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The Age of Madness Books in Order

3 books from A Little Hatred (2019) to The Wisdom of Crowds (2021). Rated 4.8 across 33,174 listener reviews.

Reading order

  1. A Little Hatred

    Book 1 2019 4.8 (12.2k)

    The New York Times bestselling first book in Joe Abercrombie's The Age of Madness Trilogy where the age of the machine dawns, but the age of magic refuses to die.

  2. The Trouble with Peace

    Book 2 2020 4.9 (10.8k)

    A fragile peace gives way to conspiracy, betrayal, and rebellion in this sequel to the New York Times bestselling A Little Hatred from epic fantasy master Joe Abercrombie. Peace is just another kind of battlefield . . .

  3. The Wisdom of Crowds

    Book 3 2021 4.8 (10.2k)

    From the New York Times bestselling author of A Little Hatred comes a stunning fantasy novel that finds the world in an unstoppable revolution where heroes have nothing left to lose as darkness and destruction overtake everything. Chaos.

About this reading order

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