Belgariad & Malloreon Books in Order

When readers talk about the Garion books, they usually mean the combined ten‑volume story made up of The Belgariad and The Malloreon. Grouped together, they trace a single arc from a boy’s first awareness that his life is not what it seems to the moment when he finally steps out from under the shadow of prophecy.

The early volumes follow Garion from Faldor’s farm through the western kingdoms as he chases the stolen Orb of Aldur alongside his Aunt Pol, the ancient sorcerer Belgarath, and a shifting company of kings, spies, and misfits. By the midpoint, he’s discovered his royal heritage, learned to use the Will and the Word, and faced the maimed god Torak in a duel that should have ended the world’s long war between Light and Dark.

The Malloreon half of the saga asks what happens when happily ever after doesn’t stick.

Years later, Garion is ruling Riva when his infant son is kidnapped and a new name—Zandramas—appears in the prophecies. The second sequence sends the same core group of characters, bolstered by new allies, into the Mallorean Empire and beyond to rescue the child and uncover the true shape of the opposing Destinies that have been steering events all along.

Read together, the ten books offer a full tour of the setting: temperate farm country and storm‑lashed coasts, desert strongholds and steaming river kingdoms, icy wastelands and isolated islands. They also chart Garion’s growth from resentful teenager to weary but capable king, and they give supporting characters—especially Ce’Nedra, Durnik, Silk, and Polgara—room to grow and surprise you.

A Belgariad & Malloreon reading order page lets you see that whole tapestry at once. It lays out the recommended path through all ten novels, suggests where the companion volumes Belgarath the Sorcerer, Polgara the Sorceress, and The Rivan Codex fit, and helps you decide whether to read everything straight through or take breaks between the two main arcs.