
Mossflower was published first, and could definitely be read first, but then of course you'd have to view both the other two as primarily flashbacks. I would recommend reading them in this order, but it's not really important.
The Legend of Luke (the core story here is about Martin's father Luke, and set before either of the other two but it has a sizeable framing story featuring Martin shortly after the establishment of Redwall, so I think it merits coming third in this list, with the main Luke story being treated as a flashback). Mossflower (covers the establishment of Redwall itself). Martin the Warrior (covers Martin's history before coming to Redwall). The Martin stories - set during the time of the legendary mouse Martin the Warrior, who makes ghostly appearances to help Redwallers in almost all the later books. if book A comes before book B in both of these orderings, then you probably do need to read A before B).įirst of all, it's important to note that there are various subsets of "the Redwall books", which form loosely connected series within the wider universe. These do not agree, but in most cases where they do agree, they should probably not be contradicted (i.e. There are two obvious possibilities for the ordering: publication order and in-universe chronological order.
Let me try to go into even more detail here.
I've already posted about this on another SE site.