Where to Start with Robin Hobb
- Best entry point → Fool's Assassin
- Start the Farseer Trilogy series → Assassin's Apprentice
- What readers keep coming back to → Royal Assassin
- Highest rated by readers → Fool's Fate (The Tawny Man #3)
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Fool's Fate
The Tawny Man • Book 3
by Robin Hobb
★ 4.59 BLT Score (91.5K ratings)★ 4.5 Goodreads (91.5K) - 2
Golden Fool
The Tawny Man • Book 2
by Robin Hobb
★ 4.43 BLT Score (94.6K ratings)★ 4.39 Goodreads (94.6K) - 3
Ship of Destiny
The Liveship Traders • Book 3
by Robin Hobb
★ 4.39 BLT Score (90.8K ratings)★ 4.34 Goodreads (90.8K) - 4
Fool's Errand
Realms of the Elderlings • Book 7
by Robin Hobb
★ 4.38 BLT Score (107.6K ratings)★ 4.39 Goodreads (107.6K) - 5
Royal Assassin
The Farseer Trilogy • Book 2
by Robin Hobb
★ 4.37 BLT Score (247.8K ratings)★ 4.29 Goodreads (247.8K) - 6
The Mad Ship
The Liveship Traders • Book 2
by Robin Hobb
★ 4.36 BLT Score (86.0K ratings)★ 4.34 Goodreads (86.0K) - 7
Fool's Assassin
Fitz and the Fool • Book 1
by Robin Hobb
★ 4.33 BLT Score (66.7K ratings)★ 4.43 Goodreads (66.7K) - 8
Assassin's Quest
The Farseer Trilogy • Book 3
by Robin Hobb
★ 4.30 BLT Score (199.3K ratings)★ 4.22 Goodreads (199.3K) - 9
Blood of Dragons
Rain Wild Chronicles • Book 4
by Robin Hobb
★ 4.28 BLT Score (39.6K ratings)★ 4.18 Goodreads (39.6K) - 10
Assassin's Apprentice
Farseer Trilogy • Book 1
by Robin Hobb
★ 4.25 BLT Score (409.2K ratings)★ 4.19 Goodreads (409.2K) - 11
Dragon Haven
Rain Wild Chronicles • Book 2
by Robin Hobb
★ 4.21 BLT Score (45.3K ratings)★ 4.1 Goodreads (45.3K) - 12
City of Dragons
Rain Wild Chronicles • Book 3
by Robin Hobb
★ 4.20 BLT Score (41.5K ratings)★ 4.1 Goodreads (41.5K) - 13
Ship of Magic
Liveship Traders • Book 1
by Robin Hobb
★ 4.11 BLT Score (106.9K ratings)★ 4.24 Goodreads (106.9K) - 14
The Dragon Keeper
Rain Wild Chronicles • Book 1
by Robin Hobb
★ 3.97 BLT Score (55.3K ratings)★ 3.96 Goodreads (55.3K) - 15
Renegade's Magic
Soldier Son • Book 3
by Robin Hobb
★ 3.75 BLT Score (17.2K ratings)★ 3.56 Goodreads (17.2K) - 16
The Book of Swords
Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz #7 - A Long, Cold Trail
by Gardner Dozois, K.J. Parker, Robin Hobb, Ken Liu, Matthew Hughes, Kate Elliott, Walter Jon Williams, Daniel Abraham, C.J. Cherryh, Garth Nix, Ellen Kushner, Scott Lynch, Rich Larson, Elizabeth Bear, Lavie Tidhar, Cecelia Holland, George R.R. Martin
★ 3.66 BLT Score (2.2K ratings)★ 3.67 Goodreads (2.2K) - 17
Forest Mage
Soldier Son • Book 2
by Robin Hobb
★ 3.62 BLT Score (19.7K ratings)★ 3.47 Goodreads (19.7K) - 18
Shaman's Crossing: Book One of The Soldier Son Trilogy – An Epic Military Fantasy Where Ancient Sorcery Claims Souls and Devastates Worlds
Soldier Son • Book 1
by Robin Hobb
★ 3.60 BLT Score (26.1K ratings)★ 3.55 Goodreads (26.1K) - 19
Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love
Guardians #3.6 - The Demon Dancer
by George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Daniel Abraham, Jacqueline Carey, Lisa Tuttle, Linnea Sinclair, Mary Jo Putney, Tanith Lee, Peter S. Beagle, Yasmine Galenorn, Diana Gabaldon, Jo Beverley, Carrie Vaughn, M.L.N. Hanover, Cecelia Holland, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Robin Hobb, Neil Gaiman, Marjorie M. Liu, Jim Butcher
★ 3.57 BLT Score (4.3K ratings)★ 3.76 Goodreads (4.3K)
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