Serving because the inspiration not just for a string of massively profitable video video games, but in addition successful Netflix collection about to move into its fourth season, The Witcher collection of books by Andrzej Sapkowski is an absolute phenomenon.

The primary glimpse of Geralt of Rivia and the world of The Witcher truly took the type of a submission to a literary competitors in a Polish fantasy journal named Fatastyka. Challenged to maintain the story inside 30 pages, Sapkowski submitted the unique quick story “The Witcher” in 1986. He got here in third place within the competitors, however this authentic quick story was the jumping-off level for a whole fantasy empire. 

This primary quick story, in addition to 4 others, had been later collated and revealed as a set of quick tales, underneath the title of “The Witcher” in 1990, however this e book is now out of print and tough to seek out. Nevertheless, three of those quick tales (“   are nonetheless obtainable as a part of a special e book as a part of the now-established collection of novels and quick tales.

Novels and quick story collections in universe of The Witcher

In whole, there are six full novels and 15 quick tales that make up the world explored by Geralt of Rivia. So as to take in the story chronologically, you could must have a couple of e book on the go at any time. 

Right here’s the total record of books obtainable, within the order that they had been translated into English:

As you’ll be able to see, English-speaking audiences needed to wait a very long time to have the ability to learn The Witcher books, and so they had been translated out of order. So how do you have to learn them?

The definitive studying order of The Witcher books

It ought to go with out saying that the studying order is kind of apparent if you happen to think about the unique Polish launch dates, however even that’s barely out of order. On high of that, at the least one of many novels must be learn at a selected level between quick tales. I do know it sounds complicated, however don’t fear.

Right here’s the order through which you’ll must learn The Witcher novels and quick tales:

1. “The Street With No Return” (Quick story that was initially a part of the 1990 assortment of quick tales and is at present out of publication, however an English PDF copy could be discovered right here)
2. “A Grain of Fact” (Quick story in The Final Want)
3. “The Lesser Evil” (Quick story in The Final Want)
4. “The Fringe of the World” (Quick story in The Final Want)
5. “The Final Want” (Quick story in The Final Want)
6. Season of Storms (solely the primary story)
7. “A Query of Value” (Quick story in The Final Want)
8. “The Witcher” (Quick story in The Final Want)
9. “The Voice of Motive” (Quick story in The Final Want)
10. “The Bounds of Motive” (Quick story in Sword of Future)
11. “A Shard of Ice” (Quick story in Sword of Future)
12. “Everlasting Flame”(Quick story in Sword of Future)
13. “A Little Sacrifice” (Quick story in Sword of Future)
14. “Sword of Future (Quick story in Sword of Future)
15. “One thing Extra” (Quick story in Sword of Future)
16. Blood of Elves
17. Time of Contempt
18. Baptism of Hearth
19. The Tower of the Swallow
20. The Woman of the Lake
21. Season of Storms (epilogue)
22. “One thing Ends, One thing Begins” (thought-about non-canon, however written by Sapkowski and a pleasant solution to tie off the collection. At the moment not formally translated to English, however an unofficial translation could be discovered right here)