When you’re a fan of fantasy or personal detective books, you is likely to be to know that there’s a sequence of books that takes each ideas and mashes them collectively — The Dresden Recordsdata.

The Dresden Recordsdata books and different media are centered on the adventures and instances of Harry Dresden, a wizard and personal investigator obtainable for rent in modern-day Chicago. The sequence was dreamed up and written by Jim Butcher, who by his personal admission (within the creator’s word of Useless Beat) took the heroes from his personal favourite books, like Gandalf from Lord of the Rings and Sam Spade from The Maltese Falcon, the 1930 novel written by Dashiell Hammett, and mixed them to create his very personal magically cable, crime-solving hero.

On the time of writing, there are at present 17 novels (of the initially deliberate 20), 2 collections of brief tales, 6 brief tales that seem in anthologies, a novella, and 11 Graphic Novels that present the story of The Dresden Recordsdata universe. 

Books

• Storm Entrance (2000)
• Idiot Moon (2001)
• Grave Peril (2001)
• Summer season Knight (2002)
• Dying Masks (2003)
• Blood Rites (2004)
• Useless Beat (2005)
• Confirmed Responsible (2006)
• White Knight (2007)
• Small Favor (2008)
• Flip Coat (2009)
• Adjustments (2010)
• Ghost Story (2011)
• Chilly Days (2012)
• Pores and skin Sport (2014)
• Peace Talks (2020)
• Battle Floor (2020)

Brief story collections & anthology appearances

• My Massive Fats Supernatural Marriage ceremony (2006)*
• My Massive Fats Supernatural Honeymooon (2007)*
• Many Bloody Returns (2007)*
• Facet Jobs (2010)
• Shadowed Souls (2016)*
• Transient Instances (2018)
• Heroic Hearts (2022)*
• Intuition (2023)*

*These collections of brief tales characteristic tales from Jim Butcher, in addition to different authors.

Graphic novels

• Welcome to the Jungle (2008)
• Storm Entrance Quantity 1 (2009)
• Storm Entrance Quantity 2 (2009)
• Idiot Moon Quantity 1 (2011)
• Idiot Moon Quantity 2 (2013)
• Ghoul, Goblin (2013)
• Battle Cry (2014)
• Down City (2015)
• Wild Card (2016)
• Canine Males (2018)

Novella

It’s secure to say that there’s a variety of materials thought of lore on the earth of Harry Dresden. When you’re simply starting to dip your toe into the sequence, you then is likely to be questioning what order you must learn the books in, so let’s look into it. 

The definitive Dresden Recordsdata studying order

I’ll all the time suggest this studying order solely to those that have learn the books themselves earlier than. Storm Entrance, the primary ebook within the sequence, is the perfect introduction to Harry Dresden and can present the perfect understanding of the world during which the books are set. 

With that stated, right here’s the chronological studying order for all the numerous Dresden Recordsdata publications. The precise books shall be bolded, simply to make issues extra clear:

1. ‘Restoration of Religion’ (Brief story in Facet Jobs)
2. Welcome to the Jungle (Graphic novel)
3. Storm Entrance
4. Storm Entrance Quantity 1 (Graphic novel)
5. Storm Entrance Quantity 2 (Graphic novel)
6. Idiot Moon
7. Idiot Moon Quantity 1 (Graphic novel)
8. Idiot Moon Quantity 2 (Graphic novel)
9. Ghoul, Goblin (Graphic novel)
10. ‘B is for Bigfoot’ (Brief story in Transient Instances)
11. Grave Peril
12. Summer season Knight
13. Dying Masks
14. ‘A Vignette’ (Brief story in Facet Jobs)
15. Blood Rites
16. Useless Beat
17. ‘I Was a Teenage Bigfoot’ (Brief story in Transient Instances)
18. Battle Cry (Graphic novel)
19. ‘One thing Borrowed’ (Brief story in My Massive Fats Supernatural Marriage ceremony)
20. Confirmed Responsible
21. White Knight
22. Down City (Graphic novel)
23. ‘It’s My Birthday Too’ (Brief story in Many Bloody Returns)
24. Wild Card (Graphic novel)
25. ‘Heorot’ (Brief story in My Massive Fats Supernatural Honeymoon)
26. Small Favor
27. ‘Backup’ (Brief story in Facet Jobs)
28. ‘Day Off’ (Brief story in Facet Jobs)
29. ‘The Warrior’ (Brief story in Facet Jobs)
30. ‘Curses’ (Brief story in Transient Instances)
31. ‘AAAA Wizardry’ (Brief story in Transient Instances)
32. ‘Final Name’ (Brief Story in Facet Jobs)
33. Canine Males (Graphic novel)
34. Flip Coat
35. ‘Bigfoot on Campus’ (Brief story in Transient Instances)
36. ‘Even Hand’ (Brief story in Transient Instances)
37. ‘Love Hurts’ (Brief story in Facet Jobs)
38. Adjustments
39. ‘Aftermath’ (Brief story in Facet Jobs)
40. Ghost Story 
41. ‘Bombshells’ (Brief story in Transient Instances)
42. Chilly Days
43. ‘Chilly Case’ (Brief story in Shadowed Souls)
44. Pores and skin Sport
45. ‘Jury Responsibility’ (Brief story in Transient Instances)
46. ‘Day One’ (Brief story in Transient Instances)
47. ‘A Fistful of Warlocks’ (Brief story in Transient Instances)
48. ‘Zoo Day’ (Brief story in Transient Instances)
49. Peace Talks
50. Battle Floor 
51. ‘Little Issues’ (Brief story in Heroic Hearts)
52. The Legislation (Novella)
53. ‘Fugitive’ (Brief story in Intuition)

Will there be extra books in The Dresden Recordsdata sequence?

Sure, though no person is aware of when. On Jim Butcher’s web site, the discharge date for ‘Twelve Months‘ is listed as TBD, mentioning that ‘Mirror Mirror‘ shall be ebook quantity 19 within the sequence.