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| THE SEVEN BOOKS There are seven books in the Chronicles of Narnia – click the links below to read an introduction to each book and for book ordering. It is not obvious what order to read the Narnia books in. There is the chronological order of the stories, but that is not the order they were published in. Chronological order The Magician's Nephew The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe The Horse and His Boy Prince Caspian The Voyage of the Dawn Treader The Silver Chair The Last Battle Published order The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) Prince Caspian (1951) The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952) The Silver Chair (1953) The Horse and His Boy (1954) The Magician's Nephew (1955) The Last Battle (1956) The order the books were written in is different again. And in fact, as some of them took much longer than others to write, the order that Lewis started them in is different to the order that he finished them in. It is The Horse and His Boy and The Magician's Nephew which cause the problems, as they were among the last to be written, but take place early in the story of Narnia. So what order should they be read in? Some would say the chronological order, but this gives away some of the big surprises of the series. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ought to be read first, or it will be spoilt by The Magician's Nephew, which repeatedly refers back to it. As long as that's sorted, the two rogue books can be slotted in wherever you fancy between The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and The Last Battle, which really ought to come last. |
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