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Mortal Engines Quartet books in order

Philip Reeve

Mortal Engines Quartet is a series of 6 books by Philip Reeve: 1,210 pages in the 3 with a known length, about 22 hours of reading. Shown in the numbered order.

6
books
1,210
pages in 3 of them
22 hours
to read those 3
45 days
at 30 minutes a day
1 Mortal Engines 2001 5.4 h
2 Predator's Gold 2003 length not known
3 Infernal Devices 2005 6.6 h 4 A Darkling Plain 2006 10.3 h
Traction City 2011 length not known
Night Flights 2018 length not known

Bar height shows length. Books without a number have no number in our records.

The books

  1. 1

    Mortal Engines 2001 5.4 h

    "London is hunting its prey" Cities have been turned into giant vehicles that roam around the world, eating each other for fuel and metal.

  2. 2

    Predator's Gold 2003 length not known

  3. 3

    Infernal Devices 2005 6.6 h

    In the distant future, when fifteen-year-old Wren Natsworthy, bored with life in Anchorage, steals an Old-Tech book for a Lost Boy, she sets off a sequence of events that leads…

  4. 4

    A Darkling Plain 2006 10.3 h

    The once-great traction city of London is now just a radioactive wreck, a ruin haunted by electrical discharges and the dashed hopes of the people who once called it home--people…

  5. Traction City 2011 length not known

  6. Night Flights 2018 length not known

How much is left

After book 1, Mortal Engines about 17 hours left, not counting 3 books of unknown length
After book 2, Predator's Gold about 17 hours left, not counting 2 books of unknown length
After book 3, Infernal Devices about 10 hours left, not counting 2 books of unknown length

Reading the whole series

About 22 hours 11 minutes

3 of 6 books, 1,210 pages. Estimated at 250 words a minute.

45 days (about 7 weeks) at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.