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Malazan Book of the Fallen Books in Order

10 books from Gardens of the Moon (1999) to The Crippled God (2007). Rated 4.6 across 53,697 listener reviews.

Reading order

  1. Gardens of the Moon

    Book 1 1999 4.2 (13k)

    The Malazan Empire simmers with discontent, bled dry by interminable warfare, bitter infighting and bloody confrontations with the formidable Anomander Rake and his Tiste Andii, ancient and implacable sorcerers....

  2. Deadhouse Gates

    Book 2 2013 4.6 (7.4k)

    In the vast dominion of Seven Cities, in the Holy Desert Raraku, the seer Sha’ik and her followers prepare for the long-prophesied uprising known as the Whirlwind....

  3. Memories of Ice

    Book 3 2001 4.8 (6.3k)

    The ravaged continent of Genabackis has given birth to a terrifying new empire: the Pannion Domin....

  4. House of Chains

    Book 4 1998 4.6 (4.9k)

    In Northern Genabackis, a raiding party of savage tribal warriors descends from the mountains into the southern flatlands....

  5. Midnight Tides

    Book 5 2014 4.7 (4.3k)

    After decades of internecine warfare, the tribes of the Tiste Edur have at last united under the Warlock King of the Hiroth....

  6. The Bonehunters

    Book 6 2014 4.8 (4k)

    The Seven Cities Rebellion has been crushed. Sha’ik is dead. One last rebel force remains, holed up in the city of Y’Ghatan and under the fanatical command of Leoman of the Flails....

  7. Reaper's Gale

    Book 7 2007 4.8 (3.8k)

    This is a brutal, harrowing novel of war, intrigue, and dark, uncontrollable magic; this is epic fantasy at its most imaginative, storytelling at its most thrilling....

  8. Toll the Hounds

    Book 8 2008 4.7 (3.5k)

    In Darujhistan, the city of blue blue fire, it is said that Love and Death shall arrive dancing. It is summer, and the heat is oppressive....

  9. Dust of Dreams

    Book 9 2009 4.7 (3k)

    On the Letherii continent the exiled Malazan army commanded by Adjunct Tavore begins its march into the eastern Wastelands, to fight for an unknown cause against an enemy it has never seen....

  10. The Crippled God

    Book 10 2007 4.8 (3.4k)

    Savaged by the K'Chain Nah'Ruk, the Bonehunters march for Kolanse, where waits an unknown fate. Tormented by questions, the army totters on the edge of mutiny, but Adjunct Tavore will not relent....

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About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for Malazan Book of the Fallen is also the best order to read them in. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.