How Many Novels Are Included In A Game Of Thrones All Books Collection?

This feels like a trick question because the series isn't finished. There are five mainline novels published. That's it. Any collection calling itself 'all books' is either lying or being cute by including supplemental material. The World of Ice and Fire' and 'Fire & Blood' are lore books, not narrative novels. The Dunk and Egg tales are novellas. So if someone asks how many novels, the answer is five. End of story. I get why people get confused—the show outpaced the books, and the supplemental stuff is marketed heavily. But a novel is a novel. Martin's written five in this series. Sometimes the simplest answer is the right one, even if it's disappointing we don't have more.

It depends entirely on how you define the collection. The pure, canonical narrative following the war for the Iron Throne is contained in those five massive tomes. But Martin's built out the universe so much that a truly 'complete' library feels like it should include the ancillary works. I have a shelf dedicated to it: the five main books, the three Dunk and Egg stories collected in 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms', 'Fire & Blood' Volume One, and 'The World of Ice and Fire'. That's ten distinct books on my shelf, though only five are the core novels. If you're a completionist, you'll want them all. If you just want the central epic, stick with the five. The supplemental stuff is fantastic for depth, but it's not required reading to follow the (currently stalled) main plot.

Five. But good luck finding a straightforward box set. My partner bought me one for my birthday that had seven books in the box. Turns out it was the five main novels plus the two-part split of 'A Dance with Dragons' from some international edition. It was a mess on the spine. Just count the distinct story arcs, not the physical volumes. The answer is five novels.

I've seen a few different box sets floating around, and honestly, the count gets a bit messy depending on what's included. The main sequence is five novels so far: 'A Game of Thrones', 'A Clash of Kings', 'A Storm of Swords', 'A Feast for Crows', and 'A Dance with Dragons'. That's the core. But some collections bundle in the three novellas from 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms', which chronicle Ser Duncan the Tall and a young Egg. Others might even throw in 'Fire & Blood', the Targaryen history book. So you're looking at a range. If we're talking strictly the unfinished main series, it's five. A comprehensive 'all books' set aiming for the whole published ASOIAF world could have eight or nine volumes, mixing the novels with the side stories and fake histories. Always gotta check the product description because publishers love to repackage these things differently.

I remember picking up a used set that advertised 'all five books' but it was just the first four split into two-part paperbacks. Super misleading. The size of 'A Storm of Swords' and 'A Dance with Dragons' often leads to them being published in two volumes in certain regions, which artificially inflates the number. My advice? Ignore the advertised count and just list the titles included. That's the only way to be sure what you're actually getting.

Wait, are we counting the UK editions? Over there they split the bigger books. 'A Storm of Swords' and 'A Dance with Dragons' each come as two separate physical books. So a UK 'complete collection' might list seven items. But it's still the same five novels' worth of content, just divided. It's a publishing quirk, not a different story count. Always check if it's the US or UK version before you buy, especially online.