Robert Jordan Books in Order
About Robert Jordan
Robert Jordan — born James Oliver Rigney Jr. in 1948 in Charleston, South Carolina — served two tours in Vietnam as a helicopter gunner before studying physics at The Citadel. He wrote historical adventure novels under the pen name Reagan O'Neal and wrote three Conan the Barbarian novels before The Eye of the World (1990) introduced the world to the Wheel of Time. At the time of publication, it was the first volume of a planned six-book series. Jordan spent the next 17 years adding books, expanding the world, developing characters, and deepening the mythology — the series grew to 11 books and was still unfinished when he died.
Jordan died in 2007 of cardiac amyloidosis, having known his diagnosis for two years. He had prepared extensive notes for the final volume. His widow and editor, Harriet McDougal, chose Brandon Sanderson to complete the series — Sanderson expanded the final volume into three books, completing the series with A Memory of Light in 2013. The Wheel of Time is the second-longest fantasy series ever written by word count (after L. Ron Hubbard's Mission Earth). Amazon adapted it into a television series beginning in 2021.
Begin at the beginning — Rand al'Thor and his friends leaving the Two Rivers, pursued by creatures of the Dark One. The first 200 pages are deliberately paced, but by book 3 the world will feel as real as anywhere in fantasy fiction.
Get this book on Amazon →The Wheel of Time
The complete 14-volume series — 11 by Robert Jordan, Books 12–14 completed by Brandon Sanderson from Jordan's notes.
Prequel
Set 20 years before the main series. Best read after Book 6 or at the conclusion of the full series.
Conan Novels
Jordan wrote six Conan the Barbarian novels in the early 1980s, published under his own name rather than the Reagan O'Neal pen name.