This is a chronicle of my final and most sincere attempt to read theĀ Wheel of Time series. Clearly, given the number of times I have tried and failed to make it through, this is not what you would call a page-turner. And yet there is something of substance here. Let’s find it.
Books

New Spring
Publication Date: 2004
- Chapter 1: The Hook
- Chapter 2: A Wish Fulfilled
- Chapter 3: Practice
- Chapter 4: Leaving the Tower
- Chapter 5: The Human Heart
- Chapter 6: Surprises
- Chapter 7: The Itch
- Chapter 8: Shreds of Serenity
- Chapter 9: It Begins
- Chapter 10: It Finishes
- Chapter 11: Just Before Dawn
- Chapter 12: Entering Home
- Chapter 13: Business in the City
- Chapter 14: Changes
- Chapter 15: Into Canluum
- Chapter 16: The Deeps
- Chapter 17: An Arrival
- Chapter 18: A Narrow Passage
- Chapter 19: Pond Water
- Chapter 20: Breakfast in Manala
- Chapter 21: Some Tricks of the Power
- Chapter 22: Keeping Custom
- Chapter 23: The Evening Star
- Chapter 24: Making Use of Invisibility
- Chapter 25: An Answer
- Chapter 26: When to Surrender
- Epilogue

The Dragon Reborn
Publication Date: 1991
- Prologue: Fortress of the Light
- Chapter 1: Waiting
- Chapter 2: Saidin
- Chapter 3: News from the Plain
- Chapter 4: Shadows Sleeping
- Chapter 5: Nightmares Walking
- Chapter 6: The Hunt Begins
- Chapter 7: The Way Out of the Mountains
- Chapter 8: Jarra
- Chapter 9: Wolf Dreams
- Chapter 10: Secrets
- Chapter 11: Tar Valon
- Chapter 12: The Amyrlin Seat
- Chapter 13: Punishments
- Chapter 14: The Bite of the Thorns
- Chapter 15: The Gray Man
- Chapter 16: Hunters Three
- Chapter 17: The Red Sister
- Chapter 18: Healing
- Chapter 19: Awakening
- Chapter 20: Visitations
- Chapter 21: A World of Dreams
- Chapter 22: The Price of the Ring
- Chapter 23: Sealed
- Chapter 24: Scouting and Discoveries
- Chapter 25: Questions
- Chapter 26: Behind a Lock
- Chapter 27: Tel’aran’rhiod
- Chapter 28: A Way Out
- Chapter 29: A Trap to Spring
- Chapter 30: The First Toss
- Chapter 31: The Woman of Tanchico
- Chapter 32: The First Ship
- Chapter 33: Within the Weave
- Chapter 34: A Different Dance
- Chapter 35: The Falcon
- Chapter 36: Daughter of the Night
- Chapter 37: Fires in Cairhien
- Chapter 38: Maidens of the Spear
- Chapter 39: Threads in the Pattern
- Chapter 40: A Hero in the Night
- Chapter 41: A Hunter’s Oath
- Chapter 42: Easing the Badger
- Chapter 43: Shadowbrothers
- Chapter 44: Hunted
- Chapter 45: Caemlyn
- Chapter 46: A Message Out of the Shadow
- Chapter 47: To Race the Shadow
- Chapter 48: Following the Craft
- Chapter 49: A Storm in Tear
- Chapter 50: The Hammer
- Chapter 51: Bait for the Net
- Chapter 52: In Search of a Remedy
- Chapter 53: A Flow of the Spirit
- Chapter 54: Into the Stone
- Chapter 55: What Is Written in Prophecy
- Chapter 56: People of the Dragon
- Retrospective

