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The Witcher: where to start reading
Adapts The Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski. Say how far you watched, and pick the book up exactly there.
Fantasy
4 seasons
on screen
6 books
to read
Blends books
from the books
After Season 1, in the books you are
at Sword of Destiny.
through the two short-story collections.
Show and books diverge here
The first season draws on the two short-story collections and tells its threads out of order before they converge.
Start reading at The Last Wish, then Sword of Destiny (the short-story collections)
Spoiler-safe, only what the show already showed you.
Get the book
Season 1 draws on this book. Read the full story:
Sword of Destiny
Andrzej Sapkowski · Book 2 of 6
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What the show changed here
- ChangedRuns three unsignaled parallel timelines (Geralt, Yennefer, Ciri) instead of the books' single Geralt-guided view.
- MovedCintra falls in the premiere, an event the books hold back and relay only through Jaskier's secondhand tales.
- InventedYennefer gets a full invented origin arc, from hunchbacked girl to sorceress, barely sketched in the books.
- MovedCiri and Triss appear in Season 1 though neither surfaces until later books, Sword of Destiny and Blood of Elves.
- ChangedJaskier is renamed from the books' English 'Dandelion' and shadows Geralt far more constantly than the page warrants.
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Netflix begins with Andrzej Sapkowski's short-story collections and then moves into the main saga novels, blending material across seasons.
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