Reading order · 3 books · 2019 to 2022 · Set in invented worlds
Siege Books in Order
The Siege books are funny, cynical novels about the defence and rule of a great city.
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Series facts
- Books
- 3
- Published
- 2019 to 2022
- First book
- Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
- Latest
- A Practical Guide to Conquering the World (2022)
- Setting
- Set in invented worlds
The reading order
Every Siege book in publication order. Choose a title for its cast and summary.
3 books · Set in invented worlds
- 1Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City2019With OrhanOrhan, a colonel of engineers, is the most senior officer left in the city when an enemy army arrives, and he must find a way to defend it.Buy on Amazon
- 2How to Rule an Empire and Get Away with It2020With NotkerNotker, an actor, is hired to impersonate the dead ruler of the empire, and finds he is rather good at it.Buy on Amazon
- 3A Practical Guide to Conquering the World2022With OgusThe “true story” of Aemilius Felix Boioannes, whose deliberate wrongs and accidental good shaped a war meant to be the last of its kind.Buy on Amazon
Do you need to read them in order?
Read Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City, How to Rule an Empire and Get Away with It, then A Practical Guide to Conquering the World.
Who appears in which book
The series’ main characters, book by book. Lead means the book is told around them; minor covers cameos.
| Book | Orhan | Notker | Ogus |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City | LLead | ||
| 2 How to Rule an Empire and Get Away with It | LLead | ||
| 3 A Practical Guide to Conquering the World | LLead |
Characters in the Siege books
3 characters from K. J. Parker’s chart, with the number of Siege books each appears in.