Where to Start with Joe Abercrombie
- Best entry point → A Little Hatred
- Start The First Law Trilogy series → The Blade Itself
- Underrated but highly rated → The Trouble with Peace
- What readers keep coming back to → Before They Are Hanged
- Highest rated by readers → The Wisdom of Crowds (The Age of Madness #3)
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The Trouble with Peace
The Age of Madness • Book 2
★ 4.70 BLT Score (46.4K ratings)★ 4.6 Goodreads (46.4K) - 2
The Wisdom of Crowds
The Age of Madness • Book 3
★ 4.69 BLT Score (41.3K ratings)★ 4.6 Goodreads (41.3K) - 3
Before They Are Hanged
The First Law • Book 2
★ 4.64 BLT Score (221.5K ratings)★ 4.36 Goodreads (221.5K) - 4
Last Argument of Kings
The First Law • Book 3
★ 4.59 BLT Score (204.4K ratings)★ 4.37 Goodreads (204.4K) - 5
A Little Hatred
The Age of Madness • Book 1
★ 4.57 BLT Score (61.8K ratings)★ 4.45 Goodreads (61.8K) - 6
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The Blade Itself
The First Law Trilogy • Book 1
★ 4.50 BLT Score (317.5K ratings)★ 4.22 Goodreads (317.5K) - 9
Best Served Cold
First Law World • Book 4
★ 4.46 BLT Score (113.4K ratings)★ 4.25 Goodreads (113.4K) - 10
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Unbound
Annwn Cycle #The Dead's Revenant • Book 1
by Shawn Speakman, Terry Brooks, Seanan McGuire, Mark Lawrence, Anthony Ryan, Tim Marquitz, Brian Staveley, Michael J. Sullivan, John Marco, Peter Orullian, Kat Richardson, Sam Sykes, Kristen Britain, Mazarkis Williams, Jim Butcher, Rachel Caine, Harry Connolly, Delilah S. Dawson, David Anthony Durham, Jason M. Hough, Mary Robinette Kowal, Joe Abercrombie
★ 3.74 BLT Score (1.0K ratings)★ 3.96 Goodreads (1.0K) - 13
Dangerous Women
The Dresden Files #13.1 - Bombshells
by George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Carrie Vaughn, Lev Gossman, Joe R. Lansdale, Megan Lindholm, Lawrence Block, Brandon Sanderson, Sharon Kay Penman, Lev Grossman, Nancy Kress, Diana Rowland, Diana Gabaldon, S.M. Stirling, Sam Sykes, Pat Cadigan, Caroline Spector, Joe Abercrombie, Megan Abbott, Cecelia Holland, Jim Butcher, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Melinda M. Snodgrass
★ 3.56 BLT Score (13.2K ratings)★ 3.67 Goodreads (13.2K)
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