Aerdh Books Reading Order

Note that you do not need to read the Aerdh books in a particular order, but I have provided a chronological reading order below. I have also grouped these stories into several different over-arching narrative cycles if you don’t want to read the entire kit and caboodle.

In-Universe Chronological Order (all stories):

• “Sigils” (short story)
• Cargo (novella)
• “The Recruit” (short story)
• Matters of Scale (novella)
• “The Adviser and the Diplomat” (short story)
• “Blue Flowers” (short story)
• “On the Market” (short story)
• “The Other Side of Town” (short story)
• Resistance (novel)
• Extraction (novel)
• The Poet Returns (novelette)
• Ariah (novel)
• “Marloh and the Sprite Queen” (short story)
• “A Matter of Circumstance” (short story)
• In the Company of Strangers (novella)

A Tale of Rebellion Cycle

• Cargo (novella)
• “The Recruit” (short story)
• “The Adviser and the Diplomat” (short story)
• Resistance (novel)
• Extraction (novel)
• “Marloh and the Sprite Queen” (short story)

Ariah Cycle

• The Poet Returns (novelette)
• Ariah (novel)
• “A Matter of Circumstance” (short story)
• In the Company of Strangers (novella)

City of Mages Cycle

• “Sigils” (short story)
• Matters of Scale (novella)
• “Blue Flowers” (short story)
• “On the Market” (short story)
• “The Other Side of Town” (short story)
• Resistance (novel)