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BattleTech Universe Books in Order

14 books from BattleTech Legends (2021) to BattleTech: Blood Will Tell (2021). Rated 4.6 across 6,640 listener reviews.

Reading order

  1. BattleTech Legends

    Book 1 2021 4.8 (775)

    The mission: train the local resistance on the planet Verthandi to resist their Draconis Combine masters. But things do not go well almost from the moment the Legion arrives.

  2. BattleTech Legends: Wolf Pack

    Book 4 2026 by Robert N. Charrette 5.0 (1)

    A PACK DIVIDED… The Succession Wars... The Marik Civil War... The War of 3039... The Clan Invasion... Wolf's Dragoons were victorious in them all.

  3. BattleTech Legends: Decision at Thunder Rift

    Book 6 2020 4.7 (1.2k)

    Thirty meters tall, 70 tons of quick-striding death and destruction, the armored war machines called BattleMechs are the frontline forces of the crumbling star empire locked in the horror of the endless Succession Wars....

  4. Wolves on the Border

    Book 7 1989 by Robert N. Charrette 5.0 (384)

    Bushido is the warrior code that governs all these concepts. As a MechWarrior of the Draconis Combine, Minobu Tetsuhara is bound by it, a code that demands loyal service to the devious Warlord Grieg Samsonov.

  5. BattleTech Legends

    Book 8 2021 4.9 (707)

    The Gray Death Legion is in the employ of the Free Worlds League and has even been given a landhold on the planet Helm. But dark forces conspire against them, and the Legion soon finds themselves declared renegade war criminals, fair game…

  6. BattleTech Legends: Close Quarters

    Book 15 2026 by Victor Milán 3.6 (14)

    Resourceful, ruthless, beautiful, apparently without fear, Scout Lieutenant Cassie Suthorn of Camacho's Caballeros is as consummately lethal as the giant BattleMechs she lives to hunt.

  7. Lethal Heritage

    Book 20 1989 by Michael A. Stackpole 4.1 (811)

    The year is 3030. For the past 300 years, since the Star League collapse and the rise of the Five Successor States, these mortal enemies have fought over space, land, and politics....

  8. Blood Legacy

    Book 21 1990 by Michael A. Stackpole 4.2 (590)

    Blood Legacy continues the saga of the Clan invasion begun in 3030....

  9. Lost Destiny

    Book 22 1991 by Michael A. Stackpole 4.2 (581)

    And so continues the saga of the Clan invasion and the explosive struggle within the Inner Sphere....

  10. BattleTech Legends: Heir to the Dragon

    Book 28 2004 by Robert N. Charrette 4.7 (384)

    Theodore Kurita is the son of Takashi Kurita, and heir apparent to the Draconis Combine, one of the most powerful realms of the Inner Sphere. But the Draconis Combine has never been a place of smooth transitions.

  11. BattleTech: Embers of War

    Book 57 2018 by Jason Schmetzer 4.7 (637)

    For Ezra Payne and the Stealthy Tiger mercenaries, professionalism is everything. Hired to assist in the bitter, bloody fighting on the planet Hall, they quickly earn a decisive victory for their employer.

  12. BattleTech

    Book 58 2021 by Steven Mohan Jr. 4.7 (253)

    The universe has gone dark. Interstellar communications has been lost across the Inner Sphere, threatening the corporate giant ComStar - and maybe civilization itself....

  13. BattleTech: Divided We Fall

    Book 59 2021 by Blaine Lee Pardoe 4.7 (191)

    Brothers in arms...At long last, the Clans’ campaign for the Inner Sphere is about to come to a head. Alaric Wolf is preparing for his biggest moves yet...and is willing to enlist just about any force that can help him achieve his ultimate…

  14. BattleTech: Blood Will Tell

    Book 60 2021 by Jason Schmetzer 4.2 (119)

    Ties that bind...Danai Liao-Centrella is many things: Solaris gladiator; proud military commander; successful diplomat. All of those roles pale beneath perhaps the heaviest responsibility of anyone in the Capellan Confederation: To speak…

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About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for BattleTech Universe is also the best order to read them in. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.