Instead, if you’re a purist like me, you may want to read the Legend of Drizzt books in order by their publication date. Starlight Enclave (The Way of the Drow).Night of the Hunter (Companions Codex Trilogy).The Thousand Orcs (The Hunter’s Blades Trilogy).The Servant of the Shard (The Sellswords Trilogy).The Silent Blade (Paths of Darkness Trilogy).The Legacy (The Legacy of the Drow Quartet).The Crystal Shard (The Icewind Dale Trilogy).I’ve interjected the Cleric Quintet where I feel it goes, but according to Penguin, this is not required reading. The following is a list of the Legend of Drizzt books in order according to the publisher. Read them in publication order, even if it causes you to break from the world of Drizzt Do’Urden for a little while.
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However, you could reasonably hold this series off until Passage to Dawn (Book 10) which is when Cadderly makes his appearance into Drizzt Do’Urden’s timeline.īut I strongly recommend you read it at least before The Thousand Orcs (Book 17) as a few of the supporting characters in the Cleric Quintet make their appearance into the Drizzt timeline. That will help you understand Drizzt Do’Urden & Cadderly better when the characters crossover. Publication order dictates that you read them immediately after finishing both The Dark Elf Trilogy and the Icewind Dale Trilogy but before you start The Legacy (Book 7 in its self-titled series The Legacy of the Drow Quartet). However, Cadderly makes a cameo in the Drizzt series, so, to me, these books are essential reading for the Drizzt series. Strictly speaking, The Cleric Quintet aren’t Drizzt books, and that’s probably why. Oddly enough (or maybe not?), The Cleric Quintet was not included in the Legend of Drizzt series order when Wizards of the Coast (or Penguin, or whoever owns these books now) re-covered all of Salvatore’s books and relisted the series.