American writer · 1959
R. A. Salvatore Books in Order
98 books · 10 series · 1988-2025
Robert Anthony Salvatore is an American author best known for The Legend of Drizzt, a series of fantasy novels set in the Forgotten Realms and starring the character Drizzt Do'Urden. He has also written The DemonWars Saga, a series of high fantasy novels; several other Forgotten Realms novels; and Vector Prime, the first novel in the Star Wars: The New Jedi Order series. He has sold more than 15 million copies of his books in the United States alone, and 22 of his titles have been New York Times best-sellers.
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| # | Cover | Title | Published | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 |  | Exile | 1990 | Amazon |
| 4 |  | The Crystal Shard | 1988 | Amazon |
| 5 |  | Streams of Silver | 1989 | Amazon |
| 7 |  | The Legacy | 1992 | Amazon |
| 8 |  | Starless Night | 1993 | Amazon |
| 11 |  | The Silent Blade | 1996 | Amazon |
| 13 |  | Sea of Swords | 2001 | Amazon |
| 16 |  | Road of the Patriarch | 2006 | Amazon |
| 17 |  | The Thousand Orcs | 2002 | Amazon |
| 18 |  | The Lone Drow | 2003 | Amazon |
| 20 |  | The Orc King | 2007 | Amazon |
| 22 |  | The Ghost King | 2009 | Amazon |
| 24 |  | Neverwinter | 2011 | Amazon |
| 26 |  | The Last Threshold | 2013 | Amazon |
| 27 |  | The Companions | 2013 | Amazon |
| 30 |  | Vengeance of the Iron Dwarf | 2015 | Amazon |
| 34 |  | Timeless | 2018 | Amazon |
| 37 |  | Starlight Enclave | 2021 | Amazon |
| 39 |  | Lolth's Warrior | 2023 | Amazon |
| # | Cover | Title | Published | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | The Demon Awakens | 1998 | Amazon |
| 2 |  | The Demon Spirit | 1999 | Amazon |
| 3 |  | The Demon Apostle | 2000 | Amazon |
| 4 |  | Mortalis | 2001 | Amazon |
| — |  | Ascendance | 2001 | Amazon |
| — |  | Transcendence | 2001 | Amazon |
Entries without a number are not numbered in the source data - they are placed by publication date, which is usually but not always the intended reading order.
| # | Cover | Title | Published | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Canticle | 1991 | Amazon |
| 2 |  | In Sylvan Shadows | 1992 | Amazon |
| 3 |  | Night Masks | 1992 | Amazon |
| 4 |  | The Fallen Fortress | 1993 | Amazon |
| 5 |  | The Chaos Curse | 1993 | Amazon |
| # | Cover | Title | Published | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | The Stowaway | 2008 | Amazon |
| 2 |  | The Shadowmask | 2009 | Amazon |
| 3 |  | The Sentinels | 2010 | Amazon |
| # | Cover | Title | Published | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Night of the Hunter | 2014 | Amazon |
| 2 |  | Rise of the King | 2014 | Amazon |
| # | Cover | Title | Published | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 |  | Boundless | 2019 | Amazon |
| 3 |  | Relentless | 2020 | Amazon |
| # | Cover | Title | Published | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 |  | Siege of Darkness | 1994 | Amazon |
| 4 |  | Passage to Dawn | 1996 | Amazon |
| # | Cover | Title | Published | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Gauntlgrym | 2010 | Amazon |
| 3 |  | Charon's Claw | 2012 | Amazon |
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Reading R. A. Salvatore in order
R. A. Salvatore has 10 series in our catalogue. Each one above is listed in reading order with its position number, so you can start at book one and work forward.
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