C.S. Lewis uttalade otvivelaktigt i en brev till en fläkt som böckerna kan läsas i någon order men att hans personliga preferens var att de skulle läsas i kronologisk ordning där de var skrivna .
"I think I agree with your order {i.e. chronological} for reading the books more than with your mother's. The series was not planned beforehand as she thinks. When I wrote The Lion I did not know I was going to write any more. Then I wrote P. Caspian as a sequel and still didn't think there would be any more, and when I had done The Voyage I felt quite sure it would be the last. But I found as I was wrong. So perhaps it does not matter very much in which order anyone read them. I'm not even sure that all the others were written in the same order in which they were published."
Den sista meningen är särskilt lämplig eftersom den order som publicerades var inte i vilken ordning de skrevs.
Skrivningsordningen verkar ha varit;
Utgivningsordern var;
Det finns en omfattande diskussion om läsordern på wikipedia