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Red Rising Books in Order

by Pierce BrownScience Fiction & Fantasy

6 books from Red Rising (2014) to Light Bringer (2023). Rated 4.7 across 258,613 listener reviews.

Reading order

  1. Red Rising

    Book 1 2014 4.7 (84.2k)

    Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations.

    Kindle Paperback Audiobook

  2. Golden Son

    Book 2 2015 4.8 (58.6k)

    With shades of The Hunger Games, Ender's Game, and Game of Thrones, debut author Pierce Brown's genre-defying epic Red Rising hit the ground running and wasted no time becoming a sensation.

    Kindle Paperback Audiobook

  3. Morning Star

    Book 3 2016 4.8 (56.8k)

    Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back.

    Kindle Paperback Audiobook

  4. Iron Gold

    Book 4 2018 4.6 (26k)

    Honor and betrayal fuel a caste-shattering revolution in the action-packed new novel from the number one New York Times best-selling author of the Red Rising Trilogy.

    Kindle Paperback Audiobook

  5. Dark Age

    Book 5 2019 4.7 (20k)

    For a decade, Darrow led a revolution against the corrupt color-coded Society. Now, outlawed by the very Republic he founded, he wages a rogue war on Mercury in hopes that he can still salvage the dream of Eo.

    Kindle Paperback Audiobook

  6. Light Bringer

    Book 6 2023 4.9 (13k)

    Darrow returns as Pierce Brown’s New York Times bestselling Red Rising series continues in the thrilling sequel to Dark Age. “The measure of a man is not the fear he sows in his enemies.

    Kindle Paperback Audiobook

About this reading order

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

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