In terms of internal world chronology, The Hallowed Hunt would fall first, the Penric novellas perhaps a hundred and fifty years later, and The Curse of Chalion and Paladin of Souls would follow a century or so after that.Ĭurrent internal chronology of the Penric & Desdemona tales is: The third is in effect an independent prequel, not sharing characters or setting with the other two, so readers of the prior volumes need to adjust their expectations going in.
However, the second volume certainly contains spoilers for the first, so Curse-Paladin is the recommended reading order. What were called the Chalion books after the setting of its first two volumes, but which now that the geographic scope has widened I'm dubbing the World of the Five Gods, were written to be stand-alones as part of a larger whole.
Next easiest are the four volumes of The Sharing Knife-in order, Beguilement, Legacy, Passage, and Horizon-which I broke down and actually numbered, as this is one continuous tale. Easiest of all is The Spirit Ring, which is a stand-alone, or aquel, as some wag once dubbed books that for some obscure reason failed to spawn a subsequent series.
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