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The Wheel of Time: where to start reading

Adapts The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. Say how far you watched, and pick the book up exactly there.

Fantasy
You watched through
After Season 1, in the books you are
at The Eye of the World.
the whole book.
Show and books diverge here

Loosely follows The Eye of the World start to finish, but with heavy invention. Safe to begin Book 2 after watching.

Start reading at The Great Hunt
Spoiler-safe, only what the show already showed you.
What the show changed here
  • ChangedThe prophecy is widened so any of the five Two Rivers youths could be the Dragon Reborn, keeping the identity ambiguous longer.
  • InventedLaila, an invented wife for Perrin, is created and killed by his hand in the opening battle. Co-author Brandon Sanderson opposed the change.
  • CutThe stop in Caemlyn is replaced with Tar Valon, cutting Rand's book meeting with Elayne (who is held until Season 2).
  • ChangedNynaeve is given an invented backstory as an orphan brought to the Two Rivers, seeding her distrust of Aes Sedai.
  • MovedMat is written out before the final journey, staying behind rather than reaching the Eye of the World (a recasting-driven change).
  • CutThe Green Man is dropped and the Eye of the World climax is restructured from the book's version.
The full map
The Eye of the World
The Great Hunt + The Dragon Reborn
The Shadow Rising + The Fires of Heaven
the showthe bookstap a season
The books, in order
  1. 1The Eye of the World1990
  2. 2The Great Hunt1990
  3. 3The Dragon Reborn1991
  4. 4The Shadow Rising1992
  5. 5The Fires of Heaven1993
  6. 6Lord of Chaos1994
  7. 7A Crown of Swords1996
  8. 8The Path of Daggers1998
  9. 9Winter's Heart2000
  10. 10Crossroads of Twilight2003
  11. 11Knife of Dreams2005
  12. 12The Gathering Storm2009
  13. 13Towers of Midnight2010
  14. 14A Memory of Light2013

A very loose adaptation that reorders events, merges and invents characters, and changes who does what. Prime Video cancelled it after 3 seasons (2021-2025), so it covers only the early books.

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