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Best books to learn The Shannara series, in order
Shannara now runs to more than thirty books spread across several millennia of invented history, and the chronological order is a genuinely bad way to read it — it opens with the Word and Void novels, which are contemporary-set urban fantasy that give away where the whole world came from.
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- How should I approach learning the shannara series?
- Shannara now runs to more than thirty books spread across several millennia of invented history, and the chronological order is a genuinely bad way to read it — it opens with the Word and Void novels, which are contemporary-set urban fantasy that give away where the whole world came from.
- What's a good book to start the shannara series with?
- A strong starting point is The Scions of Shannara by Terry Brooks. The ordered reading paths above show exactly where it fits and what to read next.
- What should I read after the shannara series?
- Once you have the fundamentals, explore closely related subjects like The Gentleman Bastard series, The Silo series, Time series analysis and forecasting.