Inheritance Games Books in Order
Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes contains 6 books, published between 2020 and 2025. The first book is The Inheritance Games (2020) and the newest is The Same Backward as Forward (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
Also searched as The Inheritance Games.
- Books
- 6
- Published
- 2020–2025
- Confirmed
- 6 of 6 titles
- Pages on record
- 1,145 in 3 of 6 books
- Reading time
- 19–29 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,145 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 3 of 6 titles with a page count on record.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes wrote The Inheritance Games as a mystery and suspense sequence for younger readers, with a contemporary romance thread and class difference running through it. The opening book, The Inheritance Games (2020), leaves nearly the whole fortune of billionaire Tobias Hawthorne to Avery Grambs, a teenager who has never heard of him, on condition that she move into his riddle-filled house among the relatives his estate passed over. Six books follow through The Same Backward as Forward (2025), and the series continues.
How many Inheritance Games books are there?
Inheritance Games has 6 books, released between 2020 and 2025.
Inheritance Games Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 6 Inheritance Games 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.
- 1The Inheritance Games2020 · 386 pages · confirmed 3/420203863/4
- 2The Hawthorne Legacy2021 · 359 pages · confirmed 3/420213593/4
- 3The Final Gambit2022 · confirmed 3/42022–3/4
- 4The Brothers Hawthorne2023 · confirmed 3/42023–3/4
- 5Games Untold2024 · confirmed 3/42024–3/4
- 6The Same Backward as Forward2025 · 400 pages · confirmed 3/420254003/4
Is there a chronological order for Inheritance Games?
No separate chronological order is on record for Inheritance Games, 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 Inheritance Games books in order?
You should read the Inheritance Games books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Inheritance Games book also stands alone.
What order should you read Inheritance Games books in?
Read them in publication order, starting with The Inheritance Games (2020), the earliest published title. After it come The Hawthorne Legacy (2021), The Final Gambit (2022), The Brothers Hawthorne (2023), Games Untold (2024) and The Same Backward as Forward (2025).
What is the newest Inheritance Games book?
The Same Backward as Forward (2025) is the newest Inheritance Games book released so far.
Is there a new Inheritance Games book coming?
No next Inheritance Games book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Inheritance Games at a glance
- Still running
- Inheritance Games is still running, with a title published as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Inheritance Games books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 1,145 pages across the 3 of 6 books with a recorded length, a median of 386 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Inheritance Games books, 6 of 6, were published in the 2020s.
What the Inheritance Games books are about
4 of the 6 Inheritance Games books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: children's fiction is tagged on 4 of 4. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Children's fiction 4 of 4 books
- Young adult fiction, romance, contemporary 2 of 4 books
- Young adult fiction, thrillers & suspense 1 of 4 books
More books by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.
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Other series by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Each series linked below has its own reading-order page.
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