Where to Start with Mark Lawrence
- Best entry point → Red Sister
- Start the Broken Empire series → Prince of Thorns
- What readers keep coming back to → King of Thorns
- Highest rated by readers → Grey Sister (Book of the Ancestor #2)
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Prince of Fools
The Red Queen's War • Book 1
★ 4.02 BLT Score (35.5K ratings)★ 4.05 Goodreads (35.5K) - 7
Daughter of Crows
The Academy of Kindness • Book 1
★ 3.88 BLT Score (278 ratings)★ 4.24 Goodreads (278) - 8
Unfettered III: New Tales
The Chathrand Voyage #Thasha's cure for cabin fever • Book 3
by Shawn Speakman, Tad Williams, Naomi Novik, Megan Lindholm, John Gwynne, David Anthony Durham, Callie Bates, Jason Denzel, Carrie Vaughn, Deborah A. Wolf, Anna Stephens, Patrick Swenson, Ramon Terrell, Peter Orullian, Terry Brooks, Lev Grossman, Seanan McGuire, Delilah S. Dawson, Mark Lawrence, Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, Brandon Sanderson, Robert Jordan, Todd Lockwood, Cat Rambo, Robert V.S. Redick, Ken Scholes, Scott Sigler, Anna Smith Spark, Marc Turner
★ 3.85 BLT Score (571 ratings)★ 3.98 Goodreads (571) - 9
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Unfettered II: New Tales
Gunnie Rose #0.0 - The Gunnie
by Shawn Speakman, Naomi Novik, Brandon Sanderson, Jim Butcher, Charlaine Harris, Michael J. Sullivan, Janny Wurts, Bradley P. Beaulieu, Mark Lawrence, Seanan McGuire, Peter Orullian, Aidan Moher, Erin Lindsey, John A. Pitts, Anthony Ryan, Scott Sigler, Django Wexler, Rachel Caine, Sarah Beth Durst, David Farland, Terry Brooks
★ 3.78 BLT Score (1.1K ratings)★ 3.92 Goodreads (1.1K) - 11
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)
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