Nightside the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe
The consensus for the best order to read these novels in seems to be in this publication order. It is itself a sub-series of the larger series/cycle called the Solar Cycle, Urth or the Briah Cycle, which is probably what my question should've asked about from the beginning.
Nightside the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe series#
(Comments indicated this question was opinion-based, but as it hasn't been closed, I'll self-answer with the results of my research (thanks to commentators for also providing some information) and invite comments or alternative answers if I'm wrong – I haven't read the books, after all.)įirst of all, what I called The Book of the New Sun is a series consisting of four books, usually published in two volumes of two books each.