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The Dresden Files Books in Order

by Jim ButcherMystery, Thriller & Suspense

18 books and 5 novellas from Storm Front (2000) to Twelve Months (2026). Rated 4.8 across 556,445 listener reviews.

Reading order

  1. Storm Front

    Book 1 2000 4.5 (58.2k)

    With rent past due and a decent meal becoming an issue of some importance, Harry needs work, and soon....

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  2. Fool Moon

    Book 2 2001 4.6 (38.4k)

    Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden is Chicago's only openly practicing wizard. He is also dead broke....

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  3. Grave Peril

    Book 3 2001 4.7 (33.6k)

    Something is stirring up angry apparitions all over town. Something that can break all the laws of supernatural physics. Something that doesnt like Harry....

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  4. Summer Knight

    Book 4 2002 4.8 (31k)

    Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden is a very powerful wizard and a dedicated private eye. He is also a wise cracking trouble magnet....

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  5. Death Masks

    Book 5 2003 4.8 (29.5k)

    The Dresden Files have taken the genre of paranormal mystery to a new level of action, excitement, and hard-hitting magical muscle.

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  6. Blood Rites

    Book 6 2004 4.8 (28.2k)

    In this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files, Chicago's only professional wizard takes on a case for a vampire and becomes the prime suspect in a series of ghastly murders.

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  7. Dead Beat

    Book 7 2005 4.9 (29.4k)

    Site Paranormal investigations are Harry Dresden’s business and Chicago is his beat, as he tries to bring law...

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  8. Proven Guilty

    Book 8 2006 4.9 (28.3k)

    Wizard for hire Harry Dresden has to track down the things that go bump in the night in this novel in Jim Butcher's #1 New York Times bestselling series.

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  9. White Night

    Book 9 2007 4.8 (26.6k)

    Wizard Harry Dresden must investigate his own flesh and blood when a series of killings strike Chicago’s magic practitioners in this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.

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  10. Small Favor

    Book 10 2008 4.9 (26.7k)

    In this novel in Jim Butcher’s #1 New York Times bestselling series, an old debt puts Chicago wizard Harry Dresden in harms way... Harry’s life finally seems to be calming down.

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  11. Turn Coat

    Book 11 2009 4.9 (27k)

    Jim Butcher’s breakthrough #1 New York Times bestseller starring Chicago’s only professional wizard, Harry Dresden. When it comes to the magical ruling body known as the White Council, Harry is thought of as either a black sheep or a…

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  12. Changes

    Book 12 2010 4.9 (27.9k)

    (starred review) As Chicago’s only professional wizard, Harry Dresden has faced demons, vampires, werewolves, dark sorcerers, and hosts of horrors from beyond the mortal realm. But nothing...

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  13. Side Jobs

    Novella 12.5 2010 4.7 (15.3k)

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  14. Ghost Story

    Book 13 2011 4.8 (22.3k)

    Chicago wizard Harry Dresden gets a taste of the dead life in this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. In his life, Harry’s been shot, stabbed, sliced, beaten, burned, crushed, and tortured.

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  15. Cold Days

    Book 14 2012 4.9 (29.1k)

    After being murdered by a mystery assailant, navigating his way through the realm between life and death, and being brought back to the mortal world, Harry realizes that maybe death wasn’t all that bad.

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  16. Shadowed Souls

    Novella 14.5 2016 by Jim Butcher - editor 3.8 (2.4k)

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  17. Skin Game

    Book 15 2014 4.9 (31.9k)

    Chicago’s only professional wizard is about to have a very bad day in the latest novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files...

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  18. Brief Cases

    Novella 15.5 2018 4.8 (12.4k)

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  19. Peace Talks

    Book 16 2020 4.7 (22.6k)

    HARRY DRESDEN IS BACK AND READY FOR ACTION, in the new entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files. When the Supernatural nations of the world meet up to negotiate an end to ongoing hostilities, Harry Dresden, Chicago's only…

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  20. Battle Ground

    Book 17 2020 4.9 (22.6k)

    Harry has faced terrible odds before. He has a long history of fighting enemies above his weight class. The Red Court of vampires. The...

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  21. The Law

    Novella 17.5 2022 4.7 (8k)

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  22. Twelve Months

    Book 18 2026 4.8 (3.8k)

    AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN INSTANT USA TODAY AND INDIE BESTSELLER Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only professional wizard, has always managed to save the day—but, in this powerful entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling…

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  23. Out Law: A Dresden Files Novella

    Novella 18.5 2026 4.9 (1.3k)

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About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for The Dresden Files is also the best order to read them in. Novellas and short stories sit between the novels they follow, numbered the way the publisher numbers them (12.5 comes after book 12). They are optional — you can skip them without missing the main story. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.

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