The Black Library discussion

I was wondering if there is an updated chronological listing of all of the Horus Heresy books up until this date (Jan. 1st, 2019). I'm looking to start reading the whole series and want to do so chronologically.

I picked up several at book sales and yard sales and the like but I know their not in chronological order (or any kind of order obviously) and want to be able to pick up the missing pieces so I can read through it all chronologically.


Thank you all!

On their website, I found this:

https://www.blacklibrary.com/the-horu...

...just a mere 683$ for a zip file of all of the eBooks........ Yea.....


But still no complete listing of all of the works, or their chronological order. Its like they are trying to actively keep this kind of information hidden.

The above does list that its currently 53 books (with a 54th to be released February 2019), two novellas, 13 short stories from various anthologies, and several radio dramas/plays.

This is a pretty decent list, it includes all novellas/audio dramas/short-stories
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Tymell...

I would just suggest reading stuff from 40K/41K as well. Knowing more about the current situation in the Imperium helps to understand more about what actually happened during the Horus Heresy.

Jakub wrote: "This is a pretty decent list, it includes all novellas/audio dramas/short-stories
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Tymell...

Thanks Jakub!

Oh, wow. I am on book 16 of the Horus Heresy with a score of shorts under my belt and I still haven't read the first 13 books on that list with the exception of The Last Church and After Deshea. I might be of the opinion that I have gotten way more feels in hitting some of these by publishing date rather than in respect to timeline. Also, Wolf of Ash and Fire would definitely be up there with the first of the bunch, imo.

Yep, even some of these books are out of reading order even for the Horus Heresy official order. I think I'm going to abandon chronological timeline reading and find a publication date list.

Ha! I've figured out how I'll go about it. I'll just buy the volume collections (sold 5 at a time) for Horus Heresy and just double back through the quick reads to make sure they were in the anthologies as I go, and my may my wallet forgive me..

https://www.blacklibrary.com/the-horu... sort that by publication date.

If you're only looking for the list of main HH novels (without the later additions of minor spin-offs in between), Wikipedia has a list that goes up to No.49

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hor...

Ivan wrote: "If you're only looking for the list of main HH novels (without the later additions of minor spin-offs in between), Wikipedia has a list that goes up to No.49

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Horu..."

This seems to be listed in order of publishing, is that also the chronological (in-universe) order?

Ben wrote: "Ivan wrote: "If you're only looking for the list of main HH novels (without the later additions of minor spin-offs in between), Wikipedia has a list that goes up to No.49

https://en.wikipedia.org/..."

Unfortunately not, it's the publishing order as far as I can tell.

I was able to find a flow-chart of how the books tie into each other, which might be able to help to order the books story-wise.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Thanks a lot Ivan!

I wrote out a list last month of everything currently included in the Horus Heresy series and traced all the shorts, audio dramas and novellas back to numbered entries in the series.

Until you get to the more recent entries, i.e. the spin-off Primarchs series and the Siege of Terra series all the previously released shorts, audio dramas and novellas etc. are all eventually collected within numbered anthologies, so if you work your way through everything in numerical order you shouldn't miss anything. For the anthologies especially I would recommend getting the audio versions as well.

Currently on book 21 of HH. Reading it along with a friend and we are just focusing on main novels as listed here on GR. Having fun with it so far.

I'm currently reading The First Heretic, a Horus Heresy book about Lorgar, the Primarch of the Word Bearers.

First Heretic was a surprising read for me. Loved it as well as was confused by some of it all. Great book though

There's an updated/more recent flow chart of which books tie into others here;

http://www.kylebb.com/HH/HHSeriesOrde...

It's also interactive, so you can hover your mouse cursor over the title and it will pop up with the cover art, or click on a book title, and it will link you to the Lexicanum page for that particular book.

It has a key in the top right to indicate which titles are novels, which are short stories, which are audio dramas etc.

I've been working on a linear reading list that tried to compromise pure chronological with actually reading books in as few parts as possible (darned anthologies!) I've also tagged books as "key" which should be useful if you're not completist.

I'm about half way through the heresy now so I know the first half is pretty solid - the second half is all best guess researching other internet orders and flow graphs.

I'll try to put a read only copy of it somewhere sharable if anyone is interested.

I started being purely chronological but it just didn't work for me - you're better off taking event / character groups in themed chunks together and going a bit back and forward in time to get the best story flow, I found.