The Last Kingdom: where to start reading

After Season 1, in the books you are

at The Pale Horseman.

through the end of the second book.

The first season adapts the first two novels, The Last Kingdom and The Pale Horseman.

📖 Start reading at The Lords of the North (book three)

🔒Spoiler-safe, only what the show already showed you.

Get the book

Season 1 leaves off at the end of book two. Start here:

The Lords of the North

Bernard Cornwell · Book 3 of 13

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or borrow it: your library

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Faithful here

The show stays close to the book here, with nothing major changed, cut, or invented.

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1. S1The Last Kingdom + The Pale Horsemanclose
2. S2The Lords of the North + Sword Songclose
3. S3The Burning Land + Death of Kingsdiverges
4. S4The Pagan Lord + The Empty Thronediverges
5. S5Warriors of the Storm + The Flame Bearer + War of the Wolfdiverges
6. S6Sword of Kings + War Lorddiverges

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The series adapts Bernard Cornwell's Saxon Stories about two novels per season, and reworks the plots increasingly in later seasons; the film Seven Kings Must Die concludes the saga.