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Farseer Books in Order

Farseer by Robin Hobb contains 5 books, published between 1995 and 2013. The first book is Assassin's Apprentice (1995) and the newest is The Willful Princess and the Piebald Prince (2013). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
5
Published
1995–2013
Confirmed
5 of 5 titles
Pages on record
2,026 in 4 of 5 books
Reading time
34–51 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,026 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 4 of 5 titles with a page count on record.

See all 5 books in order Printable Farseer checklist

Assassin's Apprentice (1995) opens Robin Hobb's Farseer sequence, in which an illegitimate child of royalty is trained as an assassin. Five books are catalogued: Assassin's Apprentice (1995), Royal Assassin (1996), Assassin's Quest (1997), Words Like Coins (2012) and The Willful Princess and the Piebald Prince (2013). Farseer sits inside the wider Realm of the Elderlings. Coups, war, princesses and imaginary places carry the fantasy, and nothing has been added since 2013.

How many Farseer books are there?

Farseer has 5 books, released between 1995 and 2013.

Farseer Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 5 Farseer 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 Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb, book 1 of the Farseer series (1995)
  2. Cover of Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb, book 2 of the Farseer series (1996)
  3. Cover of Assassin's Quest by Robin Hobb, book 3 of the Farseer series (1997)
  4. Cover of The Willful Princess and the Piebald Prince by Robin Hobb, book 5 of the Farseer series (2013)
  1. 1
    Assassin's Apprentice1995 · 435 pages · confirmed 4/4
    1995435
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  2. 2
    Royal Assassin1996 · 675 pages · confirmed 4/4
    1996675
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  3. 3
    Assassin's Quest1997 · 757 pages · confirmed 4/4
    1997757
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  4. 4
    Words Like Coins2012 · confirmed 4/4
    2012–
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  5. 5
    The Willful Princess and the Piebald Prince2013 · 159 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2013159
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Is there a chronological order for Farseer?

No separate chronological order is on record for Farseer, because none of the book listings this catalogue draws on publishes one; the publication order above is the only order given.

Do you have to read Farseer books in order?

You should read the Farseer books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Farseer book also stands alone.

Where to start with Farseer

Start with Assassin's Apprentice (1995), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Farseer book?

The Willful Princess and the Piebald Prince (2013) is the newest Farseer book released so far.

Is there a new Farseer book coming?

No next Farseer 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 Farseer

Wikidata records 4 nominations for Farseer. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

Farseer at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Farseer title on record dates from 2013, 13 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Farseer books have appeared about one every 5 years on average.
Length
2,026 pages across the 4 of 5 books with a recorded length, a median of 555 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Farseer books, 3 of 5, were published in the 1990s.
Corroboration
5 of the 5 titles appear in all four independent book listings.

What the Farseer books are about

4 of the 5 Farseer 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 4 of 4. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

More books by Robin Hobb

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

Characters in the Farseer books

Each character linked below has its own reading-order page.