Terence Dean "Terry" Brooks (born January 8, 1944) is a writer of fantasy fiction. He writes mainly epic fantasy and has also written two movie novelizations. He has written 22 New York Times bestsellers during his writing career. He's best known for his epic Shannara series. Here you will find his bibliography.

Terry has written more than twenty books, three-quarters of which tie into one another in various ways. It can be confusing, as a new reader, to know what order to read the books in without spoiling the adventure.

Here are two different lists - one for new readers just beginning and another for readers who are revisiting the series.

Note: If as a new reader you read the novels in chronological order, you will be significantly spoiling your foray through Terry's work.

Main Races:

Humans - Humans come in all shapes and sizes. Big, small, fat, skinny, etc. They dwell primarily in the southland. Around the end of the aborted Third War of the Races the humans in the deep south, primarily around the sprawling city of Dechtera, formed the Confederation. There is also a human kingdom north of than of the Plains of Callahorn. Men from that area or from the Rhunne Mountaijns are often called Bordermen.