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The Nogud Legacy Books in Order

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See The Nogud Legacy books in order by Marilyn Foxworthy, with short summaries, series background, and a guide to where to start.

Last updated: July 5, 2026

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The Nogud Legacy books in publication order

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5 books

1

The Wanderer

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2018

In the far future, a traveler moves through the eight villages of a broken world and starts piecing together a much older family history. It is the opening move in a long post-cataclysm saga.

2

The Watchman

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2018

Guarding what matters becomes the real battle as threats gather around the growing family and its fragile order. The fourth Nogud book mixes vigilance, travel, and the pressure of leadership.

3

The Wizard

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2018

The second Nogud book pushes the far-future story into stranger territory, where old knowledge and unusual talents begin to matter more. The world grows larger as the legacy at its center comes into focus.

4

The Wounded

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2018

Survival becomes more personal when the group must protect the hurt and vulnerable while danger closes in. This installment leans into recovery, loyalty, and the cost of living in a harsh world.

5

The Warrior

by Marilyn Foxworthy

2019

Ready to leave the eight villages behind, the hero heads for the ruined cities of a 30th-century world. The journey becomes a search for lost family history, buried technology, and whatever still survives beyond the frontier.

The Nogud Legacy books in chronological order

  1. Book cover for "The Wanderer"

    The Wanderer

    by Marilyn Foxworthy

    2018The Nogud Legacy, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "The Wizard"

    The Wizard

    by Marilyn Foxworthy

    2018The Nogud Legacy, Book 2
  3. Book cover for "The Wounded"

    The Wounded

    by Marilyn Foxworthy

    2018The Nogud Legacy, Book 3
  4. Book cover for "The Watchman"

    The Watchman

    by Marilyn Foxworthy

    2018The Nogud Legacy, Book 4
  5. Book cover for "The Warrior"

    The Warrior

    by Marilyn Foxworthy

    2019The Nogud Legacy, Book 5

Series background & context

The Nogud Legacy is one of the biggest payoff series in Foxworthy's connected timeline. It takes place in a far-future world shaped by old catastrophe, scattered villages, and fragments of lost civilization. By the time these books begin, the past is not just gone. It has become legend, debris, and a puzzle that still affects the present.

The eight villages are only the beginning.

The early books stay fairly close to that local world, following a wanderer's movement through communities that have survived in reduced form after disaster. But the series keeps opening outward. More technology re-enters the picture. Older family history starts to matter. The question stops being simply how to survive and becomes how this damaged world connects to a line of people stretching back centuries.

By The Warrior, the scope is much larger. Characters are leaving the familiar villages, heading toward ruined cities, and actively looking for answers about what happened to family far in the past. That gives the later books a satisfying exploratory feeling. The world is harsh, but it is also full of buried possibility.

If you like post-cataclysm adventure with family legacy, recovered knowledge, and a slow reveal of how the future grew out of the present, this is one of Foxworthy's strongest series. It rewards patience, especially if you have read some of the earlier linked books that feed into it.

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