How I’m reading Narnia
There are so many ways to read the Narnia series. But what way am I reading the series?
First, I thought the Lion, Witch, and The Wardrobe was the first one. The publisher actually has it at #2. Here’s the order the publisher goes with:
1. Magicians Nephew
2. Lion, Witch, and The Wardrobe
3. The Horse and His Boy
4. Prince of Caspian
5. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
6. The Silver Chair
7. The Last Battle
With this method, it can be quite hard to grasp everything, and you have to go back and forth with different stories.
I listened to Magicians Nephew, and I thought this would be a good book to read at the end. I stopped listening to it, and I’ll come back to it after I’m done with the Pevensies story and three other stand alone books. Pevensie’s story is the books with Edward, Susan, Lucy, and Peter’s story. Their stories are The Lion, Witch, and The Wardrobe and Prince of Caspian.
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Silver Chair, and the Last Battle are the stand alone books, but they do contain Aslan, the Lion. I’ll read these next.
I honestly didn’t like Magicians Nephew as much but it’s the beginning stages of what happened to Narnia before the four kids came into the picture.
One could read prequel books first like Magicians Nephew and The Horse and His Boy. This way you get some background behind what’s happening, but I would suggest the way I’m doing it. This is the order I’m reading the books:
- The Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe
- Prince of Caspian
- The Voyage of The Dawn Treader
- The Silver Chair
- The Last Battle
- Magicians Nephew
- The Horse and His Boy
The story with the kids is more engaging, so this is carrying me through those books. I might DNF (don’t finish) Magicians Nephew, but we’ll see.
The question of how the books should be read has been debated for a long time. My question to you is: What way did you read Narnia? What’s the best way to read them?
