This reading order for Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Cycle and Fractalverse is based on the publication order of each series, but puts Murtagh with the other Inheritance Cycle books before Fractalverse.

While Paolini has not confirmed whether the series take place in a shared universe, there is a certain character who has been included in both.

Three companion works that are not essential to the plot of the other books have been included as bonus: