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Brent Weeks Books in Order

Brent Weeks has written 12 books, published between 2008 and 2023. The first book is The Way of Shadows (2008) and the newest is Night Angel Nemesis (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
12
Published
2008–2023
Confirmed
10 of 12 titles
Pages on record
3,873 in 6 of 12 books
Reading time
65–97 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,873 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 6 of 12 titles with a page count on record.

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Brent Weeks writes epic fantasy. The Night Angel books put assassins at the front, with wetboy among the subject terms, opening with The Way of Shadows, Shadow's Edge and Beyond the Shadows (2008); the Lightbringer series follows with The Black Prism (2010), The Blinding Knife (2012), The Broken Eye (2014) and The Blood Mirror (2015). Twelve books are catalogued, Night Angel Nemesis is the most recent, and the catalogue has been dormant since 2023.

In the Lightbringer series, magic is drawn from light and color. Gavin Guile, a sorcerer known as the Prism, navigates political intrigue and an impending war while secrets about his own abilities and past come to light.

How many Brent Weeks books are there?

Brent Weeks has 12 books, released between 2008 and 2023. They include 2 separate series.

Brent Weeks Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 12 Brent Weeks books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Beyond the Shadows by Brent Weeks, book 3 of the Night Angel series (2008)
  2. Cover of The Black Prism by Brent Weeks, book 1 of the Lightbringer series (2010)
  3. Cover of Perfect Shadow by Brent Weeks, book 4 of the Night Angel series (2011)
  4. Cover of The Blinding Knife by Brent Weeks, book 2 of the Lightbringer series (2012)
  5. Cover of The Broken Eye by Brent Weeks, book 3 of the Lightbringer series (2014)
  6. Cover of The Blood Mirror by Brent Weeks, book 4 of the Lightbringer series (2015)
  7. Cover of The Burning White by Brent Weeks, book 5 of the Lightbringer series (2019)
  8. Cover of Night Angel Nemesis by Brent Weeks, book 6 of the Night Angel series (2023)
  1. 1
    The Way of ShadowsNight Angel #12008 · 560 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2008560
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  2. 2
    Shadow's EdgeNight Angel #22008 · confirmed 3/4
    2008–
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  3. 3
    Beyond the ShadowsNight Angel #32008 · confirmed 3/4
    2008–
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  4. 4
    The Black PrismLightbringer #12010 · confirmed 3/4
    2010–
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  5. 5
    Perfect ShadowNight Angel #42011 · 136 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2011136
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  6. 6
    The Blinding KnifeLightbringer #22012 · 671 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2012671
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  7. 7
    Gunner's Apprentice (Short Story)Brent Weeks Short Stories/Novellas #12014 · confirmed 1/4
    2014–
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  8. 8
    The Broken EyeLightbringer #32014 · 864 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2014864
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  9. 9
    I, Night AngelNight Angel #52014 · confirmed 2/4
    2014–
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  10. 10
    The Blood MirrorLightbringer #42015 · 682 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2015682
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  11. 11
    The Burning WhiteLightbringer #52019 · 960 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2019960
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  12. 12
    Night Angel NemesisNight Angel #62023 · confirmed 3/4
    2023–
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Brent Weeks books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Night Angel in order

6 books
  1. 1. The Way of Shadows
  2. 2. Shadow's Edge
  3. 3. Beyond the Shadows
  4. 4. Perfect Shadow
  5. 5. I, Night Angel
  6. 6. Night Angel Nemesis

Lightbringer in order

5 books
  1. 1. The Black Prism
  2. 2. The Blinding Knife
  3. 3. The Broken Eye
  4. 4. The Blood Mirror
  5. 5. The Burning White

Brent Weeks Short Stories/Novellas

1 book

1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Brent Weeks Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the Brent Weeks books run from The Way of Shadows (2008) to Night Angel Nemesis (2023), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Brent Weeks in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Do you have to read Brent Weeks books in order?

You only need to read Brent Weeks books in order within each series: the books listed here span 2 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

What order should you read Brent Weeks books in?

Read them in publication order, starting with The Way of Shadows (2008), the earliest published title. After it come Shadow's Edge (2008), Beyond the Shadows (2008), The Black Prism (2010), Perfect Shadow (2011), The Blinding Knife (2012), Gunner's Apprentice (Short Story) (2014), The Broken Eye (2014), I, Night Angel (2014), The Blood Mirror (2015), The Burning White (2019) and Night Angel Nemesis (2023).

What is the newest Brent Weeks book?

Night Angel Nemesis (2023) is the newest Brent Weeks book released so far.

Is there a new Brent Weeks book coming?

No next Brent Weeks book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Award nominations for Brent Weeks

Wikidata records 1 nomination for Brent Weeks. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

Brent Weeks at a glance

Paused
No new Brent Weeks title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
Release pace
Brent Weeks books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
3,873 pages across the 6 of 12 books with a recorded length, a median of 676 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Brent Weeks books, 8 of 12, were published in the 2010s.

What the Brent Weeks books are about

10 of the 12 Brent Weeks books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: fantasy, epic is tagged on 8 of 10. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

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