Series Guide

The Kingkiller Chronicle

by Patrick Rothfuss

Kvothe tells his own legend across three days — arcanist, musician, kingkiller — while something waits outside the inn. Two days told; the third, famously, pending.

In the Guide

The Name of the Wind

2007 · book 1

Quill Award winner and one of the century's defining fantasy debuts: the high-water mark of the lyrical first-person epic, with a readership whose patience for book three has become genre folklore in itself.

The Wise Man's Fear

2011 · book 2

A #1 New York Times bestseller that consolidated the Chronicle's blockbuster status — and the last published day of fantasy's most famous unfinished story.