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The World of Riverside Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of The World of Riverside books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: April 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the The World of Riverside series? Start with "Swordspoint (By: Ellen Kushner)" (1987) and follow publication order through all 48 books.
The complete The World of Riverside reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order

Swordspoint (By: Ellen Kushner)
1987

The Fall of the Kings (With: Ellen Kushner)
2002

The Privilege of the Sword (By: Ellen Kushner)
2006

Swords of Riverside (By: Ellen Kushner)
2006

The Man with the Knives (By: Ellen Kushner)
2010

First Annual Collection
1988

Demons & Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Horror 1
1988

Third Annual Collection
1989

The Best Fantasy Stories of the Year, 1989
1990

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fourth Annual Collection
1991

Fourth Annual Collection
1991

Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears
1995

Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Tenth Annual Collection
1996

Bending the Landscape: Fantasy
1997

Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers
1998

Eleventh Annual Collection
1998

Silver Birch, Blood Moon
1999

Black Heart, Ivory Bones
2000

Mr. Simonelli or the Fairy Widower
2000

Fourteenth Annual Collection
2001

The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest
2002

Firebirds
2003

The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm
2004

Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection
2006

Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original Tales of Fantasy
2006

Best New Paranormal Romance
2006

Interfictions
2007

Best New Romantic Fantasy 2
2007

The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales
2007

So Fey: Queer Fairy Fiction
2007

TwentiethAnnual Collection
2007

Poe: 19 New Tales of Suspense, Dark Fantasy, and Horror Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe
2008

Twenty-First Annual Collection
2008

The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2009
2008

Interfictions 2
2009

The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People
2009

Teeth: Vampire Tales
2011

The Moment of Change
2012

Queen Victoria's Book of Spell
2013

Lightspeed Magazine, December 2014
2014

Mermaids and Other Mysteries of the Deep
2015

Lightspeed Magazine, October 2015
2015

Whitehall - Season One Volume One
2016

Whitehall - Season One Volume Two
2016

Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2016 Edition
2017

New York Fantastic: Fantasy Stories from the City that Never Sleeps
2017

Mad Hatters and March Hares
2017

Mechanical Animals
2018
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