Board Thread:TV Show Discussion/@comment-216.243.193.173-20150616134720/@comment-5014364-20150624155130

We made a chart on the Season 5 finale article, "Mother's Mercy" -- They burned through the fourth and fifth novels in one season and got to the end of published material.

Many characters reached the end of the fifth and current novel, though two or three had a chapter or so left - and some from the fourth novel, because the fourth and fifth novels are concurrent (Book Four is "In the Seven Kingdoms" and Book Five is "Outside the Seven Kingdoms")

Arya Stark still has a substantial amount of material left. Samwell is heading to Oldtown, that was a major storyline in book 5 and they delayed it, as they did the major Iron Islands, Riverlands, and Dorne subplots in the fourth and fifth novels, some of which apparently will now appear in Season 5.

There are also a handful of preview chapters but the TV series diverged so much....just read through the end of the fifth novel thoroughly.