Reading orders

Hades and Persephone: reading order

The order we suggest you read them in, and why. It can differ from the series numbers.

Reading order

This page: where to start and what to read next.

May be incomplete

Start with A Touch of Darkness, then A Game of Fate. More books appear as we add them.

Notes on what each book spoils appear as our editors add them.

Start here · A Touch of Darkness · No. 1

Read 2nd · A Game of Fate · No. 1

Read 3rd · A Touch of Ruin · No. 3

Read 4th · A Game of Retribution · No. 2

Read 5th · A Touch of Malice · No. 5

Read 6th · A Game of Gods · No. 3

Read 7th · A Touch of Chaos · No. 7

Order type

Publication order, story order and crossovers each get their own list.

Why this order?

Each order says what is in it and what is left out.

Persephone’s books and Hades’s books tell the same story from two sides, so we alternate them. Start with A Touch of Darkness.