The Library Series Reading Order
Looking for the complete The Library reading order? This guide lists all 3 Mark Lawrence books in The Library in order — with covers, ratings, and page counts for every entry. The full series spans approximately 770 pages.
The Book That Wouldn't Burn
The Library #1
Livira grew up within the impossible, boundless Archive, a library where every book ever written exists, and where she f… Livira grew up within the impossible, boundless Archive, a library where every book ever written exists, and where she feels an uncanny belonging. Elsewhere within its infinite, perplexing halls, Evar is held prisoner, living a solitary existence dictated by the library's strange rules. When their lives inexplicably intertwine across vast distances and perhaps even time, they embark on a dangerous quest to unearth the Archive's most profound secrets. Their discoveries will challenge everything they know, forcing them to confront a world that fears knowledge and the ancient forces that protect the library's truth, all while struggling to understand their own fated connection.
The Book That Broke the World
The Library #2
Two people living in a world connected by an immense and mysterious library must fight for those they love in the second… Two people living in a world connected by an immense and mysterious library must fight for those they love in the second book in a new trilogy from the international bestselling author of The Book That Wouldn’t Burn. The Library spans worlds and times. It touches and joins distant places. It is memory and future. And amid its vastness Evar Eventari both found, and lost, Livira Page. Evar has been forced to flee the library, driven before an implacable foe. Livira, trapped in a ghost world, has to recover the book she wrote—one which is the only true threat to the library’s existence—if she's to return to her life. While Evar's journey leads him outside into a world he's never seen, Livira's path will taker her deep inside her own writing, where she must wrestle with her stories in order to reclaim the volume in which they were written. The secret war that defines the library has chosen its champions and set them on the board. The time has come when they must fight for what they believe, or lose everything.
The Book That Held Her Heart
The Library #3
Two people once connected by a vast and mysterious library are now separated and must overcome time and distance to reun… Two people once connected by a vast and mysterious library are now separated and must overcome time and distance to reunite and bring peace to their worlds, in the final book of the Library Trilogy. The fate of an infinite library hangs on one book, a book that holds the power to break the unbreakable. In the face of such forces, fragile things like hearts, worlds, and even family seem certain to fail. The people most vital to Livira are scattered across time and space—lost, divided into factions, in mortal peril. Somehow she must bring them together and resolve the unresolvable argument that fuels the library’s war. The bond between Livira and Evar has stretched and stretched again. Can it hold at the end, when things fall apart? Can it unite them against impossible odds? This is the last chapter, the final page. The end threatens and no one—not characters, readers, or even the author—will emerge unscathed.
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