Warhammer reading order
Where to start and what to read next across the Warhammer novels. Each path is curated from the books in this archive: no invented chronology, and every path states how it was ordered. Mark books as you go; your progress is tracked per path.
Warhammer 40,000
- New to Warhammer 40,000First Black Library book, no lore knowledge assumed.5 books · 3 core
- The InquisitionReaders who want the investigators, radicals, and heresies.3 books · 2 core
- Imperial Guard & Gaunt's GhostsBoots-on-the-ground military fiction.4 books · 2 core
- Space MarinesThe Adeptus Astartes, modern era.3 books · 2 core
- Chaos & the Night LordsThe Traitor Legions' own perspective.3 books · 2 core
- The Horus Heresy: essential pathThe civil war, without reading fifty-plus volumes.15 books · 12 core
Age of Sigmar
The Old World
Paths only include books covered by this archive, so some corners of the setting (Necron fiction, for one) have no path yet. We add them when the books do, rather than pointing at pages that don’t exist.