The Red Rising Series


by Pierce Brown (Author)

Book Cover for the Red Rising Series
Reading level: Ages 16 and up
Books in series: 4
Read in order: Yes
Next book: Finished
Tags: dystopian  science fiction  fantasy  action  war 

The Earth is dying. Darrow is a Red, a miner in the interior of Mars. His mission is to extract enough precious elements to one day tame the surface of the planet and allow humans to live on it. The Reds are humanity's last hope.

Or so it appears, until the day Darrow discovers it's all a lie. That Mars has been habitable – and inhabited – for generations, by a class of people calling themselves the Golds. A class of people who look down on Darrow and his fellows as slave labour, to be exploited and worked to death without a second thought.

Until the day that Darrow, with the help of a mysterious group of rebels, disguises himself as a Gold and infiltrates their command school, intent on taking down his oppressors from the inside. But the command school is a battlefield and Darrow isn't the only student with an agenda.


Red Rising Series Books in Order

 Print series book list

1. Red Rising  (2013)
2. Golden Son  (2015)
3. Morning Star  (2016)
4. Iron Gold  (2018)