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The Witcher Books in Order

Andrzej Sapkowski has written 11 The Witcher books, published between 1988 and 2025: 9 in the Witcher Saga and 2 related titles. The first book is The Last Wish (1993) and the newest main-line book is Crossroads of Ravens (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
11
Published
1988–2025
Confirmed
11 of 11 titles
Pages on record
1,674 in 4 of 11 books
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The Witcher names the Andrzej Sapkowski character whose books this list orders, 11 catalogued titles published between 1988 and 2025. Polish fantasy in origin and read in English translation, the books cover monsters, magic, assassins and adventure, in both short-story collections and epic-length novels. The numbered saga opens with The Last Wish (1993), then Sword of Destiny (1992), Blood of Elves (1994) and The Time of Contempt (1995), and reaches Crossroads of Ravens (2025); the related title Something Ends, Something Begins (1988) is the earliest dated. Witcher Collections and Witcher Saga group the titles.

How many The Witcher books are there?

The Witcher has 11 books, released between 1988 and 2025. 9 of them belong to the Witcher Saga, and 2 related titles sit outside it: collections.

Who wrote The Witcher?

Andrzej Sapkowski wrote The Witcher books: every one of the 11 catalogued titles is credited to Andrzej Sapkowski.

The Witcher Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 11 The Witcher 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 Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski, book 2 of the Witcher Saga (1992)
  2. Cover of The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski, book 1 of the Witcher Saga (1993)
  3. Cover of The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski, book 3 of the Witcher Collections series (1993)
  4. Cover of Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski, book 3 of the Witcher Saga (1994)
  5. Cover of The Time of Contempt by Andrzej Sapkowski, book 4 of the Witcher Saga (1995)
  6. Cover of Baptism of Fire by Andrzej Sapkowski, book 5 of the Witcher Saga (1996)
  7. Cover of The Tower of Swallows by Andrzej Sapkowski, book 6 of the Witcher Saga (1997)
  8. Cover of Season of Storms by Andrzej Sapkowski, book 7 of the Witcher Saga (2013)
  9. Cover of Lady of the Lake by Andrzej Sapkowski, book 8 of the Witcher Saga (2016)
  1. 1
    Something Ends, Something Begins / Etwas endet, etwas beginntWitcher Collections #11988 · confirmed 3/4
    1988–
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  2. 2
    Sword of DestinyWitcher Saga #21992 · confirmed 3/4
    1992–
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  3. 3
    The Last WishWitcher Saga #11993 · confirmed 3/4
    1993–
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  4. 4
    The Last WishWitcher Collections #31993 · 384 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1993384
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  5. 5
    Blood of ElvesWitcher Saga #31994 · confirmed 3/4
    1994–
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  6. 6
    The Time of ContemptWitcher Saga #41995 · 347 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1995347
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  7. 7
    Baptism of FireWitcher Saga #51996 · 389 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1996389
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  8. 8
    The Tower of SwallowsWitcher Saga #61997 · confirmed 3/4
    1997–
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  9. 9
    Season of StormsWitcher Saga #72013 · confirmed 3/4
    2013–
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  10. 10
    Lady of the LakeWitcher Saga #82016 · 554 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2016554
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  11. 11
    Crossroads of RavensWitcher Saga #92025 · confirmed 3/4
    2025–
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The Witcher Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the books of the Witcher Saga run from The Last Wish (1993) to Crossroads of Ravens (2025), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for The Witcher in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Do you have to read The Witcher books in order?

You should read the Witcher Saga in publication order, the order of the numbered table above; the 2 related titles (collections) sit outside that sequence. The catalogue does not record whether each The Witcher book also stands alone.

What order should you read The Witcher books in?

Read them in publication order, starting with The Last Wish (1993), the earliest published book in the Witcher Saga.

What is the first Witcher book?

The Last Wish (1993) is the first book in the Witcher Saga. The table above starts earlier, with the related title Something Ends, Something Begins / Etwas endet, etwas beginnt (1988).

What is the newest The Witcher book?

Crossroads of Ravens (2025) is the newest book in the Witcher Saga.

Is there a new The Witcher book coming?

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

Awards The Witcher has won

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

The Witcher at a glance

Still running
The Witcher is still running, with a main-line title published as recently as 2025.
Release pace
The Witcher books have appeared about one every 4 years on average.
Length
1,674 pages across the 4 of 11 books with a recorded length, a median of 386 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most The Witcher books, 7 of 11, were published in the 1990s.

What the The Witcher books are about

6 of the 11 The Witcher books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: fantasy is tagged on 5 of 6. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

More books by Andrzej Sapkowski

The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.