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a song of ice and fire - Does each season of Game of Thrones roughly equal a book?


Does each current Game of Thrones season roughly equal one A Song of Ice and Fire book? And do we know which future seasons will cover which books?


I am planning to read the first book after the TV show has finished depicting the events in the first book. I would like to know if after each TV season ends I can expect to be able to read a book covering the events depicted on screen?



Answer



This is how it has broken down so far (more or less):




  • Season 1 (2011): A Game of Thrones

  • Season 2 (2012): A Clash of Kings

  • Season 3 (2013): The first half of A Storm of Swords (aka Steel and Snow)

  • Season 4 (2014): The second half of A Storm of Swords (aka Blood and Gold)

  • Season 5 (2015): Both A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons and new material

  • Season 6 (2016): Both A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons and new material


We also know:




  • Season 7 (2017): Unpublished material and new material

  • Season 8 (2018): Unpublished material and new material


Seasons 1 and 2 were a book each, but it was changed for Season 3, which became the first half of Storm of Swords, and Season 4 became the second half. The producers then, somewhat surprisingly, managed to squeeze the next two books, A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons, into Season 5, by removing lots of what many people saw as extraneous plot lines.


It's worth noting that there has has been some overlap. Certain events have drifted into different seasons, so the above isn't always strictly true -- just mostly true.


Season 6 took most of its story from The Winds of Winter (although there were some unused things from A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons that appeared in it). George RR Martin confirmed this in a Vanity Fair article ("George R.R. Martin Has a Detailed Plan For Keeping the Game of Thrones TV Show From Catching Up To Him").


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