Series
Brak the Barbarian
John Jakes · 4 novels · 1 novella · 6 novelettes · 4 short stories · 1 collection · 1963–1980
John Jakes's Brak the Barbarian follows his own wandering barbarian swordsman, Brak, through sword-and-sorcery adventures modeled on the pulp tradition of the 1930s and '40s but original to Jakes rather than adapted from an earlier author. The character's stories were published across several collections and short novels from the 1960s into 1980.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(2 editions)
Map
Brak the Barbarian at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1960s12
- 1970s3
- 1980s1
Shape
4 novels · 1 novella · 6 novelettes · 4 short stories · 1 collection
1 author · completed series
reads like:sword and sorceryquestssecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 67% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book9 of 16 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Brak the Barbarian Versus the Mark of the Demonsdarkest · calmest
- The Girl in the Gembrightest · most intense