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A Guide to Pierce Brown Books

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Pierce Brown took the literary and science fiction world by storm when he published Red Rising. Readers instantly connected with this rich and vivid world, following the journey of one man who gives up everything important to him to fight for justice. Lucky for us, Brown wrote five more books in the series, including the latest in the Red Rising series, Light Bringer!

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    Red Rising

    by Pierce Brown

    Pierce Brown’s relentlessly entertaining debut channels the excitement of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. He toils willingly in the hopes that he is building a better future for his children. But the Reds have been betrayed. Fueled by a longing for justice, Darrow sacrifices everything to infiltrate the legendary Institute, a proving ground for the dominant Gold caste. There he will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies … even if it means he has to become one of them to do so.
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    Golden Son

    by Pierce Brown

    Red Rising hit the ground running and wasted no time becoming a sensation. Golden Son, the second book in the series, continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom.
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    Morning Star

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    The exhilarating third chapter in the Red Rising saga. Risking everything to transform himself and breach Gold society, Darrow has battled to survive the cutthroat rivalries that breed Society’s mightiest warriors, climbed the ranks, and waited patiently to unleash the revolution that will tear the hierarchy apart from within. Finally, the time has come…
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    Iron Gold

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    A decade ago Darrow was the hero of the revolution he believed would break the chains of the Society. But the Rising has shattered everything: Instead of peace and freedom, it has brought endless war. Now in the fourth book in the series, he must risk all he has fought for on one last desperate mission. Darrow believes he can save everyone, but can he save himself? Red Rising was the story of the end of one universe. Iron Gold is the story of the creation of a new one.
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    Dark Age

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    He broke the chains. Then he broke the world. Fear dims the hopes of the Rising, and as power is seized, lost, and reclaimed, the worlds spin on and on toward a new Dark Age. “Brown’s plots are like a depth charge of nitromethane dropped in a bucket of gasoline. His pacing is 100% him standing over it all with a lit match and a smile, waiting for us to dare him to drop it” (NPR).
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    Light Bringer

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    Darrow returns as the Red Rising series continues in the thrilling sequel to Dark Age. So begins Darrow’s long voyage home, an interplanetary adventure where old friends will reunite, new alliances will be forged, and rivals will clash on the battlefield.
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    Red Rising 3-Book Bundle

    by Pierce Brown

    Witness the war of the galaxy as a rebel fights for the freedom of his people in the first three novels of the bestselling Red Rising series — and a bonus extended excerpt of the fourth, Iron Gold.
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    From a Certain Point of View (Star Wars)

    by Renée Ahdieh, Meg Cabot, Pierce Brown, Nnedi Okorafor and Sabaa Tahir

    In honor of the fortieth anniversary, more than forty contributors lend their vision to this retelling of Star Wars. Each of the forty short stories reimagines a moment from the original film but through the eyes of a supporting character. Fans will love Pierce Brown’s story chronicling Biggs Darklighter’s final fight during the Rebellion’s harrowing attack on the Death Star!
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