Off the top of my head, the following should be roughly in order. There are simply too many BL Books and many of them are not specifically dated so cannot be placed in a specific order anyway.Ībout the only thing you can do is follow certain series.
#CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER OF WARHAMMER BOOKS FULL#
Kind of hard to make a full chronology when many of the dates literally don’t exist in the lore. Even the writers don’t worry about a strict chronology unless the story is part of an ongoing narrative or an account of an event in the lore we have a set date for.
I understand the drive to want to read something this big in chronological order, I usually operate that way myself, but with 40k, the reason the advice is always “pick a faction you like and read about it” is because that’s really the way the universe is built to be experienced for the most part. With the opening of the Great Rift in 2017, most newer stories, but not all, are explicitly set after that: the Dark Imperium series, the Dante books, and the ongoing Dawn of Fire series, for example.
#CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER OF WARHAMMER BOOKS SERIES#
There are a handful of series that cover major and minor historical events that have specific dates tied to them, mostly in the 500 or so years leading up to the 42nd millennium, like the Machurian Crusade, the war in the Gothic Sector, the Damnos Incident, the Damocles Gulf Crusade, the Third War of Armageddon, and a few others… but outside of those and some books written in the last 3-4 years, most of the rest fall into those two camps A and B. The Horus Heresy books take place ten thousand years ago, the Beast Arises series is something like 1.5k years after that.
The reason you’re having trouble finding a useful chronology is because it’s incredibly hard to make one: 40k isn’t really set up that way, it’s more of a place than a timeline.
The vaaaast majority of 40k books take place either A) at some unstated and nebulous point sometime the last couple hundred years of the 41st millennium, or B) explicitly “five minutes to midnight” less than a year before the turn of the 42nd millennium. I'm hoping one of you can point me to a list somewhere that has the books listed in this fashion? I know this might sound a weird way of doing this, and it probably is, none the less I would like to visit this universe in a linear fashion timewise. So for example if there is a book in a completely different series that date-wise fits in between the books of Horus Heresy I can read that there. I would like to pick the book with the earliest date in the calendar and follow it up chronologically ignoring all other reading order. I understand the suggestion of "pick the series you like and start there", and that is what I'm trying to do. Despite that, I would like to read the books in a way that, what I read always at least starts, as I imagine some of the books might take place over a larger period of time and overlap to a degree, before any of the other books I have not read. I've been looking for a chronological order of Warhammer books, and have come across multiple posts that all follow the same structure but ultimately do not reach a conclusion that satisfies the original question, thus the reason for starting my own post.įrom the previous posts, I am aware that many of the series are standalone and have little to no interaction with each other.
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