The Rain Wilds Trilogy.

I have never been one to read books I could never find any that would keep me intrested I always thought why waste time reading when I can watch the movie......

However I started reading the assassins apprentice as bathroom literature and soon found that I couldn't stop reading the book I am not a fast reader but I finished the first book in two days and had to read the next and so on I am now reading all the trilogies for a 3rd time I have also introduced everyone I know that loves to read to these books I just wish there were a set of books on fitz's years between the Farseer and Tawny Man trilogy and after as well.

Thanks everyone this is also my first ever blog post I hope it doesn't bore you.

 

[Dyloot]

Personally I didn't find it that great a revelation and I think it's more important to consider that the difference in style and story between Liveship and the Fitz-narrated stories is significant, and again, if you go from Farseer to Tawny Man, there's not much at all that you will miss by not ploughing through Liveship. You find it important that Liveship is read first because Tawny Man reveals something about a character in Liveship; I don't find that all that interesting and certainly not a reason to read Liveship first, per se.

If you intend to read the Rain Wilds, reading the first nine in order of publication is best for overall context of the timeline. If you'd prefer to read just Fitz and totally ditch the 13 book "series" you'll miss basically nothing.

I don't want to spoil anything so I won't really say anything more.