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Dune Books in Order

by Frank HerbertScience Fiction & Fantasy

6 books from Dune (1965) to Chapterhouse Dune (1985). Rated 4.6 across 205,069 listener reviews.

Reading order

  1. Dune

    Book 1 1965 4.7 (127.2k)

    NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE directed by Denis Villeneuve, starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken, Léa Seydoux, Stellan Skarsgård,…

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  2. Dune Messiah

    Book 2 1969 4.4 (31.8k)

    The bestselling science fiction series of all time continues! Frank Herbert's second installment explores new developments on the desert planet Arrakis, with its intricate social order and its strange threatening environment.

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  3. Children of Dune

    Book 3 1976 4.6 (18.4k)

    Frank Herbert's bestselling science fiction series of all time continues! In this third installment, the sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered and fertile.

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  4. God Emperor of Dune

    Book 4 1981 4.5 (12.8k)

    More than three thousand years have passed since the first events recorded in Frank Herbert's DUNE. Only one link survives with those tumultuous times: the grotesque figure of Leto Atreides, son of the prophet Paul Muad'Dib, and now the…

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  5. Heretics of Dune

    Book 5 1984 4.6 (8.2k)

    Heretics of Dune, the fifth installment in Frank Herbert's classic sci-fi series. On Arrakis, now called Rakis, known to legend as Dune, ten times ten centuries have passed. The planet is becoming desert again.

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  6. Chapterhouse Dune

    Book 6 1985 4.5 (6.7k)

    The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. Now, the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune's power, have colonized a green world—and are tuning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile.

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Adapted for screen

  • Dune Films · 2021–2024 · 2 films

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About this reading order

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

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