Darkover Chronology
See also: List of Darkover books for a complete chronological bibliography of Darkover books, anthologies and series by date of publication.
Although the following Darkover chronology includes a book list for novels set in specific time periods, each was written to stand as a separate story and the individual novel plots are not dependent upon one another. Bradley herself recommended that the books be read in the order in which they were written, rather than the Darkovan chronological order, as her writing style changed considerably over her career.
The time periods the books belong in, particularly the ones in the Ages of Chaos and the Hundred Kingdoms Era, are blurred. Some of these books state they are in one era, but contain evidence within their story lines indicating that they belong to a different period in the official chronology. (Note that the official chronology differs from the chronology printed at the beginning of some of the books.)
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