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Originally Posted by David Munch
Okay, that didn't turn out as planned. Turned out one guy at work had read the entire series twice, and he got me convinced that i should read the books as the author intended them to be read. Also, I wouldn't run into any problems with characters that the author would expect me to know already.
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The author didn't intend anything? The Shadow series was written well after the original and fit into the 3000 year gap between the first and second books.
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Question: What's the "preferred" order of reading the Ender series? (link)
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Preferred order ... depends on what you mean by preferred, and who's doing the preferring.
You can read them in the order written - Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, then Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, Shadow of the Giant. Or you can read them in chronological order of story beginnings, which is Ender's Shadow, Ender's Game, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, Shadow of the Giant, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind.
But in truth it doesn't matter, except that you should read Xenocide right before Children of the Mind, since they are really two halves of a single continuous story. In most of my books, I include all the information you need.
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That's the author's official answer. He lends a little more insight in the
forward to Ender's Shadow. So read them in any order you want, I let you know the order I felt works out the best, but don't be fooled into thinking the Author has a preferred order.