Children's Fiction

The Bad Beginning

by Lemony Snicket · A Series of Unfortunate Events series

The first volume of thirteen misfortunes. The Baudelaire orphans—Violet, Klaus, and baby Sunny—are placed in the care of the sinister Count Olaf, whose theatrical cruelty and transparent villainy are matched only by the astonishing incompetence of every adult meant to protect them.

A Series of Unfortunate Events in reading order

• 1. The Bad Beginning — Lemony Snicket
• 2. The Reptile Room — Lemony Snicket
• 3. The Wide Window — Lemony Snicket
• 4. The Miserable Mill — Lemony Snicket
• 5. The Austere Academy — Lemony Snicket
• 6. The Ersatz Elevator — Brett Helquist
• 7. The Vile Village — Brett Helquist
• 8. The Hostile Hospital — Lemony Snicket
• 9. The Carnivorous Carnival — Lemony Snicket
• 10. The Slippery Slope — Lemony Snicket
• 11. The Grim Grotto — Lemony Snicket
• 12. The Penultimate Peril — Lemony Snicket
• 13. The End — Brett Helquist

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