A Chorus of Dragons
#4124.00 in the official ranking · full ranking
Books 5 books Status Complete 2019–2022 Reading commitment Medium Jenn Lyons Last reviewed 2026-08-25
Overview
Kihrin grows up a tavern musician in the slums of a city called Quur, convinced his life story is a fairy tale, until he's kidnapped by a dying nobleman who insists Kihrin is his stolen son, and drawn into a millennia-old family feud involving gods, dragons, demons, and an empire built on immortality magic. Jenn Lyons's A Chorus of Dragons runs to five novels published between 2019 and 2022, The Ruin of Kings, The Name of All Things, The Memory of Souls, The House of Always, and The Discord of Gods, tracing Kihrin's transformation from an ordinary, if unusually talented, young man into a figure entangled with Quur's ruling dynasties and ancient magical bloodlines. The series is told out of chronological order through competing, unreliable narrators, a structural gimmick reviewers frequently single out, layering multiple retrospective accounts of the same events against one another rather than a single linear timeline.
Epic fantasy · For Adult
Core Canon: Reading Order (5 works) counts toward ranking
A Chorus of Dragons Jenn Lyons
| Work | Year | Internal chron. | Canon | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | The Ruin of Kings | 2019 | 1 | core | 3.82 (16,484 ratings) |
 | The Name of All Things | 2019 | 2 | core | 4.04 (6,477 ratings) |
 | The Memory of Souls | 2020 | 3 | core | 4.26 (4,495 ratings) |
 | The House of Always | 2021 | 4 | core | 4.11 (3,495 ratings) |
 | The Discord of Gods | 2022 | 5 | core | 4.36 (2,919 ratings) |
Complete 5-book sequence, 2019-2022.
Quick answers
- How many books are in A Chorus of Dragons? A Chorus of Dragons's Core Canon is 5 books.
- What is the reading order for A Chorus of Dragons? Publication order, starting with The Ruin of Kings. Full list and years in the Core Canon table above.
- Is A Chorus of Dragons finished? Complete (2019–2022).
- How much reading does A Chorus of Dragons take? Medium reading commitment (estimated from 5 Core Canon books · ~2,820 pages).
- How is A Chorus of Dragons ranked? #412 in this site's official ranking, based on 33,870 reader ratings across 5 Core Canon books. See the full ranking for how this is calculated.
Why is it ranked #412?
Ranked #412 in the official ranking.
- Average reader rating of 4.00 across 5 core books.
- A smaller readership (33,870 ratings), so the score carries less weight of numbers.
- Uneven reception: its books range from 3.82 to 4.36.
- Less than 0.01 behind #411, The Axis Trilogy (a finer tie-break level decides the order).
- Below the top-10 average of 4.45.
Why explore this universe?
Well rated · 5 books · Complete · 34k ratings · Ranks #412 overall
Good choice if you want a moderate-length epic fantasy universe that's already finished, so there's no wait for the next book.
Reading order
Publication order (5 Core Canon books)
- The Name of All Things (2019)
- The Ruin of Kings (2019)
- The Memory of Souls (2020)
- The House of Always (2021)
- The Discord of Gods (2022)
Documented internal/story order
- The Ruin of Kings (2019)
- The Name of All Things (2019)
- The Memory of Souls (2020)
- The House of Always (2021)
- The Discord of Gods (2022)
Awards (verified)
- No awards found for this universe.
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Official resources
Research details
Ranking metrics: weighted average 4.00 across 33,870 ratings on 5 Core Canon books. See Why is it ranked here? above for the full breakdown, or the full ranking.
How do we know this?
Admission: Admit A Chorus of Dragons (Jenn Lyons) accepted 2026-08-25
Sources: (see source tier definitions)
- A Chorus of Dragons series bibliography (specialised series-tracking site) Tier 2
- Jenn Lyons official site Tier 2
Last reviewed: 2026-08-26
Rule: Core Canon covers all five novels of this complete series, The Ruin of Kings (2019) through The Discord of Gods (2022).