The Eye of the World
Publication Date: 1990
- Preliminary Notes
- Prologue: Dragonmount
- Chapter 1: An Empty Road
- Chapter 2: Strangers
- Chapter 3: The Peddler
- Chapter 4: The Gleeman
- Chapter 5: Winternight
- Chapter 6: The Westwood
- Chapter 7: Out of the Woods
- Chapter 8: A Place of Safety
- Chapter 9: Tellings of the Wheel
- Chapter 10: Leavetaking
- Chapter 11: The Road to Taren Ferry
- Chapter 12: Across the Taren
- Chapter 13: Choices
- Chapter 14: The Stag and Lion
- Chapter 15: Strangers and Friends
- Chapter 16: The Wisdom
- Chapter 17: Watchers and Hunters
- Chapter 18: The Caemlyn Road
- Chapter 19: Shadow’s Waiting
- Chapter 20: Dust on the Wind
- Chapter 21: Listen to the Wind
- Chapter 22: A Path Chosen
- Chapter 23: Wolfbrother
- Chapter 24: Flight Down the Arinelle
- Chapter 25: The Traveling People
- Chapter 26: Whitebridge
- Chapter 27: Shelter From the Storm
- Chapter 28: Footprints in Air
- Chapter 29: Eyes Without Pity
- Chapter 30: Children of Shadow
- Chapter 31: Play for Your Supper
- Chapter 32: Four Kings in Shadow
- Chapter 33: The Dark Waits
- Chapter 34: The Last Village
- Chapter 35: Caemlyn
- Chapter 36: Web of the Pattern
- Chapter 37: The Long Chase
- Chapter 38: Rescue
- Chapter 39: Weaving of the Web
- Chapter 40: The Web Tightens
- Chapter 41: Old Friends and New Threats
- Chapter 42: Remembrance of Dreams
- Chapter 43: Decisions and Apparitions
- Chapter 44: The Dark Along the Ways
- Chapter 45: What Follows in Shadow
- Chapter 46: Fal Dara
- Chapter 47: More Tales of the Wheel
- Chapter 48: The Blight
- Chapter 49: The Dark One Stirs
- Chapter 50: Meetings at the Eye
- Chapter 51: Against the Shadow
- Chapter 52: There Is Neither Beginning Nor End
- Chapter 53: The Wheel Turns
- Retrospective

The Great Hunt
Publication Date: 1990
- Prologue: In the Shadow
- Chapter 1: The Flame of Tar Valon
- Chapter 2: The Welcome
- Chapter 3: Friends and Enemies
- Chapter 4: Summoned
- Chapter 5: The Shadow in Shienar
- Chapter 6: Dark Prophecy
- Chapter 7: Blood Calls Blood
- Chapter 8: The Dragon Reborn
- Chapter 9: Leavetakings
- Chapter 10: The Hunt Begins
- Chapter 11: Glimmers of the Pattern
- Chapter 12: Woven in the Pattern
- Chapter 13: From Stone to Stone
- Chapter 14: Wolfbrother
- Chapter 15: Kinslayer
- Chapter 16: In the Mirror of Darkness
- Chapter 17: Choices
- Chapter 18: To the White Tower
- Chapter 19: Beneath the Dagger
- Chapter 20: Saidin
- Chapter 21: The Nine Rings
- Chapter 22: Watchers
- Chapter 23: The Testing
- Chapter 24: New Friends and Old Enemies
- Chapter 25: Cairhien
- Chapter 26: Discord
- Chapter 27: The Shadow in the Night
- Chapter 28: A New Thread in the Pattern
- Chapter 29: Seanchan
- Chapter 30: Daes Dae’mar
- Chapter 31: On the Scent
- Chapter 32: Dangerous Words
- Chapter 33: A Message from the Dark
- Chapter 34: The Wheel Weaves
- Chapter 35: Stedding Tsofu
- Chapter 36: Among the Elders
- Chapter 37: What Might Be
- Chapter 38: Practice
- Chapter 39: Flight from the White Tower
- Chapter 40: Damane
- Chapter 41: Disagreements
- Chapter 42: Falme
- Chapter 43: A Plan
- Chapter 44: Five Will Ride Forth
- Chapter 45: Blademaster
- Chapter 46: To Come Out of the Shadow
- Chapter 47: The Grave Is No Bar to My Call
- Chapter 48: First Claiming
- Chapter 49: What Was Meant to Be
- Chapter 50: After
- Retrospective