Reading Order

A collection of the Official, Chronological, and Suggested Reading Orders for all the canon and canon extras.

## Official Reading Order

Original canon. Not-Poignant lists *The Nightingale and Terho the Mouse Lad* as following *Game Theory*, as Pitch and Jack are mentioned in *Game Theory*, but are then replaced by the lore from *The Nightingale and Terho the Mouse Lad* in *The Court of Five Thrones*.

1. *Deeper into the Woods (Ao3)*
2. *Game Theory (Ao3)*
3. *The Nightingale and Terho the Mouse Lad (Ao3)*
4. *The Court of Five Thrones (Ao3)*
5. *The Ice Plague: Book 1 - The Forest of Fire (Ao3)*
6. *The Ice Plague: Book 2 - The Seething Seas (Ao3)*
7. *The Ice Plague: Book 3 - The Ice Plague (Ao3)*

Canon extras

1. *The Curse (Ao3)*
2. *The Drawn Bead (Ao3)*
3. *A Broken Feather, Straightened (Ao3)*
4. *These Troubled Times (Ao3)*
5. *There Are Flowers (Ao3)*
6. *Fae Tales - Alternative Perspectives (Ao3)*
7. *Glass Bubble Dreams (Ao3)*
8. *Voices in the Rain (Ao3)*
9. *Unwound (Ao3)*
10. *The Augus and Gwyn Kinkfest (Ao3)*
11. *The Ash and Gwyn Interludes (Ao3)*
12. *Under the Influence (Ao3)*
13. *The Gwyn and Augus Ice Plague Interludes (Ao3)*
14. *Tumblr Prompts - Fae Tales (Ao3)*
15. *All That We Were, All That We Will Ever Be (Ao3)*
16. *Tradewinds*

## In-Universe Chronological Order (Canon & Canon Extras)

In **bold** are the core stories, the rest are canon extras.

1. *The Curse (Ao3)*
2. *The Drawn Bead (Ao3)*
3. ***Deeper into the Woods (Ao3)***
4. *A Broken Feather, Straightened (Ao3)*
5. *These Troubled Times (Ao3)*
6. ***The Nightingale and Terho the Mouse Lad (Ao3)***
7. *There Are Flowers (Ao3)*
8. ***Game Theory (Ao3)***
	* *Fae Tales - Alternative Perspectives (Ao3)*
9. ***The Court of Five Thrones (Ao3)***
	* *Glass Bubble Dreams* (takes place during chapter 12 of *The Court of Five Thrones) (Ao3)*
	* *Tradewinds* (takes place during Albion's war with the Unseelie Court)
10. *The Augus and Gwyn Kinkfest (Ao3)*
11. *Voices in the Rain (Ao3)*
12. *Unwound (Ao3)*
13. *The Ash and Gwyn Interludes (Ao3)*
14. *Under the Influence (Ao3)*
15. *Tumblr Prompts - Fae Tales (Ao3)*
16. ***The Ice Plague: Book 1 - The Forest of Fire (Ao3)***
17. ***The Ice Plague: Book 2 - The Seething Seas (Ao3)***
18. *The Gwyn and Augus Ice Plague Interludes (Ao3)*
19. ***The Ice Plague: Book 3 - The Ice Plague (Ao3*)**
	* *All That We Were, All That We Will Ever Be* (takes place during chapter 40 of *The Ice Plague: Book 3 - The Ice Plague*) *(Ao3)*

## Suggestions for Canon Reading Order

Those who choose to continue *Fae Tales* after reading *Shadows and Light* can skip *Deeper into the Woods* and read the rest in order, although the events in *Deeper into the Woods* are referenced, albeit vaguely (and *Deeper into the Woods* was written afterward), in *Shadows and Light*.

Below is a simplified main-canon only chronological order.

1. *Deeper into the Woods (Ao3)*
2. *The Nightingale and Terho the Mouse Lad (Ao3)*
3. *Game Theory (Ao3)*
4. *The Court of Five Thrones (Ao3)*
5. *The Ice Plague: Book 1 - The Forest of Fire (Ao3)*
6. *The Ice Plague: Book 2 - The Seething Seas (Ao3)*
7. *The Ice Plague: Book 3 - The Ice Plague (Ao3)*