13 Best Robin Hobb Books

Taken from his mother to the royal keep, the bastard boy Fitz is trained in secret as an assassin while learning he carries two dangerous magics. As Outislander raiders terrorize the coasts, his loyalty to the Farseers is tested again and again.

Raised from the edge of death, Fitz escapes the usurper king and sets out across mountains and legend to find his missing king in waiting. His journey toward the Elderling road and stone dragons will decide the fate of the Six Duchies and his own.

Malformed young dragons languish on the toxic shores of the Rain Wild River, too weak to fend for themselves. A mismatched group of outcast keepers, a dragon obsessed scholar and the river barge Tarman set out to escort them upstream in search of the lost city Kelsingra.

FitzChivalry Farseer has hidden for years as Tom Badgerlock, tending the country estate of Withywoods with his wife and grown children. A troubling messenger, an impossible late pregnancy and the return of the broken Fool shatter his hard won quiet.

In Bingtown, merchant heir Althea Vestrit expects to inherit her family's newly awakened liveship Vivacia, only to see it handed to her brutal brother in law. Cast adrift, she fights to reclaim the ship as Vivacia is drawn into piracy, slavery and sea serpent haunted waters.

Bee is dragged toward Clerres while learning to wield a frightening power of her own, and Fitz sails south on the liveship Paragon with the Fool, driven by grief and vengeance. Their paths and the dragons of Kelsingra collide in a final reckoning.

Fifteen years after the Red Ship War, Fitz lives in seclusion with his wolf Nighteyes and foster son Hap. When Prince Dutiful disappears on the eve of his betrothal, the Fool returns to drag Fitz back into court intrigue, Wit politics and a perilous rescue.

Fitz joins Dutiful's quest to the frozen isle of Aslevjal to slay the legendary dragon Icefyre and win an Outislander bride. Old prophecies, the Pale Woman's schemes and Fitz's tangled loyalty to the Fool collide in a brutal, world shaping journey.

Believing his daughter Bee dead, Fitz follows the Fool toward distant Clerres to punish the secretive Servants. At Buckkeep, politics and old magic complicate the search as Bee endures captivity among people who see her as the key to their prophecies.

Disguised as the servant Tom Badgerlock, Fitz returns to Buckkeep to secretly train Prince Dutiful in the Skill. As Outislander envoys arrive and Witted ambassadors seek acceptance at court, Fitz must balance loyalty, old wounds and his complex bond with the Fool.

Fitz returns to Buckkeep still damaged from poison, bound more deeply than ever to his wolf Nighteyes and to the king. As Red Ship raids escalate, treachery at court forces him to juggle secret assassinations, forbidden Wit magic and a doomed love.

Bingtown reels from fire and war as the Vestrit family, Paragon and Vivacia converge on a final confrontation. Political upheaval, pirate ambitions and the truth about wizardwood reshape alliances at sea and on shore, changing the fate of traders, serpents and dragons alike.

With Vivacia under the sway of the pirate Kennit, Althea and Brashen gamble everything on restoring the unstable liveship Paragon. In Bingtown and the Rain Wilds, rebellion and earthquakes expose buried dragon secrets while sea serpents circle restlessly offshore.