Like the short stories the Ethshar novels generally stand alone reasonably well, not needing to be read in a particular order, though particular cycles or chains are starting to emerge as more books are printed. Unlike most constructed world fantasy the scope of the stories tends to be personal rather than cosmic. Even when major events happen they tend to be background to the personal stories, such as the end of the Great War, typically the set piece for a fantasy novel, being relegated to a background component of the story of Valder the Innkeeper.

The first six Ethshar novels were published by Ballantine Books's Del Rey imprint, all of them being accepted and nominally edited by Lester Del Rey. The seventh and eighth were published by Tor Books, but disappointing sales led Tor to ask Lawrence Watt-Evans to concentrate on his non-Ethshar material which generated much better sales. After writing several non-Ethshar fantasy novels for Tor Watt-Evans began experimentally serializing the ninth Ethshar novel, The Spriggan Mirror, on his website under a modified form of the Street Performer Protocol. That novel was published in trade paperback, along with the following, The Vondish Ambassador. On 6 March 2011 LWE completed the third Ethshar serial The Final Calling [1].

List of Ethshar Novels[]

By Publishing order[]

By Internal Chronology[]

The Misenchanted Sword YS 4995-5216
Relics of War 5018 [2]
Night of Madness 5202
The Sorcerer's Widow 5215 (approximately, subject to change)^[1]
The Unwilling Warlord 5220-5221
With a Single Spell 5221
Taking Flight 5222
The Vondish Ambassador 5224
The Blood of a Dragon 5226
The Spell of the Black Dagger 5227 (primary action, some of the beginning chapters happen as early as 5222)
Ithanalin's Restoration 5227 (concurrent with the main events in SotBD)
The Spriggan Mirror 5228
The Unwelcome Warlock 5236
Stone Unturned 5199, 5227 - 5238

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