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They’re not currently available to purchase from GW, but they are available in the Warhammer Vault if you’re a Warhammer+ customer.

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The only place to get the full details of these events is in these three Games Workshop background books – Fall of Cadia, Fracture of Biel-Tan and Rise of the Primarch. For the sake of ease I’ve referred to this whole era as the Gathering Storm. Big events included the fall of Cadia, the troubled birth of Ynnead (the aeldari god of the dead), and the miraculous resurrection of Roboute Guilliman, Primarch of the Ultramarines. The point at which the old ‘5 minutes to midnight’ 40k setting started to change was when Games Workshop started building up to the Great Rift, the huge Warp storm which has split the galaxy in two. Check out the ‘Other perspectives’ section for…um…other perspectives. One final caveat: the majority of these stories are written from an Imperial perspective, so for the most part that’s what I’ve focused on in this article. I’ve also gone a bit further back in time to begin with the events of the Gathering Storm (i.e. While the lists above are all about novels, for this main (and slightly more detailed) section I’ve added in some of the Games Workshop background books and a few audio dramas as well.

Mephiston: City of Light by Darius Hinks.

Mephiston: Revenant Crusade by Darius Hinks.

Mephiston: Blood of Sanguinius by Darius Hinks.

If you’re interested in seeing how the rest of the recent Blood Angels stories fit alongside The Devastation of Baal, then here’s a recommended reading order just for these novels: See later on in the article for more details of why (TL DR due to Warp/time shenanigans it spans quite a wide range of time). * Yes, The Devastation of Baal is included twice in this list on purpose.

Belisarius Cawl: The Great Work by Guy Haley.

Watchers of the Throne: The Regent’s Shadow by Chris Wraight.

Dawn of Fire 4: Throne of Light by Guy Haley.

Dawn of Fire 3: The Wolf Time by Gav Thorpe.

Dawn of Fire 2: Gate of Bones by Andy Clark.

Dawn of Fire 1: Avenging Son by Guy Haley.

Watchers of the Throne: The Emperor’s Legion by Chris Wraight.

Vaults of Terra: The Dark City by Chris Wraight.

Vaults of Terra: The Hollow Mountain by Chris Wraight.

Vaults of Terra: The Carrion Throne by Chris Wraight.

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I’ve added this section in as an extra (in the January ‘21 update) – feel free to skip ahead to the more detailed section where I talk about each title and link out to reviews, interviews etc., but if you just want a recommended reading order of the key novels dealing with events on Terra and the Indomitus Crusade then here’s what I would suggest:

Secondly, while I’ve done my best to put this together as accurately as possible, I may have got some things wrong and/or missed off a few stories here and there (I’ve read lots of recent BL books, but not all of them). I’ve grouped things into various headings for the purpose of clarity, but take all of this with a small pinch of salt.

Firstly, very few 40k stories are given specific dates so it’s tricky to know exactly when the events they cover take place.

#Horus heresy reading guide update#

This version of the article was created in January 2021, but I’ve added books in here and there along the way – the last minor update was in August 2022.Ī couple of caveats. NOTE: until such time as BL produces an official resource, I’ll do my best to keep this reading list up to date with new releases as and when they’re published. I’ve put together this reading list to try to fit together where all of the recent books go in the ‘new 40k’ timeline – it’s entirely unofficial, and I can’t guarantee that I’ll have got everything right, but hopefully it will be a useful resource to anyone interested in keeping up with Warhammer 40,000 fiction. It’s not always clear how the various stories fit into the ongoing timeline, however, and Black Library as usual doesn’t seem inclined to provide anything in the way of an official reading order. After decades of remaining more or less static, these days the Warhammer 40,000 setting is evolving before our eyes, and many of the new and upcoming novels from Black Library are helping to shed light on these new developments in the lore.