Books
Read them in this order. Each page has a spoiler-free premise, and its plot opens once you have read it.
- IRedRising2014Red RisingA boy goes down a mine a slave and comes up a god. The first book in the saga, and the most contained: a revenge story played out in a murderous school.
- IIGoldenSon2015Golden SonEverything that the first book set in a valley takes on the scale of a solar system. Two years on, Darrow is a rising star of the Augustus, and he is about to lose.
- IIIMorningStar2016Morning StarThe final volume of the original trilogy, about the war itself. Darrow comes out of a box in the dark to find his cause a shambles, and starts to rebuild it from a much humbler place.
- IVIronGold2018Iron GoldTen years later, the war hasn't stopped. A second cycle opens with four viewpoints, and a Darrow seen for the first time from outside.
- VDarkAge2019Dark AgePicking up immediately, on the hottest world in the system. The saga's longest, bleakest and most relentless volume.
- VILightBringer2023Light BringerEight months after the fall of Mercury. Darrow looks for a way to be somebody other than the Reaper, while across the system the boy who was meant to be his opposite becomes his perfect successor.
- VIIRedGodForthcomingRed GodThe announced conclusion of the saga. As of this archive's last edit, neither Pierce Brown nor his publisher has confirmed a release date.
- SASonsofAres2017Sons of Ares (comics)A prequel comic series from Dynamite, written with Rik Hoskin, about how a young Gold came to found a rebellion. Later volumes are Wrath (2020) and Forbidden Song (2023).