What book is The Wheel of Time based on?
The Eye of the World, book 1 of The Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordan (season 1; seasons 2 and 3 follow The Great Hunt and The Shadow Rising. Prime Video canceled it after season 3).
The books follow many more characters and the full magic system, and the story continues for ten books after where the show ended.
- 1This is the book behind The Wheel of Time (Prime Video) · season 1; seasons 2 and 3 follow The Great Hunt and The Shadow Rising. Prime Video canceled it after season 3
The Eye of the World
1990 · Prime Video season 1Rand and his friends flee their village with an Aes Sedai.
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The Great Hunt
1990 · Prime Video season 2The Horn of Valere is stolen.
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The Dragon Reborn
1991 · Parts of season 2Rand runs; his friends head for the Stone of Tear.
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The Shadow Rising
1992 · Prime Video season 3Rand goes into the Aiel Waste.
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The Fires of Heaven
1993 · Not on screen; the series ended after season 3War with the Shaido and the Forsaken.
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Lord of Chaos
1994 · Not on screen; the series ended after season 3Rand gathers power; the White Tower splits.
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A Crown of Swords
1996 · Not on screen; the series ended after season 3The search for the Bowl of the Winds.
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The Path of Daggers
1998 · Not on screen; the series ended after season 3The Seanchan and the weather.
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Winter's Heart
2000 · Not on screen; the series ended after season 3Rand sets out to cleanse saidin.
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Crossroads of Twilight
2003 · Not on screen; the series ended after season 3The days around the cleansing.
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Knife of Dreams
2005 · Not on screen; the series ended after season 3Jordan's last book.
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The Gathering Storm
2009 · Not on screen; the series ended after season 3With Brandon Sanderson.
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Towers of Midnight
2010 · Not on screen; the series ended after season 3With Brandon Sanderson.
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A Memory of Light
2013 · Not on screen; the series ended after season 3The Last Battle. With Brandon Sanderson.
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New Spring
2004 · Optional prequelHow Moiraine and Lan met, twenty years before book 1.
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The Wheel of Time paperback box sets
Sold in sets of the first books.
What the books give you
Only in the books
Hundreds of characters, the Aiel, the Seanchan and a magic system the series can only sketch.
What the screen changes
The series makes Moiraine the lead and changes who might be the Dragon Reborn. The details are folded below.
Show differences (spoilers)
In the series, Mat stays behind and misses the trip to the Eye of the World at the end of season 1, and a new actor plays him from season 2; in the book he goes with Rand to the Eye.
Editions
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The Eye of the World, paperback
Where to start.
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The Wheel of Time box sets
For readers who know they are in.
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The Wheel of Time audiobooks read by Michael Kramer and Kate Reading
The classic narrators.
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More by Robert Jordan
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Conan the Invincible
1982 · one of Jordan's Conan novels
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Warriors of the Altaii
1979, published 2019 · his first novel
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If you liked it
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The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson · 2010
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The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss · 2007
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A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin · 1996 · the HBO series
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Quick answers
Which book is each movie and series based on?
| Movie or series | Book |
|---|---|
| The Wheel of Time (Prime Video) | The Eye of the World (1990) · season 1; seasons 2 and 3 follow The Great Hunt and The Shadow Rising. Prime Video canceled it after season 3 |
In what order should I read The Wheel of Time?
Read the fourteen books in order, from The Eye of the World (1990) to A Memory of Light (2013). Robert Jordan wrote the first eleven; after his death, Brandon Sanderson finished the last three from Jordan's notes. The prequel New Spring is best read after book 10.
Who finished The Wheel of Time?
Brandon Sanderson. Robert Jordan died in 2007 after Knife of Dreams; Sanderson wrote the last three books from Jordan's notes, published 2009–2013.
Where does New Spring fit?
It is a prequel set twenty years before The Eye of the World. Most readers read it after book 10, Crossroads of Twilight, or after the series ends.
Which books did the Prime Video series cover?
Season 1 follows The Eye of the World, season 2 The Great Hunt with parts of The Dragon Reborn, and season 3 The Shadow Rising.
Will The Wheel of Time get a season 4?
No. Prime Video canceled the series in May 2025, after three seasons. The story continues in the books, from The Fires of Heaven on.